Copyright: Copyright ® 1995 Micro House International.
Citation: The Micro House Windows 3.1x FastDisk Driver.  Copyright ® 1995 Micro House International.


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The Micro House Fastdisk Driver (MH32BIT.386) enhances your Microsoft Windows 3.1 and Microsoft Windows For Workgroups 3.11 hard drive performance.  The Micro House Fastdisk Driver is a direct replacement for the built-in Microsoft 32-Bit Disk Access driver WDCTRL.386

Drive performance is enhanced by allowing 32-Bit Disk Access to work with large IDE drives that are greater than 528Mbytes in capacity.  Performance is increased when running in 386 Enhanced mode and with IDE type hard drives only.

Installing the Driver

Features. . .

Support for Hard Drives Over 528Mbytes

LBA Mode Support


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Large Drive Support

Provides support for IDE drives greater than 528 MBytes in capacity or drives with over 1024 cylinders.  This allows Windows to support IDE drives of up to 8GB, with up to 2GB per partition.


LBA Mode Support

Automatically supports Logical Block Addressing (LBA) on systems that have LBA enabled. When a Translating BIOS is detected in the system, the Micro House Fastdisk Driver will place the drive into CHS mode.


Installing the Driver

The easiest way to install the Micro House Fastdisk Driver is to run the setup program that is provided.  The driver can also be manually installed.

Automatic Setup

Manual Installation


Automatic Setup
SETUP.EXE

Start Windows or Windows for Workgroups.

From the Windows Program Manager, pull down the File Menu, then select the Run command.

In the Run dialog entry box, type in A:\SETUP

The Micro House Fastdisk Driver will be copied from the floppy diskette and your SYSTEM.INI file will be altered to reflect the changes.  You will then be asked to restart Windows.


Manual Installation

Copy the MH32BIT.386 file to the Windows directory on your hard disk. This directory is normally C:\WINDOWS.

Open your SYSTEM.INI file with a text editor (such as the Windows NotePad) and make the following changes:

Find. . .

[386Enh]

device=*wdctrl

Change to. . .

[386Enh]

:::device=*wdctrl

device=c:\windows\MH32BIT.386

Note: If c:\windows is not your Windows directory then enter the correct path.

Run Windows and run Control Panel.  Select the 386 Enhanced section and then select the "Virtual Memory..." option.  Select "Change>>" and then check the "Use 32-bit Access.

The "Use 32-bit Access" option must be on in order for the Micro House Fastdisk Driver to be loaded when Windows starts.  Windows must be restarted for the changes to take effect.

Additional steps. . .

If you do not see the Use 32 bit Disk Access displayed in the control panel then enter following lines in the [386Enh] section of your SYSTEM.INI file in addition to the changes above:

[386Enh]

32BitDiskAccess=ON

device=*int13