Q:

CD-ROM Device How to drive ARGOSY PCMCIA CD-ROM Drive under pure
MS-DOS mode?

A:

There are two ways to solve it.

1.

Preparing a boot disk, then editing the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT on the disk.

EDIT CONFIG.SYS:

DEVICE=A:\HIMEM.SYS/TEST:OFF

DEVICE=A:\ARICDI.EXE/P:3 /I:9 /D:MSCD001

(The file ARICDI.EXE can be copied from the original driver disk bundled with the CD-ROM's package. The argument I:9 means IRQ:9. It can be 9,10,11,15) ?

EDIT AUTOEXEC.BAT:

A:\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD001 /L:D

(The file MSCDEX.EXE is provided by Microsoft. It can be copied from MS-DOS or MS-Windows series.)?

2.

Or downloading the file: bootdisk.exe

Preparing an empty floppy disk, then double click on the file downloaded in hard disk drive. It will unzip automatically to the disk. At last, restarting computer from the disk.

Q:

DVD-ROM Device How to drive ARGOSY PCMCIA DVD-ROM Drive under pure
MS-DOS mode?

A:

Preparing a boot disk, then editing the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT on the disk.

EDIT CONFIG.SYS:

DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS

DEVICE=A:\ARICDF.EXE /P:320 /D:MSCD001

(The file ARICDF.EXE can be copied from the original driver disk bundled with the CD-ROM's package. The argument P:320 can be 320, 340, 360)

EDIT AUTOEXEC.BAT:

A:\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD001 /L:D

(The file MSCDEX.EXE is provided by Microsoft. It can be copied from MS-DOS or MS-Windows series.)

Q:

Ethernet Card How to make ARGOSY PCMCIA EN235 to link to the Novell Server under MS-DOS mode?

A:

Installing steps are under:

1.

Copying the file CB8139EN.EXE; and all files in the directory DOSODI form original installing disk to hard disk drive.

2.

Editing the Frame Type in NET.CFG and make it the same as the server's setting.

3.

Then following the command under

Cd8139en (plug the EN-235 into slot. If it works, there will be a message Found PCI Ethernet displayed.)

LSL

CB8139

ipxodi

netx

Entering the drive where the server belongs to.

Then login.