PC Exchange (PCX) 2.0.2 will allow you to mount removable media, such as SyQuest cartridges, on the fly negating the need to install separate software.
Step 1
To enable this, you must open the PCX control panel and select Options.
Step 2
Once selected, a list of connected devices will be present, clicking on your cartridge drive will place a check mark next to it indicating that the driver for that device will be loaded at restart.
Step 3
Restart your computer and you now have the ability to insert cartridges on the fly.
The Eject Disk command is unavailable when working with removable media devices. To unmount and eject a removable media cartridge, drag the device's icon to the Trash. Once the device has spun down and the red light goes out, you can manually eject the cartridge from the drive. To access a removable media cartridge that has been ejected, simply reinsert the cartridge in the drive.
When initializing and formatting Bernoulli and SyQuest cartridges on a PC-compatible computer, use the disk setup and partitioning software that came with the SCSI controller card installed in your PC or that came with your Bernoulli or SyQuest device. Do not use the MS-DOS Fdisk command to initialize a removable media cartridge. In addition, you should use the MS-DOS Format command to format the disk before you copy DOS files to a newly initialized removable media cartridge on a PC.
When you initialize a removable media cartridge on a PC-compatible computer, you must fully partition, initialize, and erase the cartridge using the software that came with your SCSI controller card or removable media device. If you do not, PC Exchange may not recognize the new DOS-format partitions on that cartridge.
Article Change History:
14 Feb 1995 - Reviewed for technical accuracy.
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