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STACKER NOTE                                                   STACKER NOTE
Title: Adding Hard Drives and Software to Your Stacked System
STAC FAX Index #3504 - 02/08/93                         
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Adding A New Hard Drive.

   You  can  add  additional hard disk drives to  your  Stacker  equipped
   system  at  any  time  by  following  the  hard  drive  manufacturer's
   instructions  for installation.  Most hard disk drives are  recognized
   by  DOS automatically.  DOS assigns drive letters at system startup as
   needed.   Therefore, the drive letter of your Stacker drive  is  moved
   down the alphabet by one letter for each hard drive/partition that  is
   added.

   Some  hard disk drives require that a device driver statement be added
   to the CONFIG.SYS file.  Changes in drive letter assignments depend on
   whether the hard disk driver is loaded before or after the STACKER.COM
   device  driver in your CONFIG.SYS file.  If you want to create Stacker
   drives on a disk drive which requires a device driver, place the  hard
   disk  device driver before the Stacker device driver statement in  the
   CONFIG.SYS file.



Installing New Software.

   Install  new  software on your Stacker drive just as you  would  on  a
   "normal"  DOS drive.  Stacker 3.0 will automatically locate  and  load
   any new device drivers added to the CONFIG.SYS.
 


Editing the AUTOEXEC.BAT & CONFIG.SYS Files.

   At  times,  the  AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files  will  need  to  be
   edited.   When you "Stack an Existing Disk with its Data" on the  boot
   disk, drive C, copies of both files are made on both the Stacker drive
   C:,  and  the  uncompressed drive D:.  When editing these files,  edit
   them on drive C: (the Stacker drive) as you normally would.  When  the
   system  is  restarted, Stacker offers to copy the changed versions  of
   the  AUTOEXEC.BAT  and  CONFIG.SYS to  the  uncompressed  boot  drive.
   Please allow Stacker to make these changes.  If Stacker does not  make
   these  changes  automatically,  your  system  may  not  be  configured
   correctly.
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