EXP Computer CD Traveler Series CD-620, CD-820, CD-1020, and CD-2020 with Portable CD-ROM card User Manual

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Manual Installation

You may also install the PCMCIA CD-ROM OS/2 device driver manually, if the
default setting conflicts with your system. Perform the following procedure to
complete the manual installation.

1. Copy EXPCD2.FLT file from A:\OS2WARP to the BOOT sub-directory of OS/2

directory (for example: C:\OS2\BOOT.)

2. Add the following line to the BOTTOM of your CONFIG.SYS file:

BASEDEV=EXPCD2.FLT /P:1 /I:15

The parameters of EXPCD2.FLT are described as below:

is used to set the I/O ports, and the valid numbers are 1, 2, and 3. Each number
represents the I/O ports group of (170-177, 376-377), (1E8-1EF, 3EE-3EF),
and (168-16F, 36E-36F) respectively. The default setting is

/P:1

is used to set the IRQ number, the valid IRQs are 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12 and
15, and the default setting is

/I:15

verbose mode, displays the initialization message. The default is quiet mode.

Meanwhile, check if the following lines exist in CONFIG.SYS, if not, add the
following lines:

DEVICE=C:\OS2\BOOT\OS2CDROM.DMD /Q
IFS=C:\OS2\BOOT\CDFS.IFS /Q
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VCDROM.SYS

Adding PCMCIA Support

PCMCIA Support can be automatically installed during OS/2 installation or it can be
installed through Selective Install after OS/2 installation.

To check or install PCMCIA support, perform the following steps:

1. Open OS/2 System.

2. Open System Setup.

3. Open Selective Install.

4. Check if PCMCIA Support has been installed as the System Configuration

window displayed (See Figure 16), if yes, you may exit now, otherwise, perform
the following steps to continue.