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6... PCMCIA CARD CONFIGURATION AND USE
USING THE OMP-MODL 6-5
TIP: Upon boot of the PC with the standard drivers
installed, the PD-1 will be assigned the next consecutive
drive letter. For User’s requiring specific assignment of a
drive letter to the PD-1 drive, the CONFIG.SYS file can
be modified to force the PD-1 drive to be assigned to a
particular drive letter. Refer to the Technical Support
FAQ (frequently asked questions) sheet supplied with the
drive for details.
TIP: For user’s that do not require control of the specific
drive letter assigned to the PD-1 and want to minimize
the size of the loaded PD-1 interface drivers, an older
version of the CardTalk drivers (V2.16 for the TMD-550)
is available. This version requires only 24K of memory
and will support only the SRAM cards used in the OMP-
MODL system. Additionally, this version of drivers does
not allow for a User assigned drive letter... it will
automatically use the next drive letter in the system.
If used, these drivers install into a directory called
DATABOOK instead of the directory called CARDTALK
referred to within this chapter.
NOTE:
The OMP-MODL and HyperWare PCMCIA card
system has been designed to be implemented using
the external PD-1 PCMCIA drive. Users with PC’s
equipped with integral PCMCIA drives may be able to
utilize drivers supplied with their PC’s for read/write
from DOS formatted SRAM PCMCIA cards. However
due to the variability in PCMCIA card spec
compliance and system configurations,
considerable cautious experimentation may be
required to implement the system.
Quick Test of the PCMCIA Drive Configuration
After installation of the drivers, reboot the PC and the drivers will be
loaded into memory. The drive letter that the PCMCIA drive is
installed as will be displayed briefly in the on-screen messages
displayed during the system boot. Note this letter for future use.
If the system does not correctly identify the drive, error messages
will display. Refer to the PCMCIA drive User’s Guide for instructions
on troubleshooting drive configuration problems.
After a successful configuration, the drive installation can be simply
tested as follows: