Host Device Check

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General Description

The "Host Device Check" utility is used to review system resources that can be mapped to CHARON.

To start the utility click on the following icon under the "Start" menu:

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Reviewing available physical disks

By default the "Host Device Check" utility reports the available physical disks:

Please note that the "Unusable device" (marked with red) and "Device contains Windows system" must not be mapped to CHARON!

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Reviewing all the available host resources

Open "All drives" in the "Device class" drop-down box:

The "Host Device Check" utility will display all the host resources:

It is also possible to choose all the other categories to narrow the possible mapping options list.

Note the "Use with CHARON" column contains the actual configuration options for each available device to be inserted, if needed, in the CHARON configuration file.

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Collecting the configuration strings

To collect the actual configuration strings to be used in the CHARON configuration file select the target device and press the "Copy path to clipboard" button:

The selected configuration string will be copied to the clipboard and then can be pasted to the CHARON configuration file with "Ctrl-V" keys combination.

The buttons "Open" and "Save As..." helps to open up the displayed options in form of text file and save this text file under some given name.

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