Changing the Device Driver for OS/2


Changing the Device Driver for OS/2

You might need to customize the setup that the DDINSTAL file has installed on the computer to meet the requirements.
This section provides information and describes parameters that you might need to change or add for the installation.

OS/2 uses the OS2CDROM.DMD device driver

       DEVICE=OS2CDROM.DMD [Options]

to control all CD-ROM devices. The following parameters are available:

/V Instructs the computer to display the installation details.
/Q Suppresses messages during initialization.


Changing the OS/2 device driver filter

OS/2 uses the device-driver filter IBMIDECD.FLT for ATAPI (IDE) CD-ROM drives.

       BASEDEV=IBMIDECD.FLT [Options]

The following parameter is available:

/V Instructs the computer to display installation details.


Changing the OS/2 installable file-system driver

The file system device driver for OS/2 is CDFS.IFS. The following parameters are available:

/C: Indicates how many 64 KB RAM segments will be used for the sector cache.
The default is two 64 KB RAM segments (/C:2).


/M: Indicates the maximum number of file sectors to be read at a time.
The default is eight sectors (/M:8).


/K Uses Kanji supplementary volume descriptor.


/Q Suppresses messages during initialization.


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