ConfigTool 1.3.0 database - BASEDEVICES

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BASEDEV
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BASEDEV installs a base device driver used by OS/2 when it is first started. The statement cannot contain either a drive or path because OS/2 cannot process such information at the stage at which these statements are loaded. These base device drivers include (not all delivered or available drivers are listed, but I've included most common and all additionally basedev's of the fixpaks):

The basedev's are loaded according to their extensions in the following order:

SYS
BID
VSD
TSD
ADD
I13
FLT
DMD

This means all basedevices with the extension SYS are loaded first and those with DMD last. This could also the reason for some trouble you might have.

For Warp 3 and 4 BASEDEV's must reside either in the root or in the \os2\boot directory. A rule IBM itself disregards e.g. with the IBM Thinkpad drivers. They are installed in \os2. If BASEDEVICE Drivers are not in these three directories (\;\os2;\os2\boot;) they will fail to work. In General it is recommended to copy all BASEDEVICE Drivers ONLY to your \os2\boot directory. If any installation routine copies them to another place please move them to \os2\boot.

<<=TIP=>> You can identify Driver failures by pressing ALT F2 during boot as long as the screen displays OS/2 in the upper left corner.

<<=TIP=>> Adding the /V (=Verbose) parameter to drivers could tell you some useful information. Example BASEDEV=IBM1S506.ADD /V

<<=TIP=>> Updated and new drivers can be found at: http://service.software.ibm.com/os2ddpak/html/ or at your hardware vendors site.

<<=TIP=>> OS/2 will install the BASEDEV in the order they appear in the CONFIG.SYS, you may need to rearrange the order in which drivers appear in the CONFIG.SYS.

BASEDEV AHA152X.ADD
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supports SCSI on Adaptec 152x/1510 controllers.

<<=TIP=>> If you are using an Adaptec SCSI Card you can also use BASEDEV=AHA152X.ADD /V /F:x to force the target SCSI ID x. The host adapter will assume that the target ID x is connected to SCSI Bus.

BASEDEV AHA154x.ADD
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supports SCSI on Adaptec 1540/1542 controllers.

<<=TIP=>> By Prof. C.W. Fischer Physics Department Director CPES Micro-Computer Lab. Users may be interested in a undocumented parameter on the Adaptec AHA154x.add file i.e /DBUFF. Anyone using this SCSI adapter without /DBUFF will loose access to RAM above 16M. It's a Bus mastering problem on ISA (thanks to Steven Levine).

<<=NOTE=>> When you use Seagate Backup Exec for OS/2 Warp, Version 3.0 with both a hard drive and a SCSI or QIC backup device connected you have to add - to avoid DMA errors - the following to your driver line to prevent BUS errors: /V /A:0 /BON /A:0 /BOFF:8

BASEDEV AHA2920.ADD
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Adaptec AHA-2920 SCSI Host Bus Adapter Driver. Also supports the Future Domain TMC-3260/16xx and MCS-600/700 adapters.


Parameter:

/A: - No description

/!DM:

/!SM:

/ET:

/ET

/FS

/!FS

/!SN

/RD:

/16BIT

BASEDEV AIC7770.ADD
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Adaptec 2840VL/2842VL SCSI adapter

Universal Parameters:

/ET -- Allow embedded targets. This parameter indicates that the ADD should assume that all targets have more than one logical unit (LUN) defined.

/!ET -- Do not allow embedded targets (DEFAULT). This parameter indicates that the ADD should assume that all targets have only one logical unit (LUN) defined.

/V -- Load driver verbosely. This parameter will display the driver name as well as the version number and Adaptec copyright if the driver loads successfully. Information on all targets found in the system will also be displayed.

/PCIHW -- Enables driver to access PCI configuration hardware registers. This switch is implemented because in some PCI systems, accessing PCI configuration space through PCI BIOS function calls causes problems. This switch is enabled by default. New with Version 3.02

/!PCIHW -- Disables the PCIHW switch. This parameter will cause the driver to access the PCI configuration space through PCI BIOS function calls. New with version 3.02

General Unit Parameters:

/I -- Ignore the specified adapter. This allows another driver to share the adapters that the ADD would normally use.

/DM -- Enable DASD manager support (DEFAULT). This parameter allows OS2DASD.DMD to control the specified target(s) if they are identified as DASD (hard disk) devices.

/!DM -- Disable DASD manager support. This parameter prevents OS2DASD.DMD from controlling the specified target(s).

/SM -- Enable SCSI manager support (DEFAULT). This parameter allows OS2SCSI.DMD to control the specified target(s) if they are identified as NON-DASD SCSI devices. All SCSI hard drives will be controlled by OS2DASD.DMD.

/!SM -- Disable SCSI manager support. This parameter prevents OS2SCSI.DMD from controlling the specified target(s).

/TAG:n -- n=1-16. Specifies the maximum number of tagged commands for all target devices on the host adapter (1-16). A value of 1 disables tagged queuing. The maximum number allowed is 16. (The default is 8.)

/UR -- Enables reporting of under runs (DEFAULT).

/!UR -- Disables reporting of under runs.

<<=TIP=>> If Warp doesn't recognise the AIC7870 Driver add the parameter /A:n n=Number of Controller and /TAG:n n=number of PCI-Slot to AIC7870.ADD. It seems that the version 2.2 of the Adaptec 2940 driver does not work correctly with RSJ, but version 2.11 works fine.

BASEDEV AIC7870.ADD
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supports SCSI on Adaptec 7870 Ultra Scsi controllers (e.g. AHA-2940) or earlier

Universal Parameters:

/ET -- Allow embedded targets. This parameter indicates that the ADD should assume that all targets have more than one logical unit (LUN) defined.

/!ET -- Do not allow embedded targets (DEFAULT). This parameter indicates that the ADD should assume that all targets have only one logical unit (LUN) defined.

/V -- Load driver verbosely. This parameter will display the driver name as well as the version number and Adaptec copyright if the driver loads successfully. Information on all targets found in the system will also be displayed.

/PCIHW -- Enables driver to access PCI configuration hardware registers. This switch is implemented because in some PCI systems, accessing PCI configuration space through PCI BIOS function calls causes problems. This switch is enabled by default. New with Version 3.02

/!PCIHW -- Disables the PCIHW switch. This parameter will cause the driver to access the PCI configuration space through PCI BIOS function calls. New with version 3.02

General Unit Parameters:

/I -- Ignore the specified adapter. This allows another driver to share the adapters that the ADD would normally use.

/DM -- Enable DASD manager support (DEFAULT). This parameter allows OS2DASD.DMD to control the specified target(s) if they are identified as DASD (hard disk) devices.

/!DM -- Disable DASD manager support. This parameter prevents OS2DASD.DMD from controlling the specified target(s).

/SM -- Enable SCSI manager support (DEFAULT). This parameter allows OS2SCSI.DMD to control the specified target(s) if they are identified as NON-DASD SCSI devices. All SCSI hard drives will be controlled by OS2DASD.DMD.

/!SM -- Disable SCSI manager support. This parameter prevents OS2SCSI.DMD from controlling the specified target(s).

/TAG:n -- n=1-16. Specifies the maximum number of tagged commands for all target devices on the host adapter (1-16). A value of 1 disables tagged queuing. The maximum number allowed is 16. (The default is 8.)

/UR -- Enables reporting of under runs (DEFAULT).

/!UR -- Disables reporting of under runs.

<<=TIP=>> If Warp doesn't recognise the AIC7870 Driver add the parameter /A:n n=Number of Controller and /TAG:n n=number of PCI-Slot to AIC7870.ADD. It seems that the version 2.2 of the Adaptec 2940 driver does not work correctly with RSJ, but version 2.11 works fine.

BASEDEV AIC78U2.ADD
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supports SCSI on Adaptec 78U2 controllers (e.g. AHA-2940U2W)

For Parameters see AIC7870.ADD

BASEDEV AICU160.ADD
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Decive Driver for Adaptec AIC-7892 Single Channel PCI-to-Ultra160 SCSI ASIC, AIC-7899 Dual Channel PCI-to-Ultra160 SCSI ASIC, AHA-3960D/39160 Dual Channel 64-bit PCI-to-Ultra160 SCSI Host Adapter, 29160 Single Channel 64-bit PCI-to-Ultra160 SCSI Host Adapter, 29160N Single Channel 32-bit PCI-to-Ultra160 SCSI Host Adapter (OEM), 29160LP Single Channel 64-bit Low Profile PCI-to-Ultra160 SCSI Host Adapter

Parameter:


[Universal Parameter] - An option that applies to all adapters controlled by the driver.
[Adapter ID] - /A:n, where n is the number (zero relative) of the adapter installed in the system. The adapter ID is determined when the driver is loaded based on the order that adapters are found in the system. (Refer to the Configuration Examples in the "General Unit Parameters" section below for information on how to use this option.)
[Unit Parameter] - Modifies the behavior of the selected host adapter.
[SCSI Target ID] - The targets to which the Unit Parameter will be applied. This parameter may be a single ID (d) or list of IDs (d,d,d).

Universal Parameters:

/ET -- Allow embedded targets. This parameter indicates that the ADD should assume that all targets have more than one logical unit (LUN) defined.

/!ET -- Do not allow embedded targets (DEFAULT). This parameter indicates that the ADD should assume that all targets have only one logical unit (LUN) defined.

/V -- Load driver verbosely. This parameter will display the driver name as well as the version number and Adaptec copyright if the driver loads successfully. Information on all targets found in the system will also be displayed.

Unit Parameters:

General:

/I -- Ignore the specified adapter. This allows another driver to share the adapters that the ADD would normally use.

/DM -- Enable DASD manager support (DEFAULT). This parameter allows OS2DASD.DMD to control the specified target(s) if they are identified as DASD (hard disk) devices.

/!DM -- Disable DASD manager support. This parameter prevents OS2DASD.DMD from controlling the specified target(s).

/SM -- Enable SCSI manager support (DEFAULT). This parameter allows OS2SCSI.DMD to control the specified target(s) if they are identified as NON-DASD SCSI devices. All SCSI hard drives will be controlled by OS2DASD.DMD.

/!SM -- Disable SCSI manager support. This parameter prevents OS2SCSI.DMD from controlling the specified target(s).

/TAG -- Specifies the maximum number of tagged commands for all target devices on the host adapter (1-16). A value of 1 disables tagged queuing. The maximum number allowed is 16. (The default is 8.)

/UR -- Enables reporting of under runs (DEFAULT).

/!UR -- Disables reporting of under runs.

<<=NOTE=>>
Intel Errata #8511 lists known data integrity issues with the processor cache on the Saturn-1 chipset (82424TX). For this reason, Adaptec recommends that processor cache be disabled via the CMOS setup to avoid data corruption. For more information, see Intel Errata #8511. You may get this from Intel's FaxBack system at 800.628.2283 or 916.356.3105.

There are installation problems when installing on the maximum hard disk drive partition size supported by OS/2 v3.0. On OS/2 v3.0 it is a known problem. Refer to IBM for further info. IBM's APARs PJ15988 and PJ 6151 deal with this issue.

There are known installation problems installing OS/2 Warp v4.0 on a Micron (LSI chipset) 64 bit PCI system.

There are known installation problems installing OS/2 Warp with 8MB of RAM unless all the third-party basedev statements are removed from config.sys.

There are known installation problems installing OS/2 using two SCSI host adapters on a "Marl" motherboard. Whenever you have a LVD HDD on one Ultra160 host adapter and a HDD, CD-ROM, and removable Syjet on another UltraSCSI host adapter, Syjet conflicts with the CD-ROM and the system is unable to access the CD-ROM.

This version of the Ultra160 Family Manager Set driver supports the AIC-7892/99 Family of Host Adapters. Adapter numbers are first assigned to boards with their BIOS enabled. The numbers are assigned from lowest BIOS address to highest address. Any remaining boards are assigned numbers by scanning slots. Each slot is a combination of a bus number and a device number pair starting from lowest to highest numbers, and the adapters are assigned a number in the order they are found.

Example: Bus 0, device 0 assigned as adapter 0; Bus 1, device 1 assigned as adapter 1, etc.

There are no switches for controlling OS2ASPI.DMD directly. IBM did not define them in their specification and Adaptec cannot be sure that other host adapters will have the same switches. OS2SCSI.DMD will only allocate devices when a device driver requests it, but this will prevent OS2ASPI from accessing it. There is nothing in the ASPI specification regarding device allocation so OS2ASPI must rely on other managers to fairly share targets. This should only be a problem if you have two drivers that use different managers and you want them both to access the same target at the same time.

Do NOT disable DASD manager access to target 0 if you are booting from your SCSI host adapter. This will prevent the system from booting!

Fault Tolerance is supported in the driver. However, ABORT and SCSI BUS RESET will only work for targets that are properly behaved.

IBM does not support installing the operating system onto magneto optical devices. Additionally, OPTICAL.SYS (OS/2 3.0) or OPTICAL.DMD (OS/2 4.0) allows magneto optical devices to be supported as though they were large floppy devices.

LOCKDRV.FLT allows removable media such as MO's to be supported as though they were fixed hard drives. It is not possible to install OS/2 3.0 on drives with capacity greater than 8 GB, nor in a partition greater than 4 GB.

OS/2 will allocate the SCSI devices as the order in CONFIG.SYS if two drivers (such as the AIC7870.ADD and AICU160.ADD) are loaded. OS/2 will assign drive letters for SCSI devices first then IDE devices.

BASEDEV ALI.ADD
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Aladin Busmaster driver, better use DANIS506.ADD

BASEDEV AMD_K86.DMD
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Enables write combining on AMD K6-II Stepping 8 or greater

BASEDEV AODBSMD.SYS
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Thinkpad Resource Management Driver

BASEDEV ARCDRIVE.ADD
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Arcdrive PCMCIA HD Driver

BASEDEV ARCIDECD.FLT
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Arcdrive PCMCIA CD Driver

BASEDEV ASC.ADD
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Driver for AdvanSys SCSI-Controller

BASEDEV ATAPIMO.FLT
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MO device filter from Fujitsu

<<=NOTE=>> This driver is fully substituted by the DANIATPI.FLT

Parameters

/Rn or /R:n (Number of reserved drives) 'n' is a number between 1 and 10. Default is 1. A series of logical drive names can be reserved for each MO drive for future partitioning. If the number of valid partitions exceeds the number specified /R option, and if /S option is not specified, up to 16 partitions are allowed.
/S (Reserved drive priority) No more logical drives than the number of /R option is assigned. When the number of reserved drives specified with the /R option is fewer than the number of valid partitions on a disk, the number of reserved drives takes priority. For example, if there are four valid partitions on the disk and the number of reserved drives is specified at 3, a logical drive name cannot be assigned to the fourth partition, and hence it cannot be accessed.

/I {h:} m {[n]} {+-{h:} m {[n]}}+-... (Specify the drive ID) This parameter specifies the target MO drive by the host adapter number and SCSI-ID number. If this option is not used, all accessible MO drives are used by default. h is the host adapter number (between 0 and 9). The default is 0. m is the SCSI-ID number (0 to 7). n is the number of reserved drives. When 'n' is omitted, the value specified with the /R option is used.

/U:{IDE adapter name} (Required, specify IDE adapter driver) This parameter is not optional but required both for ATAPIMO.FLT and MODISK.DMD. You must specify same name for these two drivers. Usually '/U:ST506_HardDrive' works fine if 'IBM1S506.ADD' or 'IBM2S506.ADD' is used as IDE adapter driver.

BASEDEV ATP6820.ADD
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ACARD 6820 SCSI RAID device driver

http://www.acard-germany.de/

BASEDEV ATP8400A.ADD
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ARTOP IDE cache Driver for ATP8400A

http://www.acard-germany.de

ARTOP IDE cache OS/2 warp driver support OS/2 2.x standard OS/2 DASD interface and ATAPI upto 16 IDE device(hdd and cdrom).ATP8400A OS/2 driver will auto check I/O port and IRQ.

Parameter:

/P:1F0 /P:170 /P:1e8 or /P:168 => Select I/O port of ARTOP IDE cache
/I:14 /I:15 /I:10 /I:11 /I:12 => Select IRQ 10,11,12,14 or 15.
/A:0 /A:1 /A:2 or /A:3 => Select Adapter number.
/S:00 /S:01 .. /S:15 => Select IDE speed for Non cache mode.

IF IO port or IRQ overlay with IBM1S506 Please reference follows :

IBM1S506.ADD(Please reference IBM OS/2 manual)
/V => Show config condition.
/A:0 => Assign Adapter number(0,1 and 2).
/I => Ingore Adapter( number of above assign).

BASEDEV AUTODRV2.SYS
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Autoconfigurator supports PCMCIA modems.

BASEDEV BPCDOS2.ADD
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Backpack CD-ROM OS/2 Driver from Micro Solutions (www.micro-solutions.com)

BASEDEV BSCOS2.ADD
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Newmedia Basics SCSI II Pcmcia Adapter

BASEDEV BTOS2.ADD
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PCMCIA SCSI Bus Toaster Adapter Device Driver

Parameter:

globalopts:
[/V] Verbose (default=quiet)

/A:# Adapter index (only 0 is valid)
adapteropts:
[/V] Verbose [default=quiet]
[/P:###] Base I/O port address (32 ports will used)
[/Q:#] IRQ
[/I] Ignore adapter
[/H:#] Host SCSI ID [default=7]
[/[!]F] Fast-SCSI negotiation [default=on]
[/[!]TA] Termination always on [default=power saving mode]
[/[!]TD] Termination detect (Type II cards only) [default=on]
[/[!]Y] Parity checking [default=on]
[/[!]DM] DASD manager support [default=on]
[/[!]SM] SCSI manager support [default=on]
[/[!]SN] Synchronous negotiation [default=on]
[/[!]ET] Embedded targets [default=off]
[/[!]DR] Disconnect/Reselect [default=on]
deviceopts:
[/[!]DM]:unit_list DASD manager support [default=on]
[/[!]SM]:unit_list SCSI manager support [default=on]
[/[!]SN]:unit_list Synchronous negotiation [default=on]
[/[!]ET]:unit_list Embedded targets [default=off]
[/[!]DR]:unit_list Disconnect/Reselect [default=on]
unit_list:
unit[,unit_list]
unit:
t | (t,l)
t Target ID
l Target LUN

BASEDEV BTSCSI.ADD
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BusLogic SCSI Adapter Driver

<<=TIP=>> For using the RSJ Writer you maybe have to set the Timeout parameter to zero /A:n /TO:0 (n=Adapter number)

BASEDEV BTSEIDE.FLT
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Back Again/2 ATAPI/IDE tape support

BASEDEV CBENABLE.SYS
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Device driver by Veit Kannegiesser that uses OS/2 Card services to enable any CardBus card you insert in a slot and assign an IRQ line and and IO window.

Parameter:

are 3 values for Bus, Device and Function of the CardBus bridge. You have most likely only one chip and let CBENABLE.SYS search for it by using * for each.

is an number from 0 to 7.

is the set of allowed IRQ to use for the CardBus card. Separate IRQs using ","

is the base address and the window size to assign to the CardBus card. Make sure (RMVIEW /IO) this area is not already used. Or use base address 0 to let the Card Services find a free IO area. Window size of 256 ($100) should be sufficient for most devices.

Optional hardware depended Option for Texas Instruments 1225 and compatible chips (values 0/1). For value 1, the "Memory read burst enable upstream" bit is set. Measured Realtek 8139 NETIO throughput goes from 3,2 MB/s to 11 MB/s on the development system.

Optional hardware dependend Option for Texas Instruments 1225 and compatible chips (values 0/1/2/3). Modifies Interrupt mode:

0 = Parallel PCI interrupts only
1 = Parallel IRQ and parallel PCI interrupts
2 = IRQ serialized interrupts and parallel PCI interrupt
3 = IRQ and PCI serialized interrupts (default)


Optional parameter to restrict card types that are processed. Possible values are:

0 = Multi-Function
1 = Memory
2 = Serial Port
3 = Parallel Port
4 = Fixed Disk
5 = Video Adapter
6 = Network Adapter
7 = Auto Incrementing Mass Storage
8 = SCSI
9 = Security
10..253 = Reserved
254 = Vendor-Specific
* = ignore value (default)

BASEDEV CDBLAZER.ADD
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Device Driver for OnSpec/MULTIPORT CD Parallel-Port adapter

http://www.multiport.de/Home_Deutsch/home_deutsch.html


Parameter:

/E Disables fast EPP. This applies only for Enhanced Parallel Ports.

/SF=1..30 Introduces a delay factor of 30 (Can take a value from 1 to 30 with 30 as the slowest mode of operation).

/U Forces Uni-Directional mode. (Applicable only for non Uni-directional ports.

/V Enables verbose mode

/W Disables burst mode data transfer. This does not apply for Enhanced Parallel Ports.

/CH To detect all the slots in a CD changer on older versions of OS/2 prior to Warp 4.0

BASEDEV CDBOOT.FLT
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OS/2 Filter for bootable CD's according to the EL TORITO SPECIFICATION


Parameter:

/D:2

BASEDEV CDSEIDE.FLT
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Back Again 2000 ATAPI/IDE Tape Filter Driver

BASEDEV CDSTAP2.DMD
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Back Again 2000 Tape Device Manager

BASEDEV CDSTAPE.DMD
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Back Again/2 tape device manager

BASEDEV CD_BOOT.FLT
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CD Boot Filter according to the El Torito Specification

Parameter:

/D:2

Read the Boot CD How To in Chapter 00. Introduction

Part of Cdboot.zip available for FREE and also of Device Driver Pack 2

<<=TIP=>> See also the enhanced DANIBOOT.FLT

BASEDEV CHKDSK.SYS
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New with Fixpaks supports large disks

BASEDEV CL6832SS.SYS
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Socket Services driver for Toshiba Tecra

<<=ATTENTION=>> Must be in front of all other PCMCIA Drivers, but after PCMCIA.SYS

BASEDEV CMPXCHG8.SYS
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New with Fixpaks fixes the Pentium F00F bug

BASEDEV CRCCD2.ADD
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Creative Labs CD-Rom driver. Supports Panasonic CR 52x, Panasonic CR 563, Creative CD 200, Funai E2550-UA, Funai E2800-UA

Parameter:

/P:xxx - SB cards base address.
/M:xxx - MKE compatible cards CDRom base address.
/T:x - Switch for standalone cards. if x=1 then it is a Sound card. (Default),if x=2 then it is a standalone card.
/D:x - Double Speed switch.
/N:x - Single Speed switch. if x=0 to x=3 implies the drive number, ix x=a implies that all drives are to be made double or single speed. /d:a is default.
/NS - No scan. Implies that only one drive present with ID=0 and will not scan for other drives. Scaning for all drives is default procedure.

BASEDEV CRYP2X.SYS
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Disk adapter drivers for the ERACOM (www.eracom.com.au) PCVault product used by a number of banks. The product gives transparent hard disk encryption amongst other things.

<<=IMPORTANT NOTE=>> The order of the base drivers must be:
basedev=cryp2x.sys
basedev=crypie2x.sys
basedev=edasdf.flt
And they should be at the end of the config.sys

BASEDEV CRYPIE2X.SYS
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Disk adapter drivers for the ERACOM (www.eracom.com.au) PCVault product used by a number of banks. The product gives transparent hard disk encryption amongst other things.

<<=IMPORTANT NOTE=>> The order of the base drivers must be:
basedev=cryp2x.sys
basedev=crypie2x.sys
basedev=edasdf.flt
And they should be at the end of the config.sys

BASEDEV CTCDRFLT.FLT
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Filterdriver for Unite CD-Maker

BASEDEV CWAUDIO.SYS
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Crystal OS/2 Audio device driver for CS4236B, CS4237B, CS4238B, CS4235, CS4239

Parameter:

/N: Name of PDD BSAUD1$ (Supplied by install)
/V Verbose Display
/X1: AUX1 unmute/gain 0..100 (decimal) (*50) (usually "Line-In")
/X2: AUX2 unmute/gain 0..100 (decimal) (*50) (usually CD-ROM)
/L: LINE unmute/gain 0..100 (decimal) (*100)(FM volume)
/LCAPT: Line-In record source X1, X2, *X1X2, L (X1X2 is mixed aux1+aux2)
/T: Inactivity power down 1..5 minutes (*1)
/MBY:<0,1> Mono bypass *1 (mono-in connected to mono-out)
/MIM:<0,1> Mono input mute *1 (mono-in not connected to input mixer)
/MOM:<0,1> Mono out mute *0 (audible)
/XCTRL0:<0,1> XCTRL0 Pin set System specific. Sometimes used to
/XCTRL1:<0,1> XCTRL1 Pin set control power to amplifier. On IBM
Aptiva with Bose speakers, set both to 1

/P: Codec Port *534, 608, (530..FF8, divisible by 4)
/I: Codec IRQ *5, 7, 9, 11, 15 (decimal)
/D: Codec DMA 0, 1, 3 (Default 1,0)
/C: Control Port 120, *538, (120..FF8, divisible by 8)
/J: Joystick Port *200, 208, NONE
/S: Sound Blaster Port *220, 240, 260, 280, NONE
/M: MPU Port and IRQ *330, NONE, (300..3E0, divisible by 8)
IRQ: 7, 9, 11, 12, 15, *NONE
/F: FM synth port *388, NONE, (388..3F8, divisible by 8)

/IRQRate:dd Target interrupt rate *32 Range: 1..64 interrupts per second
/DMASize:nnnn DMA Buf size maximum *8192 Range: 256..16384 (2 IRQs/Buffer)

BASEDEV CWCMMPM.SYS
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Crystal OS/2 audio device drivers for the PCI bus family (CS4614, CS4624, CS4630 and CS4280)

Parameter:

/N:CWCAUD1$ Name of PDD


<<=NOTE=>>When you have no WinOS installed check after installing (and before rebooting) if there is any of these WinOS2 drivers in your config.sys.

DEVICE=drive:\MMOS2\CWWINPDD.SYS
DEVICE=drive:\MMOS2\CWWINVDD.SYS
DEVICE=drive:\MMOS2\CWVOPL3.SYS
RUN=drive:\MMOS2\CWDAEMON.EXE

If yes REM or delete them, otherwise you may get get a trap with PMMERGE and QUERYMCD at boot. Tested with Warp 4, FP15.

<<=NOTE=>> When you have the Flash Navigator Plug-In installed make shure to use at least driver Version 3.08 or higher, otherwise your system will freeze.

<<=TIP=>> Andreas Paulick reported that it is possible to get the TurtleBeach SantaCruz and the Videologic SonicFury working if you use the CWOS2311.ZIP driver package. Additionally you have to search the two TLV2465 Operational amplifier chips on the soundboards and disconnect there pins 8 and 9. This step disables the shutdown terminal (only necessary for conserving battery life in portables).

A Mixer for this Soundcard is the FREE LBMix

BASEDEV CWCONFIG.SYS
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Crystal Soundcard Configuration driver

BASEDEV CWCSPUD.SYS
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Crystal DSP manager device driver for the PCI chips CS4614, CS4624 and CS4280

BASEDEV CWGMSG.SYS
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Crystal DSP manager messaging device driver for PCI bus (CS4614, CS4624 and CS4280)

BASEDEV CWUSBD.SYS
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Basic USB driver by Chris Wohlgemuth, based on the sources available on the DDK site. It does not have the feature set of the latest IBM driver downloadable with software choice. If you already have a (maybe better) working driver from there feel free to use that one.

Parameter:

/V Verbose, show some information while booting.

/I13 parameter could be used to delay USB host overtaking by USB driver stack until other device driver finishes required initialization operations and then send request to USBD driver to start USB service. It could be used to boot from USB floppy drive.

/REQ This parameter controlls USBD driver initialization: driver at initalization time checks for listed host controller drivers and fails to install if none of listed drivers is loaded. Current version of USB stack supports the following parameter codings:

/REQ:USBUHCD$
/REQ:CWUSBUHC$ USBD driver is loaded only if UHCI compliant host driver is loaded

/REQ:USBOHCD$
/REQ:CWUSBOHC$ USBD driver is loaded only if OHCI compliant host driver is loaded

/REQ:USBUHCD$,USBOHCD$,CWUSBOHC$,CWUSBUHC$
USBD driver is loaded only if one of OHCI/UHCI compliant host drivers is loaded. This most general form of parameter and must be used in
most cases.

BASEDEV CWUSBMSD.ADD
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Enhanced USB mass storage driver by Chris Wohlgemuth which supports more (or other) devices than the IBM version. Support for READ 10 commands and better disk geometry handling. Can force external hard disks to appear as removable devices.

Parameter:

/V Verbose, show some information while booting.

/FLOPPIES:n Number of floppy devices to be served (by default 1). In order to remove service the key value must be set to 0.

/A_USAGE:n Parameter controls usage of 'A' drive flag for the 1st floppy device. The following values of n can be used:

0 - 'A' drive flag is not used;
1 - 'A' drive flag is used;
2 (default value) - 'A' drive flag is used only if there is no other device driver using this flag.

/MAX_FLOPPY Parameter forces driver to report floppy device geometry with maximal sector count as floppy device physical geometry. With this parameter driver supports LS-120 media formatting but does not support XDF floppy filter features and vice versa.

/REMOVABLES:n Number of removable media devices to be served (by default 1).

/FIXED_DISKS:n Number of fixed disks to be served.

/CDS:n Number of CD-ROM/CD-RW devices to be served (by default 1).

/REMOVABLE_AS_FLOPPY System uses removable disks as partitioned volumes:

/FORCE_TO_REMOVABLE Change external hard disks (for example Archos Jukebox) to removable. This may be necessary if a device anounces itself as a fixed disk but you want to use it as a removable device.

Tested devices:

Archos Jukebox Recorder 20 : This is a portable MP3 player which may also be used as a hard disk. It contains an In-System Design USB 2.0 bridge. The file system is FAT32. No DRM or similar crap.

EasyDisk memory stick : A memory stick with 64M flash memory.

Siemens MP3-Player USB : Small MP3-player to be used with Siemens cell phones and some Siemens Gigaset cordless phones (Gigaset Micro). The mobile is used for display and power supply. It uses MultiMedia cards (MMC) for storing the MP3s and may also be used as an external memory device for carrying any kind of files. File system is VFAT. No DRM or similar crap.

Iomega Zip100 USB

BASEDEV CWUSBOHC.SYS
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OHCI compliant host controller driver

This driver by Chris Wohlgemuth is based on the sources available on the DDK site. It does not have the feature set of the latest IBM driver downloadable with software choice If you already have a (maybe better) working driver from there feel free to use that one. Unlike the latest IBM drivers only one controller chip is supported with this driver. When loading this driver twice you system may freeze when attaching an USB device .

Use this driver if your USB controller chip is OHCI compliant . Refer to your mainboard documentation if in doubt.

Parameter:

/V Verbose, show some information while booting.

/FS Forces driver to stop USB host during OS/2 shutdown process. This parameter can be used to prevent POST (power on system test) failure on some hardware with legacy keyboard.

BASEDEV CWUSBUHC.SYS
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UHCI compliant host controller driver

This driver by Chris Wohlgemuth is based on the sources available on the DDK site. It does not have the feature set of the latest IBM driver downloadable with software choice If you already have a (maybe better) working driver from there feel free to use that one. Unlike the latest IBM drivers only one controller chip is supported with this driver. When loading this driver twice you system may freeze when attaching an USB device .

Use this driver if your USB controller chip is UHCI compliant (for example Intel and VIA chipsets). Refer to your mainboard documentation if in doubt.

Parameter:

/V Verbose, show some information while booting.

/FS Forces driver to stop USB host during OS/2 shutdown process. This parameter can be used to prevent POST (power on system test) failure on some hardware with legacy keyboard.

BASEDEV DAC960.ADD
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Mylex DAC960 SCSI RAID Adapter Treiber.

BASEDEV DANIADSK.FLT
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replacement for IBMATAPI.FLT by Daniela Engert (d.engert@odn.de). This filter driver supports all of the ATAPI disks that IBMATAPI does (LS-120, ZIP-100, JAZZ), and in addition the ZIP-250 (including full media swapping). Superceded by DANIATAPI.FLT.

BASEDEV DANIATAP.FLT
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This highly recommended filter driver supports all types of ATAPI devices by Daniela Engert (dani@ngrt.de) shortened to the 8.3 naming convention for use on floppy-bootdisks. See BASEDEV DANIATAPI.FLT for more information

BASEDEV DANIATAPI.FLT
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This highly recommended filter driver by Daniela Engert (dani@ngrt.de) supports all types of ATAPI devices. It is a superset of IBMIDECD.FLT, IBMATAPI.FLT and DaniADsk.FLT, and supports all devices that the mentioned drivers do. Additionally, all ATAPI devices can be accessed through the OS/2 ASPI software interface. Each EIDE channel shows up as a SCSI channel, and each ATAPI device as a SCSI device (master = SCSI ID 0, slave = SCSI ID 1).

<<=NOTE=>> Make sure that all other ATAPI related drivers are inactive or come after DaniATAPI.FLT in your CONFIG.SYS. If you intend to run the BootOS utility or to install this filter driver on a 8.3-only filesystem, rename the driver to DaniATAP.FLT.

- can deal with the ATAPI ZIP-250
- improved ZIP performance (up to factor 4 on ZIP-250)
- supports arbitrary swapping of 100MB and 250MB media
- reflects the current media capacity up to FDISK, DISKIO or the like
- OS/2 boot from ZIP is possible
- faster 32bit PIO in conjunction with DANIS506.ADD (rel. 1.1.1 or later)
- Busmaster DMA mode works and is tested with Intel, VIA, AMD, HPT, SiS and CMD chipsets until now. Busmaster DMA is available now for ALi as well (CD/DVD-ROM is safe, but some chip revisions fail on DMA write operations!). Due to hardware limitations there is no 32bit PIO and no busmaster DMA possible for ATAPI devices attached to a Promise Ultra controller.
- ATAPI devices appear to the rest of the system as regular SCSI-2 devices if used with DANIS506.ADD (rel. 1.1.5 or later). This may be disabled globally or individually.
- advanced "hot-swap" support if used with DANIS506.ADD (rel. 1.1.9 or later)
- support for PCCard (formerly: PCMCIA) ATAPI devices (like the Iomega PCMCIA ZIP-250 or the Iomega Click!40)
- the translation of old-style 6-byte SCSI commands into their more modern 10-byte counterparts is no longer hardcoded. The device is sensed now to check if it requires this translation.
- like DaniS506.ADD, this driver stores boot messages internally for later readout. To view them, issue "copy ATAPI$ con:", to dump them into a file, issue "copy ATAPI$ anyfile".
- automatic media unload on shutdown if desired
- supports up to eight IDE channels

Parameter:

This driver supports all switches and options that IBM1ATAPI.FLT supports.

Generic options

/!V (quiet) (not) Verbose mode

/EJ (don't eject) eject medium at shutdown

/ZA (default mapping) map ZIP drive to A:

/!SCSI (export all) don't export any ATAPI devices as SCSI devices

Adapter options

/A:n (n/a) Adapter number (0, 1, 2, 3)

/I (off) Ignore adapter

/EJ (don't eject) eject medium at shutdown

/!SCSI (export all) (don't) export ATAPI devices as SCSI devices

Unit options

/U:n (n/a) Unit number (0, 1)

/UNIT:n same as /U

/I (off) Ignore unit

/EJ (don't eject) eject medium at shutdown

/!SCSI (export) (don't) export ATAPI devices as SCSI devices

/RSJ (off) RSJ CDROM backdoor. Installs an additional backdoor to re-enable regular CD ROM operation via OS2CDROM.DMD (or replacements).

/TYPE: Units marked as "hot-swappable" on DANIS506.ADD's command line (by /FORCE /ATAPI) need the new option /TYPE: to advice DaniATAPI.FLT to report appropriate device types to the device managers. The same applies to PCCard adapter channels (marked as /FORCE /PCMCIA on DANIS506.ADD's command line). This is done by additional characters designating the supported device types:

'c' or 'C': all CD-ROM like devices (CD-ROM, CD-R/W, DVD-ROM, DVD-RAM)
'z' or 'Z': all ZIP drives
'l' or 'L': the LS-120 drive
'w' or 'W': all CD writer like devices (CD-R/W, DVD-RAM)

BASEDEV DANIBOOT.FLT
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DaniBoot.FLT is a enhanced filter driver which allows to boot OS/2 from a CD-ROM.

The boot image may be split into two images on the CD-ROM medium to accomodate space requirements for BASEDEVs. These two images need to be physically adjacent on the medium! The first part of the images needs to be of standard floppy size (1.44MB or 2.88MB) or the BIOS might not accept the image as a bootable one.

Parameter:

/D:n total number of 1.44MB pseudo-images comprising the boot image

/N:name the image name to search for in case of multiple boot images. may contain any character except for white space. The length of name is 11 characters or less; excess characters are discarded.

/H hide all non-boot CD-ROM units

BASEDEV DANIDASD.DMD
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Replacement Driver for OS2DASD.DMD by Daniela Engert supports also Partiontypes 0E, 0B, 0C, 8F and 0F to ease the coexistance with WinXY and Linux

For a discussion of these types see: Introduction, Partition types

Enhancements:

it supports extendedX partitions (type 0F) and Linux extended partitions (type 8F, even more clueless and useless than the Microsoft invented type 0F !) exactly the same as regular extended partitions (type 05). ExtendedX partitions are common today because of disks larger than 8GiB.

It supports FAT32 partitions (type 0B and 0C) exactly as IFS partitions (type 07, used by HPFS and NTFS). This way FAT32 partitions show up in "correct" order (w.r.t. the disk layout), and are assigned drive letters "as expected". PARTFILT.FLT is no longer necessary to make FAT32 partitions accessable, but Henk Kelder's FAT32.IFS is still required.

It supports FAT16X partitions (type 0E) exactly as big FAT16 (type 06) partitions.


Parameter (the driver supports all parameter the OS2DASD.DMD supports, so take a look at the link too) :

/AT:{,{,...}} must be two digits hexadecimal. Supports up to eight additional partition types as specified by by the user. This is meant for making hidden partitions (types 1x) or foreign file systems like Linux's ext2 (type 83) visible to the DASD manager. You have to tell DaniDASD.DMD the additional partition types by means of the parameter.

To summarize the notion of acceptable partition types, have a look at
this table:

DASD manager partition types supported
extended regular
OS2DASD (pre-LVM): 05 01, 04, 06, 07
OS2DASD (LVM): 05, 0F 01, 04, 06, 07, 35, [+ other]
DaniDASD: 05, 0F, 8F 01, 04, 06, 07, 0B, 0C, 0E, [+ other]

If an additional partition type is a "hidden" partition (1x), then a
matching partition is propagated to its "not-hidden" counterpart (0x) and
the acceptance rules above apply.

/BD: Overwrites the boot drive letter assignment from fisrt boot stage. Can overcome boot problems which result in "can't operate hard disk" messages. This is common if OS/2 is booted without proper help of OS/2 Bootmanager which is required to notify OS/2 of the *correct* boot drive letter. If there is no boot manager with this capability available (e.g. when booting from removable media), or the boot manager fails to figure out the correct boot drive letter, you can tell DaniDASD.DMD the correct one by means of the parameter.

Example: in a mixed SCSI/EIDE environment with two SCSI adapters and
and two different EIDE controllers involved (my current setup
at home), the ATAPI ZIP250 drive gets assigned drive letter M:.
To boot from this unit I have this line in CONFIG.SYS of the
ZIP boot floppy

BASEDEV=DaniDASD.DMD /BD:M


/MT: can create a logical volume map independently from the physical volumes (partitions).

<<=CAUTION=>> when this option is in effect, DaniDASD no longer follows the old OS2DASD rule of accepting only the first acceptable partition in the primary partition table. Instead, the LVM rule of accepting all acceptable primary partitions applies!

After scanning the *fixed* disks for acceptable partitions following the rules above, a logical volume mapping is created from these partitions. This is done by means of a map table. This table lists the partitions which are to be given a drive letter in ascending, consecutive order, starting from drive letter C:. A particular physical partition is indicated by a two-letter code number>. Code "Aa" indicates the first partition on the first disk, "Ab" the second partition on the same disk, "Bc" the third partition on the second disk, and so on. The numbering of disks and partitions is given by the regular scanning order of DaniDASD.

Each entry in the mapping table must be unique, entries without an existing partition are ignored.

Example:

BASEDEV=DaniDASD.DMD /MT:Aa,Ad,Ba,Bb

creates logical volumes C:..F: from the indicated physical partitions.

<<=CAUTION=>> this does *not* apply to removable media units! Their driveletters *always* follow the fixed disk ones.

<<=NOTE=>> DANIDASD.DMD does not work with OS2LVM.DMD, so use it in NON-LVM Systems only.

<<=NOTE=>> Together with DANIDASD.DMD the use of PARTFILT.FLT is no longer necessary to access FAT32 drives.

<<=TIP=>> You may also need a FAT32 aware FDISK.EXE. It was included in FP10 - FP14 for Warp4

<<=TIP=>> By Daniela Engert:

You want to get rid of the LVM layer in WSeB/ACP/MCP/eCS ?

I checked that on an old WSeB installation with only compatibility volumes, yesterday. I removed these two lines in CONFIG.SYS

BASEDEV=OS2DASD.DMD // the LVM-aware DASD manager
BASEDEV=OS2LVM.DMD // the LVM layer

and added this single line

BASEDEV=DaniDASD.DMD // the non-LVM-aware DASD manager

The system behaved DASD wise like an ordinary Warp4 system afterwards. A Warp4 OS2DASD.DMD will do as well.

BASEDEV DANIN512.FLT
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DANIN512.FLT is a N512DASD.FLT replacement filter driver which allows to access removable media with large sectors (1024 and 2048 bytes/sector) to work with other drivers which only support 512-byte sectors.

Parameter:

/Q (quiet)
/V (verbose)
/!n (skip unit n)

For working the '/of' Parameter has to be set to BASEDEV=DANIDASD.DMD or BASEDEV=OS2DASD.DMD

BASEDEV DANIS506.ADD
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Highly recommended replacement IBM1S506.ADD EIDE driver by Daniela Engert (d.engert@odn.de)

EIDE/serialATA driver with support for Intel, VIA, ALi, SiS, CMD, Promise, Cyrix, HighPoint, AMD, Artop, SMSC, ServerWorks, Opti, Nvidia, National Semiconductor and SiliconImage chipsets, and generic busmaster support for all SFF-8038i compliant chips. IDE RAID controllers are only supported in NON-RAID Bios setups.

Parameter:

Universal:

/!V /VL /VLL (quiet) (not) Verbose mode (less/lesser verbose)
/!W /WL /WLL (quiet) same as /!V, but pauses screen
/!AA (beep) No Audible Alerts
/PCLK:x (33MHz) PCI Clock (DECIMAL)
/GBM (off) Generic Busmaster Mode
/FORCEGBM (off) Force Generic Busmaster mode
/!SHUTDOWN (not) Shutdown each attached device
/MGAFIX (off) Fix problem with Matrox drivers
/DEBUG:n (0) Set debug level (DECIMAL)
/!BIOS (call BIOS) Disable all BIOS Int13 calls

Adapter

/A:n (n/a) Adapter number (0, 1, .. 7)
/!R (enable) Disable adapter resets
/P:hhh (PCI, Snooper) Base port address (HEX)
/PORT:hhh same as /P
/IRQ:n (PCI, Snooper) IRQ level (DECIMAL)
/I (off) Ignore adapter
/!BM (ATA : enable)(not) Enable BusMaster DMA (ATAPI: disable)
/PF:xxxx (0) Register access timings
/80WIRE (autodetect) 80 wire cable present
/FORCEGBM (off) Force Generic Busmaster mode
/PCMCIA (off) channel is implemented by PCCard adapter
/TO:n (DECIMAL) (5s/dynamic) Interrupt timeout

Unit

/U:n (n/a) Unit number (0, 1)
/UNIT:n same as /U
/T:n (5s) Error retry time in seconds (DECIMAL)
/GEO:n,n,n,n (autodetect) Drive geometry override (DECIMAL)
/!SMS (autodetect) Disable block mode
/SMS:n (autodetect) Set SMS block length to n
/LBA (autodetect) LBA addressing support
/!DM (off) Prevents OS2DASD.DMD from managing the device
/FORCE (off) Force unit present
/!ATAPI (autodetect) Force (not) ATAPI device
/IT:x (BIOS) Inactivity timer (DECIMAL)
/MR:udp (maximum) Limit data rate of a device
/PF:xxxx (0) Register access timings
/!RMV (device default) (not) removable media drive
/NL:n (current device noise level, n = 0 (faint) ... 126 (noisysetting)
/!SETMAX disable unlocking of full drive capacity
/PROT0 enable write protection of first disk track

Deprecated

/GEO:(n,n,n,n)

/LBA

Obsolete

/!CYLA
/DC:n
/!DSG
/DT:x
/NEC

Undocumented

/LAT
/FIXES
/DEBUG

Rule of thumb: if your system doesn't suffer from any (possibly unknown) flaws, not a single command line option is required. The driver adapts itself to the environment and runs at maximum performance.

In some situations, you may need some of the following options to achieve optimum performance:

- by default, ATAPI devices are initialized to PIO mode only. If you intend to run particular ATAPI devices using busmaster DMA, apply the proper /A:x /U:y /BM options.

For a detailed discussion of all parameters see the Danis506.doc delivered with the driver.

<<=NOTE=>> By Daniela Engert: DaniS506.ADD v1.3.9b or later has both the "official" and the "inofficial" fix for the VIA686B bug. The official fix is applied automatically if the driver detects the affected chip revisions, the inofficial fix needs to be enabled by an undocumented option. This fix seems to be necessary even if you don't run any IDE hardware

Undocumented and unsupported ! (so don't ask Daniela) Parameter. Use only at _your_ ! own risk:

/FIXES:2 unofficial VIA686B bugfix. Only needed if a NEC Zip-100 works extremly slow (in comparison to a Zip-100 from Iomega). It is possible that other things refuse to work.

/!SETMAX don't use max. Disksize. DANIS506.ADD uses the full disksize by default. If you have an old/defunct BIOS, some hardisks have the option to reduce the reported size. Together with this Parameter you can use this option. You can re-program the 'faked' size by using an actual DISKINFO.EXE.

/PROT0 (PROT-NULL!) writeprotect Track 0. Prohibits the 'killing' of alternative Bootmanagers by FDSIK/LVM. You can en-/disable the write protection with an actual DISKINFO.EXE

BASEDEV DC1368.ADD
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Dawicontrol DC-1368 Parallel to SCSI Adapter

Parameters:


/S[=ID-List] Forces Safe transfermode. Optionally you can specify the target-id's, otherwise this parameter is valid for all targets.

Examples:

/S ;forces safe mode for all targets
/S=0,1,2,3 ;forces safe mode for target-id's 0,1,2 and 3
/S=0;1;2;3 ;same as above
/S=0123 ;same as above
/S:0123 ;same as above
/S=0,1;23 ;same as above

/U[=ID-List] Forces Uni-Directional transfermode. Optionally you can specify the target-id's, otherwise this parameter is valid for all targets.

/B[=ID-List] Forces Bi-Directional transfermode. Optionally you can specify the target-id's, otherwise this parameter is valid for all targets.

/US[=ID-List] Forces Uni-Directional Safe transfermode. Optionally you can specify the target-id's, otherwise this parameter is valid for all targets.

/BS[=ID-List] Forces Bi-Directional Safe transfermode. Optionally you can specify the target-id's, otherwise this parameter is valid for all targets.

/EPP8[=ID-List] Forces EPP-Byte mode. This parameter can help to solve problems related to some EPP port hardware. Optionally you can specify the target-id's, otherwise this parameter is valid for all targets.

/PORT=xxx xxx=378, 278 or 3BC, this parameter selects the I/O address the driver should use. Normaly you don't need this parameter, because the driver automatically detects the port, where the SCSI cable is connected. If the driver fails to do this or in case of conflict with other adapter cards this parameter will force the driver to check only the given port address.

BASEDEV DC2974.ADD
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Dawicontrol DC-2974 PCI SCSI Host Adapter

Parameter:

/PORT=xxx If you are working with several SCSI hostadapters, type in the adapter number (for PCI hostadapters, starting with zero) or the I/O address (for ISA hostadapters) as the parameter's attribute. In this case, you will have to start the driver by specifying the adapter number or I/O address resp. for every connected hostadapter separately. This parameter is not required if you are working with only one SCSI hostadapter.

/PS=x This parameter controls the Power Save function by specifying the maximum inactivity period (from 1 to 60 minutes). If the set value is exceeded, any hard disks, removable disks and CD ROM drives will be switched off automatically. The relevant device will be started again when it is accessed later. Not setting this parameter means that the function is disabled.

/ID=x x = hostadapter's SCSI ID. The SCSI ID of the hostadapter will be set automatically if this parameter is not specified. Valid SCSI ID values are 0 to 7. Hostadapters supplied with a SCSI setup ignore this parameter and use the setup settings instead.

/LUN This parameter enables the device's support of several LUNs (Logical Units). However, most SCSI devices only have LUN 0 available to them so that you will need this parameter only for special cases. Host adapters supplied with a SCSI setup ignore this parameter and use the setup settings instead.

/!SN=x,..,x This parameter defines the devices that are to run in asynchronous instead of in synchronous mode even if the device tries to switch into synchronous mode. Hostadapters supplied with a SCSI setup ignore this parameter and use the setup settings instead.

/SN=x,..,x This parameter specifies the devices to be operated in Synchronous Data Transfer mode if this mode is supported by these devices. If you do not set this parameter only devices that can switch into synchronous mode themselves will be operated in this mode, all other devices will remain in asynchronousmode.

/!SM=x,..,x Use this parameter to specify a list of SCSI IDs representing the devices that are not to be supported by OS/2's Device Manager. As a rule, all connected devices can be controlled by the SCSI Device Manager.

/!DM=x,..,x Use this parameter to specify a list of SCSI IDs representing the
devices that are not to be supported by OS/2's DASD Manager (Device Manager for disk drives). As a rule, all connected devices can be controlled by DASD Manager.

/Q Suppresses all on­screen messages (including error messages) during driver installation.

<<=NOTE=>> For using scanners please insert the following parameters in the adapter-settings /!SN=(Scanner ID) /!DISC=(Scanners ID) Example: the scanner's ID is 6: /!SN=6 /!DISC=6.

BASEDEV DC2975.ADD
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Dawicontrol DC-2975U SCSI Host Adapter

Parameter:

/PORT=xxx If you are working with several SCSI hostadapters, type in the adapter number (for PCI hostadapters, starting with zero) or the I/O address (for ISA hostadapters) as the parameter's attribute. In this case, you will have to start the driver by specifying the adapter number or I/O address resp. for every connected hostadapter separately. This parameter is not required if you are working with only one SCSI hostadapter.

/PS=x This parameter controls the Power Save function by specifying the maximum inactivity period (from 1 to 60 minutes). If the set value is exceeded, any hard disks, removable disks and CD ROM drives will be switched off automatically. The relevant device will be started again when it is accessed later. Not setting this parameter means that the function is disabled.

/ID=x x = hostadapter's SCSI ID. The SCSI ID of the hostadapter will be set automatically if this parameter is not specified. Valid SCSI ID values are 0 to 7. Hostadapters supplied with a SCSI setup ignore this parameter and use the setup settings instead.

/LUN This parameter enables the device's support of several LUNs (Logical Units). However, most SCSI devices only have LUN 0 available to them so that you will need this parameter only for special cases. Host adapters supplied with a SCSI setup ignore this parameter and use the setup settings instead.

/!SN=x,..,x This parameter defines the devices that are to run in asynchronous instead of in synchronous mode even if the device tries to switch into synchronous mode. Hostadapters supplied with a SCSI setup ignore this parameter and use the setup settings instead.

/SN=x,..,x This parameter specifies the devices to be operated in Synchronous Data Transfer mode if this mode is supported by these devices. If you do not set this parameter only devices that can switch into synchronous mode themselves will be operated in this mode, all other devices will remain in asynchronousmode.

/!SM=x,..,x Use this parameter to specify a list of SCSI IDs representing the devices that are not to be supported by OS/2's Device Manager. As a rule, all connected devices can be controlled by the SCSI Device Manager.

/!DM=x,..,x Use this parameter to specify a list of SCSI IDs representing the
devices that are not to be supported by OS/2's DASD Manager (Device Manager for disk drives). As a rule, all connected devices can be controlled by DASD Manager.

/Q Suppresses all on screen messages (including error messages) during driver installation.

BASEDEV DC2976.ADD
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Dawicontrol DC-2976UW SCSI Host Adapter

Parameter:

/PORT=xxx If you are working with several SCSI hostadapters, type in the adapter number (for PCI hostadapters, starting with zero) or the I/O address (for ISA hostadapters) as the parameter's attribute. In this case, you will have to start the driver by specifying the adapter number or I/O address resp. for every connected hostadapter separately. This parameter is not required if you are working with only one SCSI hostadapter.

/PS=x This parameter controls the Power Save function by specifying the maximum inactivity period (from 1 to 60 minutes). If the set value is exceeded, any hard disks, removable disks and CD ROM drives will be switched off automatically. The relevant device will be started again when it is accessed later. Not setting this parameter means that the function is disabled.

/ID=x x = hostadapter's SCSI ID. The SCSI ID of the hostadapter will be set automatically if this parameter is not specified. Valid SCSI ID values are 0 to 7. Hostadapters supplied with a SCSI setup ignore this parameter and use the setup settings instead.

/LUN This parameter enables the device's support of several LUNs (Logical Units). However, most SCSI devices only have LUN 0 available to them so that you will need this parameter only for special cases. Host adapters supplied with a SCSI setup ignore this parameter and use the setup settings instead.

/!SN=x,..,x This parameter defines the devices that are to run in asynchronous instead of in synchronous mode even if the device tries to switch into synchronous mode. Hostadapters supplied with a SCSI setup ignore this parameter and use the setup settings instead.

/SN=x,..,x This parameter specifies the devices to be operated in Synchronous Data Transfer mode if this mode is supported by these devices. If you do not set this parameter only devices that can switch into synchronous mode themselves will be operated in this mode, all other devices will remain in asynchronousmode.

/!SM=x,..,x Use this parameter to specify a list of SCSI IDs representing the devices that are not to be supported by OS/2's Device Manager. As a rule, all connected devices can be controlled by the SCSI Device Manager.

/!DM=x,..,x Use this parameter to specify a list of SCSI IDs representing the
devices that are not to be supported by OS/2's DASD Manager (Device Manager for disk drives). As a rule, all connected devices can be controlled by DASD Manager.

/Q Suppresses all on screen messages (including error messages) during driver installation.

BASEDEV DC2980.ADD
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Dawicontrol DC-2980 U2W SCSI Host Adapter

Parameter:

/PORT=xxx If you are working with several SCSI hostadapters, type in the adapter number (for PCI hostadapters, starting with zero) or the I/O address (for ISA hostadapters) as the parameter's attribute. In this case, you will have to start the driver by specifying the adapter number or I/O address resp. for every connected hostadapter separately. This parameter is not required if you are working with only one SCSI hostadapter.

/PS=x This parameter controls the Power Save function by specifying the maximum inactivity period (from 1 to 60 minutes). If the set value is exceeded, any hard disks, removable disks and CD ROM drives will be switched off automatically. The relevant device will be started again when it is accessed later. Not setting this parameter means that the function is disabled.

/ID=x x = hostadapter's SCSI ID. The SCSI ID of the hostadapter will be set automatically if this parameter is not specified. Valid SCSI ID values are 0 to 7. Hostadapters supplied with a SCSI setup ignore this parameter and use the setup settings instead.

/LUN This parameter enables the device's support of several LUNs (Logical Units). However, most SCSI devices only have LUN 0 available to them so that you will need this parameter only for special cases. Host adapters supplied with a SCSI setup ignore this parameter and use the setup settings instead.

/!SN=x,..,x This parameter defines the devices that are to run in asynchronous instead of in synchronous mode even if the device tries to switch into synchronous mode. Hostadapters supplied with a SCSI setup ignore this parameter and use the setup settings instead.

/SN=x,..,x This parameter specifies the devices to be operated in Synchronous Data Transfer mode if this mode is supported by these devices. If you do not set this parameter only devices that can switch into synchronous mode themselves will be operated in this mode, all other devices will remain in asynchronousmode.

/!SM=x,..,x Use this parameter to specify a list of SCSI IDs representing the devices that are not to be supported by OS/2's Device Manager. As a rule, all connected devices can be controlled by the SCSI Device Manager.

/!DM=x,..,x Use this parameter to specify a list of SCSI IDs representing the
devices that are not to be supported by OS/2's DASD Manager (Device Manager for disk drives). As a rule, all connected devices can be controlled by DASD Manager.

/Q Suppresses all on screen messages (including error messages) during driver installation.

BASEDEV DELIVERY.SYS
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Supports the function MOVE Mode with IBM SCSI 2 Fast/Wide Controllers

BASEDEV DETNE2.SYS
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Driver for NE2000 Networkcards

BASEDEV DPT20XX.ADD
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Driver for the DPT SCSI Card

BASEDEV DSKSLEEP.FLT
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

The SCSI Disk Sleeper Filter by Vitus Jensen. Spins down the Harddisk after a adjustable time.

BASEDEV DTC3280.ADD
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DTC3x80/3x70/3x50/3150V SCSI Device Driver

Parameter:

/M:xxxx ,where xxxx is the "Memory Mapped Address" configured on the board. Only necessary with DTC3150V

BASEDEV EDASDF.FLT
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Encryption adapter driver for the ERACOM (www.eracom.com.au) PCVault product used by a number of banks. The product gives transparent hard disk encryption amongst other things.

<<=IMPORTANT NOTE=>> The order of the base drivers must be:
basedev=cryp2x.sys
basedev=crypie2x.sys
basedev=edasdf.flt
And they should be at the end of the config.sys

BASEDEV EPATCD.ADD
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Shuttle-EPAT parallel port to IDE adapter

Shuttle's Parallel-port adapters provide interface between the parallel port of the PC to either the SCSI or the IDE devices, apart from providing a pass-thru parallel-port on the adapter.

Parameter:

/Rx - x=0 Nibble Fast, x=1 Nibble Normal,, x=2 Nibble Slow, x=3 Uni Fast, x=4 Uni Normal, x=5 Uni Slow, x=6 Toshiba Fast, x=7 Toshiba Slow, x=8 PS/2 Fast, x=9 PS/2 Slow,, x=10 EPP Normal, x=11 EPP Fast

/Wx - x=0 Write Fast, x=1 Write Normal, x=2 Write Slow, x=3 EPP Normal, x=4 EPP Fast

/Zx The default EPP wait state programmed by the ADD Driver is 2.

To change the wait state, give the appropriate value in '/Zx'. For example, to program the EPP Shuttle to zero wait, use '/Z0'.
Valid range of x : 0 to 9.

/de Disables the EPP automatic detection during the initialization of the Driver.

/da Disables auto-detection. With no command line options, the driver defaults to 'Nibble Slow' and 'Write Slow' modes.

/dp - Disables PS/2 DMA arbitration.

/fe - Force EPP mode

/fp - Force PS/2

/fb - Enables Bi-directional capability in some EISA chipset machines

BASEDEV EPIACD.ADD
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Shuttle-EPIA parallel port to IDE adapter

Shuttle's Parallel-port adapters provide interface between the parallel port of the PC to either the SCSI or the IDE devices, apart from providing a pass-thru parallel-port on the adapter.

Parameter:

/Rx - x=0 Nibble Fast, x=1 Nibble Normal,, x=2 Nibble Slow, x=3 Uni Fast, x=4 Uni Normal, x=5 Uni Slow, x=6 Toshiba Fast, x=7 Toshiba Slow, x=8 PS/2 Fast, x=9 PS/2 Slow,, x=10 EPP Normal, x=11 EPP Fast

/Wx - x=0 Write Fast, x=1 Write Normal, x=2 Write Slow, x=3 EPP Normal, x=4 EPP Fast

/Zx The default EPP wait state programmed by the ADD Driver is 2.

To change the wait state, give the appropriate value in '/Zx'. For example, to program the EPP Shuttle to zero wait, use '/Z0'.
Valid range of x : 0 to 9.

/de Disables the EPP automatic detection during the initialization of the Driver.

/da Disables auto-detection. With no command line options, the driver defaults to 'Nibble Slow' and 'Write Slow' modes.

/dp - Disables PS/2 DMA arbitration.

/fe - Force EPP mode

/fp - Force PS/2

/fb - Enables Bi-directional capability in some EISA chipset machines

BASEDEV EPSA2.ADD
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Shuttle-EPSA2 is a Parallel Port to SCSI adapter

http://www.multiport.de/Home_Deutsch/home_deutsch.html

Parameter:

/t Treats Magneto Optical drives as Removable Hard disk drives. E.g. IBM MO.

/x Excludes OS2DASD support for all devices.

/xr Excludes OS2DASD support only for Removable hard disk drives.

/Rx x=0 Nibble Fast, x=1 Nibble Normal, x=2 Nibble Slow, x=3 Uni Fast, x=4 Uni Normal, x=5 Uni Slow, x=6 Toshiba Fast, x=7 Toshiba Slow, x=8 PS/2 Fast. x=9 PS/2 Slow, x=10 EPP Normal, x=11 EPP Fast,

/Wx x=0 Write Fast, x=1 Write Normal, x=2 Write Slow, x=3 EPP Normal, x=4 EPP Fast

/Zx The default EPP wait state programmed by the ADD Driver is to change the wait state, give the appropriate value in '/Zx'.

For example, to program the EPP Shuttle to zero wait, use '/Z0'.

Valid range of x : 0 to 9.

/de Disables the EPP automatic detection during the initialization of the Driver.

/da Disables auto-detection. With no command line options, the driver defaults to 'Nibble Slow' and 'Write Slow' modes.

/dp Disables PS/2 DMA arbitration.

/fe Force EPP mode

/fp Force PS/2

/fb Enables Bi-directional capability in some EISA chipset machines.

BASEDEV EPST.ADD
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Shuttle-EPST is a Parallel Port to SCSI adapter

http://www.multiport.de/Home_Deutsch/home_deutsch.html

Parameter:

/t Treats Magneto Optical drives as Removable Hard disk drives. E.g. IBM MO.

/x Excludes OS2DASD support for all devices.

/xr Excludes OS2DASD support only for Removable hard disk drives.

/Rx x=0 Nibble Fast, x=1 Nibble Normal, x=2 Nibble Slow, x=3 Uni Fast, x=4 Uni Normal, x=5 Uni Slow, x=6 Toshiba Fast, x=7 Toshiba Slow, x=8 PS/2 Fast. x=9 PS/2 Slow, x=10 EPP Normal, x=11 EPP Fast,

/Wx x=0 Write Fast, x=1 Write Normal, x=2 Write Slow, x=3 EPP Normal, x=4 EPP Fast

/Zx The default EPP wait state programmed by the ADD Driver is to change the wait state, give the appropriate value in '/Zx'.

For example, to program the EPP Shuttle to zero wait, use '/Z0'.

Valid range of x : 0 to 9.

/de Disables the EPP automatic detection during the initialization of the Driver.

/da Disables auto-detection. With no command line options, the driver defaults to 'Nibble Slow' and 'Write Slow' modes.

/dp Disables PS/2 DMA arbitration.

/fe Force EPP mode

/fp Force PS/2

/fb Enables Bi-directional capability in some EISA chipset machines.

BASEDEV EXT2FLT.FLT
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a filter device driver for OS/2 that makes it possible to load an IFS for linux partitions. (Without this filter you must patch the partition table. On many systems doing so may cause LILO to fail.).

Ext2flt.flt is part of the EXT2-OS2.ZIP package. Together with you can also hide the falsely recognised NTFS.

In addition this driver is capable to control in what order drive letters are assigned to partitions on fixed disks. It will also allow you to access hidden primary partitions under OS/2.

Parameter:

/Q Quiet install. Prevents the filter from displaying messages.

/V Verbose install. Displays some diagnostic messages.

/W Allows the virtual partitions to be written to.

/A Virtualize all partitions found. The only good reason to use this is along with the /M option when you want to control the mounting order of all the partitions. You must use the /W option if you use the /A option; otherwise OS/2 may crash when it tries to write to the partition.

<<=NOTE=>> Using the /A option may change your drive letters causing the your system to be unbootable. Use the /M option together with /A. (This may change in the future.

/M Mounts the partitions in the order specified in the mount list, which should be a list of numbers separated by commas. The partitions are numbered 0 on a first come basis. (Not the OS/2 uses.)

BASEDEV FAUXDASD.FLT
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

Filter Driver for PCMCIA Dock Dasd Units

BASEDEV FAUXREM.FLT
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

Filter Driver for removable PCMCIA Dock Dasd Units

BASEDEV FD16-700.ADD
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

Driver for Future Domain SCSI Cards

BASEDEV FD7000EX.ADD
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

Driver for Future Domain SCSI Cards

BASEDEV FD8XX.ADD
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Driver for Future Domain SCSI Cards

BASEDEV FLASHPT.ADD
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BusLogic FlashPoint SCSI Adapter Driver

Parameter:

/V - Verbose switch. This switch enables driver verbosity at initialization time.

/QU - Warning-error suppression switch. When invoked, the driver will not complain about references to non-existent targets/LUNs specified on the BusLogic ADD driver command line.

/O - Early Opti chipset work-around switch. This switch provides a work-around for an early version of the Opti PCI chipset which can generate spurious interrupts. Do not use this option unless your system hangs at boot-time and you are using an Opti chipset.

/SH - Allow sharing of IRQ across different host adapter families. This option is not necessary when sharing an IRQ within the FlashPoint product family. A side-effect of using this switch is less responsive mouse and keyboard event recognition during heavy I/O.

/A:x - Adapter identification switch. x is between 0 and 5 and identifies the adapter being referenced. This switch is followed by one or more of the switches below.

/DM:xx - DASD Manager Support switch. As defined by IBM, this switch enables/disables support for this unit by the IBM-supplied DASD Manager (OS2DASD.DMD).

/SM:xx SCSI Manager Support switch. As defined by IBM, this switch enables/disables support for this unit by the IBM-supplied SCSI Manager (OS2SCSI.DMD).

/TQ - Enable tagged queuing support on ALL targets on the specified host adapter (specified by the receding /A: switch) that supports tagged queuing.

<<=NOTE=>> Tagged queuing is an advanced SCSI-II feature that allows overlapped commands to a SCSI device, resulting in enhanced performance. While BusLogic provides support for this important SCSI-II feature, not all SCSI devices support tagged queuing. The SCSI device must support tagged queuing to take advantage of this feature.
BusLogic's OS/2 SCSI Adapter Driver defaults to tagged queuing DISABLED on all devices. For devices that support tagged queuing, the following command line switches are provided to manage tagged queuing support on a finer device-specific level.

/TQ:x,y,z,... - Enable tagged queuing support on a specified list of SCSI targets. x,y,and z is a list of embedded SCSI targets separated by commas. The Logical Unit Number (LUN) is presumed to be 0.

/TQ:(a,b), (c,d), ... - Enable tagged queuing support on a specified list of pairs of SCSI targets/LUNs in parenthesies. Each parenthesized pair is separated by commas.

/LUNS:xx - This switch specifies the maximum number of Logical Units (LUNs) the host adapter will support (try to detect). If the switch is not specified, the default is 8. Valid range is from 1 to 32. If the host adapter only has embedded SCSI targets attached (that is, all attached devices are at LUN 0), it is recommended to set this option value to 1 to turn off LUN support for LUNs other than 0.

/TO:xx - Command Timeout switch. This per-host adapter switch specifies a timeout on each I/O request in seconds. It takes a decimal digit input between 1 and 99. The driver default is 15 seconds in this absence of this switch. Setting the timeout value to 0 turns off the timeout mechanism.

<<=NOTE=>> This switch has no effect on tape requests.

/MR:xx - Maximum Request switch. This per-host adapter switch specifies the maximum number of requests that can be pending on the host adapter. Valid range is 1 - 64. Default is 16.

/MA:xx - Maximum Active switch. This per-host adapter switch specifies the maximum number of active requests that can be outstanding on each device on the host adapter. Valid range is 1 - . Default is 8. This value can be adjusted to increase performance.

BASEDEV HFSFLT.FLT
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

Part of the HFS.IFS for accessing HFS formatted Apple Disks

BASEDEV I2OSOSM.ADD
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

I2O Storage OSM filter

BASEDEV I2OXPORT.SYS
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

I2O Transport Device Driver

BASEDEV IBM1FLPY.ADD
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

supports diskette drives on non-Micro Channel PC's.

<<=TIP=>> If you wish to prevent users from using the floppy drives under OS/2 (to keep them from loading non-authorised programs or in a workstation situation), REM the BASEDEV=IBMxFLPY.ADD line (where x is 1 for ISA and EISA machines, or 2 for Microchannel).

<<=NOTE=>> In Warp, the install program may have placed both IBM1FLPY.ADD and IBM2FLPY.ADD BASEDEV drivers in your config.sys. Remove IBM2FLPY.ADD if you don't have a Micro Channel PC.

The correct setting for e.g. a IBM Thinkpad 560 with external floppy disk is (see the Warp Reference book for a detailed description):
BASEDEV=IBM1FLPY.ADD /A:0 /FORCE:2 /U:0 /F:1.44MB /U:1 /F:1.44MB

Using the /DAPM Parameter (which disables the Power Managment) may also help on some Notebooks (e.g. Thinkpad 600) who can't find the Floppy.

BASEDEV IBM1S506.ADD
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The OS/2 IDE Controller Adapter Device Driver (IBM1S506.ADD) for Non-Mcro Channel PC's.

Supports the following chipsets:
CMD640, RZ1000, I82371FB,PIIX3,ORIO, PIIX4,I82801AA, I82801AB, I82801BA, CMD646, CMD648,VIA586B,VIA596B, VIA686A,SIS630

Intel chipsets restrictions
_________________________________

-in case there are 2 devices on a channel on any Intel 82801 chip, the top UDMA mode will be limited to UDMA 2.

VIA chipsets restrictions
_______________________________

- all of the chipsets have a problem with 40 pin cable detection. to ensure the proper operation, please check what kind of IDE cables are used. If you have a 40 pin cable on any channel, please specify the parameter /UDMA:2 in CONFIG.SYS .
- any VIA chipset, which is not in the list above, but has the same Device ID, will be detected as VIA586B and performance will be dropped down to UDMA 2.

SiS chipsets restrictions
_______________________________

- since there is a problem for these IDE contrllers to work in UDMA mode with the secondary channel when 40 pin cable is installed, the driver will drop to PIO mode on this channel if 40 pin cable is detected. This, however, does not apply to primary channel.
- it is not advised to use /UDMA:x parameter on SiS IDE controllers.


a list of all parameters is enclosed in your OS/2 online help

New Parameters (not listed in online help):

/W (Wait) pauses the config.sys after displaying the verbose

/!SHUTDOWN disables the new shutdown behaviour.

/FORCE Forces the emulation of an IDE CDROM drive, even though one is not present.

/UDMA:x Limits the highest UDMA mode, x can be from 1-9.

/!UDMA Disables UDMA

/!BIGLBA disables 48bit LBA support and reverst to legacy 28bit LBA (in this case max. disk size is 137GB)

/CDA Enables chipset extended detection algorithm for Intel chipsets.

If you are using the /BM or !BM parameters to enable or disable busmaster; you MUST specify the adapter with /A:x. You can also specify the unit on that adapter with /U:z. For example:

BASEDEV=IBM1S506.ADD /A:0 /U:0 /!BM or /A:0 /!BM to disable BUS Master DMA

BASEDEV=IBM1S506.ADD /A:0 /U:0 /BM or /A:0 /BM to enable

<<=TIP=>> If you have an IBM Thinkpad 760E/ED/ELD/EL that exhibits sluggish harddisk behaviour (pausing intermittently with hard drive light on) after FixPaks have been applied, add the /!BM parameter to the BASEDEV=IBM1S506.ADD statement (if present) in your CONFIG.SYS. This will disable the Bus Mastering function whose default has been changed from OFF to ON.
Example: BASEDEV=IBM1S506.ADD /A:0 /!BM /U:1 /ATAPI /FORCE

<<=TIP=>> A 'New Feature' that went into IBM1S506.ADD to flush buffers more reliably during shutdown using C-A-D seems to cause some disks to SPIN DOWN and stay there. Add " /!SHUTDOWN". This is known to fix the problem.

<<=NOTE=>> /SMS! works only if the hardware doesn't report SMS capability, otherwise SMS enabled will be used regardless if the parameter is set or not.

BASEDEV IBM2ADSK.ADD
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

Micro-Channel driver for IDE harddisks and Atapi devices

BASEDEV IBM2AMB1.SYS
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

Ambra Socket Services

BASEDEV IBM2AST1.SYS
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

AST Socket Services

BASEDEV IBM2CAD1.SYS
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

Socket Services for CompuAdd

BASEDEV IBM2CMQ1.SYS
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

Compaq Socket Services

BASEDEV IBM2FLPY.ADD
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

supports diskette drives on Micro Channel PC's.

See also BASEDEV=IBM1FLPY.ADD for additional tips

BASEDEV IBM2NCR.SYS
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

Socket Services for NCR

BASEDEV IBM2NEC.SYS
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

Socket Services for NEC

BASEDEV IBM2SCSI.ADD
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

supports SCSI disk drives on Micro Channel PC's.

<<=TIP=>> If you want to use SCSI Hardisks together with (E)IDE-Disks and to boot from SCSI first, make sure that the SCSI-Drivers are in front of the IDE-Drivers (normally IBM1S506.ADD).

BASEDEV IBM2SS01.SYS
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

IBM Thinkpad 750 (and others) Socket services

<<=ATTENTION=>> Must be in front of all other PCMCIA Drivers, but after PCMCIA.SYS

BASEDEV IBM2SS02.SYS
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

Socket Services for Thinkpad 720

BASEDEV IBM2SS04.SYS
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

Socket Services driver for IBM Thinkpads (e.g. 560)

<<=ATTENTION=>> Must be in front of all other PCMCIA Drivers, but after PCMCIA.SYS

BASEDEV IBM2SS14.SYS
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

Socket Services driver for IBM Thinkpads

<<=ATTENTION=>> Must be in front of all other PCMCIA Drivers, but after PCMCIA.SYS

Parameter:

/C0=z : These parameters define the IRQ level to be used by the

/C1=z : Socket Services driver. The new Card Services and Socket Services drivers for OS/2 do not use a hardware interrupt to notify the PCMCIA status change, so you do not need these parameters.

/IG0=y : This parameter defines a slot number, which Socket Services ignores. If you use the "Point enabler" supplied with a PC Card, you should take into consideration the coexistence with Socket Services.

For Example, "/IG0=1" defines that slot 1 is reserved for a "Point enabler" and Socket Services will ignore the slot.

/RI0=x : This parameter defines a slot number, where Socket Services disables the RI_OUT signal. If you are using a modem card with a ThinkPad computer, and you can't enable the "suspend" or "hibernation" function while the modem card is inserted, please try this parameter.

For Example, "/RI0=1" specifies slot 1.

/D : This parameter enables "Warm docking" from the view point of PCMCIA hardware. By adding this parameter, two additional PCMCIA slots are reserved for the docking station.

/APOFF : This parameter turns off the Auto-Power Mode. If the Auto-Power Mode is ON, a PC Card will be automatically turned ON by the hardware when it is inserted. The default for Auto-Power Mode is ON.

/IO0=s : This parameter defines the slot number, for which Socket Services will change the way the -IOCS16 signal is generated. By default, the -IOCS16 signal is generated based on the -IOIS16 signal from the PC Card. If this parameter is specified, the -IOCS16 signal is generated based on the I/O data size which is specified by the Client program. This option is needed for some cards which do not generate the -IOIS16 signal. You need to verify this information with PCMCIA card vendors.

For Example, "/IO0=1" specifies that the -IOCS16 signal for slot 1 is to be generated based on the I/O data size specified by the Client program.

Point Enabler Adapter card drivers are device drivers that support specific Adapter cards without requiring the use of the Card and Socket services provided in the PC Card Director package.

Problems using these Point Enabler device driver will occur when used in conjunction with the Card and Socket Services. The problem that must likely will occur is that the Point Enabler Adapter card will not function. The PC Card Director will indicate that the Card Type is incorrect and the Status of the Card will be 'IN' instead of 'READY'.

In order to use a Adapter card with Point Enabler Device driver a configuration parameter must be added to the IBM2SS14.SYS device driver entry in CONFIG.SYS. The parameter is as follows:

/IG0=y : Where 'y' defines the slot number that contains the Adapter card using the Point Enabler Device Driver.

After the system has been rebooted the slot specified in the configuration parameter will be ignored by Card and Socket Services allowing that slot to be used by Point Enabler device drivers. It also means the following:

- the PC Card Director program will not detect the insertion or removal of adapter cards in that slot
- Adapter cards with device drivers that utilitize Card and Socket Services can no longer use that slot

The following is a list of Adapter Cards that use Point Enabled Device Drivers:

IBM 10/100 EtherJet Cardbus Adapter
IBM 10/100 EtherJet Cardbus Adapter with 56K modem
Intel PRO/100 Cardbus II
Xircom CreditCard Ethernet Adapter II
Xircom CreditCard Ethernet Adapter 10/100

BASEDEV IBM2TOS.SYS
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

Toshiba Socket Services

BASEDEV IBM2TOS1.SYS
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

Socket Services

BASEDEV IBM2ZEN.SYS
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

Socket Services for Zenith 2 Lite

BASEDEV IBM2ZOS.SYS
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

Socket Services for ZEOS

BASEDEV IBMATAPI.FLT
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

New with Fixpaks since Fixpak 6/35 supports ATAPI Removable Media like ZIP100 and ZIP250, LS120 attached to an IDE Port. Since build 10.085 IBMATAPI.FLT is a superset of IBMIDECD.FLT. So make sure IBMIDECD.FLT is not in your config.sys.


<<=TIP=>> If you have removable media drives (MO, IOMEGA, SYQUEST and others) look at http://rheooptik.fmf.uni-freiburg.de/www/faq/ remmedia.htm for a detailed removable media FAQ.

PARAMETER (since 10.085)

/V Verbose Mode, displays filter status on detected and emulated
devices.

/A:n Specify adapter: 0 = primary, 1 = secondary, 2 = DockingStation
primary, 3 = DockingStation secondary.

/I Ignore adapter n specified by /A:n. Example:
"/A:1 /I" secondary IDE channel will not be filtered.

/U:n Specify unit: 0=master, 1=slave.

/!U:n Specified unit will be ignored. Examples:

"/A:1 /!U:1" ignore(not claim) slave unit on secondary IDE channel.
"/A:2 /!U:0" ignore(not claim) DockingStation UltraBay.

/SCSI Export IDE device as SCSI device. Can be used to emulate SCSI
CD-RW device as IDE CD-RW device. Example:
"/A:1 /U:0 /SCSI" will report SCSI CD device attached as
secondary IDE channel master unit .

/TYPES:xxx Specify device types supported by WarmSwap. x can be C=CD
(CD-ROM,CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, etc), L=LS (LS-120, LS-240), Z=ZIP.
Examples:
"/A:1 /U:0 /TYPES:CLZ" enable swapping between CD, LS and ZIP
"/A:1 /U:0 /TYPES:CZ" enable swapping only between CD and ZIP
If certain device is in the UltraBay during Boot it will be
enabled for swapping.
/C IBMATAPI.FLT has been modified so that it no longer fills the
request's S/G list with 0's for the commands without data
transfer phase, even if the particular command contains a valid
S/G list. To avoid possible unforeseen compatibility problems
with older drivers, /C parameter disables this new behavior.

BASEDEV IBMDSS01.SYS
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

IBM Thinkpad Socket services

<<=ATTENTION=>> Must be in front of all other PCMCIA Drivers, but after PCMCIA.SYS

BASEDEV IBMDSS02.SYS
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

IBM Thinkpad 720 Socket services

<<=ATTENTION=>> Must be in front of all other PCMCIA Drivers, but after PCMCIA.SYS

BASEDEV IBMIDECD.FLT
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

Support for ATAPI CD-ROM drives attached to an IDE Port. Superceded by IBMATAPI.FLT V 10.085
It is important to use IBMIDECD.FLT with the IBM1S506.ADD driver.

Since Ver. 10.047 IDE CD-Writers for reading/writing are supported

PARAMETER

/C IBMATAPI.FLT and IBMIDECD.FLT have been modified so that they no longer fill the request's S/G list with 0's for the commands without data tranfer phase, even if the particular command contains a valid S/G list. To avoid possible unforseen compatibility problems with older drivers, /C parameter disables this new behavior.

BASEDEV IBMINT13.I13
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

Supports generic disk adapters supported by the BIOS.
Using this driver is very slow, but it works with every harddisk supported by your BIOS, even scsi.

BASEDEV IBMKBD.SYS
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

The hardware specific part of the keyboard driver.

The software specific part is KBDBASE.SYS

<> Some Tools e.g. the Ctrl-Alt-Del Commander form Perez Computing or the Process-Commander from Stardock are replacing KBDBASE.SYS by there own version. Whenever you deinstall these tools manually be shure to revert to the original KBDBASE.SYS. It is also reported that Process-Commander fails with Warp 4.5 versions (WSeB and Warp4 Fixpak 13 or higher)

Parameter:

/NONE starts OS/2 even when no keyboard is attached. Useful for unsupervised operation.

<<=TIP=>> For the mostly sold so called 'Win95-Keyboards' (how ironic, as with windows9x you can only loose) there are two replacement drivers: One by Robert Muchsel (muchsel@acm.org), Release is Ver 2.00 available under winkey02.zip, and a newer one available at: http://os2.avi.kiev.ua/ Release is ver.021

<<=TIP=>> By Kovacs Istvan: If you try BASEDEV=IMBKBD.SYS /NUMON numlock could turned on like with the utility 'jshifter'. Works only with some releases of the IBMKBD.SYS delivered with Warp. According to the mails I've got it seems that the parameter doesn't work on nearly most keyboards, (but one some) so you have still to use 'jshifter' available at: http://www.gbar.dtu.dk/~c948129, or 'numlock' by Peter Engels available at http://www.uni-bonn.de/~uzs0ad.

<<=TIP=>> If you prefer a so called Dvorak keyboard layout (a keyboard which tends to arrange the characters more ergonomic than the qwerty type - which was a need when constructing mechanical typewriters at the end of the 19.th century - since Fixpak 8 for Warp 4 (maybe earlier, but this was the first time I was aware of its existance) go to your keyboard settings in the System Setup folder and simply select Dvorak (for left and righthanded !, but only in English). Now you only need a keyboard with a Dvorak layout (or one of these old but beautiful IBM keyboards with a 'klick' and 'solid as a rock', here you can pull the caps and place em where you want). This is another new goodie in OS/2 IBM never speaks of.

BASEDEV IBMRSCSI.FLT
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SCSI Removable Devices Filter Device Driver (e.g. for Iomega ZIP drives)

This IBMRSCSI filter corrects the geometry reported by the device driver, if required, insuring that all space is reachable and that LVM considers the partitions valid.

Parameter:

/V - verbose mode. If this parameter is specified, IBMRSCSI displays information about devices accepted for filtering.

/W - verbose wait mode. If this parameter is specified, filter displays same information as for /V parameter and waits for user to press any key with message "Press any key to continue...".

BASEDEV ICMEMCDD.SYS
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IC Memory Client Device Driver for IBM PCMCIA Flash-Cards

Parameter (sperated by commata):

1(default) or 2 - Number of slots

S(default) or D - Supported Memory Area, S = Single, D = Double

BASEDEV ICMEMMTD.SYS
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

IC Memory Client Device Driver for IBM PCMCIA Flash-Cards

BASEDEV ICRMU01.SYS
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

PCMCIA Resource Management. Only needed for OS/2 2.1

BASEDEV IDECD.ADD
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

MULTIPORT/KINGBYTE Parallel Port ATAPI CD-Rom device driver

http://www.multiport.de
http://www.kingbyte.com

Parameter:

/Sn - set the starting search port access speed level for printer port. If this parameter is not specified, driver will try from the fastest speed level 0, and then level 1, level 2 until level 9 automatically, n must be 0 ~ 9. Default value is 0 (the fastest level).

/Zn - n is a byte-length value bit1 = 1, suppress bi-direction mode = 0, not suppress bi-direction mode (default) bit2 = 1, suppress uni-direction emulation mode = 0, not suppress uni-direction emulation mode (default) bit3 = 1, suppress epp emulation mode = 0, not suppress epp emulation mode (default)

BASEDEV IDEDRVR1.ADD
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

OnSpec/MULTIPORT Hard Disk Parallel Port Device driver

http://www.multiport.de/Home_Deutsch/home_deutsch.html

BASEDEV INI910U.ADD
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

Driver for Initio 9100 SCSI cards.

Parameter:

/V Verbose mode provides detail information about driver when driver is initialized

/!V Non Verbose mode (default)

/ET Driver assumes that all targets have more than one LUN (default)

/!ET Driver assumes that all targets only have LUN 0

/Q:x Specifies maximum number of tag commands per target

/!Q No tag command

/B:(d,dd),. Scan devices only on PCI BUS d, DEVICE dd

/B:d Scan all the devices on the PCI BUS d

/T:xxxx Target enable mask WORD (Default scan all targets)

/A:d Adapter IDs are assigned based on BIOS address and then PCI device address

/DM:d,.. Enable direct access storage device (DASD) support on target d

/!DM:d,.. Disable DASD manager support on target d

/SM:d,.. Enable SCSI manager support on target d

/!SM:d,.. Disable SCSI manager support on target d

BASEDEV IOMGDRV.FLT
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

Driver for the Iomega internal SCSI drives.

<<=TIP=>> There is no longer any reason to use these drivers unless you need to use the protect utility to password protect your disks. Better use the new O2DASD.DMD


Advantages:

Works with any OS/2 supported SCSI card.
Allows you to use multiple SCSI devices on your SCSI card.
Compatible with the format that the disks come with from the factory (in non-fixed mode).


Disadvantages:

Slow, unless you use fixed mode.
Fixed mode must be partitioned and, as such, all cartridges must be partitioned and will no longer work with DOS, Windows, or OS/2 not running with fixed mode drivers.
In fixed mode, disks have to be unmounted and remounted using a utility before they can be ejected and after they have been reinserted.
Needs HPFSRem to gain HPFS removability support.

BASEDEV IPSRAID.ADD
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

IBM ServeRAID Driver

BASEDEV K6.SYS
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

An utility to enable the read/write combining code in the K6 processor.

One needs to get the documentation for the k6 chip and discover the correct formula for the value to use for the video register. The authors suggested value doesn't work in most cases.

<<=TIP=>> See also BASEDEV WACKER.SYS which is recommended by users.

BASEDEV KME40S2.ADD
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

Panasonic Quad Speed PCMCIA CD-ROM Player KXL-D740 Adapter driver for the Interface Card

BASEDEV KME40S2.SYS
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

Panasonic Quad Speed PCMCIA CD-ROM Player KXL-D740

Enabler for the Interface Card.

<<=NOTE=>> This file is located after the PCMCIA.SYS and the IBM2SS01.SYS in the CONFIG.SYS.

Parameter:

/nobeep Setting this option turn off the beep sound that is generated when inserting or removing the PC card.

/v Verbose

BASEDEV KTRACE.SYS
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

Goldencode Kernel Trace (www.goldencode.com)

BASEDEV LMS205.ADD
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

CD-Rom Driver for Philips LMS CM205/225

Parameter:

/p:hhh Baseadress (same as on the Host Adaptor)

/U:n Unit number 0-4, default is 0

/M:n Number of Buffers (each 2500 Bytes), n =8-26, default is 16

BASEDEV LMS206.ADD
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

CD-Rom Driver for Philips LMS CM205MS/225MS and CM206/226

Parameter:

/p:hhh Baseadress (same as on the Host Adaptor)

/U:n Unit number 0-4, default is 0

/M:n Number of Buffers (each 2500 Bytes), n =8-26, default is 16

BASEDEV LOCKCDR.FLT
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

Some CD recorders claim to be CDROM drives. As OS2CDROM.DMD allocates all CDROM drives at bootup, those recorders cannot be accessed by additional software, including the RSJ CD Writer File System. To correct this behaviour, the filter device driver LOCKCDR.FLT is added to the file CONFIG.SYS; all already known CD recorders will be converted to WORM devices automatically.

parameters

-a: Filters all commands. Solves problems with the SCSI Bus reset after a session.

-i:"Recorder Name" can be used to specify the device name of the unknown CD recorder.

Example:

BASEDEV=LOCKCDR.FLT -i:"IMS CDD2000"

In this example, the Philips recorder CDR2000 is added to the built-in list of CD recorders. During bootup, the OS/2-internal device tables are modified such that the CD recorder is treated as a WORM device instead of a CDROM.

The name of all connected CDROM devices as well as whether they have been converted to WORM devices is printed to the screen while the system is booting.

<<=Note=>> It is not necessary to specify the complete device name. In the example above, specifying -i:"IMS" would do the same job. However, the more complete the device names are specified, the less likely it is that a CDROM drive is converted to a WORM device accidentally.

BASEDEV LS120DRV.FLT
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

LS120 Filter driver

available at:
ftp://ftp.jp.ibm.com/pub/pspj/os2ddpak/dasd/

BASEDEV LSIMPT.ADD
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

LSI Logic Fusion-MPT (TM) Driver for LSI53C1020 and LSI53C1030


Parameter:

/VERBOSE (or /V) enables the display of a banner, version number, and SCSI bus information during startup of the system.

/!DM[,] disables use of the IBM-supplied DASD manager (OS2DASD.DMD) for the devices listed.

/!SM[,] disables use of the IBM-supplied SCSI manager (OS2SCSI.DMD) for the devices listed.

/EXCLUDE[,] disables a host adapter so that the LSIMPT.ADD device driver does not see the adapter.

/SYNCH_RATE=n[,n] Where: n = 0, 5, 10, 20, 40, 80, or 160. sets the maximum synchronous transfer rate (in Megatransfers per second) to negotiate with a particular device.

SYNCH_OFFSET=n[,n] Where: n = 0 up to maximum synchronous offset for the adapter. This option sets the maximum synchronous offset to negotiate with a particular device. The allowable values for this setting are 0 to the maximum synchronous offset supported by the specified adapter.

/TIMEOUT=n[,n] Where: n = timeout value in seconds for device (0-65535). The default value for the timer is 10 seconds. If you set the value to less than the system has allocated for a particular device, the system ignores your setting. To turn off the timeout mechanism for a particular device, set the timer value to 0 (zero).

/DISCONNECT=n[,n] Where: n = ON allows disconnects and is the default value for all devices. OFF does not allow disconnects. This option controls the ability of a device to disconnect during an I/O transfer.

/QTAG=n[,n] Where: n = the number of queue tags allowed for a device, and is between 0 and 255. The value given in the command line is the depth of the queue for queue tags for the indicated device(s). To disable queue tags, set this value to 0 or 1.

/WIDTH=n[,n] Where: n = 8 or 16. The value given in the command line option determines the maximum size of data transfers.

BASEDEV MEMDISK.ADD
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Memdisk driver

MemDisk is a package to boot OS like OS/2 or DOS from a virtual hardisk partition. It can be used to compress files to the limited
space availble on bootable CD ROM and has an option to upgrade CD files from user created floppy.

Parameter:

/Q suppresses any output

/V enables output

BASEDEV MITFX001.ADD
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

Driver for Mitsumi LU0002, LU0005 and FX001 CD-Rom

BASEDEV MKECR56X.ADD
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

Panasonic 2x proprietary (IDE) interface CDRom Driver. Supports multiple CD drives.

Parameter:

/P:

> specifies the IO address as specified by jumper on the card.



<<=NOTE>> The driver is broken by and will trap the system on bootup of Warp 4 if a fixpack higher than 9 is installed.

BASEDEV MRAID.ADD
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

AMI MegaRaid Driver

BASEDEV MWDD32.SYS
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

32-bit device driver support by Matthieu Willm (Win32-OS/2 and many IFS's rely on it). Part of the EXT2-OS2.ZIP package

BASEDEV N512DASD.FLT
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

Filterdriver which allows the use of removable media with sector sizes other than 512bytes; necessary eg. for MO disks with 640MB capacity.

Better use DANIN512.FLT

BASEDEV NFDASD.FLT
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

Network File System base driver.

Only needed if NFS or Netfinity is installed.

BASEDEV NVCHOOK.SYS
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

Norman Antivirus Driver

BASEDEV OEMHLP2.SYS
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

PCI search functions driver used by OS/2 CardBus Enabler client

BASEDEV ONHDFLPY.ADD
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

OnSpec/MULTIPORT LS120 Parallel Port Device driver

http://www.multiport.de/Home_Deutsch/home_deutsch.html

Parameter:

/E Disables fast EPP. This applies only for Enhanced Parallel Ports.

/SF=1..30 Introduces a delay factor of 30 (Can take a value from 1 to 30 with 30 as the slowest mode of operation).

/U Forces Uni-Directional mode. (Applicable only for non Uni-directional ports.

/V Enables verbose mode

/W Disables burst mode data transfer. This does not apply for Enhanced Parallel Ports.

BASEDEV ONSCSI10.ADD
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

OnSpec/MULTIPORT SimpleSCSI CD-ROM Parallel Port Device driver

http://www.multiport.de/Home_Deutsch/home_deutsch.html

BASEDEV OS2671X.ADD
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

New description

BASEDEV OS2ASPI.DMD
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

ASPI Device Manager for drivers according the ASPI specification by Adaptec. Replaces the ASPI4OS2.SYS by Adaptec.

Parameters:

Both parameter prevent from exclusively allocating a device which prevents other DMD from using the device. At the same time they allow to access a device even if it is controlled by another DMD.

/SHARE allocates a device only while sending a command.

/ALL no devices are allocated.

<<=TIP=>> If you are using RSJ CD Writer 2.59 or above you may add the parameter /ALL to BASEDEV=OS2ASPI.DMD. Also needed by SANE and CDRECORD.
After booting your machine, the recorder will be useable as a standard CDROM drive, and you will nevertheless be able to attach the CD to our filesystem. But please ensure that you're not using the CDROM drive letter at the same time when the CDR is attached to RSJ's filesystem, otherwise this will result in errors. If you are using RSJ CD Writer 2.7 you can add unsupported drives

BASEDEV OS2CAM.ADD
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

Old NCR SCSI Driver.

<<=TIP=>> Replaced by newer ones from Symbios. Check for an update.

BASEDEV OS2DASD.DMD
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

Device Manager, is a general purpose driver for disk drives, and is always needed.

Together with the 'new' OSDASD.DMD since fixpak 6/35 parameters are:

/rf (removable to fixed) Together with this parameter it is possible to handle formerly only as 'superfloppy' available removable disks as partitionized disks.

/of (optical to fixed) Like /rf but for MO (MagnetoOptical) Drives.

/LF Forces all removable devices to be treated as Large Floppy rather than partitioned media.

/MP Used to support allocating a predetermined number of drive letters for a partitioned removable media device. Note that this option only applies to partitioned removable devices, and is ignored for any other device type.

<<=IMPORTANT NOTE=>> Some parameters are case sensitive. IN UPPERCASE THEY DON'T WORK !

BASEDEV OS2LVM.DMD
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

Logical Volume Device Manager in Warp Server for E-Business

OS2LVM.DMD [...] sits between the IFSM and OS2DASD providing the logical view of the DASD to the OS/2 file system. OS2LVM also provides Bad Block Relocation (BBR) for JFS.

<<=NOTE=>> The statement BASEDEV=OS2LVM.DMD must immediately follow the BASEDEV=OS2DASD.DMD statement in config.sys.

BASEDEV OS2PCARD.DMD
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PC-Card Device Manager

<<=ATTENTION=>> Must be in before $ICPMOS2.SYS. If no $ICPMOS2.SYS installed it has to be the last line in the config.sys.

BASEDEV OS2SCSI.DMD
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

SCSI Device Manager supports non-disk SCSI devices.

BASEDEV OS2_32.ADD
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

Driver for BUSLOGIC (now www.mylex.com) ISA/VLBus/PCI IDE caching controllers.

BASEDEV PAR1284.SYS
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

replacement for print01.sys, enables bi-directional printing fast prints without heavy system load (but you really need a appropriate printer cable). Available at: ftp://ftp.boulder.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/os2ddpak/bidi.exe

This solution will work in polling mode by default.

<<=NOTE=>> By William L. Hartzell: With PAR1284.SYS the PRINTMONBUFSIZE setting will not be used.

Parameter:

/LPTx (where x is 1,2,3) enables interrupt mode. The switch is required to be in capital letters. Thus, LPT1 can be interrupt driven and LPT2 can be polled.
i.e. BASEDEV=PAR1284.SYS /LPT1 will make only LPT1 use interrupts.

<<=NOTE=>> To work print01.sys or print02.sys must be disabled by putting a REM in front or deleted from the config.sys. If unknown system hangs are experienced during printing, remove DEVICE=APM.SYS and DEVICE=VAPM.SYS from Config.sys.

<<=NOTE=>> Using PAR1284.SYS togehter with some Crystal Cards relying on CWCUTIL.EXE refuse the system to work

<<=NOTE=>> The use of PAR1284.SYS and the scrollmouse drivers from IBM is exclusive. You can only use on of them.

BASEDEV PARTFILT.FLT
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

PARTFILT.flt is a filter device driver for OS/2 that makes it possible to load an IFS for linux partitions. (Without this filter you must patch the partition table. On many systems doing so may cause LILO to fail.)

The filter now is NOT specific for Linux. In addition this driver is capable to control in what order drive letters are assigned to partitions on fixed disks. It will also allow you to access hidden primary partitions under OS/2.

Parameter:

/Q Load quietly

/W Enables Writing to the faked partitions. Without this option the faked partitions are read-only.

/A This option does two things:
- Disables OS/2 to access all partitions, but:
- Virtualizes (or fakes) all known partitions. Known partitions are the normal FAT partitions, IFS (=mainly HPFS) partitions and the partitions specified with the /P option. All primary partitions of known types are also virtualized, and will be accessible from OS/2. This option must be used in conjunction with the /M option.
When this option is specified, the /W option is automatically set, because otherwise OS/2 will not boot.

/M - Specifies the order in which partitions must be mounted.

<<=WARNING=>> Incorrect usage of the /A and /M options could make your system unbootable.

=> USING THE /A and /M OPTIONS is not advised! <=

if you need more information on these options please see:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/hkelder

/P This option is used to tell PARTFILT which partition type are to be faked. You should NOT use partition types already supported by OS/2 since this would result in a single partition being mounted two times. The list should consist of partition type numbers (in hexadecimal), separated by comma's.

To make PARTFILT.FLT fake a FAT32 partition the /P option should be /P 0B.
To make PARTFILT.FLT fake a FAT32X partition the /P option should be /P 0C.
To make PARTFILT.FLT fake a LINUX partition the /P option should be /P 83.
Or you can use a combination of the types e.g. /P 0B,0C

<<=NOTE=>> The best location in the config.sys seems to differ depending on your configuration. Some state FAT32.IFS will only work is PARTFILT is the first basedev, other claim it only works if PARTFILT is the last one. A specific problem was reported when using a SCSI powersave basedev that only seemed to work if PARTFILT was the last basedev.

BASEDEV PCCOFF.SYS
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PCCOFF removes power from all PCMCIA/Cardbus Cards.

Developed by Veit.Kannegieser@gmx.de and available for FREE at http://www-user.TU-Cottbus.DE/~kannegv

BASEDEV PCI2220I.ADD
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

The PCI-2220i is a high performance Bus-Mastering controller for EIDE RAID and Disk sub-systems.

Parameter:

/V Verbose Mode

<<=NOTE=>> The size of a BOOTABLE HPFS partition is limited to 4000 MB!

BASEDEV PCM2ATA.ADD
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supports PCMCIA ATA devices.

Parameters.

/S:n Specifies the number of PC Card slots. /S:1 shows that there is only one PC Card slot. When this parameter is not set, the number of PC Card slots is set to 2.

/P:hhhh Specifies the lower limit for the I/O address of the ATA card. The device driver assigns the next usable I/O address from this lower limit to the card. When this parameter is not set, the device driver looks for a usable address and assigns it to the card.

/EXIRQ:n Specifies the IRQ level that is not assigned to the card. You can set more than one IRQ level.

/NOBEEP Specifies not to beep when a storage card is installed. When this parameter is not set, you will hear a beep every time a storage card is installed into the PC Card slot.

/B Specifies that OS/2 has started from an ATA card. When this parameter is set, there will be no redundancy in assigning the logical drive to the slot where OS/2 was booted. It depends on the ATA card whether you can start OS/2 from it.

/STBTIME:n Specifies the time (from 1 to 21 minutes) until entering standby mode. When the ATA card is not accessed for the time specified by this parameter, the ATA card enters standby mode (only when your ATA card supports standby mode). When this parameter is not specified, standby mode for the ATA card is disabled.

/MDRV:n Specifies the number of extra drives that can be used in addition to the number of PC Card slots available for the PCMCIA storage devices. When this parameter is not specified, no extra drive is given to the device driver. The extra drives can be activated by the PCMCIA ATA Card Mount utility.

/!DM Specifies not to use OS2DASD.DMD as the device manager. When this parameter is set, OS2PCARD.DMD is used instead.

BASEDEV PCMCIA.SYS
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

Card Services for PMCIA-Cards.

<<=ATTENTION=>> Must be in front of all other PCMCIA Drivers

Parameter:

/R:200 : Specify that card services will conform to the PCMCIA 2.0 standard. This is the default value.

/R:500 : Specify that card services will conform to the PCMCIA 5.0 standard instead of the PCMCIA 2.0 standard which is the default value.

/P : In previous releases, this parameter disabled the hardware interrupt which was used by OS/2 Socket Services drivers to notify clients of a change in status.
Neither the new Card Services nor Socket Services drivers for OS/2 use a hardware interrupt to signal PCMCIA status changes. So this parameter is no longer needed.

The probably easiest procedure installing pcmcia has been described on OS/2 Online (http://www.os2-online.de):

Unpack the file PCMCIADD found on disk 17 of the OS/2 Warp install CD (directory OS2IMAGE), best into the OS2 directory on your harddisk. Then replace the line BASEDEV=IBM2TOS1.SYS with the following lines in your CONFIG.SYS:
BASEDEV=IBM2AMB1.SYS
BASEDEV=IBM2AST1.SYS
BASEDEV=IBM2CAD1.SYS
BASEDEV=IBM2CMQ1.SYS
BASEDEV=IBM2MAT1.SYS
BASEDEV=IBM2NCR1.SYS
BASEDEV=IBM2NEC1.SYS
BASEDEV=IBM2SS01.SYS
BASEDEV=IBM2SS02.SYS
BASEDEV=IBM2TOS1.SYS
BASEDEV=IBM2ZEN1.SYS
BASEDEV=IBM2ZOS1.SYS
BASEDEV=SS2PCIC1.SYS
BASEDEV=SS2TCIC1.SYS

When OS/2 boots press Alt-F2 when the rectangle appears in the top left corner of the screen, and OS/2 will tell you which driver was loaded. It is possible that your machine works with more than one, you'll then have to find out yourself which one works best!

If you have specific drivers for your notebook computer

Do not install the PCMCIA support when installing OS/2 on your machine. Instead, once you are done with the installation of OS/2, chose Device Installation from the System/System Configuration folder and install the PCMCIA driver from diskette or use the installation program provided with your driver. Check the information provided with your driver before installing OS/2 Warp or the PCMCIA support.

If your driver comes only in the form of the driver files, you need to do a manual installation, i.e. you need to edit the CONFIG.SYS file yourself. In that case install any PCMCIA support (as explained above). Then copy the driver files into the directory x:\os2\boot. After that, open the CONFIG.SYS in the editor and change the line BASEDEV= PCMCIA_driver (replace "PCMCIA_driver" with the driver name you installed) into BASEDEV=newdriver where "newdriver" is the name of the driver file you got). Take care that the PCMCIA drivers precede any COM drivers.

In some machines, an additional line has to be included in the CONFIG.SYS file: BASEDEV=RESERVE.SYS /mem:nnnn mmmm (nnnn has to be replaced with the address where PCMCIA usually would start and mmmm has to be replaced with a value of 1000 or more (increased in steps of 1000)). First run rmview /mem to find out at which address PCMCIA is located. This would be the hex number that comes in place of nnnn. Then try out whether it works with 1000 (in place of mmmm). RESERVE.SYS actually prohibits the PCMCIA driver to use this area and thus avoids a conflict which otherwise arises. If 1000 doesn't work try 2000 etc.

Xircom's own drivers don't work: For some PCMCIA cards (particularly XIRCOM with their own drivers) the IBM PCMCIA socket for the particular socket in which the card is inserted has to be disabled by installing socket services with the parameter /S0=1 which will disable socket services for the second PCMCIA slot (if there are two slots; if there is just one slot it won't do any good). An alternative is the switch /ig0=1 (1 is the port number). By using a proper script, it may even be possible to go without any of these switches.

PCMCIA doesn't work: In some notebook computers the BIOS has to be modified so that the PCMCIA becomes compatible with the available OS/2 driver. The mode in which the PCMCIA functions may need to be set from Busmaster to 16-bit or PCIC compatible. Check the info for individual notebooks on this page and consult your notebook's manual!

IBM Token Ring PCMCIA adapter doesn't work: Try setting in MPTS the IRQ to 5 and the adapter type from primary to alternate (address X=20).

BASEDEV PIIXIDE.ADD
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

Intel Busmaster Driver, better use DANIS506.ADD or IBM1S506.ADD

BASEDEV PIIXIDE.FLT
[Table of contents] [Index] [BASEDEVICES]

Intel driver, better use DANIATAPI.FLT or IBMIDECD.FLT

BASEDEV POWER-CD.ADD
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Freeport Parallel Port CDROM Driver

available at: http://cyberia.dnsalias.com/Gfd.Sys.Disk.Htm

BASEDEV PPAOS2.ADD
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Parallel Port-attached ZIP 100, ZIP+, and ZIP 250 driver

This driver supports daisy chaining, up to a total of five drives. The connections must be CPU -> ZIP Plus/250 -> ZIP Plus/250-> ZIP (original), which MUST be last. Note that ZIP Plus terminator MUST BE OFF unless it is the LAST drive in the chain. If a ZIP (original) is the last drive, then the ZIP Plus termintor MUST BE OFF.


PARAMETERS

/V Verbose Output

/PORT:# # = Parallel port address (ie 378, 278, 3bc)


MULTIPLE PARALLEL PORT DRIVES

Each driver instance supports ONLY one parallel port. To install TWO instances, you MUST specify the /PORT: parameter on at least one driver statement to get to the LPT2 port; for example:

basedev=ppaos2.add /port:378
basedev=ppaos2.add /port:278


LIMITATIONS

OS/2 versions that use LVM for managing hard file space exhibit several pecularities working with ZIP drives.

1. Even though media is inserted at boot time, a drive letter may not be assigned. To force the assignment of a driver letter, double click on the "Refresh Removable Media" object. If that fails, eject the media, re-insert, and double click on the "Refresh Removable Media" object.

2. LVM may report the ZIP drive as corrupted. You can still create a volume.

3. Do NOT do an LVM "Commit Changes" with ZIP media that already contains data inserted. The data may be lost.

BASEDEV PRINT01.SYS
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supports attached printers on non-Micro Channel PC's.

<<=WARP TIP=>> With Warp, the default transmission protocol used by PRINTO1.SYS and PRINTO2.SYS is the polling transmission method. The protocol used by previous versions of OS/2 was the interrupt transmission method. In Warp, you can change back to the interrupt method by adding the /IRQ parameter.

<<=TIP=>> From Paul Kurr: "Since I'm running on a LAN at work here, I have no need for direct printer support of any kind since this is taken care of by my NOS (LAN Server). So I have REM'd BASEVEV=PRINT01.SYS to save some RAM."

Beginning with V. 10.049 PCI Add-On Cards are supported and beginning with 10.068 Combo Cards.

Parameter:

/IRQ Directs the driver to use IRQs for printing rather than polling.

/SHR This parameter in conjunction with /IRQ parameter directs the PP DD to service PCI IRQs as shared.

<<=NOTE=>> If your printer (for example, old dot matrix printer) generates IRQs without setting interrupt pending (occured) bit in PCI PP status register correctly then you cannot use PCI IRQ sharing and must not use /SHR parameter.

/TOU:ddd Specifies maximum wait time in seconds before canceling the print request. This is a 3 decimal digit value (by default - 120 seconds).

/F Find PPs on PCI combo (serial/parallel) cards automatically.

/MPL modifies polling procedure - makes it less processor resource consuming by scheduling other systems tasks at certain print points, may decrease print speed.

BASEDEV PRINT02.SYS
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supports attached printers on Micro Channel PC's.

See BASEDEV=PRINT01.SYS for additional tips.

BASEDEV QL10OS2.ADD
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Driver for Qlogic ISP 1020 SCSI Adapter

BASEDEV QL40OS2.ADD
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Driver for Qlogic FAS 408 SCSI Adapter

BASEDEV QL510.ADD
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Driver for Qlogic Fast-SCSI Adapter

BASEDEV RESERVE.SYS
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This driver reserves hardwareressources for drivers, especially for those who are not recognised by the ressourcemanager.

See OS/2 Reference Book for a detailed discussion of the parameters

<<=Tip=>> By Sam Detweiler: "for adapters that are not PnP and do not have a legacy detector, one can use the DOCUMENTED approach of adding a BASEDEV=RESERVE.SYS /p:2e8,8 to the config.sys and re-running hardware detection at the next boot. It causes the reserve.snp to preallocate the defined resources so that PnP adapters can't use them.

<<=TIP=>> By Paul F.Grobler: The tablet / enhanced mouse driver by M. Finney was broken by the GA code of Merlin but I found a workaround. The symptoms I got was an error free driver load (including vmouse.sys), a mouse cursor on the first graphic mode screen but the mouse pointer was static i.e. it would not move. All that was required was to put a "BASEDEV=RESERVE.SYS /IO:3f8,8 /IRQ:4" as the first line of my config. sys. You will note that the values correspond to normal com1 as this is were my tablet is connected. By modifying the values to /IO:2f8,8 and /IRQ:3 this should work for com2.

<<=TIP=>> All cards are memory: In some machines, an additional line has to be included in the CONFIG.SYS file: BASEDEV=RESERVE.SYS /mem:nnnn mmmm (nnnn has to be replaced with the address where PCMCIA usually would start and mmmm has to be replaced with a value of 1000 or more (increased in steps of 1000)). This line should be at the beginning of the CONFIG.SYS file.
First run rmview /mem to find out at which address PCMCIA is located. This would be the hex number that comes in place of nnnn. Then try out whether it works with 1000 (in place of mmmm). RESERVE.SYS actually prohibits the PCMCIA driver to use this area and thus avoids a conflict which otherwise arises. If 1000 doesn't work try 2000 etc.

BASEDEV RSJIDECD.FLT
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Modified IBMIDECD.FLT for the RSJ CD-Toasting software since V 2.70 that works correct with writing commands and command timeouts. Will be removed as soon as a corrected IBMIDECD.FLT is available.

<<=TIP=>> Not needed when you have a SCSI-only system. If you get a trap 000d during boot REM this line and use BASEDEV=IBMIDECD.FLT instead.

BASEDEV SBCD2.ADD
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Driver for proprietary (IDE) Soundblaster interface CDRom drives. Supports only 1 CD drive.

Parameter:

/P:nnn - Specifies the base I/O port address of the interface card. The value must be the same number as the port address selected by the jumper on the host interface card.

/T:nn - Sets the adapter type connected to the CD-ROM drive. Supported value is: 2 = Creative Labs CD-ROM interface card (not Sound Blaster)

/NS - Disable drive select scan. Driver will not scan for more than one CD-ROM drive.

BASEDEV SEC32.SYS
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Driver from Antiviral Toolkit PRo/Kaperski Antivirus for OS/2

BASEDEV SHOWIDT.SYS
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Interrupt Monitor device driver

BASEDEV SHOWIRQ.SYS
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Driver for the program PMIRQ a interrupt Monitor included in ISDN-PM 3.0. Useful for PCMCIA-Cards

BASEDEV SISIDE.ADD
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Harddiskdriver for SIS Chipset

<<=TIP=>> Better use DANIS506.ADD

BASEDEV SONY31A.ADD
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Driver for Sony CDU31A, CDU33A and CDU7305 CD-Rom

BASEDEV SONY535.ADD
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Driver for Sony CDU531, CDU535, CDU6201, CDU6205 and CDU7205 CD-Rom

BASEDEV SS2INTEL.SYS
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Socket Services for Intel i82365 and compatibles by Michael Havens (mwhav@mindspiring.com). Tested with the Texas Instruments PCI 1221 controller in Twinhead notebook. It may work with other TI 122*, 12**, and other compatible controllers.

Available for FREE at http://www.drmartinus.de/notebook2/notebook.htm

BASEDEV SS2TICB.SYS
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Socket Services Driver by Daniela Engert which supposedly supports all TI cardbus bridges. Based on the IBM2SS14 v3.0/1.01.00 driver.

LIST OF SUPPORTED CHIPS
The chips supported by IBM2SS14.SYS are marked by 'x'.

Chip PCI ID
-----------------------------------------------
PCI1031 PC card CardBus Controller AC13
PCI1130 PC card CardBus Controller x AC12
PCI1131 PC card CardBus Controller AC15
PCI1210 PC card CardBus Controller AC1A
PCI1211 PC card CardBus Controller AC1E
PCI1220 PC card CardBus Controller AC17
PCI1221 PC card CardBus Controller AC19
PCI1225 PC card CardBus Controller x AC1C
PCI1250 PC card CardBus Controller x AC16
PCI1250 PC card CardBus Controller x AC55
PCI1251 PC card CardBus Controller x AC1D
PCI1251B PC card CardBus Controller x AC1F
PCI1260 PC card CardBus Controller AC18
PCI1260 PC card CardBus Controller AC30
PCI1410 PC card CardBus Controller AC50
PCI1420 PC card CardBus Controller x AC51
PCI1421 PC card CardBus Controller AC53
PCI1450 PC card CardBus Controller x AC1B
PCI1451 PC card CardBus Controller AC52
PCI4410 PC card CardBus Controller AC41
PCI4450 PC card CardBus Controller AC40
PCI4451 PC card CardBus Controller AC42

BASEDEV SSDPCIC1.SYS
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Intel PCIC compatibles Socket services

<<=ATTENTION=>> Must be in front of all other PCMCIA Drivers, but after PCMCIA.SYS

BASEDEV SSDTCIC1.SYS
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DataBook TCIC compatibles Socket services

<<=ATTENTION=>> Must be in front of all other PCMCIA Drivers, but after PCMCIA.SYS

BASEDEV SSPCIC.SYS
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Touchstone (http://www.tssc.de) PCMCIA socket services

Commercial Product Price 54$

List of PC Card Adapters supported by SSPCIC.SYS:

Intel 82365SL A step or compatible
Intel 82365SL B step or compatible
Intel 82365SL C step or compatible
Intel PHIC
Intel PPEC
Toshiba ToPIC
Toshiba ToPIC95 (PCI adapter)
Toshiba ToPIC95M (CardBus)
Toshiba ToPIC97 (CardBus)
IBM Stinger (always Step B!)
IBM TOMCAT
IBM ThinkPad 750
IBM KING
Texas Instruments PCI1030
Texas Instruments PCI1031
Texas Instruments PCI1050
Texas Instruments PCI1130 (CardBus)
Texas Instruments PCI1131 (CardBus)
Texas Instruments PCI1210 (CardBus)
Texas Instruments PCI1211 (CardBus)
Texas Instruments PCI1220 (CardBus)
Texas Instruments PCI1221 (CardBus)
Texas Instruments PCI1225 (CardBus)
Texas Instruments PCI1250 (CardBus)
Texas Instruments PCI1450 (CardBus)
Cirrus Logic CL-PD6710
Cirrus Logic CL-PD6720
Cirrus Logic CL-PD6722 (rev. 0)
Cirrus Logic CL-PD6722 (rev. 1)
Cirrus Logic CL-PD6729
Cirrus Logic CL-PD6832 (CardBus)
PicoPower 82C786 (PCMCIA Plus)
Omega Micro 82C722GX
Acer Labs M5235
Vadem chip VG-365
Vadem chip VG-465
Vadem chip VG-468
Vadem Chip VG-469
Vadem Chip VG-469 (rev. 8D)
VLSI VL82C146
Ricoh RF5C266
Ricoh RF5C366
Ricoh RF5C269
Ricoh RF5C369
Ricoh R5C476II
Ricoh RB5C478
LSI Logic HT27
O2 Micro OZ6832 (CardBus)
DataBook DB87144 (CardBus)

Parameters:

/AP:[m,]on Automatically assign a IRQ number to PCI or CardBus PC Card adapter 'm', if BIOS didn't assign a PCI IRQ (Interrupt Line register doesn't contain valid IRQ number). If no adapter number is specified, this switch will be applied for all adapters. The switch will be ignored for ISA PC Card adapters.

/B:n For ISA adapters only: use I/O base address 'n' (0x100 <= n <= 0x3FF) for detection of ISA adapters (default: autodetect). This switch will be ignored for PCI/CardBus adapters.

/BE:auto Perform bus enumeration for CardBus adapters only if CardBus bus number not already assigned by BIOS.

/BE:off Disable bus enumeration for CardBus adapters. By default, Socket Services performs bus enumeration for CardBus adapters since most versions of BIOS don't perform this correctly. If you are sure that you have BIOS which performs the bus enumeration correctly, use /BE:off switch.

/DP:m Assign different PCI IRQs to sockets of PCI or CardBus PC Card adapter 'm'. Will be used only, if '/AP:[m,]on' switch is selected.

/E Enable screen output (default: silent).

/EC:[m,]auto Do not change setting of 'power switch clock' register for adapter 'm' but use setting assigned by BIOS. If no adapter number is specified, this option is chosen for all adapters. (Default: use power switch clock generated by PCI clock)
<<=Note=>> This switch is ignored for all PC Card adapters except TI
PCI121x/122x and TI PCI1250/1450

/EC:[m,]on Use external power switch clock for adapter 'm'. If no adapter number is specified, this option is chosen for all adapters. (Default: use power switch clock generated by PCI clock)
<<=Note=>> This switch is ignored for all PC Card adapters except TI PCI121x/122x and TI PCI1250/1450

/FB:n Specify number of first PCI bus available for CardBus adapters (Default: 1). This option is ignored in /BE:off mode.

/FP:off Disable full search for PCI PC-Card adapters. This option should be selected, if non-existent PCI PC-Card adapters are detected.

/FS:n Socket IRQ filter. Socket Services will not assign IRQ for sockets if corresponding bit is set in the mask. For example, if n is 0x20 than SS will not configure socket on IRQ5.

/H Print help text.

/IA:on Always assign I/O base address for PCI adapters. By default Socket Services assigns I/O base address for PCI adapters only, if base retrieved from PCI configuration space is 0.

/IF:on Detect ISA/EISA adapters before PCI/CardBus adapters (default: detect PCI/CardBus adapters before ISA/EISA).

/II:[m,]off Disable writing of interrupt mode into registers of PC Card adapter 'm'. If no adapter number is specified, this switch will be applied for all adapters. This switch will be ignored for all adapters which don't support interrupt mode (see /IM description).

/IM:m,t Set interrupt mode used for adapter 'm' (default: Par). This setting is ignored for Non-CardBus adapters. Possible values for type 't' are (default is Par):

Par
TI1130/1x31: Use parallel ISA-type interrupts; TI12xx: Use parallel ISA and PCI interrupts; CL-6832, OZ6832: Use External-Hardware Interrupt mode;
Ricoh RB5C478: Use parallel interrupt mode.

Ser
TI1130/1x31: Use serialized interrupt type scheme;
TI12xx: Use serialized ISA and PCI interrupts;
CL-6832, OZ6832: Use PC/PCI Serial Interrupt protocol;
Ricoh RB5C478: Use serialized interrupt mode.

PPci
TI 12xx
Cl-6832 Use parallel PCI
OZ6832

ISPP
TI 12xx only: Use serialized ISA and parallel PCI interrupts. Will be ignored for all other adapters

PWay
CL-6832, OZ6832: Use PCI/Way Interrupt Signaling mode. Will be ignored for all other adapters.

/IN:on Ignore PCI device function number when setting PCI interrupt through BIOS call. (Pass 0 as function number instead.) (default: off)

/IO:m,n For PCI/CardBus adapters only: use I/O base address 'n' for PCI/CardBus adapter 'm' (default: find base of free I/O range). Caution: adapter will be ignored if specified base can't be used. This switch will be ignored for ISA adapters.

/IR:[m,]off Disable routing of ISA IRQs on adapter 'm'. If no adapter number is specified, this switch will be applied for all adapters. This switch should be used for PCI/CardBus controllers, if the ISA IRQ-routing paddleboard is not connected.

/IW:m,n Limit number of I/O windows per socket on adapter m to n.

/MH:n Adapter IRQ filter. Socket Services will not use IRQ for adapters if corresponding bit is set in the mask. For example, if n is 0x8000 than SS will not use IRQ 15

/MS:m,n Support maximal number of sockets 'n' for adapter 'm' (default: autodetect). If n=0 is specified, adapter will be ignored.

/MW:m,n Limit number of memory windows per socket on adapter m to n.

/MX:[m,]off Do not initialize the multiplex IRQ routing register on adapter 'm'. If no adapter number is specified, this switch will be applied for all adapters. (Default: Initialize register). This switch is only used on TI PCI122x/1250/1450 adapters and is ignored for all other adapters.

/OZ:97:off OZ6832 PC Card adapter only: reset PC97 IRQ support bit.

/OZ:97:on OZ6832 PC Card adapter only: set PC97 IRQ support bit.

/OZ:IL:off OZ6832 PC Card adapter only: reset ISA Legacy bit.

/OZ:IL:on OZ6832 PC Card adapter only: set ISA Legacy bit.

/PD:off Disable automatic power-down for broken cards, which is done by default for PCI adapters. This automatic power-down avoids system lock, which occurs on PCI adapters if broken cards couldn't be powered-up successfully (i.e. power doesn't become active or card doesn't become ready)

/PI:m,[n,]I Assign IRQ number 'i' as PCI IRQ for adapter 'm', socket 'n'. If no socket number 'n' is specified, the IRQ number is the same for all sockets of the adapter. This IRQ number will be written to the PCI configuration space (Interrupt Line register) of the specified adapter. For CardBus adapters: the IRQ number will be written to the PCI configuration spaces of all sockets. The IRQ number will be ignored for ISA PC-Card adapters. Main purpose of this switch is for CardBus adapters, since many old BIOSes don't assign IRQ number in Interrupt Line registers. The IRQ number must be level sensitive (routed to PCI IRQ), otherwise CardBus cards and Status Change Interrupt will not work.

/RA:[m,]off Disable assignment of free base addresses for CardBus register memory windows on adapter 'm'. Use base addresses assigned by BIOS instead (except this base is 0). If no adapter number is specified, this option will be chosen for all adapters.

/SA:m,n Swap adapter m with adapter n. Multiple use of /SA switch is possible.

/SC:m,n Use Status Change Interrupt 'n' for adapter 'm' (default: Card Services select Status Change Interrupt).

/SI:off Do not set PCI interrupt on hardware, only write Interrupt Line register. (default: on)

/VS:33 Power 16-bit cards always to Vcc=3.3V, regardless voltage sense reported from the card. All pure 5V 16-bit cards will not work when using this switch.

/VS:50 Power 16-bit cards always to Vcc=5V, regardless voltage sense reported from the card. CAUTION: Using this switch can damage pure 3.3V 16-bit cards. Never insert such cards when using this switch.

/VS:auto Don't use voltage sense reported from 16-bit card directly, but execute algorithm to check if voltage reported from the card is correct. Power card to Vcc=5V, if this checking shows that card reports voltage incorrectly. Switch /VS:auto is necessary to support 16-bit 5V ATA cards which report voltage sense incorrectly. But be aware that pure 16-bit 3.3V cards may be damaged, if they don't comply with PC Card Standard. Switch /VS:auto is ignored, if CardBus card is inserted, i.e. for CardBus cards always voltage sense reported from the card is used.

/VS:off Same as /VS:auto. Provided for backward compatibility.

/W:n Use number of Wait States 'n' for 16-bit I/O access. This value could be 0 or 1 (default 1).

/XP:[m,]I Exclude IRQ 'i' from automatic PCI IRQ assignment. Will be used only, if '/AP:[m,]on' switch is selected. Multiple use of /XP switch is possible.

Known Problems:

1 In OS/2 Warp 3 the ATA card cannot be configured if it was inserted after boot of system. It was found that PCM2ATA.ADD drivers de-registers the timer procedure by end of the initialization stage. As result the MountCard procedure is never called for the card inserted into the system after the BOOT time. OS/2 Warp 4 contains new version of PCM2ATA.ADD driver that supports hot insertion of ATA cards.

2 PC card can be configured but does not work if notebook contains Sound card and it is configured on IRQ5. The Sound card IRQ 5 is not enabled when PC starts. The OS/2 is getting knowledge about the usage of IRQ 5 only when sound card driver is starting. The IBM Card Services is a ®baseŻ driver and starting before the soundcard driver. Therefore Card Services considering IRQ 5 free may assign it to the PC Card. Problem can be by-passed by re-configuring of Sound card via BIOS setup program with higher IRQ number.

3 Most of Xircom Network card drivers contain point enabler. Such enabler do not register Card Services client and do not report card configuration to Card Services. For this reason Card Services considering that card was not configured will turn card power off and card will be no longer operational. This is the problem of Xircom NDIS driver non-compliant with PC Card Standard.

4 SunDisk SPDL5 1.3 will not be configured. This card holds card configuration in vendor-specific tuple rather then in CISTPL_CFTABLE_ENTRY. IBM ATA driver do not check for this condition.

BASEDEV STARTUP.SYS
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VIA 8233 Startup Sound driver

an AC'97 adaptation of the famous "SoundBlaster Startup Sound Driver" by Robert Muchsel. All the driver does is randomly
playing a short tune during OS/2 startup (then it uninstalls itself, hence consuming no memory).

Besides serving as an amusement, the driver may also be useful in locating IRQ sharing problems - if the MMPM/2 driver, VIAUDD.SYS, does not work while STARTUP.SYS does, the IRQs should be examined for conflicts.

The driver requires a 14.xxx kernel.

Parameter:

/MV: Set master volume to n% (0 to 100). Default is /M:100.
/V: Set output volume to n% (0 to 100). Default is /V:100.
/SV: Set PC Speaker volume to n% (0 to 100). Default is /SV:60.

BASEDEV SYM416.ADD
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Driver for Symbios 53C416 SCSI (ISA)

<<=NOTE=>> The SYM416 card is a plug-n-play card which can interfere with sound cards (both legacy and plug-n-play) installed or possibly other plug-n-play devices. The following driver parameter can OVERRIDE the automatic card setting:

Parameter:

/V - Verbose

/OVERRIDE /IO=

/OVERRIDE /IRQ=

BASEDEV SYM8XX.ADD
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supports the following Symbios host adapters

SYM53C810, SYM53C810A, SYM53C810AE (SYM8100S, SYM8100ASP, SYM20810)
SYM53C815 (SYM815XS, SYM8150SP)
SYM53C825, 53C825A (SYM8250S, SYM8251S, SYM8251D, SYM8250ASP,
SYM8251ASP,SYM8251AD)
SYM53C860, SYM53C860AE (SYM8600SP, SYM20860)
SYM53C875, SYM53C875E (SYM8750SP, SYM8751SP, SYM8751D)
SYM53C876 (SYM22801, SYM22802)
SYM53C885
SYM53C895 (SYM8951U, SYM8952U)
SYM53C895A (SYM8953U)


<<=NOTE=>> If the drive does not support synchronous or tagged command queing. Use /!SN or /!Q on the driver. e.g. BASEDEV=SYMC8XX.ADD /V /!SN /!Q

Parameter:

/VERBOSE or /V This option appears on the command line by default. It enables display of a banner, version number, and SCSI bus information during startup of the system.

/!DM Option This option disables use of the IBM-supplied DASD manager (OS2DASD.DMD) for the devices listed. The DASD manager supports direct access devices such as hard drives.

Usage: /!DM[,]*

For example, to disable OS2DASD.DMD for devices on host adapter 0 at target
IDs 3 and 5, the line in the CONFIG.SYS file that loads SYM8XX.ADD should look
like this:

BASEDEV=SYM8XX.ADD /!DM<0:3>,<0:5>

/!SM This option disables use of the IBM-supplied SCSI manager (OS2SCSI.DMD) for the devices listed. The SCSI manager supports SCSI tape drives.

Usage: /!SM[,]*

For example, to disable OS2SCSI.DMD for devices on host adapter 0 at target IDs
3 and 5, the line in the CONFIG.SYS file that loads SYM8XX.ADD should look like
this:

BASEDEV=SYM8XX.ADD /!SM<0:3>,<0:5>

/EXCLUDE or /X This option disables a host adapter so that it is not seen by the SDMS OS/2 device drivers. This allows a host adapter to be ignored without physically removing the board from the system. This may be necessary if the adapter in question is causing a resource conflict.

Note: If you exclude the adapter to which the boot device is attached, then
you will not be able to boot.

Usage: /EXCLUDE[,]*

Where:
chip is a unique identifier that indicates the LSI Logic board type. The
Verbose option displays a table with this value appearing in the "CHIP"
column.

bus represents the PCI bus number into which the adapter is plugged. The
Verbose option displays a table with this value appearing in the "BUS"
column.

dev/func is the number derived by combining the PCI device and function
numbers and serves as a unique board identifier in conjunction with
the PCI bus. The Verbose option displays a table with this hexadecimal
value appearing in the "DEV/FUNC" column. It may contain an A, B, C, D,
E, or F as part of its value.

For example, to exclude a host adapter with chip type F, PCI bus number 0
and dev/func number A0, the line in the CONFIG.SYS file that loads SYM8XX.ADD
should look like this:

BASEDEV=SYM8XX.ADD /EXCLUDE

or

BASEDEV=SYM8XX.ADD /X


/SYNCH_RATE or /SR This option sets the maximum synchronous transfer rate (in Mbyte transfers per second) to negotiate with a particular device. The allowable values for this setting are 0, 5, 10, 20, and 40 Mbyte transfers per second, if the adapter is capable of the specified speed. All host adapters in the LSI Logic family
support at least 10 Mbyte transfers per second; some support 20 or 40 Mbyte
transfers per second. To turn off synchronous transfers for a particular device,
specify 0 (zero). The value set by this option only defines the maximum transfer
rate negotiated. The actual rate also depends on the device's capability. The
default value is the fastest transfer rate that is supported by a particular
host adapter.

Note: The maximum synchronous transfer rates effectively double when the
adapter and device permit wide transfers (See the /WIDTH option).
For example, a synchronous transfer rate setting of 40 Mbyte transfers
per second will actually produce a transfer rate of 80 Mbyte transfers
per second if the adapter and device both allow and are set to perform
wide transfers.

Usage: /SYNCH_RATE=n[,n]*

Where: n = 0, 5, 10, 20, or 40.

Two examples illustrate how to use this option:

1. To turn off synchronous transfers to ID 3 on host adapter 0, the
line in the CONFIG.SYS file that loads SYM8XX.ADD should look like this:

BASEDEV=SYM8XX.ADD /SYNCH_RATE=0<0:3>

2. To set synchronous transfers to 10 Mbyte transfers per second on all devices
on host adapter 1, the line in the CONFIG.SYS file that loads SYM8XX.ADD
should look like this:

BASEDEV=SYM8XX.ADD /SR=10<1>


/SYNCH_OFFSET or /SO This option sets the maximum synchronous offset to negotiate with a particular device. The allowable values for this setting are 0 to the maximum synchronous offset supported by the specified adapter. The LSI Logic controller chips support offsets up to 31. Refer to your host adapter user's guide for
information on the maximum offset supported by your host adapter. If 0 (zero)
is specified for the synchronous offset value, synchronous transfers are turned
off for any specified device. The value set by this option only defines the
maximum offset that is negotiated. The resulting rate also depends on the
device's capability. The default value is the maximum offset that is supported
by a particular host adapter.

Usage: /SYNCH_OFFSET=n[,n]*

Where: n = 0 up to maximum synchronous offset for the adapter.

For example, to change the synchronous offset to 6 for ID 3 on host adapter 0,
the line in the CONFIG.SYS file that loads SYM8XX.ADD should look like this:

BASEDEV=SYM8XX.ADD /SYNCH_OFFSET=6<0:3>

or

BASEDEV=SYM8XX.ADD /SO=6<0:3>


/TIMEOUT or /T The SDMS device drivers use a timeout mechanism to detect certain errors. When the driver issues a command to a SCSI device, a timer is started. If the timer expires before the command completes, the driver assumes that something is wrong with the device, and takes steps to recover. The default value
for this is 10 seconds. If you set the value to be less than the system has
allocated for a particular device, your value will be ignored. To turn off the
timeout mechanism for a particular device, set the value to 0 (zero).

Usage: /TIMEOUT=n[,n]*

Where: n = timeout value in seconds for device (0-65535).

For example, if you have a particularly slow device at ID 3 on host adapter 0
and you wish to extend the timeout on this device to 60 seconds, then the line
in the CONFIG.SYS file that loads SYM8XX.ADD should look like this:

BASEDEV=SYM8XX.ADD /TIMEOUT=60<0:3>

or

BASEDEV=SYM8XX.ADD /T=60<0:3>


/DISCONNECT or /DC SCSI devices have the ability to disconnect from the bus during an I/O transfer. This option allows (or does not allow) a device to disconnect during an I/O transfer. If a particular adapter has parity checking disabled, then you
must use this option to disable disconnects for all devices on that adapter
that do not generate parity. Refer to the /PARITY option for more information.

Usage: /DISCONNECT=n[,n]*

Where: n = ON is the default value for all devices, which allows disconnects.
OFF does not allow disconnects.

For example, to disable disconnects on the device at ID 2 on host adapter 0,
then the line in the CONFIG.SYS file that loads SYM8XX.ADD should look like
this:

BASEDEV=SYM8XX.ADD /DISCONNECT=OFF<0:2>

or

BASEDEV=SYM8XX.ADD /DC=OFF<0:2>

/PARITY or /P The LSI Logic chips are capable of enabling or disabling the SCSI bus data integrity checking feature known as parity. Some non-compliant SCSI devices sold as SCSI devices do not generate parity. You can use this option to disable parity checking. The LSI Logic chips always generate parity (for outputs), but may optionally check the parity (for inputs).

Note: When disabling parity checking, you must disable disconnects for
any device that does not generate parity, as the LSI Logic chips
cannot disable parity checking for that device during the reselection
phase. If a device does not generate parity and it disconnects, the
I/O never completes as the reselection never completes. Refer to using
the /DISCONNECT option for more information about disabling disconnects
for a device.

Usage: /PARITY=n[,n]*

Where: n = ON is the default value for all devices, which enables parity
checking. OFF disables parity checking.

For example, to turn off parity checking on host adapter 0, the line in the
CONFIG.SYS file that loads SYM8XX.ADD should look like this:

BASEDEV=SYM8XX.ADD /PARITY=OFF<0>

or

BASEDEV=SYM8XX.ADD /P=OFF<0>

/QTAG or /QT Queue tagging allows more than one outstanding command per SCSI device. Some non-compliant SCSI devices sold as SCSI devices do not allow queue tags, in which case queue tagging needs to be disabled. The value given in the command line will be the depth of the queue for queue tags for the device(s) indicated. To disable queue tag support, a value of 0 or 1 should be given.

Usage: /QTAG=n[,n]*

Where: n = the number of queue tags allowed for a device (0-256).

Two examples illustrate how to use this option:

1. To turn off queue tagging for ID 3 on host adapter 0, the line in the
CONFIG.SYS file that loads SYM8XX.ADD should look like this:

BASEDEV=SYM8XX.ADD /QTAG=0<0:3>

2. To set the queue depth to 5 for all devices on host adapter 2, the line in
the CONFIG.SYS file that loads SYM8XX.ADD should look like this:

BASEDEV=SYM8XX.ADD /QT=5<2>


/WIDTH or /W Devices attached to a SCSI bus are narrow or wide devices. Narrow devices transfer data one byte (or 8 bits) at a time. Wide devices transfer two bytes
(or 16 bits) at a time. The value given in the command line option will
determine the size of data transfers.

Usage: /WIDTH=n[,n]*

Where: n = 8 or 16.

Two examples illustrate how to use this option:

1. To have the device at ID 3 on host adapter 0 treated as a narrow device,
the line in the CONFIG.SYS file that loads SYM8XX.ADD should look like this:

BASEDEV=SYM8XX.ADD /WIDTH=8<0:3>

2. To have all devices on host adapter 2 treated as 8-bit devices, the line in
the CONFIG.SYS file that loads SYM8XX.ADD should look like this:

BASEDEV=SYM8XX.ADD /W=8<2>

BASEDEV SYM_HI.ADD
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SCSI driver for the following devices and their associated LSI Logic host adapters:

SYM53C895A (SYM8953U)
SYM53C896 (SYM22910, SYM21002, SYM22902)
SYM53C1010 (SYM8955U, SYM22915, SYM21040, SYM22903)

For Parameters see SYM8XX.ADD

<<=NOTE=>> Both the SYM8XX.ADD and SYM_HI.ADD drivers support the SYM53C895A chip. If both drivers have been installed, whichever driver appears first in the CONFIG.SYS file will control the SYM53C895A chip.

BASEDEV TI11225CB.SYS
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Socket Services driver for Dell Latitude CpiA

Parameter:

/C0=z : These parameters define the IRQ level to be used by the

/C1=z Socket Services driver. The new Card Services and Socket Services drivers for OS/2 do not use a hardware interrupt to notify the PCMCIA status change, so you do not need these parameters.

/IG0=y : This parameter defines a slot number, which Socket Services ignores. If you use the "Point enabler" supplied with a PC Card, you should take into consideration the coexistence with Socket Services.

/RI0=x : This parameter defines a slot number, where Socket Services disables the RI_OUT signal. For Example, "/RI0=1" specifies slot 1.

/D : This parameter enables "Warm docking" from the view point of PCMCIA hardware. By adding this parameter, two additional PCMCIA slots are reserved for the docking station.

/APOFF : This parameter turns off the Auto-Power Mode. If the Auto-Power Mode is ON, a PC Card will be automatically turned ON by the hardware when it is inserted. The default for Auto-Power Mode is ON.

/IO0=s : This parameter defines the slot number, for which Socket Services will change the way the -IOCS16 signal is generated. By default, the -IOCS16 signal is generated based on the -IOIS16 signal from the PC Card. If this parameter is specified, the -IOCS16 signal is generated based on the I/O data size which is specified by the Client program. This option is needed for some cards which do not generate the -IOIS16 signal. You need to verify this information with PCMCIA card vendors.

BASEDEV TI1130CB.SYS
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Socket Services driver for Dell Latitude Cpi

Parameter:

/C0=z : These parameters define the IRQ level to be used by the

/C1=z Socket Services driver. The new Card Services and Socket Services drivers for OS/2 do not use a hardware interrupt to notify the PCMCIA status change, so you do not need these parameters.

/IG0=y : This parameter defines a slot number, which Socket Services ignores. If you use the "Point enabler" supplied with a PC Card, you should take into consideration the coexistence with Socket Services.

/RI0=x : This parameter defines a slot number, where Socket Services disables the RI_OUT signal. For Example, "/RI0=1" specifies slot 1.

/D : This parameter enables "Warm docking" from the view point of PCMCIA hardware. By adding this parameter, two additional PCMCIA slots are reserved for the docking station.

/APOFF : This parameter turns off the Auto-Power Mode. If the Auto-Power Mode is ON, a PC Card will be automatically turned ON by the hardware when it is inserted. The default for Auto-Power Mode is ON.

/IO0=s : This parameter defines the slot number, for which Socket Services will change the way the -IOCS16 signal is generated. By default, the -IOCS16 signal is generated based on the -IOIS16 signal from the PC Card. If this parameter is specified, the -IOCS16 signal is generated based on the I/O data size which is specified by the Client program. This option is needed for some cards which do not generate the -IOIS16 signal. You need to verify this information with PCMCIA card vendors.

BASEDEV TIMER0.SYS
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New with Warp4, Hardware timer for correct sound timings

BASEDEV TMSCSIM.ADD
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Tekram DC390 (T) SCSI driver

Parameter:

Uiversal switches :

MO - Do not change MO device type to DASD type when report to Device Manager. TMSCSIM.ADD default change MO device type to DASD.


Unit switches :

I - Ignore the specified adapter.

DM:n- Enable DASD manager support (default).

!DM :n- Disable DASD manager support.

SM :n- Enable SCSI manager support (default).

!SM :n- Disable SCSI manager support.

where n = Unit ID

BASEDEV TMSCSIW.ADD
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supports the following Tekram adapters

DC-390W:
DC-390U:
DC-390F:
DC-390U2B:

Universal parameter - An option that applies to all adapters.

Adapter ID - A:x, where x(start from 0) is the order number of the adapter that was found in the system.

Unit parameter - An option that applies to device(s) unit.

Unit parameters:

I - Ignore the specified adapter.

DM - Enable DASD manager support (default).

!DM - Disable DASD manager support.

SM - Enable SCSI manager support (default).

!SM - Disable SCSI manager support.

BASEDEV TMV1SCSI.ADD
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Driver for SCSI-Controller on the Pro Audio Spectrum PAS 16 soundcard

BASEDEV TPIC95SS.SYS
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Socket Services driver for Chembook 2600

<<=ATTENTION=>> Must be in front of all other PCMCIA Drivers, but after PCMCIA.SYS

BASEDEV TRM3X5.ADD
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TEKRAM DC-395U/UW/F or DC-315/U PCI SCSI driver

BASEDEV UMC1S506.ADD
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UM8886BF PCI Bus IDE Device Driver

Parameter:

/A:0 or 1 - Adapter

/IRQ

/U:0 or 1 - Unit

/S:0 - 18 Speed setting, 0 = lowest

/F - enable FIFO

/NF - disable FIFO

BASEDEV USBCDROM.ADD
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USB CDROM Device Driver

Tests are performed for following devices:
HP USB CDWriter 8200
USB Sony Supressa CD-RW

Parameter:

/V Verbose

/CDS:n The number of CD-ROM/CD-RW devices to be served. The default is 1.

<<=NOTE=>> For Warp 3 systems, the number of CD-ROM devices served must be specified on the USBMSD.ADD statement in CONFIG.SYS as follows:

BASEDEV=USBMSD.ADD /CDS:1

BASEDEV USBD.SYS
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Basic USB Driver

Parameter:

/V Verbose Mode, displays driver information during OS/2 initialization.

/I13 could be used to delay USB host overtaking by USB driver stack until other device driver finishes required initialization operations and then send request to USBD driver to start USB service. It could be used to boot from USB floppy drive.

/REQ parameter controlls USBD driver initialization: driver at initalization time checks for listed host controller drivers and fails to install if none of listed drivers is loaded. Current version of USB stack supports the following parameter codings:

/REQ:USBUHCD$ USBD driver is loaded only if UHCI compliant host driver is loaded

/REQ:USBOHCD$ USBD driver is loaded only if OHCI compliant host driver is loaded

/REQ:USBEHCD$ USBD driver is loaded only if EHCI compliant host driver is loaded

/REQ:USBUHCD$,USBOHCD$,USBEHCD$ USBD driver is loaded only if one of OHCI/UHCI/EHCI compliant host drivers is loaded. This most general form of parameter and must be used in most cases. If you are using /REQ parameter all statements "BASEDEV=USBUHCD.SYS", "BASEDEV=USBOHCD.SYS" and "BASEDEV=USBEHCD.SYS" must be first in the sequence of USB statements.

BASEDEV USBEHCD.SYS
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USB EHCI Host Controller Driver (aka USB 2.0)


Parameter:

/V Verbose Mode, displays driver information during OS/2 initialization.

/FS Forces driver to stop USB host during OS/2 shutdown process. This parameter can be used to prevent POST (power on system test) failure on some hardware with legacy keyboard.


List of Tested EHCI Adapters
================================

Adaptec USB2Connect Adapter Card AUA-3100LP

USB 2.0 Hi-Speed PCI Card F5U220

Intel 845 based motherboard with built-in USB 2.0 chipset

BASEDEV USBHID.SYS
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USB Human Interface Driver

Parameter:


/V Verbose Mode, displays driver information during OS/2 initialization.

BASEDEV USBMSD.ADD
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USB Removable Media Device Driver for e.g. USB 1.44M Floppy Drive and IOMega 100/250MB portable USB ZIP drive

<<=TIP=>> By Daniela Engert: with BASEDEV=USBMSD.ADD /FIXED_DISK /FLOPPIES:0 /DEVICES:1 the USB Zip 100 should work.

<<=NOTE=>> During boot USBMSD.ADD creates an empty list with the selected (default1) numbers of devices. Whenever you attach a device it will be connected to this list. This also means, if you attach more devices than specified in the list, they won't be recognized.

Parameter:

/V Verbose Mode, displays driver information during OS/2 initialization.

/A_USAGE:n Parameter controls usage of 'A' drive flag for the 1st floppy device. The following values of n can be used:
0 - 'A' drive flag is not used;
1 - 'A' drive flag is used;
2 (default value) - 'A' drive flag is used only if there is no other device driver using this flag.

/MAX_FLOPPY Parameter forces driver to report floppy device geometry with maximal sector count as floppy device physical geometry. With this parameter driver supports LS-120 media formatting but does not support XDF floppy filter features and vice versa.

/FLOPPIES:n Number of floppy devices to be served (by default 1). In order to remove service the key value must be set to 0.

/REMOVABLES:n Number of removable media devices to be served (by default 1). For example, the statement BASEDEV=USBMSD.ADD /FLOPPIES:2 /REMOVABLES:3 serves 2 floppy devices (including LS-120 Super Disk devices), 3 removable media devices (like IOMEGAZIP drive). In order to remove service the key value must be set to 0.

/REMOVABLE_AS_FLOPPY System uses removable disks as Large Floppies.

BASEDEV USBOHCD.SYS
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USB Universal Host Controller Driver for OHCI Chipsets (like e.g. from VIA)

Parameter:

/V Verbose Mode, displays driver information during OS/2 initialization.

/FS Forces driver to stop USB host during OS/2 shutdown process. This parameter can be used to prevent POST (power on system test) failure on some hardware with legacy keyboard.


List of Tested OHCI Adapters
================================

Entrega PCI4U 4Port USB Upgrade

Belkin USB BusPort F5U005

Sis 7001 PCI to USB Open Host Controller

BASEDEV USBUHCD.SYS
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USB Universal Host Controller Driver

<<=TIP=>>if you use the version from the Device Driver Pak2 available at:
ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/fixes/DDPak/xr_d002
the drivers supports Intel and VIA chipsets.

<<=NOTE=>> On IBM 365 System you have to add the parameter /FS

<<=TIP=>> A lot of Athlon motherboards are using the Via Southbridge VT82C686A chipset which provides 4 USB ports. Do you know if the Via drivers work with this Via chipset?". Robert Lalla, the author of the patched USB driver that works with VIA chipsets replied with this tip on how to get IBM's latest USB driver to work with VIA chipsets by applying a patch:

The VIA version of UHCI host driver that I uploaded to Hobbes last October is working for mice, keyboards, hubs and modem peripherals, maybe audio. For printers and removable disks updated USB base drivers are recommended. They are supplied from IBM together with the USB printer drivers. But again this USBUHCD.SYS is only enabled for Intel. The following patch script will add VIA support to USBUHCD.SYS dated Jan 2000:

-----save as VIA.PAT------------------
FILE USBUHCD.SYS
VER 2F2B C747040300
CHA 2F2E 01
-----------------------------------------------

- copy VIA.PAT to \OS2\BOOT
- set current directory \OS2\BOOT
- create a backup copy of USBUHCD.SYS
- run: PATCH VIA.PAT /A

A special aspect of the 686a Southbridge is that it does not contain one USB controller having 4 ports but instead 2 controllers (2 ports each). So unless one of both controllers is disabled explicitly, USBUHCD.SYS should be loaded twice(!) in CONFIG.SYS.

Parameter:

/V Verbose Mode, displays driver information during OS/2 initialization.

/FS Forces driver to stop USB host during OS/2 shutdown process. This parameter can be used to prevent POST (power on system test) failure on some hardware with legacy keyboard.

List of Tested UHCI Adapters or Controllers
===============================================

D-Link DU-A2 PCI USB controller

Intel 82371AB/EB PCI to USB Universal Host Controller

Intel 82801AA USB Universal Host Controller

Intel 82801CA/CAM USB Universal Host Controller

BASEDEV USBUHCD2.SYS
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USB Controller Driver for IBM DockStation III

BASEDEV VHDO0437.SYS
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DSP Driver for the MWAVE Modem for IBM Thinkpads

Parameter:

BUS=1150000

BASEDEV VIACD.FLT
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Support for ATAPI CD-ROM drives attached to the VIA AGP 4X/133 use only with VIA Bus Master PCI IDE Driver

BASEDEV VIAIDE.ADD
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AGP 4X/133 Bus Master PCI IDE Driver VIA Bus Master IDE chipset, VT82C580VP or later, and others' chipset will not be supported.

The default setting for the hard disk is DMA enabled and for the CD-ROM is DMA disabled.

Parameter:

/A:0|1 Select primary or secondary channel.
/U:0|1 Select master or slave device in the same channel.
/BM Enable DMA mode.
/!BM Disable DMA mode.

BASEDEV VRAID.FLT
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Software Raid Filter

Parameter:

/V Verbose

/DEBUG Displays even more messages. Not generally usefull.

/!SHARE Don't share disks with OS/2.

<<=NOTE=>>Load DSKLEEP.FLT before VRAID.FLT so DSKSLEEP.FLT can see the original disks. Load PARTFILT.FLT (from EXT2FS or FAT32.IFS) behind VRAID.FLT. PARTFILT.FLT duplicates any disk with an FAT32 or EXT2FS partition which will duplicate any VRAID partition residing on the same disks.

BASEDEV WACKER.SYS
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driver for the K6-2 (model 8+, CXT core) and K6-III CPUs.

This is Cornel Huth of 40th Floor Software free utility to enable the combined read and write functions of the K6 processors. It comes with a snoop utility that reports the value to be used for the register that enables the video write combining code. It is found for FREE as setup4k6.zip on hobbes.

BASEDEV XDFLOPPY.FLT
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supports IBM's 1.8Mb OS/2 installation disk format.

<<=TIP=>> After installation you can put a REM in front of the XDFLOPPY.FLT, as it's only needed for the installation disks and Fixpak disks.