(C) Micro Staff 1988-1994 Copyrighted programs. MSDRVR (Micro Staff SCSI Device Driver and Utility programs) MSDRVR is a collection of device driver, formatting and utility programs for the IBM PC/AT (compatible computers) and PS/2. MSDRVR supports following SCSI devices and SCSI interfaces under MS-DOS: SCSI device 3.5" MO Double density 3.5" MO 5" MO Double density 5" MO CD-ROM (including music and photo CD support) Hard Disk (up to 2 GB) Interface card IBM Micro Channel SCSI adapter /A, 2A SCSI cards that come with an ASPI manager This program is a Shareware ($40). If you find it convenient, register to: Micro Staff Co., Ltd. 1-46-9 Matsubara, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan 156 Phone: 81-3-3325-8128 Fax: 81-3-3327-7037 CompuServe ID: 100157,1053 ============ INSTRUCTIONS ============ 1 INTRODUCTION -------------- MSDRVR is a set of programs which allows IBM PC AT/ compatible and IBM PS/2 computers to communicate with SCSI peripheral devices such as MO drive, CD-ROM drive, hard disk. MSDRVR supports SCSI cards that come with ASPI manager and also IBM Micro Channel SCSI Adapter /A, /2A. MSDRVR consists of three kinds of programs as follows: a) SCSI driver Provides standardized programming interface to SCSI hardware. MSDRVR contains SCSI drivers for IBM Micro Channel SCSI Adapter /A, /2A. (for SCSI cards that come with an ASPI manager, use the ASPI manager) b) Device driver MSDRVR contains device drivers for hard disk and MO drive, MSDRVR.SYS, and CD-ROM drive, MCDxxx.SYS. c) Utility programs MSDRVR contains programs such as MO media format program, RXFORM.EXE, and hard disk format program MSFDISK.EXE. 2 INSTALLATION -------------- Installing MSDRVR involves the following steps: 1) With installation program, INSTALL.EXE, copy drivers and utility programs to the hard disk, and add device commands for drivers to your CONFIG.SYS file. 2) Edit the CONFIG.SYS file to add device commands for CD-ROM driver(s). Also modify AUTOEXEC.BAT file. 3) Restart the system and format hard disk or MO media with the format programs, if necessary. 3 Device Driver Installation Program ------------------------------------ The installation program copies files to your hard disk and modify your config.sys file. (Files are compressed and archived by LHA.EXE (c) Haruyasu Yoshizaki) Insert the diskette in A: or B: drive, and at A: prompt (B: prompt if the diskette is in B: drive) type INSTALL . Follow the instructions on display. Note: Press to input values in [ ] The installation program does not add a device command for ASPI manager that comes with the SCSI card. Add the device command for card's ASPI manager to you CONFIG.SYS file with a text editor. The installation program adds the following lines to your CONFIG.SYS file: DEVICEHIGH=\SCSI\ASPIIBM.SYS (If you use ASPI manager that comes with SCSI card, this line is not added.) DEVICEHIGH=\SCSI\MSDRVR.SYS -o1k -th- (If you would like to have hard disk(s) handled by device driver without using BIOS, delete -TH- option switch with a text editor) SETTINGS -TH- does not recognize hard disk(s). -O1k enables to handle 1024 bytes/sector media. If no MO media is in the drive when starting the system, one drive is reserved for each drive (default). Refer to MSDRVR.SYS section of this manual for more details on the device driver option switches. 4 INSTALLING CD-ROM DEVICE DRIVER --------------------------------- MSDRVR contains device drivers for CD-ROM drives. The installation program copies CD-ROM device drivers into your hard disk, but it does not add device command(s) for the driver(s) to your CONFIG.SYS file. Add device command(s) for necessary drivers to the CONFIG.SYS file with a text editor. Make sure that device command for SCSI driver or ASPI manager has been added to the CONFIG.SYS file as CD-ROM driver(s) work with it as a pair. CD-ROM(s) must be connected to Host Adapter number 0, if there are more than one SCSI cards in the system. Refer to DEVICE DRIVER MSDRVR.SYS in this manual. A) MCDTOS.SYS for Toshiba bear drive XM-3400 B) MCDSONY.SYS for Sony bear drive CDU-561 C) MCDTEXL.SYS for Texel bear drive DM-3024/3028 D) MCDCHNO.SYS for Chinon bear drive CDS-535 E) MCDTC50.SYS for Teac bear drive CD-50 F) MCDNEC.SYS for NEC bear drives CDR-210, 84-1, 500 Add the following two lines to your CONFIG.SYS file: LASTDRIVE=Z (Specify a letter higher than a letter to be assigned to CD-ROM drive. Refer to the DOS manual for details) DEVICE=MCDxxx.SYS /D:MSCD0000 (This line should be below the device command for SCSI driver or ASPI manager in the CONFIG.SYS file) To use CD-ROM drive(s) you need to execute Microsoft CD-ROM Extension, MSCDEX.EXE. Add the following line to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file: MSCDEX /D:MSCD0000 Refer to CD-ROM device driver option switch section of this manual for details. 5 UTILITY PROGRAMS ------------------ A) FORMAT PROGRAMS MSDRVR contains the following two format programs: RXFORM.EXE: for removable medium such as MO disks. MSFDISK.EXE: for hard disks (with the option switch the program can also format MO disks) RXFORM RXFORM low-level-formats, partitions and logical-formats removable disks including 3.5 and 5-inch MO disks. It also displays information on SCSI peripheral devices connected to the system. Type RXFORM to start the program and follow the instructions on the display. You can format or partition a disk in the following ways: 1) format for use with DOS 3 or later (super floppy) 2) format for use with DOS 4 or later (super floppy) 3) partition for use with DOS 3 or later 4) partition for use with DOS 4 or later The maximum number of partition is 16. The maximum partition sizes are 1024MB and 2047MB for use with DOS 3 or later and for use with DOS 4 or later, respectively. MSFDISK MSFDISK.EXE is a partition/format program for SCSI hard disks (hard disks connected to SCSI host adapter # 0). It also works on MO disks by adding a option switch. It partitions a disk in the same way as IBM FDISK. This program does not partition hard disks handled by the DOS through BIOS nor create active area (boot flag). SYNTAX MSFDISK [