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### This diskette contains the following file & directories: ###
### ###
### (beware that SCO UNIX driver is in the other driver diskette and this ###
### README file would expain how to install its driver) ###
* *
* A. This README file *
* B. INSTALL.BAT (refer to the following paragraph for more details) *
* C. \CD_APPS CD-ROM application program. Refer to README.CD, a readme *
* file, for installation details. *
* D. \DOSDRV DOS driver *
* E. \NTDRV Windows NT driver *
* F. \OS2DRV OS2 2.1x driver *
* G. \WINDRV Windows 3.1x & Windows for Workgroups 3.1x driver *
* H. \NETWARE.31X Netware 3.11/3.12/SFT-III driver *
* I. \NETWARE.40X Netware 4.00/4.01 driver *
* *
##################################################################################
********************************************************************************
* *
* In this README file: *
* ==================== *
* *
* 0. Addendum or Re-emphasizing some of the points that people may need to *
* pay more attention to *
* 1. How to run \INSTALL.BAT & \DOSDRV\DEVICE.LOG *
* 2. On-screen Installation Utility (running INSTALL.BAT to proceed) *
* 3. Installation/Removal of Device driver: *
* 3.1 DOS *
* 3.2 Windows 3.1x (& for Workgroups 3.1x) *
* 3.3 NetWare 3.10/3.11/3.12/SFT-III/4.00/4.01 *
* 3.4 OS/2 2.1x *
* 3.5 Windows NT 3.1 *
* 3.6 SCO UNIX 3.2.2/3.2.4 *
* *
********************************************************************************
0. How to do with:
0.1 ATAPI CD-ROM drives
0.2 Insufficient space => abort further Speed Test for HDD (INSTALL.BAT)
0.3 System hangs while performing INSTALL to test the operating speed
of the HDD
===========================================================
* 0.1 How to work with ATAPI CD-ROM drives? *
* *
* ( check \CD_APPS\README.CD for application softwareen ) *
===========================================================
a. The DC-290N would require the CD-ROM driver that comes with the ATAPI
CD-ROM drive to work. There is no additional driver for each ATAPI
CD-ROM drive. Please check with your CD-ROM supplier for the driver,
if not shipped along with your drive.
b. To install the ATAPI CD-ROM drive
-> on either PRIMARY or SECONDARY IDE channels &
-> as either MASTER or SLAVE drive
is possible, if the CD-ROM driver supports.
It may need jumper setting and some paramter options. Please refer to
your CD-ROM menu for details.
===========================================================
* 0.2 How to proceed the Speed Test of your HDD after *
* being aborted due to insufficient disk space? *
* *
* ( use "install /r" to restore diskette space for *
* Speed test ) *
===========================================================
Every time you run the INSTALL to tune a proper operating speed for
your HDD, this program would use 300KB of the driver disketee space
for test purpose.
If the test runs through without any failure or interrupt, it will
delete that 300KB space used for speed test.
If the test was failed or interrupted, it would'nt be able to delete
the 300KB used for speed test. Therefore, you may face the
Insufficient Space problem when running the test next time.
To restore the diskette space for further speed test, you can run
the command: install /r
===========================================================
* 0.3 System hangs while performing Speed Test for the *
* HDD? *
===========================================================
Some HDDs may hang while testing with higher speed than they can
operate during the Speed Test. You may then lower down the "speed"
level by 1 or 2 manually and re-test.
1. The follwoing are some more explanations for files INSTALL.BAT & DEVICE.LOG:
. \INSTALL.BAT Configure working HDD(s) information for future installation
under DOS, Windows NT & OS2. The HDD's parameter information
would be: "R/W Multiple", "Track Remapping", "Mode 3", "LBA"
& "Drive Speed". After confirmation with YES, the DOS driver
would be installed and the configuration information for OS/2
& Windows NT would also be updated to the following files:
DOS: A:\DOSDRV\NSIDE.EXE
Windows NT: A:\NTDRV\ATDISK.SYS
OS/2: A:\OS2DRV\NSIDEOS2.ADD
. \DOSDRV\ This file is for logging all drives' speed information
DEVICE.LOG that would be referenced by running INSTALL.BAT. The
INSTALL.EXE file would update a new drive's speed
information to this DEVICE.LOG file, if it doesn't exist,
and copy this DEVICE.LOG file to Drive C: for future use.
For drive that doesn't have speed information available in
the DEVICE.LOG file, you have to run the "Test" of
"Drive_Speed" option within the Installation Utility screen
by executing INSTALL.BAT.
2. On-screen Installation Utility (running INSTALL.BAT to proceed)
Once enter this on-screen setup menu you'll be able to do the following
settings:
a. R/W Multiple: This is for setting the "multiple sectors transfer per
interrupt". Not all drives implement with this
option and "Disable" will then be shown in this field
for not being able to select any other options.
The default value for those HDDs supporting this
option would be the largest allowed multiple sectors
transfer per interrupt.
b. Track Remapping: It's required to support HDD with "capacity larger
than 528MB" or "cylinders > 1024". This ">528MB"
issue is briefly introduced in the next paragraph.
Except the NetWare, which has no >528MB constraint,
all other O.S. would require device driver to work
with >528MB.
< * brief introduction of >528MB problem * >
Beware that the 528 Mbyte barrier is specially a DOS problem,
because DOS relies on the BIOS to address the HDD and it arises
from the least common denominator between the ATA & the INT13
interfaces.
ATA interface: HDD <--> BIOS;
cylinder/16-bit, head/4-bit & sector/8-bit
INT13 interface: BIOS <--> DOS;
cylinder/10-bit, head/8-bit & sector/6-bit
==> 1024 (cyl/10-bit) x 16 (hd/4-bit) x 63 (sec/6-bit)*
x 512 (bytes/sector) = 528.48 Mbytes
*: 63 and not 64 => by convention, sector numbering begins
at #1, not #0)
note: If your HDD (>528MB) needs to enable the "Trk-Remap"
option to see all its capacity and failed to enable this
option to work at the very beginning, you must ENABLE
this "Trk-Remap" option first, delete all the old
partitions, and re-create new partitions for your HDD to
work properly.
This is because the disk parameters interpreted by BIOS
would be different for "Trk-Remap" being ENABLED and
DISABLED, and thus requires you to delete the old
partitions and re-create the new ones every time you
change the status of "Trk-Remap".
note: Booting drive with >528MB capacity can't use its full
capacity (only <528MB can be used) since it can't be
handled by device floppy drive and boot from it). Also,
some specific procedures may have to be taken care of.
E.g., to use a >528MB HDD as the boot drive under OS/2,
you must specifcy your own installation partition
and NOT the Pre-Defined partition. In this way, you
are able to work with the HDD, but with less than
503MB (M = 1024 x 1024 here in OS/2) useable.
The following is the table for its compatibility:
DOS Note 1
Windows Note 1
Windows for Workgroups Note 1
OS2 2.1x Note 1
Windows NT Note 1
Netware 3.1X Not needed
Netware 4.0X Not needed
Note 1 : Only NON-CMOS set drive(s), i.e.,
drive type in M/B CMOS is set as
"Non-installed", can support
Track_Remapping.
Example : Assume user has 4 drives with parameter CYL=1600, HEAD=16,
SECTOR=63, CAPACITY = 806M bytes
< case b.1: >
Drive 0 = Master drive of primary IDE M/B Drive C = tpye 47
Drive 1 = Slave drive of primary IDE M/B Drive D = Non-installed
Drive 2 = Master drive of secondary IDE Unrelated to M/B CMOS setup
Drive 3 = Slave drive of secondary IDE Unrelated to M/B CMOS setup
. Drive 0 is controlled by M/B BIOS initially & NO track-remapping
allowed and maximum capacity can be used under DOS/WINDOWS is 528MB.
. Drive 1,2,3 are NOT controlled by M/B BIOS initially &
track-remapping allowed and ALL disk can be utilized under
DOS/WINDOWS.
< case b.2: >
Drive 0 = Master drive of primary IDE M/B Drive C = tpye 47
Drive 1 = Slave drive of primary IDE M/B Drive D = type 47
Drive 2 = Master drive of secondary IDE Unrelated to M/B CMOS setup
Drive 3 = Slave drive of secondary IDE Unrelated to M/B CMOS setup
. Drive 0,1 are controlled by M/B BIOS initially & NO track-remapping
allowed and maximum capacity can be used under DOS/WINDOWS is 528 MB.
. Drive 2,3 are NOT controlled by M/B BIOS initially & track-remapping
allowed and ALL disk can be utilized under DOS/WINDOWS.
* It'd require driver to support any drives installed on Secondary
IDE channel.
c. Mode3: This option is for HDDs with mode-3 support only.
d. LBA: Logical Block Addressing. This option is for HDDs supporting
LBA only.
e. Drive Speed: The INSTALL.EXE would obtain the information of HDD's
speed from DEVICE.LOG, if this information is there
already. If the drive's speed information is not
available in the DEVICE.LOG, you have to run "Test" to
have an optimized speed. If choose "Auto",
the controller would select the speed by drive's PIO
mode: (refer to on-screen help menu for more spec.
information)
Mode 0: speed = 1 600ns cycle time
Mode 1: speed = 6 390ns
Mode 2: speed = 11 240ns
Mode 3: speed = 13 180ns
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Note: For more accurate speed test, local bus clock larger
than or equal to 33MHz is strongly recommended.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Drive speed table ( expressed in 33MHz system, other local bus clock
will different slightly.
speed 0 630 ns cycle time
1 600 ns
2 540 ns
3 480 ns
4 450 ns
5 420 ns
6 390 ns
7 360 ns
8 330 ns
9 300 ns
10 270 ns
11 240 ns
12 210 ns
13 180 ns
This Installation Utility screen also shows information about:
i. Drive#: [Ch0-M] is for Master device of Primary channel, [Ch0-S] is
for Slave on the Primary channel. [Ch1-M] and [Ch1-S] are
Master and Slave devices on the Secondary channel.
ii. PIO Mode: HDD's supported timing mode.
iii. Drive information: Model #, Parameter (cylinder/head/sector), and
Capacity.
3. Installation/Removal of Device driver:
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### ###
### 3.1 DOS ###
### 3.2 Windows 3.1x (& for Workgroups 3.1x) ###
### 3.3 NetWare 3.10/3.11/3.12/SFT-III/4.00/4.01 ###
### 3.4 OS/2 2.1x ###
### 3.5 Windows NT 3.1 ###
### 3.6 SCO UNIX 3.2.2/3.2.4 ###
### ###
### note: You must re-install the DOS driver & their respective drivers, if ###
### not under DOS, whenever you change the HDD configuration, such as ###
### add or change Hard disk. ###
### Driver will use 600ns cycle time for added or changed disk, if ###
### failed to re-install the DOS driver once HDD configuration is ###
### changed. ###
### Re-installation of driver is needed to gain maximum performance. ###
### ###
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* 3.1 DOS driver *
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(A). Installation
1. Insert the driver diskette into drive A:
2. change to drive A:
3. run INSTALL.BAT
******************************************************************
* 3.2 Windows v3.1x driver (for Workgroups 3.1x is the same) *
******************************************************************
(A). Installation
1. DOS driver must be installed first (run INSTALL to install DOS driver)
2. Install Windows
3. Use Windows File_Manager to run a:\windrv\install.exe
(B). Removal
1. During the driver installtion, the original SYSTEM.INI under your
Windows directory will be renamed as SYSTEM.001. Rename SYSTEM.001
back to SYSTEM.INI, you'll have the driver removed.
Note : Tekram's Windows 32-bit driver supports the following =>
1. 2 channels, 2 drives for each channel => max. 4 drives in total
2. Track_Remapping to support hard disk larger than 528M bytes
3. Microsoft's 32-bit driver DOES NOT support Secondary Channel
and Track Remapping, so
==> DO NOT enable 32 bits disk access during installation if
the target disk is connected to secondary channel. The 32bits
disk access will be enabled after installing Tekram's Windows
driver.
***************************************************************
* 3.3 Installation of NetWare 3.11 3.12 SFT-III 4.00 4.01 *
***************************************************************
1. DOS driver must be installed first (run INSTALL to install DOS driver)
2. Follow installation procedures described in NetWare installation manual
*****************************
* 3.4 OS/2 v2.1x driver *
*****************************
(A). Installation
1. Insert the driver diskette into drive
2. Change to drive A:
3. Run INSTALL.EXE to configure driver and choose not to copy files to drive C:
4. After OS/2 is installed, click on SYSTEM_SETUP\DEVICE_DRIVER_INSTALL icon to
proceed driver installation
(B). Removal
1. During the driver installation, the original CONFIG.SYS under your
C:\ directory will be renamed as CONFIG.1. Rename CONFIG.1 back to
CONFIG.SYS, you'll have the driver removed.
[C:\] COPY CONFIG.1 CONFIG.SYS
2. Re-boot the system
**********************************
* 3.5 Windows NT v3.x driver *
**********************************
(A). Installation
1. Insert the driver diskette into drive
2. Change to drive A:
3. Run INSTALL.EXE to configure driver and choose not to copy files to drive C:
4. After Windows NT is installed, start NT and use FILE_MANAGER to run
A:\NTDRV\SETUP.EXE
5. Shutdown your system and restart again.
(B). Removal
1. Use Windows NT FILE_MANAGER to run A:\NTDRV\uninstal.exe and restart system.
********************************
* 3.6 SCO UNIX 3.2v2/3.2v4 *
********************************
(** If you want to check the files in the UNIX driver diskette, you can use the
following commands: cpio -ivtI /device_name.
E.g. Under SCO UNX 3.2.4:
=> cpio -ivtI /dev/rdsk/f0d9d (for 360KB 5"1/4 diskette)
=> cpio -ivtI /dev/rdsk/f03d (for 720KB 3"1/2 diskette)
For other UNIX systems, you may use the same command but have to use the
corresponding device_name for your driver diskette **)
The SCO driver is located on the SCO UNIX diskette.
<DRIVER INSTALLATION>
To install the driver, insert the working copy of the UNIX driver diskette in
drive A:.
*************************************************************************
Note: If the driver diskette capacity is 1.2MB, skip step <A> and jump to
step <B> directly.
*************************************************************************
A.1) For SCO 3.2v2
To prepare the installation for 360KB (5"1/4) driver diskette,
you must type:
cd /dev
mv dsk/f0 dsk/f0.org ; mknod dsk/f0 b 2 132
mv rdsk/f0 rdsk/f0.org ; mknod rdsk/f0 c 2 132
NOTE: if the diskette is of 720KB (3"1/2), replace the above
commands with:
cd /dev
mv dsk/f0 dsk/f0.org ; mknod dsk/f0 b 2 164
mv rdsk/f0 rdsk/f0.org ; mknod rdsk/f0 c 2 164
A.2) For SCO 3.2v4
To prepare the installation for 360KB (5"1/4) driver diskette,
you must type:
cd /dev
mv dsk/finstall dsk/finstall.org ; mknod dsk/finstall b 2 132
mv rdsk/finstall rdsk/finstall.org ; mknod rdsk/finstall c 2 132
NOTE: if the diskette is of 720KB (3"1/2), replace the above
commands with:
cd /dev
mv dsk/finstall dsk/finstall.org ; mknod dsk/finstall b 2 164
mv rdsk/finstall rdsk/finstall.org ; mknod rdsk/finstall c 2 164
B) Before installing the driver, you must copy the file "device.log" from
A:\DOSDRV directory of DOS driver diskette to /etc. At the prompt, type
doscp a:/dosdrv/device.log /etc
installpkg
>> NOTE : As there are some minor bugs in the command "installpkg"(in <<
>> 3.2v2 only), it may take a while for the system to response, <<
>> and DO NOT hit any key during this period. <<
C) Press <Enter> to install from floppy drive 0
D) Press <Enter> to install the driver if the file "device.log" has been
copied from DOS driver diskette to SCO UNIX directory /etc. Otherwise
press <ESC> to quit the driver installation, copy this file, and start
over the installation procedure.
E) Type "y" twice to make the newly built kernel as the default booting one.
************************************************************************
Note: If the driver diskette capacity is 360KB/720KB, be sure to restore
the original filename modified in step <A> accordingly:
************************************************************************
F.1) For SCO 3.2v2
cd /dev
mv dsk/f0.org dsk/f0
mv rdsk/f0.org rdsk/f0
F.2) For SCO 3.2v4
cd /dev
mv dsk/finstall.org dsk/finstall
mv rdsk/finstall.org rdsk/finstall
G) To have the driver takes effect, reboot the system by typing
haltsys
<DRIVER REMOVAL>
To remove the driver,
A) At the UNIX prompt, type
removepkg
B) Type the corresponding number of:
"NS-IDE NS (PC87410) PCI-IDE Driver Package"
C) Press <Enter> to remove NS-IDE driver
D) Type "y" twice to make the newly built kernel as the default booting one.
E) To have the driver takes effect, reboot the system by typing
haltsys