Acer Labs 1543C IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM adapter

General description

CHARON-AXP supports emulation of an integrated virtual Acer Labs 1543C IDE/ATAPI controller.

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Loading Acer Labs 1543C IDE/ATAPI adapter

By default the integrated virtual Acer Labs 1543C IDE/ATAPI controller is preloaded with a name "ide".

Example:

set ide container="\\.\CdRom0"

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Configuration parameters

The Acer Labs 1543C IDE/ATAPI adapter emulation has only one configuration parameter:

container

Parameter

container

Type

Text String

Value

Specifies the name of ATAPI or SATA CD/DVD-ROM drive attached to the host system.

The supported values are of the form “\\.\CdRomN”, where N is 0, 1, 2…

In most cases 0 is the only meaningful value for N, because usually the host system has only one CD/DVD-ROM drive.

By default it is left unspecified.

Example

set ide container="\\.\CdRom0"

When running HP OpenVMS/Alpha Operating System on top of CHARON-AXP virtualization layer the specified CD/DVD-ROM drive is available as DQA0: device.

CHARON-AXP is able to boot any OpenVMS/Alpha and Tru64 version from Acer Labs 1543C IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM.

Virtual Acer Labs 1543C IDE/ATAPI can me mapped only to physical CD-ROM drives. If a CD-ROM container or an ISO file should be used, it is required to utilize KZPBA-CA controller as it offers full support of both physical and virtual mappings to system resources.

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