Installing Plextor DM3028 CD-ROM Drivers (w/ Trantor T130)

Last update: 6th November, 1995

Symptoms
When I did the WARP install and selective install, I selected Plextor DM-3028. WARP ran the install, but the CD-ROM never shows up on my list of drives. I have finally gotten my Plextor DM3028 CD-ROM drive going. I will go over the steps I took so that others may use this approach.

Hardware
My drive was the Plextor DM 3028, an internal model, which has a Trantor T130 SCSI adaptor. Plextor DM 5028, an external model, probably works the same. The drivers come in a package which includes drivers for Trantor SCSI adaptors 128, 130, 338, and 348. SO this process may work for these adaptors.

I have an IBM PS Value Point 6384 - 486/66, 128KB cache, 8MB RAM, ISA bus running OS/2 Version 3 (WARP) with FAT file system. I have a Sound Blaster 16/ASP (IRQ 5), IDE Seagate hard disk, Internal modem on Com 3 (IRQ 4), Com1 and 2 on the system board (not connected to anything and disabled), a Lexmark printer connected to LPT1 (IRQ 7).

Problem
Warp does not include the drivers for the Trantor SCSI adaptor and the instructions for installing the adaptor drivers are not clear and complete.

Procedure
I found the package TSLDRV.ZIP on CompuServe on the OS/2 forum (it may also be on the Adaptec forum). I found the same driver package (different name) on the Trantor bulletin board (1-408-945-7727). The ReadMe in this file and the TxxxSCSI.DDP files are written for OS/2.1, ignore them. I had to manually installed these drivers. Hear is what I did.

I copied the file T13BSCSI.ADD from the unzipped driver package to both D:\ and D:\OS2\BOOT (D: is my OS/2 boot disk). I had OS2SCSI.DMD in both those directories. I had OS2CDROM.DMD and CDFS.SYS in D:\OS2\BOOT. These last three files were left over from the earlier failed installs. You might have to find them on the distribution disks. The last two are documented to be on Diskette 1.

I configured the T130 board to have all switches off, no jumper on the wait state, and no interrupt (all defaults). I had to chang the drive to device ID 0 (the default is 2). I could not get the CD-ROM support to work with the device at 2 and without the /U parameter on the T13BSCSI.ADD statement in config.sys.

I read in the CDROM Forum that the CD-ROM config.sys statements do not like to be near the end of the file and should be ahead of the multimedia statements. So I moved them up to near the middle. I had a VCDROM.SYS statement left from one of the failed installs and on the advice of Adaptec (owners of Trantor now) help, I REMed it. My Config.sys looks like this:

.. .. DEVICE=D:\OS2\MDOS\VW32S.SYS DEVICE=D:\OS2\BOOT\OS2CDROM.DMD IFS=D:\OS2\BOOT\CDFS.IFS REM DEVICE=D:\OS2\MDOS\VCDROM.SYS BASEDEV=OS2SCSI.DMD BASEDEV=T13BSCSI.ADD /U DEVICE=D:\OS2\MDOS\VMOUSE.SYS .. .. SET VIO_SVGA=DEVICE(BVHVGA,BVHSVGA) DEVICE=D:\OS2\APPS\SYSIOS2.SYS