+===========================================+ | VG4 Hard Disk Driver for IBM OS/2 WARP | +===========================================+ VG4.ADD is the hard disk driver for IBM OS/2 WARP. Your VG4 disk controller needs this device driver to take the advantage of the high performance 32-bit VL-Bus when running under OS/2. ********* Installing the Driver ********* 1. Delete the original IBM OS/2 hard disk driver. Delete the command line "BASEDEV = IBM1S506.ADD" from the CONFIG.SYS file, if it exists. 2. Install the OS/2 driver. Copy VG4.ADD to the subdirectory, /OS2, of your system. Use a text editor to edit the CONFIG.SYS file. Add the following line: BASEDEV = VG4.ADD /...(Please refer to next paragraph for the switch defintion) 3. Reboot the system. ********* Switch Definition ********* /V = Verbose Mode Displays controller status and drive geometry information during OS/2 initialization. /A:n = Adapter number Adapter 0 has default parameters for the primary adapter. Adapter 1 has default parameters for the secondary adapter. /U:n = Unit Id Unit 0 indicates parameters apply to the master unit. Unit 1 indicates parameters apply to the slave unit. /T:10 = Error retry time in seconds. (dec) Indicates the total allowable error recover time for a request. Error recovery times < 5 seconds will be ignored. This parameter defaults to 30 seconds. A shorter interval may be desirable for fault tolerant applications. /GEO:(1314,7,26,-1) or /GEO:20 = Drive geometry override (dec) Indicates the Cylinder/Head/Sector geometry for the drive. The fourth parameter is the Write Precompensation Cylinder which may be omitted for drives which do not require precompensation. As an alternate format standard BIOS drive types may be used. Types (0-47) are supported. User defined types 48, 49 should be entered directly by in the previous format. When specified, this parameter overrides other geometry sources. If this parameter is absent, other geometry sources discussed above will be used. /I = Ignore adapter The driver automatically attempts to locate and initialize both the primary and secondary adapters. In some cases other DASD controllers may appear between the primary and secondary IDE controllers. In these cases the system should be configured as follows: BASEDEV=VG4.ADD /V /A:1 /I BASEDEV=MOREDASD.ADD BASEDEV=VG4.ADD /V /A:0 /I /!R = Disable adapter resets Disables adapter resets. In most cases resets are beneficial to assist in recovering from transient hardware problems such as lost interrupts, timeouts, or commands a particular adapter may not support. However, for some ESDI adapters, options set by vendor unique commands such as 'Sector Sparing' may be lost after after a reset. Setting this switch is recommended for ESDI adapters with disks formatted using 'Sector Sparing'. /!SMS = Disable Set Multiple Mode support This switch disables Set Multiple Support which the improves performance of some IDE drives. The /V - (Verbose) option will indicate whether this feature has been enabled on a particular drive. The Set Multiple Support is default enabled if the drive have this feature. /LBA = OS/2 access the drive using LBA addressing. This switch enables the OS/2 write commands with LBA-addressing to the drive. If the drive does not have this feature, this switch will be ignored. The /V - (Verbose) option will indicate whether this feature has been enabled on a particular drive. /PIOSPEED:n = Set the drive PIO speed n The PIO speed of drive is from 0 to 8 or A. /DMASPEED:n = Set the drive DMA speed The DMA speed of drive is from 0 to 8. If the drive does not have this feature, the switch will be ignored and the driver will automatically detect and set the speed of drive. NOTICE: Only one speed mode can be specified. If user set improper speed of a drive, the drive maybe not work. The driver will automatically detect and set the speed of drive if user does not specify it. ********* Examples ********* BASEDEV=VG4.ADD /V /A:0 /U:0 /T:10 /GEO:(1314,7,26,-1) /A:1 /I BASEDEV=VG4.ADD /V /A:1 /U:0 /GEO:20 BASEDEV=VG4.ADD /V /A:0 /U:0 /!SMS BASEDEV=VG4.ADD /V /A:0 /U:0 /LBA BASEDEV=VG4.ADD /V /A:0 /!R BASEDEV=VG4.ADD /V /A:0 /U:0 /DMASPEED:7 BASEDEV=VG4.ADD /V /A:0 /U:0 /PIOSPEED:5 /U:1 /PIOSPEED:6 ********* Enhanced IDE Hard Drive ********* If you have an Enhanced IDE hard drive that has a capacity of greater than 528M (greater than 1024 cylinders), note the follow restriction : o The FAT file system is limited to partition sizes of less than 1024 cylinders. o The HPFS file system can support data partition that are greater than 1024 cylinders. Howerver the partition from which OS/2 is started cannot be greater than 1024 cylinders. The HPFS file system can support drives up to 2GB. For breaking the restriction, you can enable the drive LBA mode in BIOS (VG4 BIOS or Main BIOS with this support). BIOS will perform LBA translation for this drive, then the CHS geometry of this drive at Int 13h interface is different from the real one. The translated number of cylinders will less than 1024. From making partitions of the drive to using the drive, please keep the SAME SELECTION on the drive LBA mode in BIOS. If you alter your selection, the data corruption may happens.Download Driver Pack
After your driver has been downloaded, follow these simple steps to install it.
Expand the archive file (if the download file is in zip or rar format).
If the expanded file has an .exe extension, double click it and follow the installation instructions.
Otherwise, open Device Manager by right-clicking the Start menu and selecting Device Manager.
Find the device and model you want to update in the device list.
Double-click on it to open the Properties dialog box.
From the Properties dialog box, select the Driver tab.
Click the Update Driver button, then follow the instructions.
Very important: You must reboot your system to ensure that any driver updates have taken effect.
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