COREL CD POWERPAK VERSION 1.01 README FILE
==========================================

This document provides information you should know before 
installing Corel CD PowerPak version 1.01. Last minute product and 
device information is also documented.

If you have any suggestions or questions about this product 
that your distributor can't answer, contact CorelSCSI
Technical Support: 
	
    Telephone:    (613) 728-1010
    CompuServe:   Enter GO COREL


Table of Contents
=================

1.  Installing ASPI Managers
2.  Loading Corel's Device Drivers
3.  Using Memory Managers
4.  CD-Audio for Windows
5.  Corel ArtView Screen Saver for Windows
6.  CorelBook for Windows
7.  CorelCDX for Windows and DOS
8.  CDSESN for DOS
9.  DOSAUDIO for DOS
10. Using PC-DOS with Corel's DOS Utilities
11. Undocumented Commands
12. Support for Kodak Photo CDs
13. Digital Audio Sampling

The following topics are provided in the README.HDW
file. These topics are relevant only if you're using
the named hardware:

14. Using the Pioneer DRM604X in SCSI-1 Mode
15. Using Future Domain Host Adapters
16. Using Always AL-7000 Host Adapters



1.  Installing ASPI Managers
----------------------------

For your convenience, CorelSCSI includes the ASPI managers 
for many host adapters, which you can install during the 
installation.

If the ASPI manager for your card isn't provided with 
CorelSCSI, you must install the ASPI manager and load it in 
your CONFIG.SYS file before installing CorelSCSI. If you 
have problems with any ASPI manager, contact the 
manufacturer of your card.

CorelSCSI provides the following ASPI managers:
   
Card Type                      ASPI Version    File Name
---------                      ------------    -------------
Corel Generic ASPI for         1.03            ASPIDRV.SYS
BusLogic and Adaptec
(154X, 164X) host adapters

Corel Generic ASPI for the     1.00            ASPIMED.SYS
Pro Audio Studio 16 card

Corel LS2000                   1.10            ASPILS_D.SYS

Corel Generic ASPI for IBM     1.00            ASPIIBM.SYS
MCA host adapters

IBM ThinkPad ASPI Manager      2.00            DCAM950.EXE
                               2.00            ASPIFCAM.SYS

Acculogic ASPI Interface       3.01.01         ASPFCAM.SYS

Acculogic CAM driver           3.00.05         DOSCAM.SYS

Always AL-500                  1.10            ASPILS_D.SYS

Always AL-1000                 1.00            ASPISHT.SYS

Always AL-7000                 837-13.13       AL7ASPI.SYS

Always IN-2000                 461-12          ASPIDRVR.SYS
 
American Megatrends Fast Disk  1.1             ASPIKERN.SYS

DPT ASPI for SCSI BIOS         001.K           DPTDDL.SYS
ROM\SMARTROM V.001.K

DPT ASPI for SCSI BIOS         002.B           DPTDDL.SYS
ROM\SMARTROM V.002.B

DTC 3X80/3X50 ASPI Manager     1.5A            ASPI3X80.SYS

New Media 'Visual Media'       2.03            ASPIMGR.SYS
ASPI Manager

New Media 'Bus Toaster'        1.00            BTASPI.SYS
ASPI Manager

Procomp Pro-Val                1.0a            PVALASPI.SYS
ASPI Manager

Procomp Pro-Master             1.0a            PMASASPI.SYS
ASPI Manager

Future Domain ASPI Manager     2.00            ASPIFCAM.SYS

(TMC-950) Future/CAM 8-Bit     2.00            DCAM950.EXE
Multi-tasking CAM driver

(TMC-18XX) Future/CAM 16-Bit   2.00            DCAM18XX.EXE
Multi- tasking CAM driver 

(TMC-950)Future/CAM 8-Bit      2.01            MCAM950.SYS
Single tasking CAM driver 

(TMC-18XX) Future/CAM 16-Bit   2.01            MCAM18XX.SYS
Single-tasking CAM driver 

QLogic ASPI Manager            2.17            DLASPI.SYS

QLogic SCSI RAM BIOS           2.17            QL406DOS.SYS

UltraStor Ultra 14/34          2.00            USPI14.SYS 

UltraStor Ultra 14N            2.00            USPI14N.SYS

UltraStor Ultra 24FA           1.04            USPI24.SYS

NOTE: To help distinguish the between DPT ASPI managers, 
      which both use the name DPTDDL.SYS, two different file 
      names are used. However, the installation renames the 
      selected ASPI manager to DPTDDL.SYS. The DPT ASPI for 
      SCSI BIOS ROM\SMARTROM

      * V.001.K is in the file DPTDDL1K.SYS
      * V.002.B is in the file DPTDDL2B.SYS

To install an ASPI manager that isn't provided with CorelSCSI
  
1.  Copy the ASPI manager from the disk provided with your 
    SCSI card to your hard drive.

2.  Add the device driver line to the CONFIG.SYS file using 
    the following syntax:

      DEVICE=C:\xxxx.SYS

      where xxxx indicates the name of your ASPI manager.

3. Reboot the system before you start the CorelSCSI 
   installation.

    While the system is rebooting, you should look for 
    status messages from the ASPI manager. If the status 
    indicates an unsuccessful installation, the CorelSCSI 
    device driver won't function.
    
  
2.  Loading Corel's Device Drivers
---------------------------------------

During the installation, you're prompted to choose whether
to load the Corel CD-ROM device driver into high memory. 
If you choose this option and not enough memory is 
available, the drivers won't load.

To correct this problem, edit the CONFIG.SYS file. For
each device driver command, replace the DEVICEHIGH 
keyword with DEVICE.


3.  Using Memory Managers
-------------------------

If you're using a memory manager, you may need to uninstall 
it before installing Corel CD PowerPak and then reinstall the 
memory manager. In rare cases, systems may hang if Corel CD 
PowerPak is installed while a memory manager is loaded.



4.  CD-Audio 2 (Windows)
------------------------

CD-Audio 2.0 supports Microsoft's Music Box 2.0. Any track 
information you've entered using MusicBox is imported into 
CD-Audio.
 
If you're using an LMSI CM234 CD-ROM drive, the status 
information may not display the correct information. This is 
a problem with the drive rather than CD-Audio.
 
If your drive supports digital audio sampling, you can 
record sound files using CD-Audio. The following drive 
models support digital audio sampling:

    *  Toshiba XM3401
    *  Sony CDU561 (and OEM versions such as Compaq CDV561)
    *  Apple CD300


5.  Corel ArtView Screen Saver (Windows)
----------------------------------------

If you select the sound option on systems with lower memory 
configurations, you may experience long delays before an 
image is displayed or intermittent sound output.


6.  CorelBook (Windows)
-----------------------  

Some systems running ATI Mach 32 video driver version 2.0 
may experience problems loading CorelBook.

Some systems running Standard mode Windows may experience 
problems closing CorelBook when CD-ROM media browser is 
loaded. 

With IBM PC-DOS 6.1, the Operating System Summary page 
reports the actual DOS version as DOS version 6.0. This is 
correct, as this version of DOS reports itself as 6.0.

When unloading the CD-ROM Media Browser in Windows standard 
mode, problems may occur. The only fix, at this time, is to 
rename the CDMEDIA.CBL file to CDMEDIA.LBC. This means that 
the CD-ROM Media Browser won't be found by CorelBook. No 
problems have been found when using CD-ROM Media Browser in
standard mode.

There are known problems printing to printers that don't 
support graphics.

Tabbing between controls doesn't work correctly on all pages.

The page up and page down controls don't work in list 
boxes. Using these functions flips the page.


7. CorelCDX (Windows and DOS)
------------------------------

To work with your CD-ROM drives, you require a CD-ROM 
extensions program, such as CorelCDX, which interprets the 
CD-ROM file system format. CorelCDX also provides several 
types of caches, including a path table, directory, and data 
cache. These caches are discussed in detail in the Users' 
Manual. As an extension to CorelCDX, CDXCACHE provides an 
extended memory data cache.

CDXCACHE, if enabled, is loaded at the same time as 
CorelCDX.  This cache stores information recently read from 
CD-ROM drives in extended memory. When information requested 
by an application is located in the cache, the information 
can be accessed more quickly than re-reading the information 
from the drive.

CDXCACHE uses a least recently used (LRU) algorithm: 
frequently used data remains in the cache and infrequently 
used data is discarded from the cache. CDXCACHE works best 
with database type applications, which repeatedly read 
information from the same areas of a CD.

CDXCACHE can cache the first 16 CD-ROM drives connected to 
your system. The cache page size affects the maximum 
cacheable sector address.

The following CDXCACHE options may appear in the CorelCDX 
section of the CRLSCSI.INI file:

    * XMSSIZE indicates the cache size in kilobytes. You can 
      set XMSSIZE to 0 to disable the XMS cache. Note that 
      the number of tracks created on a CD by CDCOPY is 
      affected by the amount of available XMS memory, you 
      should disable the extended XMS cache when using 
      CDCOPY.

      You can set XMSSIZE to -1 to use a default cache size, 
      which is equal to one-quarter of the free XMS memory.

      You can also set XMSSIZE to  a specific size from 64K 
      to 16384K.

    * XMSPAGE configures the number of sectors per cache 
      page, which determines the read-ahead operations. The 
      value of 4 is recommended for smaller cache sizes; 
      it's more important to cache separate disk reads than 
      to perform read aheads. Use the value 8 for larger 
      cache sizes; more data is stored in one operation. The 
      default setting is 4 sectors per cache page.

    * XMSBLOCK represents the maximum size of read request 
      in sectors that will be cached. The cache performance 
      may benefit from larger values. However, the cache may 
      fill up more quickly. The default setting is 4 
      sectors.

Both CDXCACHE and Microsoft's SmartDrive program use 
extended memory caching. If you're using SmartDrive version 
5.0, provided with MS-DOS 6.2, you can use SmartDrive rather 
than CDXCACHE. However, CDXCACHE has smaller overhead and 
operates faster then SmartDrive. 

SMARTDRV.EXE 5.0 is designed to work exclusively with 
Microsoft's MSCDEX CD-ROM driver. However, Corel's 
PATCH_SD.COM modifies SMARTDRV.EXE to recognize CorelCDX as 
a valid CD-ROM driver.

PATCH_SD creates a copy of the existing SMARTDRV.EXE program 
and stores the copy as SMARTDRV.MSC. If you've made changes 
to SMARTDRV.EXE version 5.0 that change its size, such as 
compressing the file, from 45145 bytes, PATCH_SD won't work.

To modify SmartDrive to recognize CorelCDX

1.  At the command prompt, enter PATCH_SD.
   
2.  Check your AUTOEXEC.BAT file to ensure that CorelCDX is 
    loaded before SmartDrive; otherwise, SmartDrive won't 
    find, and therefore cache, CD-ROM drives. Since 
    SmartDrive is loaded after CorelCDX, you can't use the 
    CorelCDX /UNLOAD command.
   
3.  Use the CorelCDX section of Configuration to set the XMS 
    Cache Size option to Disable. The CDXCACHE is enabled, 
    by default. If you don't disable the cache, both 
    CDXCACHE  and SmartDrive will cache data, using twice 
    the necessary  amount of extended memory.
   
4.  Reboot your system to reinstall SMARTDRV.EXE.

Miscellaneous Information:

If you're using DOS 5.0, Norton Shell 6.0, and CDXCACHE, 
Windows won't run. Remove or upgrade any one of the three 
programs to resolve this problem.

If you run CDSESN, CD-ROM caching software, including 
CorelCDX/CDXCACHE, will flush any cached data for the 
specified drive even if the currently selected session is 
not changed.

The DRIVERNAME option of the CRLSCSI.INI file provides the 
required name of the CD-ROM device driver, which should be 
the same as the value of the DRIVERNAME option in the [CD-
ROM Drivers] section of this file. CD-ROM device drivers are 
numbered starting from MSCD001.

If CorelCDX can't find driver names in the CRLSCSI.INI file 
or if the CRLSCSI.INI file is missing, CorelCDX will try to 
locate and initialize the CD-ROM device drivers named, by 
default, 'MSCD001' and 'MSCD099'.


8. CDSESN (DOS)
---------------

If you run CDSESN, CD-ROM caching software (including 
CorelCDX/CDXCACHE) will flush any cached data for the 
specified drive even if the currently selected session is 
not changed.


9. DOSAUDIO (DOS)
-----------------

If your drive supports digital audio audio sampling, you can 
record sound files using CDDA. The following drive models 
support digital audio sampling:

    *  Toshiba XM3401
    *  Sony CDU561 (and OEM versions such as Compaq CDV561)
    *  Apple CD300

If you're using an LMSI CM234 CD-ROM drive, the status 
information may not display the correct information. This is 
a problem with the drive rather than DOSAUDIO.


10. Using PC-DOS with Corel's DOS Utilities
-------------------------------------------

If you're using PC-DOS version 5.0/V in Kanji mode, you must 
switch to US mode before using the CorelSCSI for  DOS 
utilities; otherwise, the utilities won't run.

To switch to US mode, enter the following at the command 
prompt:
 
    CHEV   US  /f


11. Undocumented Commands
--------------------------------------

The following commands are not documented in the Users' Manual: 

CDINFO [drive:]
Displays a summary of information about the compact disc 
in the specified drive.

CDOFF
Recovers drive letters assigned to CD-ROM drives. Each 
time a CD-ROM extensions program is loaded, one drive 
letter is used for each CD-ROM drive. 
However, when the program is unloaded, the drive letters 
aren't recovered. Run CDOFF immediately before removing 
CD-ROM extensions from memory. 

CDXINFO
Provide summary information about CorelCDX.

SS
Displays a menu from which you can select a host adapter. 
CorelSCSI scans the selected host adapter and lists the 
SCSI devices detected.

SCANCD [drive:]
Scans the compact disc in the drive specified and 
displays information such as the number of bytes on 
the disc.


12. Support for Kodak Photo CDs
-------------------------------

The Corel CD-ROM device driver, which is named CUNI_ASP.SYS 
currently supports Kodak Photo CDs. Although other drives 
may read the Photo CD format, the following drives have been 
tested by Corel:
   
   Single session  Multi session
   -----------------------------
   Chinon CDS435   Chinon CDS535
   NEC CDR73       NEC CDR74-1
   NEC CDR73M      NEC CDR84-1
   NEC CDR74       Panasonic CR-532
   NEC CDR83       Philips CDD-521
   NEC CDR83M      Smart & Friendly HS-2200 i/e
   NEC CDR84       Sony CDU-561
   Sony CDU-541    Teac CD-50
   Sony CDU-6211   Texel DM-3024K
   Texel DM-5024   Texel DM-5024K
   Texel DM-3024   Toshiba XM3301 (with 
                   multi session upgrade)
   Toshiba XM3301  Toshiba XM3401


13. Digital Audio Sampling
------------------------- 

Using CD-Audio for Windows and CDDA for DOS, you can 
record digital audio. The following drive models support 
digital audio sampling:

    *  Toshiba XM3401
    *  Sony CDU561 (and OEM versions such as Compaq CDV561)
    *  Apple CD300

