Contents

1 Introduction 5

1.1 Late-breaking information 5
1.2 Registering your card 5
1.3 About this User Guide 6
1.4 Contents of the PC Card package 6

2 Installing PC Cards 7

2.1 Installing Risc PC second processor cards 7
2.2 Installing PC Expansion cards 8

3 Installing support software 10

3.1 Installing DOSFS 10
3.2 Installing the PC Card software 11

4 Using !PCConfig 13 

4.1 Configuring your PC Card 13
4.2 Disc setup 14
4.3 Memory 18
4.4 Printing 19
4.5 Serial port 20
4.6 Display 21
4.7 Start-up options 22
4.8 PC/RISC OS 23
4.9 Booting 24
4.10 Updating your configuration 24
4.11 Using direct IDE drives 25
4.12 Direct SCSI access 27
4.13 About !PCConfig 28

5 Using your PC Card 30

5.1 Starting the PC Card 30
5.2 Using the PC Card 32
5.3 Closing down the PC Card 33
5.4 Resetting the PC card 33
5.5 Configuring your PC card 33
5.6 Moving files between RISC OS and DOS 34
5.7 Changing partition size 36
5.8 Using Microsoft Windows 38
5.9 Using DR-DOS with Windows 3.1 39
5.10 Installing the Aleph1 Windows driver 39
5.11 Configuring the Windows driver 42
5.12 Using extended/expanded memory from DOS 44

6 PC card devices 47

6.1 PC Cards themselves 47
6,2 Keyboard 48
6.3 Mouse 48
6.4 Numeric coprocessor 50
6.5 PC memory 51
6.6 Video 53
6.7 PC Expansion card serial and parallel ports 56
6.8 Floppy drives 57
6.9 Sound 58
6.10 Network cards 60
6.11 CD-ROM 60
6.12 Other devices 63

7 Printing from the PC Card 64

8 Troubleshooting 67

8.1 Using trace information 67
8.2 Common problems 68

Appendix A Configuration 73

A.1 Advanced configuration options 73
A.2 Enabling advanced configuration options 73
A.3 Editing advanced configuration options 74
A.4 Advanced configuration options 75

Appendix B Expansion Card sound 82

Index 85
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