============================================================================ Copyright (c) 1995-1999 VIA Technologies Inc. VIA Bus Master(Ultra DMA) PCI IDE Driver ReadMe.Txt for Win9x/WinNT/Win2000/Millennium/XP This readme file is used to provide the information for installation, Enable/Disable DMA and Uninstall "VIA Bus Master PCI IDE Driver". ============================================================================ The VIA Bus Master IDE controller is a high performance Bus Master PCI IDE controller. This "VIA Bus Master PCI IDE Driver" distribution floppy is used to utilize the DMA operation of your Hard disk/CD-ROMs drives in order to release the I/O loading from the CPU. You could refer to the related section to install the driver individually. CONTENTS *********************** 1) System Requirements 2) Distribution Package Contents 3) Windows 9x Driver 4) Windows NT Driver 5) Package Version Identify 6) Silent Install Driver 7) Verifying Installation of the Driver 8) Notes 9) Limitation 1) System Requirements * This package should be installed on the VIA Bus Master IDE chipset, VT82C580VP or later, and others' chipset will not be supported. * The "VIA Bus Master PCI IDE Driver" supports the following Operation System. Operation System Version ============================================================================ Windows 95 4.00.950 or above Windows 98 4.10.1998 Windows NT 3.51 or above Windows 2000 2195 Millennium RTM XP 5.1.2600.0 or above ============================================================================ 2) Distribution Package Contents This distribution floppy is compress by auto uncompressing format. You could uncompress it by execute it. The floppy by uncompressing includes these files are listed below. FLOPPY _INST32I EX_ 296,674 _ISDEL EXE 8,704 _SETUP DLL 11,264 _SYS1 CAB 175,466 _SYS1 HDR 3,905 _USER1 CAB 94,011 _USER1 HDR 4,681 DATA TAG 136 DATA1 CAB 469 DATA1 HDR 2,707 LANG DAT 23,541 LAYOUT BIN 609 SETUP ISS 311 README TXT 8,833 SETUP REV 38 IDETOOL <DIR> OS DAT 450 RELEASE TXT 10,208 SETUP BMP 375,478 SETUP EXE 61,440 SETUP INI 102 SETUP INS 97,346 SETUP LID 49 \IDETool PCIENUM SYS 281,676 IDETOOL INI 2,131 IDETOOL EXE 339,968 \WIN2K VIAIDE2K INF 2,867 VIADSK SYS 49,164 VIAIDE2K DLL 32,768 \WIN9X VIADSK MPD 59,965 VIAIDE INF 2,063 VIAIDE VXD 10,260 \WINNT VIADSK SYS 49,248 VIAIDE INF 22,410 \PFD VIAPFD SYS 3,033 \XP VIADSK SYS VIAIDE INF 3) Windows 9x/Melliennum Driver ************************* ** Driver Installation ** ************************* Click the SETUP.EXE program and select "Install" button then it will install the "VIA IDE Bus Master Driver" automatically on your Windows 9x system. It will copy the driver to the \WINDOWS\SYSTEM\IOSUBSYS and set the related registry tree. ************************ ** Enable/Disable DMA ** ************************ The default setting is the DMA mode. You could turn off the DMA setting by running the VIA IDETool. *************************** ** Driver Uninstallation ** *************************** You could remove the "VIA Bus Master PCI IDE Driver" by selecting the "Uninstall" button. It will completely remove the driver from the sytsem. 4) Windows NT/Windows 2000/ Windows XP Driver ************************* ** Driver Installation ** ************************* Click the SETUP.EXE program and select "Install" button then it will install the "VIA IDE Bus Master Driver" automatically on your Windows NT system. It will copy the driver to the \WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS and set the related registry tree. ************************ ** Enable/Disable DMA ** ************************ The default setting is the DMA mode. You could turn off the DMA setting by running the VIA IDETool. *************************** ** Driver Uninstallation ** *************************** You could remove the "VIA Bus Master PCI IDE Driver" by selecting the "Uninstall" button. It will completely remove the driver from the sytsem. 5) Package Version Identify The setup program will display the released data and version for this package. 6) Silent Install Driver Available parameters: -b, -u, -s Parameter Description -b Causes Setup.exe automatically to reboot after the silent mode install successfully. -u Uninstall driver. This parameter must works with the '-s' parameter. -s Silent install driver. Note: - A dash(-) must precede the command line parameters. - The parameters '-b' and '-u' must be specified before the '-s' parameter. Examples: setup.exe -b -s Silent install driver and reboot the computer. setup.exe -u -b -s Silent uninstall driver and reboot the computer. setup.exe -s Silent install driver but not reboot the computer. setup.exe -u -s Silent uninstall driver but not reboot the computer. 7) Verifying Installation of the Driver For Windows 9x: 1. Open "Control Panel" from "Start Menu -> Settings". 2. Open "System" in "Control Panel" and select the "Device Manager". 3. Select "Hard disk controllers" and check if the "VIA Bus Master PCI IDE Controller(Ultra DMA)" controller is existing or not. 4 If it is then your installation is successful. For Windows NT: 1. Open "Control Panel" from "Start Menu -> Settings" 2. Select "SCSI Adapters" from "Control Panel". 3. Check the "Devices" is "VIA bus master IDE drivers" or not. 4 If it is then your installation is successful. 8) Notes * It is recommended to install the CD-ROM which is not on the same channel with the hard drive for the performance issue. If you play VCD or DVD abnormally on some CD-ROM or DVD-ROM which is on the same channel with hard drive, we recommand you to setup the CD-ROM or DVD-ROM on the separatly channel. * You should run the ATAPI ZIP 100MB setup program first for the WinNT 3.51/4.0 in order to use ZIP ATAPI 100MB normally on your system. If you run the VIA Bus Master setup program first and then the ATAPI ZIP 100MB setup program. After the ATAPI ZIP 100MB setup program, it will disable the VIA Bus Master driver after the installation. You could use the following steps to disable the ATAPI ZIP 100MB driver and enable the VIA Bus Master driver again. 1. Double click the "Devices" icon from Control Panel. 2. Select the service for IDE/ATAPI ZIP drive. (ex. imgatapi) 3. Press the "Startup" button and select "Disabled". 4. Press "OK" and reboot computer. 9) Limitation 1.Display the IDE devices with a ¡§SCSI¡¨ word head - Win2000 system supports the third party IDE drivers as a fake SCSI miniport driver. No wonder, even the device is a ATA/ATAPI device she will add a head mark ¡§SCSI¡¨ before the device model name so that the user will misunderstand why the displayed device type is not identical to what he have. This limitation will not have any side effect to end usre. 2.Windows 9x/ME will only support total disk size up to 128 GiB limited by the designation of FAT32 file system.Download Driver Pack
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