----------------------------------------------------------------- STACKER NOTE STACKER NOTE STACKER 4.0 AND THE TANDY SENSATION! (Applies to Stacker 4.0) STAC FAX 4515 (03-25-1994) ----------------------------------------------------------------- BACKGROUND Tandy's Sensation Computer is a Multimedia compatible 486SX with a built in CD-ROM drive. Some of the software which comes with this system makes direct hardware calls to the CD-ROM drive. The actual CD-ROM is capable of being setup as any drive letter. However, the software included with this system requires the CD- ROM drive be accessed as drive D. Tandy National Technical Support suggests that their customers use the ASSIGN command to reassign the CD-ROM drive letter so that it appears as drive D. This approach has worked in many instances. SOLUTION 1. Edit your CONFIG.SYS by typing ED /C . a. If you have a version of DOS that supports preloading compression drivers such as MS-DOS 6.x, Novell DOS 7, and most releases of PC-DOS 6.x: Load the CD-ROM device driver after the Stacker lines as shown: DEVICE=C:\STACKER\DPMS.EXE DEVICEHIGH=C:\STACKER\STACHIGH.SYS DEVICE=SONYCDU.SYS or DEVICE=PCD650S.SYS [SWITCHES] b. If you have any other version of DOS: Load the CD-ROM Device Driver after the Stacker line(s) as shown in this example: DEVICE=C:\DOS\SETVER.EXE (required if running under DOS 5.0) DEVICE=C:\STACKER\STACKER.COM DEVICE=C:\STACKER\SSWAP.COM (this line may not appear) DEVICE=SONYCDU.SYS or DEVICE=PCD650S.SYS [switches] 2. Edit the STACKER.INI file to reserve a drive letter. Type ED /I . Insert an asterisk (*) after the STACKER directory line and before the first STACVOL file. The lines should appear in this order: /DIR=C:\STACKER\ * /C:\STACVOL.DSK,SW Save the file and restart your computer. 3. Determine which drive letters Stacker has been given. Type: C:\STACKER\STACKER The output will look similar to: Drive C was drive C at boot time [ E:\STACVOL.DSK=nnn ] Drive D was drive D at boot time [ * -- Not mounted ] Drive E was drive E at boot time 4. Edit the AUTOEXEC.BAT file by typing ED /A . The CD- ROM drive letter is assigned here with the /L: parameter on the MSCDEX command line. Set the CD-ROM to the next available drive letter. In this example, the addition of the asterisk above has reserved the D drive. The next available drive letter for the CD-ROM is F. In AUTOEXEC.BAT you would assign drive F on the MSCDEX command line, C:\MSCDEX /D:name /M:x /V /L:letter /E Change /L:Letter to /L:F C:\MSCDEX /D:name /M:x /V /L:F /E 5. Now that the CD-ROM drive has been configured to function with Stacker, it is necessary to reassign the CD-ROM back to drive D so that the Tandy software will recognize it. 6. Add the ASSIGN command to the AUTOEXEC.BAT file below the MSCDEX command line as follows: ASSIGN D: F: Save the file and restart your computer. The Tandy CD-ROM software will now recognize the CD-ROM drive as D. Drive F and Drive D will appear as having the same data on them because they are actually the same drive. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright 1994 Stac Electronics