Download System One Description, Installation, and APWIN Guide

Using PCM-WIN with Windows 3.11
Software Installation- Windows 3.11
registers that must be accessed using word operations. This
undocumented Data Book requirement was added to Award’s 2.05
release of Card and Socket Services.
CARDWARE software is installed using a floppy disk and Windows.
The installation process can be told (by user selection) to automatically
detect the interface chip, and install the appropriate Socket Services
driver. During installation, both the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT
files are changed. If the user is running EMM386, the installer will add the
following string to the EMM386 command line.
X=CF00-CFFF X=D000-D7FF
If the user has hardware at these locations, or later changes EMM386
in CONFIG.SYS, he/she must also change the CARDWARE.INI file
(discussed below). See the notes at the end of this section for how to
match CONFIG.SYS and CARDWARE.INI.
CARDWARE software uses a generic text file to set the I/O and
memory addresses in the free “pool”. The text file is in the CARDWARE
directory, and is called CARDWARE.INI. It can be changed manually by
using any text editor (such as EDIT or NOTEPAD).
The four addresses recognized by APWIN are not included in the
generic “pool”. This means that CARDWARE.INI must be changed
before APWIN can run. Our experience with desk top PCs indicates that
no hardware ever resides at the I/O address range 2B8-2BF. The user
should therefore place the following line in the CARDWARE.INI file (just
below the existing lines that start with ‘I/O=’).
I/O=0x2B8,0x08,E,10
Once CARDWARE.INI has been changed, the computer must be
restarted (CTRL-ALT-DEL ). This is because Card Services reads
CARDWARE.INI only once at boot time. If you need to change the file,
make sure you restart the computer so the changes can take effect.
Note:
As discussed earlier, the generic Award installation
program assumes 4K bytes of memory at segment CF00,
and 32K bytes of memory at segment D000 are available
for Card Service’s free “pool”. On some notebook
computers this may not be the case. For some advanced
users, they may wish to use some of that for RAM (at the
expense of not being able to use PCMCIA ATA disks, or
RAM cards).
System One Description/Installation/APWIN Guide
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