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<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< IBM PlayAtWill Installation Program >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Welcome to IBM PlayAtWill Installation Package for PC Card 5.0 CardBus
support. This README.TXT contains the latest information. It also contains
helpful hints.
CONTENTS
--------
1.0 Systems supported by this Installation Package
2.0 How to Install IBM PlayAtWill Installation Program
3.0 How to Run the IBM PlayAtWill Installation Program Utilities
4.0 Parameter Definitions
5.0 Hints
6.0 Enhanced Features
7.0 Files
8.0 Restore
1.0 Systems Supported by this Installation Package
----------------------------------------------
This PlayAtWill installation package is support for CardBus support.
The CardBus support is PC Card 5.0 specifications. CardBus support for
the following systems are included in this installation package:
Chembook 2600
Toshiba Tecra 510CDT
2.0 How to Install IBM PlayAtWill Installation Program
--------------------------------------------------
The PLAYWILL.EXE file that you received contains all the files required
to install IBM PlayAtWill in a self-extracting format. To install IBM
PlayAtWill you must first expand the the PLAYWILL.EXE file in to the
component files and then invoke the PMCINST2.EXE executable file to
actually installs the IBM PlayAtWill components on your system.
(a.) Start OS/2 3.0 or later.
(b.) Start an "OS/2 Window".
(c.) Change the current directory to the directory containing the
PLAYWILL.EXE file
(d.) Type PLAYWILL at the OS/2 command prompt. This will extract all the
files required for the "IBM PlayAtWill" installation. These
installation files will be extracted to the current working
directory.
(e.) Type PCMINST2 at the OS/2 command prompt. This will invoke the
"IBM PlayAtWill" installation utility.
(f.) Follow the instructions on the screen.
(g.) After completion of the installation utility, if desired, all the
installation files located in the current working directory may
be deleted.
(h.) Restart the system after completing the installation.
3.0 How to Run the IBM PlayAtWill Installation Program Utilities
------------------------------------------------------------
The IBM PlayAtWill Installation Program Utilities for OS/2 are registered
as objects in the "IBM PlayAtWill Installation Program" folder. You can
see ICONs titled "IBM PlayAtWill Installation Program","ATA Mount
Utility","Auto Configurator Utility", and "Supported PCCards". To start
these utilities, click on an ICON.
4.0 Parameter Definitions
---------------------
4.1 Socket Services
/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.
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.
4.2 Card Services
/R:200 : Specify that card services will conform to the PCMCIA 2.0
standard instead of the PCMCIA 5.0 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.
4.3 Resource Map Utility
/MA=xxxx-yyyy :
Specifies the address range available for Card Services and
the PC Cards. This should be specified in the range
from C000h to EFFFh.
One or more ranges may be specified in 4K blocks with a comma
(,) separating the address ranges.
<< Note >>
The minimum size of this area depends on:
- The type of PC Card being used (see list below)
- Number of PC Cards used simultaneously
- Combinations of PC Cards used simultaneously
- Card Services 4K (mandatory)
or 8K (CardBus system)
- Modem 0K
- IBM Ethernet 16K
- IBM Token Ring 24K
- IBM 3270 8K
- IBM 5250 8K
- IBM SCSI 0K
- SRAM 4K
- ATA 0K
- FLASH 4K
/IX=n Specifies the IRQ level (or levels) that should not be used
by the PC Cards (where n=IRQ level). This parameter is used
to avoid possible IRQ conflicts. The Resource Map Utility
can automatically detect many IRQ's that are already in
use, but may not detect all.
Multiple IRQ's may be specified by separating them
with a comma (,).
/SH=1 : This parameter enables the "Shared" IRQ for the built-in
serial devices. If this parameter is set, the Resource Map
Utility registers the IRQ levels for the system's built-in
serial devices as "Shared" IRQ level. So the inserted modem
PC Card can be configured as IRQ4 or IRQ3 which may be used
by the built-in serial devices.
5.0 Hints
-----
- For OS/2 Warp 3.0, you can see current system resource information
with RMVIEW.EXE program. The RMVIEW.EXE is a standard OS/2 utility
program which is included in OS/2 Warp 3.0. To run this program,
type "RMVIEW" at the OS/2 command prompt and press ENTER. You can
see short help with "/?" option.
- For OS/2 Warp 3.0, the RESERVE.SYS is used instead of the Resource
Map Utility(ICRMU01.SYS,RMUOS2AT.SYS). The RESERVE.SYS is a standard
OS/2 device driver which is included in OS/2 Warp 3.0.
RESERVE.SYS: RESERVE.SYS is used in conjunction with the Resource
Manager in two separate scenarios:
* If you are using a device driver that is not Resource Manager-aware
and you know the resources that the device uses, use RESERVE.SYS to
reserve those resources so the Resource Manager-aware drivers will
not have access to those resources.
* If you have a piece of hardware that does not tolerate the examination
of its resources, reserve the resources so the Resource Manager-aware
drivers do not examine the hardware.
To use RESERVE.SYS, place the following statement as the first line in
CONFIG.SYS:
BASEDEV=RESERVE.SYS <arguments>
Arguments:
┌───────────────────────────────────────┐
v │
├──┼── /IO: ──┬───────────┬──┬─────────┬──┴──
├── /P: ──┴─── /DW:───┤ ├─ /EXC ─┤
│ │ ├─ /MUL ─┤
├── /MEM: ──────────────┤ └─ /SHA ─┘
├── /DMA: ──────────────┤
└── /IRQ: ──────────────┘
┌────────┬──────────┬───────────────┬─────────────────────────────────┐
│ Switch │ Format │ Example │ Description │
├────────┼──────────┼───────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
│ /IO: │ /IO:x,x │ /IO:340,4 │ Reserve IO ports. │
│ │ │ │ The first number is the base │
│ │ │ │ port in HEX, and is followed by │
│ │ │ │ the length (number of ports) in │
│ │ │ │ HEX. │
├────────┼──────────┼───────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
│ /P: │ /P:x,x │ /P:340,4 │ same as /IO: │
├────────┼──────────┼───────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
│ /MEM: │ /MEM:x,x │ /MEM:CA00,100 │ Reserve Memory. │
│ │ │ │ The first number is the base │
│ │ │ │ memory address in HEX, with the │
│ │ │ │ assumption that the address is │
│ │ │ │ XXXX:0, and is followed by the │
│ │ │ │ length (number of address) in │
│ │ │ │ HEX. │
├────────┼──────────┼───────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
│ /DMA: │ /DMA:x │ /DMA:2 │ Reserve DMA Channel │
│ │ │ │ The number is in decimal format.│
├────────┼──────────┼───────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
│ /IRQ: │ /IRQ:x │ /IRQ:13 │ Reserve IRQ. │
│ │ │ │ The number is in decimal format.│
├────────┼──────────┼───────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
│ /EXC │ /EXC │ /EXC │ Exclusive resource attribute. │
├────────┼──────────┼───────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
│ /MUL │ /MUL │ /MUL │ Multiplexed resource attribute. │
├────────┼──────────┼───────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
│ /SHA │ /SHA │ /SHA │ Shared resource attribute. │
├────────┼──────────┼───────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
│ /DW: │ /DW:x │ /DW:10 │ Decode width of IO address. │
│ │ │ │ Valid numbers are 10 and 16. │
│ │ │ │ Only valid with /IO: switch. │
└────────┴──────────┴───────────────┴─────────────────────────────────┘
More than one resource attribute per-resource entry is an error and
is not allowed. If no attribute or decode width is set, the default
is EXCLUSIVE and 16 respectively. For example, to reserve an IRQ 13
EXCLUSIVE, DMA 0 SHARED, MEMORY CA00:0 for 1000 hex-bytes shared,
IO ports 340 for 10 hex-ports EXCLUSIVE and with a decode width of 16,
and IO ports 300 for 64 hex-ports with a decode width of 10, the
following is specified:
BASEDEV=RESERVE.SYS /IRQ:13 /DMA:0 /SHA /MEM:CA00,1000 /SHA /IO:340,10
/IO:300,64 /DW:10
- All the PC cards, which have been powered off in the utility, will
be powered on when you exit from the IBM PlayAtWill Installation
Program utility.
5.1 Storage PC Cards
- Before using a brand-new FLASH PC Card, you have to initialize the
card with the FFORMAT.EXE, FCHECK.EXE, FFORMAT2.EXE or FCHECK2.EXE
program.
- If you see the following message :
<< Attention >>
This card isn't supported formally
It is possible that it doesn't work correctly
while the FFORMAT.EXE, FCHECK.EXE, FFORMAT2.EXE or FFORMAT2.EXE
program is running, the card will be formatted as if it has
256KB-erase-zone size and the write/erase logic of INTEL 28F020
or 28F010.
- If you see the following message :
The size of this card is too small for the card to be formatted
while the FFORMAT.EXE, FCHECK.EXE, FFORMAT2.EXE or FFORMAT2.EXE
program is running, the card can't be formatted because its size
is too small to accept the transfer unit.
(At least one transfer unit is required for FTL.)
- You can't use the SRAM region of the IBM FLASH & SRAM combo card
on OS/2 even if you install PCM2SRAM.SYS (SRAM device driver).
The card appears to be a FLASH card if you install
FLSH2MTD.SYS (FLASH memory technology driver), PCM2FLSH.SYS
(FLASH device driver), or other drivers.
- OS/2 Warp includes a flash memory card device driver that
can enable only IBM flash memory cards. The flash memory card device
driver in this IBM PlayAtWill Installation Program can't enable cards formatted with
the one in OS/2 Warp.
- In case of formatting two or more Storage PC Cards, you have to run and
exit the FORMAT program for every card.
You must not format two or more Storage PC Cards from a single
invocation of FORMAT.
- You can't use the DISKCOPY program for the Storage PC Cards drive.
- If your PC has two or more PCMCIA slots, do not insert or remove a
storage PC Card in the slot while you are executing DOS commands,
such as FORMAT or COPY to a storage PC Card in another slot.
- If your system has three or more PCMCIA slots, for example a
notebook computer with docking station which has PCMCIA slots, the
total number of PCMCIA slots which will be used for Storage PC Cards
must be specified. For example, if you have four PCMCIA slots:
BASEDEV=PCM2ATA.ADD /S:4 /!DM /NOBEEP
5.2 Others
- For the Auto Configurator driver and Utility, please refer to the
AUTODRV.DOC file for more detail.
- For the PC Cards, please refer to the PCMCIA.CRD file for more
detail on the support level.
- For the PC Cards, sample installation/configuration files (CONFIG.SYS,
AUTOEXEC.BAT, etc.) are available on your "IBM PlayAtWill Installation Program for OS/2"
diskette. Please refer to the \SAMPLES directory on the diskette.
- If you use a Docking Station with your notebook computer, the adapter
cards or the devices in the docking station may use resources such as
I/O port, memory window, IRQ.
Exclude these resources from the usable area of the Card Services.
To exclude resources from the usable area, RESERVE.SYS can be used.
See "4.0 For OS/2" (RESERVE.SYS) in
this document.
- Add /INT option if an error or a timeout occurs while ATA(HDD) card
being used.
DEVICE=...PAWATA.SYS /INT or
DEVICE=...PAWATAS.SYS /INT or
DEVICE=...PAWATASF.SYS /INT
In this case 4KB memory window is required for every ATA(HDD) card.
- If you have an Adaptec SCSI PCCard, find
'REM BASEDEV=AHA152X.ADD'
in config.sys and change it to
'BASEDEV=AHA152X.ADD'.
- If you have a Future Domain SCSI PCCard, find
'REM BASEDEV=FD16-700.ADD'
in config.sys and change it to
'BASEDEV=FD16-700.ADD'.
6.0 Enhanced Features
-----------------
- New Storage PC Card Drivers which support ATA, SRAM and FLASH PC Cards.
- New Auto Configurator which can be customized easily to support a
variety of I/O PC Cards.
- New utility programs:
- ATA Mount Utility which enables multiple partitions on a ATA PC Card.
- Auto Configurator Utility which helps users with customization.
- New IBM PlayAtWill Installation Program Utility which provides greater usability:
- Power control for the PC Cards.
- Information on errors, PC Card resources, System resources, and
more.
- New sample installation/configuration files.
- New problem determination scenario in the manual.
- New Virtual Card Services driver which supports MVDM environments.
- CSSCSI.SYS client driver is no longer needed. This function has been
implemented in FD16-700.ADD.
7.0 Files
-----
README.TXT : This file
PCMINST2.EXE : Installation program for OS/2
PCMINST2.DAT : Installation program for OS/2, data file
PCMCIA.CRD : PC Card Support List
EZPLAY2.DLL : IBM PlayAtWill Installation Program Utility for OS/2
EZPLAY2.HLP : IBM PlayAtWill Installation Program Utility for OS/2, help file
PCMCIA.SYS : Card Services driver for OS/2
VPCMCIA.SYS : Virtual Card Services driver for OS/2
$ICPMOS2.SYS : PCMCIA Power Management Support driver for OS/2
PAWFLDR.ICO : IBM PlayAtWill Installation Program Folder ICON file
LOGO_1.ICO : PC Card Logo
COM.SYS : COM.SYS for OS/2 2.1
TPIC95SS.SYS : Socket Services driver for Chembook 2600
CL6832SS.SYS : Socket Services driver for Toshiba Tecra
AUTODRV2.SYS : Auto Configurator for OS/2
AUTODRV2.SCR : Auto Configurator for OS/2, script file
AUTOUTL2.EXE : Auto Configurator Utility for OS/2
AUTODRV2.SEL : Auto Configurator Utility for OS/2, data file
AUTOUTL2.HLP : Auto Configurator Utility for OS/2, help file
AUTODRV.DOC : Auto Configurator READ.ME file
*.SCR : Auto Configurator sample script files
ATAMNT2.EXE : ATA Mount Utility for OS/2
ATAMNT2.HLP : ATA Mount Utility for OS/2, help file
OS2PCARD.DMD : Storage Driver for OS/2
PCM2ATA.ADD : Storage Driver for OS/2 (ATA)
PCMSSDIF.SYS : Storage Driver for OS/2 (Interface)
PCM2SRAM.SYS : Storage Driver for OS/2 (SRAM)
FLSH2MTD.SYS : Storage Driver for OS/2 (FLASH MTD)
PCM2FLSH.SYS : Storage Driver for OS/2 (FLASH)
FCHECK2.EXE : FLASH PC Card Low-Level check program for OS/2
FFORMAT2.EXE : FLASH PC Card Low-Level format program for OS/2
AHA152X.ADD : Adaptec SCSI PCCard for OS/2
FD16-700.ADD : Future Domain SCSI PCCard for OS/2
TDKENAB.OS2 : TDK CardBus NetFlyer NDIS Driver
TDKFLYR.OS2 : TDK CardBus NetFlyer Client Driver
PROTOCOL.INI : Protocol file for TDK Netflyer CardBus Card
8.0 Restore
-------
If you wish to return your system to its original state (its state
prior to PCCARD installation), you should follow the steps below.
1) Copy all files in the backup directory to '\os2' directory on the
boot drive. The backup directory is a subdirectory of the
PCCARD target directory for which you were prompted at install.
The default target directory is '\ezplay'. For example,
'copy c:\ezplay\backup\*.* c:\os2'
will restore all device drivers in the backup directory to the
'c:\os2' directory.
2) Rename the backup CONFIG.Sxx to CONFIG.SYS.
3) Remove the PlayAtWill object from your desktop by dragging it to
the shredder or by deleting it using other methods.