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DOS Device Driver Installation
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The device driver does not recognize one of the nonboot SCSI
peripherals (system may lock up).
•
Make sure the drivers were installed in the correct sequence.
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Make sure the drivers’ entries in the
CONFIG.SYS
file have the correct
path to the drivers.
•
Power down all units in the system.
•
Make sure the hard drives have different ID numbers (boot drive
should have lowest ID).
•
Make sure both ends of the SCSI bus are terminated. Termination
should only be at the ends of the bus.
•
Check all cable and power connections.
•
Boot the system.
6.5 About the SYMCD.SYS Driver
This section describes the characteristics of the
SYMCD.SYS
driver and
provides installation instructions:
6.5.1 Features
The
SYMCD.SYS
driver supports these features:
•
Compatible with the Microsoft CD-ROM Extension 2.21 and above
•
Multisession Photo CD support
•
Up to eight host adapters
6.5.2 Description
The
SYMCD.SYS
device driver is needed whenever a CD-ROM device is
connected on the SCSI bus. You must load it in conjunction with the
Microsoft CD-ROM Extension 2.21 or above (
MSCDEX.EXE
).
The
SYMCD.SYS
driver communicates through
ASPI8XX.SYS
. To use the
SYMCD.SYS
driver, you must also load
ASPI8XX.SYS
.