Software Installation
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After installing the hardware, the following files have to be installed in order to
make known to your system that you have a CDROM drive installed.


CDMKE41.SYS             a low level device driver for the interface card
			This devicedriver will detect and indentify the CDROM 
			drive.

MSCDEX.EXE              MicroSoft CD EXtensions to make DOS able to access the
			-    -    -- -- 
			CDROM Drive

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     MSCDEX   Version 2.22
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The MSCDEX uses the following command line switches for line:

 Switch                Description
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/D:(device name)       Tells MSCDEX.EXE where to find the device driver.

/E                     Tells MSCDEX.EXE to use expanded memory if your 
		       system is using expanded memory.

/L:(drive letter)      MSCDEX.EXE starts at the drive letter specified by 
		       this switch.

/K                     Tells MSCDEX.EXE to use any Kanji (Japanese) file
		       structures, if present, rather than the default of
		       standard alphanumeric file structures.

/S                     Instructs MSCDEX.EXE to patch DOS to allow sharing 
		       of CD-ROM drives on MS-NET based network servers.

/M:(value)             Tells MSCDEX.EXE how much memory to allocate for
		       caching information on the CD-ROM.

/V                     Provides memory usage statistics, such as how much
		       memory is used by buffers, resident data, resident 
		       code.


Example:
	      MSCDEX.EXE /D:mscd001 /M:4 /L:E

      where:  /D:mscd001     identifies the drive name as mscd001.
	      /M:4           Memory caching is set for 8 kilobytes.
	      /L:E           the CD-ROM drive letter is E.

	      When these modifications are completed, it will be necessary 
	      to reboot your system (by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del). This will
	      reconfigure your system based on the modified AUTOEXEC.BAT
	      and CONFIG.SYS files.

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Instalation procedure
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a)      Turn your computer on
b)      Insert the diskette in drive B: 
c)      Type    B:
d)      Type    SETUP or SETUPSB or SETUPLS

There are three installation programs for the Panasonic CD-ROM Drive. 
They are: SETUP.EXE, SETUPLS.EXE and SETUPSB.EXE.

SETUP.EXE
This program is used to install the Panasonic 562 with the Panasonic 
Interface Board.

SETUPLS.EXE
This program is used to install the Panasonic 562 with the LaserSound16 
Audio Board.

SETUPSB.EXE
This program is used to install the Panasonic 562 with the Sound 
Blaster 16 Audio Board.

The Setup Program will copy the CD-ROM Drivers to a subdirectory \DEV
on the harddisk and modifies the config.sys and autoexec.bat files


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Below a sample of what should be in the config.sys file
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lastdrive=z
device=c:\dev\cdmke41.sys /d:mscd001 /p:300

/d:mscd001      specifies the device name. This is default set to "mscd001"
		Any name can be chosen as long as you choose the same in the
		autoexec.bat file discussed later.
/p:300          specifies the I/O address on the Panasonic Interface Board.
		If you are connecting the Panasonic CD-ROM drive to a 
		Sound Blaster 16 do not use the /p option. Instead use the
		/sbp option. 
		For the LaserSound16 Audio Board the default address is 340.
		 
/sbp:220        specifies the base address of the Sound Blaster 16. Use this
		command when connecting to the Sound Blaster 16.

 

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Below a sample of what should be in the autoexec.bat file
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c:\dev\mscdex /d:mscd001 /m:8


/d:mscd001      specifies the device name. This is default set to "mscd001"
		Any name can be chosen as long as you choose the same in the
		config.sys file as discussed earlier.

/m:8            specifies the number of buffers. default is 8 buffers

/l:x            forces the cd-drive letter to drive x
		if omitted, the first available drive will be selected
		i.e. in a configuration of drive A,B and harddisk C: the
		cdrom drive will be D: