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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".
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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
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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
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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
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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
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** Driver Installation **
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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.
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** Enable/Disable DMA **
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The default setting is the DMA mode. You could turn off the DMA setting
by running the VIA IDETool.
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** Driver Uninstallation **
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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
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** Driver Installation **
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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.
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** Enable/Disable DMA **
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The default setting is the DMA mode. You could turn off the DMA setting
by running the VIA IDETool.
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** Driver Uninstallation **
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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
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.
For more help, visit our Driver Support section for step-by-step videos on how to install drivers for every file type.