User Manual

MiniStation All-in-One Petit Board User’s Manual

Award BIOS Setup

7.3.3 Using ATA card

Just as your system’s hard disk has a drive letter (C: ) assigned to it, you can find out which drive letters

have been reserved for your ATA cards by using CARDINFQ. To do so, insert the ATA card into a PCMCIA

slot. Then, from the C:\cardsoft directory type CARDINFO /V and press Enter. A listing similar to the

following is displayed.

Slot 0:

[Card Information]

Card Type = “ATA Disk” (Drive D: ) ← Drive letter is listed here

Manufacturer = <Vendor Name>

Product Name = <Vendor Product Name>

If necessary, just as with your system’s hard disk, you can use DOS command FORMAT to format your

ATA cards. All standard DOS commands will work with your ATA cards.

7.3.4 Using SRAM cards

At system startup, a series of messages scrolls up the screen as different software and hardware drives

are automatically installed. One of these message tells you which drive letter is the first drive letter that

your SRAM cards will be assigned. You can press the PAUSE key to stop the messages from scrolling so

that you can read them. To continue the system startup. you then have to press the PRINT SCREEN key.

As the system is starting, alternately press the PAUSE and PRINT SCREEN keys until you see the

following:

Microsoft CardDRV for SystemSoft Card Services Version 0.01.08 (26 April 1994)

The Device Drive system installed 02 drive(s) : D: -E:

As in above example, drive letter F is reserved for slot 0 & drive letter G is reserved for slot 1. And then, if

necessary, you can use these drive letter & DOS command Format to format your SRAM cards just like

format your floppy diskette, All standard DOS commands will work your SRAM cards.

7.3.5 Using FLASH cards

For using Flash cards, an optional Flash File System II or FTL are required. Please refer to section Before

Using PC cards/Verify your CONFIF.SYS file in this User’s Guide. The drive letter of Flash cards are the

same as SRAM card. To format your Flash cards, you need to run a supporting utility MCFORMAT then a

function manual will be displayed. Two functions are enough for you, they are Erase (3

function) and

Create and Format (1

function). Erase first and then Format. All of DOS commands will work with Flash

cards which are formatted as FTL. For Flash cards which are formatted as FFS II, all of DOS commands

will work with them except the CHKDSK & FORMAT commands.

7.3.6 Using LAN cards

After LAN card was recognized, but can not successfully be configured with the card insert beep (one

beep), you may have to use a client driver (supported by your LAN card vendor) to configure your LAN