Avago Technologies LSI20160 - Manual (Page 138)

6-12 DOS Device Driver Installation
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6.4 About the SYMDISK.SYS Driver
This section describes the characteristics of the SYMDISK.SYS driver and
provides installation instructions.
6.4.1 Features
The SYMDISK.SYS driver supports these features:
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Removable media devices
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Magneto Optical (MO) devices
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Non-512-byte sectors (1024, 2048, 4096)
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Multiple Logical Unit Numbers (LUN)
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OS/2 floppy format for MO and hard disks
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Multiple host adapters when adapter has not been controlled by the
SCSI BIOS (no INT13h devices)
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Reserving drive letters for installed devices without media present in
the device (see
/UNITS under command line options)
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Adding drive letters
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Power management (to spindown drives)
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Allows up to eight host adapters
6.4.2 Description
The SYMDISK.SYS driver allows you to connect drives with non-512-byte
sectors, and to connect removable drives if you want to change the
media. Use this driver also to obtain drive letters for devices (adapters)
that are not supported by the BIOS.
The SYMDISK.SYS driver communicates through ASPI8XX.SYS . To use the
SYMDISK.SYS driver, you must also load ASPI8XX.SYS .