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The drive number sets the driver for the Winchester drives on the same controller. If you only
have one Winchester, this should be 0. If you have a second drive connected to the same Xebec
controller, this should be set to a 1.
The controller number sets the driver for the Winchester drives on a separate Xebec controller;
i.e., daisy chained from the host adapter card. If you only have one Winchester, this will always
be a 0. If you have two complete Winchesters with each having its own Xebec, then the second
Xebec must be programmed for the second unit, and the driver must be set to a 1.
The category partition code can be any value from 4 to 7 for supporting multiple driver copies to
reference more than one DK: driver (with different names) for those wishing more than the
maximum of 8 HDOS partitions.
To change the port, for instance, the standard HDOS SET command is used as follows: SET
DK: PORT 174Q
That's all that is involved in the SET options. The drive number and controller number should be 0
for a single Winchester system, or set for the appropriate second Winchester if that is being
accessed. The category number must be left as is for this system if one SY: HDOS driver is used for
up to 7 HDOS partitions.
Now that the driver is properly set up, you can INITialize the HDOS hard drive partitions. If you
left the partitions as shipped or use the default partitions as supplied, you will have HDOS on
four partitions, being 2, 3, 4 and 5, for logical HDOS partitions of SYO:, SY1:, SY2:, and SY3:. Keep
in mind, that the driver on your SYSTEM FLOPPY DISK is DK.DVD, but will be SY.DVD: on the hard
disk when SYSGENed, since SYSGEN switches the names when SYSGENING a drive (or partition)
on the non-SY: disk. Thus, you must INITialize all these partitions as in this example:
INIT DKO:
As you INITialize the surfaces you should see the hard disk drive select light come on for a
period of time during each INIT. If this does not occur, you have some problems and better
check over all your work. In addition you can do a media check while in INIT - this is strongly
advised.
Once you have INITialized your partitions, you may now SYSGEN one or more of the partitions. Assuming
you have all the needed files on your SYSTEM disk, type in the following:
SYSGEN/MIN
Respond DKO: (or DK1:, or DK2:, or DK3:) for destination drive and the default of SYO: for the source
drive. While SYSGENing is taking place, you should see the hard drive select as the files are being
copied over. When the SYSGEN takes place, the DK.DVD (previously DKSASXV3.DVD) hard driver is
transferred and renamed as SY.DVD on the hard disk, while your present system SY.DVD driver is
copied over and renamed DK.DVD. Thus your floppies will now be accessed from the hard drive as
DK.DVD and the hard drive will be accessed as SY:. This is because the system BOOTable drive
must always be SY:.
Now all you must do is BOOT your hard disk system. The method of doing this will be different
depending on how your default CPU switches are set and the monitor ROM you are using. Consult the
monitor ROM documentation to find how to select and BOOT the Winchester drive. When you BOOT the
Winchester drive the first time (BOOT for Z67 to bring up partition table, enter HDOS partition