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Formatting or Initializing a Card, Attention, Formatting an ATA Card, Enter, Initializing an ATA Card

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For you to use ATA hard disk or ATA Flash disk cards on your system, your CONFIG.SYS file must contain the following line. The standard device drivers are always required: DEVICEHIGH=C:\CARDSOFT\ATADRV.EXE DEVICEHIGH=C:\CARDSOFT\MTDDRV.EXE Formatting or Initializing a Card Attention Make sure you are using the correct drive letter when formatting or initializing your ATA card, because any information on the specified drive is erased. Formatting an ATA Card To format an ATA card: 1 Type the following command FORMAT drive_letter /U Note: drive_letter is the drive letter assigned to the card. For example, if the card has been assigned to drive D, type format D: /U 2 Press Enter. Initializing an ATA Card To initialize an ATA card, run the ATAINIT command from the DOS prompt, and then use the standard DOS format command to format the ATA card. Note: ATAINIT works only with ATA cards that are supported by the ATADRV driver. If you cannot use your ATA card, it might be an unsupported card. Check with the manuals that came with the card. ATAINIT.EXE is a disk-partitioning utility that must be used to initialize any ATA cards supported by ATADRV. When a new ATA card is inserted into a PC Card slot, you need to initialize the card by using ATAINIT. ATAINIT finds the physical parameters (number of Chapter 5. Using Your Computer with a PC Card 85

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For you to use ATA hard disk or ATA Flash disk cards on your
system, your CONFIG.SYS file must contain the following line.
The
standard device drivers are always required:
DEVICEHIGH=C:\CARDSOFT\ATADRV.EXE
DEVICEHIGH=C:\CARDSOFT\MTDDRV.EXE
Formatting or Initializing a Card
Attention
Make sure you are using the correct drive letter when formatting
or initializing your ATA card, because any information on the
specified drive is erased.
Formatting an ATA Card
To format an ATA card:
1
Type the following command
FORMAT drive_letter /U
Note:
drive_letter
is the drive letter assigned to the card.
For example, if the card has been assigned to drive D,
type
format D: /U
2
Press
Enter
.
Initializing an ATA Card
To initialize an ATA card, run the ATAINIT command from the DOS
prompt, and then use the standard DOS format command to format
the ATA card.
Note:
ATAINIT works only with ATA cards that are supported by the
ATADRV driver.
If you cannot use your ATA card, it might be
an unsupported card.
Check with the manuals that came with
the card.
ATAINIT.EXE is a disk-partitioning utility that must be used to
initialize any ATA cards supported by ATADRV.
When a new ATA
card is inserted into a PC Card slot, you need to initialize the card by
using ATAINIT.
ATAINIT finds the physical parameters (number of
Chapter 5.
Using Your Computer with a PC Card
85