SECTION 1
Getting Started
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6200/6300 Hand-Held Computer Programmer’s Reference Guide
The CardSoft device drivers cause memory cards in the card slots to be accessed
as drives E and F.
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NOTE:
ASSIGN.COM is a DOS utility that accesses drives E and F by reassigning drives A and B
as E and F.
These drivers also provide audio feedback when a card is inserted or removed
from the card slot. When the HHC recognizes that a card has been inserted, it
sounds like booĆBEEP." When a card is removed, it sounds like BEEĆboop."
Before the Norand Utilities program is executed, each accessory card slot
(E and F) is checked. If a card is present and contains the appropriate startup
file (ROMINIT.BAT or AUTOEXEC.BAT), that drive is made the current drive
and the .BAT file is processed immediately. No Norand Utilities program screens
are seen.
Please note that the Norand Utilities program does
not
process a CONFIG.SYS
file on the card. If an application requires a CONFIG.SYS file that differs from
the one in flash, it is necessary to either boot directly from an SRAM card or boot
from the RAM drive.
Booting from an SRAM Card
When booting from an SRAM card, the CardSoft package cannot be installed.
The reconfiguration of the Cirrus controller, during a driver load process, causes
a loss of the use of the SRAM card that was being booted from. You must boot
from the RAM drive to use a CONFIG.SYS file that installs the CardSoft
package.
To boot from an SRAM card, add the following lines to the AUTOEXEC.BAT (or
ROMINIT.BAT) file on the SRAM card:
REM Determine which drive was booted
BOOTDRV.COM
REM If A: was booted, continue with application
REM processing
IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 2 GOTO CONTINUE
REM Make A: the default boot drive
MMBFLAG.COM 0
REM Reset the computer
RESET.EXE
:CONTINUE
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Booting from the RAM Drive
There are several configurations that provide booting from the RAM drive. See
the
SanDisk Card with Stacker
paragraph, in
Appendix A, Sample Configuration
Files
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1. Getting Started
