SECTION 1
Getting Started
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SanDisk Support with Stacker
To support SanDisk cards loaded with STACKER, the CONFIG.SYS file in flash
loads STACKER (if it is present). In this case, the startup file (AUTOEXEC.BAT
or ROMINIT.BAT), on the stacked volume of the card, is processed.
Access a SanDisk card loaded with Stacker from a laptop computer that supports
PC Cards, doing one of two things:
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Install the Stacker device driver on the laptop. This is done by running
SINSTALL from the SanDisk drive. SINSTALL is on the unstacked portion
of the SanDisk drive, or
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Run Stacker Anywhere, which is a TSR shell that allows you to access the
stacked portions of the SanDisk card without having to modify the
CONFIG.SYS file. Start Stacker Anywhere by typing STACKER" and exit
by typing EXIT."
"
NOTE:
The version of Stacker, shipped on SanDisk cards, is incompatible with Windows 95. If your
development environment is Windows 95, and you need to leave Stacker on the SanDisk
card, then when you copy files over to the SanDisk card, boot a previous version of DOS to
access the card.
When loading Stacker and INTERLNK, be sure that Stacker is loaded before
INTERLNK, in the CONFIG.SYS file. Also, to write files to the SanDisk card
using INTERLNK, both the HHC and the development PC need Stacker loaded.
If a SanDisk card becomes corrupted by INTERLNK, it can be restored by
reformatting it using FORMAT.COM from ROM DOS 5 (also supplied in the
Programmer's toolkit).
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NOTE:
All data is lost when the card is formatted. You need to boot a previous version of DOS to
run INTERLNK, if you have a Windows 95 development environment.
See
Appendix A, Sample Configuration Files
, for an example a configuration that
demonstrates a configuration for a 6300 Computer that uses a SanDisk card
with Stacker and a custom CONFIG.SYS file.
Communication using INTERLNK and INTERSVR
INTERLNK, a device driver that interconnects an HHC and a host PC via serial
ports, and INTERSVR, the INTERLNK server, are provided with ROM DOS 5
and DOS 6 and also are shipped with the 6200 and 6300 Toolkit. The cable that
connects the PC to the HHC is a standard null modem cable. A NULL modem
TTY TCOM cable also works.
INTERLNK causes the HHC drives to appear as virtual drives on the PC, with
drive letters that are immediately beyond the highest drive letter currently used
on the PC. Typing INTERLNK" from the PC command line displays the
designations of the redirected drives. For details on the INTERLNK and
INTERSVR topics, see the DOS online help text.
INTERLNK is installed on the PC by the following declaration in the
CONFIG.SYS file:
device=c:\dos\interlnk.exe /drives:4
INTERSVR is provided as a communication option in the Norand Utilities
program.
You can now copy the application files to the HHC. To terminate INTERSVR,
press the
[NO]
key. If an external keyboard is attached, press
<Alt>
+
[F4]
.
Example Boot Files
See
Appendix A, Sample Configuration Files
, for examples of CONFIG.SYS,
AUTOEXEC.BAT, and ROMINIT.BAT files.
1. Getting Started
