Floppy Disk Drive Volume Letter; Serial Ports - NEC Express5800/320Ma Administrator's Manual

To enable IMAPI
1. Right-click My Computer.
2. Click Manage, expand Services and Applications, and click Services.
3. In the Services window, double-click IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service.
The IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service Properties dialog box appears.
4. In the dialog box, under Service Status: Stopped, click the Start button.
A message stating that Windows is attempting to start the IMAPI service appears.
When the service is started, the Service Status value changes to Started.
5. On the General tab under Startup type, select Automatic.
6. Click OK.

Floppy Disk Drive Volume Letter

The operating system generally assigns the drive letter A to the optional floppy disk
drive when the drive is first connected to a USB port. If you subsequently connect the
drive to a different USB port or if the I/O element or element fails over, the operating
system may assign the drive letter B to the floppy disk drive.

Serial Ports

On your system:
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Serial Port 1 is generic if:
– The system uses VTMs. (In this case, the BIOS setting in the Advanced menu,
under I/O Device Configuration, Serial PortA Connection is set to Serial.)
– The system does not have VTMs, and you have set the Serial PortA
Connection to Serial and disabled the ASN. (The ASN is disabled when the
ASN Call-home Enable and Call-in Enable properties are both set to False.
See the ActiveService Network node properties in ftSMC under the ftServer
Configuration node.)
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Serial Port 1 is not generic if:
– The Serial PortA Connection setting is Internal Modem.
– There is no VTM in the system and the ASN is enabled.
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Serial Port 2 is always generic.
If you have configured Serial Port 1 or Serial Port 2 on your system to function as a
modem or as a communications cable between two computers, use Windows Device
Manager (see Figure 3-2) to verify that Serial Port 1 or Serial Port 2 functions as you

Floppy Disk Drive Volume Letter

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