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HDOS SOFTWARE - DKSASXV3.DVD DRIVER
The HDOS software driver you received on your HDOS distribution disk is called DKSASXV3.DVD. This is
the driver for under HDOS which will allow you to access the Winchester drive from your system
drive, or allow you to SYSGEN and BOOT the Winchester. The driver has been designed to be very
fast, compact and efficient. This driver supports several features, including operation at both 2
and 4 MHz CPU speeds and switchable 2/4 MHz CPU's, and support for multiple Winchester systems.
Your floppy driver, however, may not work at 4MHz. Thus if you want to use 4MHz for all, you'll
have to either use a SPEED utility (Trionyx and Kres both provide these) or use DKH17.DVD for
the H17/400K drives.
The DKSASXV3 driver is used just like any other standard HDOS independent device driver. If you are
not familiar with HDOS device drivers and their operation, please take the time now to read your
HDOS manual and become familiar with them.
It is assumed that you already have your hard disk unit partitioned. If not, you must partition it,
or you will not be able to INITialize or SYSGEN it.
The first thing you must do is copy the supplied DKSASXV3.DVD driver to your main system disk and
rename it to DK.DVD. Depending on your drive configuration, this will have to be done using
either PIP (for multiple drive systems) or ONECOPY (for a single drive system). Again, if you are not
familiar with these utilities, please take the time now to read your HDOS manual and acquaint
yourself with their operation. As an example, suppose you have mounted your QUIKSTOR HDOS
distribution disk on SY1:. Using PIP do the following:
PIP SYO:DK.DVD=SY1:DKSASXV3.DVD
Now type BYE and re-BOOT the system to get the DK.DVD recognized.
Use the SET command to check the settable options for the hard disk driver as follows: SET
DK: HELP
You will see the following options:
Port nnnQ = 170Q/78H Port Address
Drive n = 0 Drive Number
Controller n = 0 Controller Number
Category n = 4 Partition Category
In most cases you will not need to alter these settings. If you are using port 78H (170Q) for your
floppy controller, you will have to change the hard disk controller port to 7CH (174Q).