Asus P/I-P65UP8/CP6ND - Manual (Page 24)

24 ASUS P/I-P65UP8 User’s Manual
I. DOS/WINDOWS DRIVERS
WIN8XX.386 Driver Features
• Supports Windows Advanced SCSI Programming Interface (ASPI) applications
• Supports 32-bit Disk Access in Windows 3.1 and Windows for Workgroups
3.11 via the FastDisk interface
• Processes all I/O requests, including ASPI requests, using 32-bit protected-
mode code for the highest possible performance
Description
WIN8XX.386 is both a Windows FastDisk driver and an ASPI Manager for Win-
dows which provides an interface to popular ASPI applications. It is required when
you want to use 32-bit Disk Access in Windows. Even though WIN8XX.386 con-
trols all SCSI drives on your Symbios Logic host adapter, Windows allows 32-bit
Disk Access on the first two drives only.
Installing Your WIN8XX.386 Driver
1. Use the COPY command to copy the WIN8XX.386 driver from the SDMS SCSI
Drivers disk to your boot disk. For example, to copy the driver to your system’s
Windows SYSTEM directory, use the command shown below:
copy a:\WIN8XX.386 c:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM
2. Add an entry in the [386Enh] section of your Windows SYSTEM.INI file, as
shown below: device=WIN8XX.386
In the example shown above, the driver is in the Windows SYSTEM directory.
If you choose to place the driver in another location, simply specify the com-
plete path along with the filename shown in the example.
3. Add an entry in the [386Enh] section of your Windows SYSTEM.INI file, as
shown below: device=*int13
This entry may or may not already exist in your SYSTEM.INI file, depending
on the hardware present when you installed Windows. Check to make sure
that it appears only once in your SYSTEM.INI file.
4. Add an entry in the [386Enh] section of your Windows SYSTEM.INI file, as
shown below: 32BitDiskAccess=off
This entry may or may not already exist in your SYSTEM.INI file, depending
on the hardware present when you installed Windows. Check to make sure that
it appears only once in your SYSTEM.INI file.
5. Remove an entry from the [386Enh] section of your Windows SYSTEM.INI
file, either by removing the line completely, or by placing a semicolon in col-
umn one of the line so it is treated as a comment, as shown below:
;device=*wdctrl
I. DOS/WINDOWS
(Features)