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About the SYMDISK.SYS Driver

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6.4.3 Installing the SYMDISK.SYS Driver

To install the

SYMDISK.SYS

driver, follow these steps:

Step 1.

Copy the

SYMDISK.SYS

driver to the boot disk.

The SDMS Software Device Drivers and Utilities CD-ROM
contains the

SYMDISK.SYS

driver in this directory:

{CD-ROM Drive Letter}:\DRIVERS\DOS

The

ASPI8XX.SYS

driver is also required.

Step 2.

Add the lines shown below to the

CONFIG.SYS

file. List the

drivers in this sequence:

DEVICE=C:[PATH]ASPI8XX.SYS

DEVICE=C:[PATH]SYMDISK.SYS

6.4.4 Using Command Line Options

The

SYMDISK.SYS

device driver has several embedded functions that are

accessed by using switches on the command line.

Table 6.2

lists the

command line options. No spaces are allowed in a single command line
option, but spaces are required between different command line options.

In the following descriptions,

path

refers to the adapter number (boot

order designation), and

id

refers to the SCSI ID. The following

conventions are also used:

[ ]

items in brackets are optional

*

items in brackets followed by an * means repeat 0 or more times

|

choose one of the given items

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