CorelSCSI Under DOS 6.2

[James Benvenuto]

I have a New Media Corporation PCMCIA to SCSI card
New Media Corp has since gone out of buisness.
With the SCSI card came CorelSCSI or at least some of it.
Anyway I don't seem to have all of the origional disks and am missing
drivers.

I am trying to get my Castlewood ORB revomable media drive to work under
DOS
It is a "plug and play" device and Castlewood does not supply any
drivers.

I have installed what I have and DOS does see the SCSI card.
The following four statements in CONFIG.SYS work:

DEVICE=C:\DOS\CARDSOFT\ss365sl.exe
DEVICE=C:\DOS\CARDSOFT\cs.exe
DEVICE=C:\DOS\CARDSOFT\cic.exe
DEVICE=C:\DOS\VMEDIA\ASPIMGR.SYS

I believe I need the following two lines:

DEVICE=C:\DOS\VMEDIA\SCSI\ASPILS_D.SYS
DEVICE=C:\DOS\VMEDIA\SCSI\UNI_ASP.SYS /C:4 /ID:6 /VOL:1 /DOS4 /SS:0
/@4:-0

However I did not have the two .SYS files.
I have since found a version of UNI_ASP.SYS but NOT been able to find
ASPILS_D.SYS

Is this what I need???
Where can I find ASPILS_D.SYS?
Are there any command line switches I need to know about?
Etc???

Thanks

Jim

[Bryan Shearer]

James...

You don't, in fact, need the ASPILS_D.SYS driver; that driver is an ASPI
manager for the old LS-2000 SCSI card that Corel produced some ten years
ago. It wouldn't do you any good at all... it would just be taking up
memory that could be better used for other things. The only thing you need,
to get the CorelSCSI drivers loading, is an ASPI manager for your particular
SCSI host adapter, and the UNI_ASP.SYS driver. Your UNI_ASP.SYS driver line
looks okay (assuming your drive is set at SCSI ID 6), with the exception of
the /SS: parameter. This setting should be set to at least 512 or 1024.
(Try 512 first...) You may also need to use the Patch program, to patch
your DOS boot drive to 1024. (Have a boot diskette handy, just in case
anything goes wrong.) Don't bother trying any sector sizes higher than
1024... they shouldn't apply, and could cause problems for you. Hope this
helps!

Yours,
Bryan

[James Benvenuto]

Bryan,

Thanks for your help.
My system still hangs trying to load the UNI_ASP.SYS device
I tryed both sector sizes of 512 and 1024. BTY my win95 norton utilities sayz
512
Also the SCSI ID is 6
Below is my complete CONFIG.SYS in case I've omitted something stupid.
Any help is appreciated. It seems DOS is fading into the shadows...
I did run the PATCH utility to 1024. Can you tell me what that did?

device=C:\TEAC_CDI.SYS /D:MSCD001 /P:S
device=C:\doswin\dos\ANSI.SYS
BUFFERS=30,0
FILES=40
STACKS=9,256
SHELL=COMMAND.COM/P/E:512
lastdrive=Z:

DEVICE=C:\DOS\CARDSOFT\ss365sl.exe
DEVICE=C:\DOS\CARDSOFT\cs.exe
DEVICE=C:\DOS\CARDSOFT\cic.exe

;;< here I get the beeps indicating the PCMCIA card initialized>

DEVICE=C:\DOS\VMEDIA\ASPIMGR.SYS
;;<Here it returns a "SCSI card detected.">

DEVICE=C:\DOS\VMEDIA\SCSI\UNI_ASP.SYS /C:4 /ID:6 /VOL:1 /DOS4 /SS:512 /@4:-0
;;< It never returns from here>

Thanks again,

James

[Bryan Shearer]

James...

What happens if you attempt to load the UNI_ASP.SYS driver with no command line
options? (I believe the version you have, being newer, can load without them,
and autodetects drives...) Worth a try...

Yours,
Bryan

[James Benvenuto]

Bryan,

Still hung in the same place.
Any other ideas?

I am still curious what the PATCH to 1024 did?

Jim

[Bryan Shearer]

James...

Any time you use the UNI_ASP.SYS driver at a sector size higher than
512, you have to use the Patch program. (Patch size must always equal
/SS: size in the driver line... except in the case of the newer
(CorelSCSI 2.x drivers), which didn't need the Patch program any
longer.) Try removing the patch. Beyond that, I'm not sure what to
suggest, sorry.

-Bryan