Technical information

4.7 CBHD 5.0.2 Driver Package

This section presents procedures for partitioning and using a drive with the CBHD package.

This CBHD 502 package is widely available as a freeware.

Note: The original CBHD package is in German. However most of the program and utilities have been

translated to English. This is the version presented below.

4.7.1 Partitioning a drive

In order to use the CBHD utility the SCSIDRV.PRG program needs to be executed first. The driver

displays a welcome screen but more importantly it displays information about all the devices

connected.

Run the CBHDCONF.APP: From the Disk menu select the

Partition… command. Select the drive you want to partition. If the

drive was already partitioned you will be presented with the

existing partitions.

You can change the size of any partition by clicking on the arrow

icons. When you reach the maximum size available on the disk

you will not be able to increment the partitions. Specifying size for

large partition can be painful!

Once you have specified the sizes click OK. Confirm with OK that you

want to partition disk.

This will write the partitioning information on the drive, and it will also

initialize the content of all the partitions. Reboot the system.

4.7.2 Enabling Auto boot

Auto boot allows your system to boot directly from the hard drive. This eliminates the need for a boot

floppy diskette and speeds the booting process.

Enabling auto boot with CBHD is “a bit unusual”. Please carefully follow the following steps:

 Run the SCSIDRV.PRG then Run CBHDCONF.APP.

 From the Driver menu select the Install… entry. This will

write the boot loader to the selected partition, but it will not

copy the driver to the boot partition for you.

 Run the CBHD.PRG. You should now be able to access the

“C” boot partition from the desktop. If there is no hard disk

icon on the desktop you need to install a hard disk icon.

 Copy the CBHD.PRG file from your installation floppy to this

partition. Rename this file to CBHD.SYS using File Show Info… from the desktop menus.

You should now reboot the system. The CBHD hard disk driver should load automatically and display

all the drives and partitions.