DELAYS IN BOOTING WITH THE CDR-7730 DOS DRIVER, "HIT-IDE.SYS"

     Users may notice a long delay in booting with our DOS driver.  The
     reason for this is that the default for our DOS driver is to look for
     all CD-ROM drives that are attached to every possible place in the
     system.

     Because ATAPI drives can be connected to Primary, Secondary, Tertiary
     or Quaternary ports and can be connected as Master or Slave on any of
     those, the driver searches 8 places to find up to 8 CD-ROM drives.

     By default, even after the first CD-ROM drive is found, the driver
     will continue searching to see if there is more than one drive
     connected.  If there is only 1 CD-ROM drive in the system, much of
     the boot up time delay can be reduced by putting /N:1 on the DEVICE=
     line of the CONFIG.SYS file.  The number after the /N: tells the
     driver to stop searching after that number of drives has been found.
     So, if 2 CD-ROM drives are connected, use /N:2 instead of /N:1.

     The boot up time delay can further be reduced by telling the device
     driver where to begin its search.  The default search begins with
     the Primary Master and continues in the order shown below.  In
     nearly all systems, the hard drive is connected to Primary Master,
     so starting the search at the Primary Slave would still find any
     drive.  If you know that the CD-ROM drive is connected to the
     Secondary port, you can save time by skipping the Primary Master
     and Primary Slave.

     The /T: parameter controls the starting location as follows:

     /T:0    Starts with Primary Master
     /T:1    Starts with Primary Slave
     /T:2    Starts with Secondary Master
     /T:3    Starts with Secondary Slave
     /T:4    Starts with Tertiary Master
     /T:5    Starts with Tertiary Slave
     /T:6    Starts with Quaternary Master
     /T:7    Starts with Quaternary Slave

     The search continues from this starting point until the end of this
     list or until the number of drives as specified in the "n" of the /N:n
     switch have been found.

     If a user does not know how his drive is connected, he can add the /V
     switch to the DEVICE= line.  This will display the locations searched
     and will show "HITACHI CDR-7730" on the line for the location where the
     drive is connected.

     Our Version 1.06 driver has also made improvements to reduce the
     search time for each location as compared with the older 1.03B driver.
     The 1.06 driver can be downloaded from our BBS at (619) 661-0245.
     The file name is HIT106.EXE (self-extracting) or HIT106.ZIP.
     This file contains the HIT-IDE.SYS driver, the CDSETUP.EXE installation
     utility and a README.DOC file.