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Bus Master EIDE/ATAPI Device Drivers for Intel PIIX
MS-DOS and WINDOWS
Revision 3.70B
(December 12,1997)
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NOTE:
If you want to boot the system from a hard drive other than Hard
Drive C:, please don't install the Bus Master Device Drivers.
2.1 INSTALLATION
The setup program will copy files to the directory you indicate, and
make changes to the AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS to configure the drivers.
If the fast disk driver is installed, it will also make changes to
SYSTEM.INI in the Windows directory.
To run the setup program:
1. Change the current directory to the CD-ROM drive (i.e. D:)
2. Type CD \BMIDE\DOSWIN <Enter>.
3. Under MS-DOS command line prompt, run the setup: SETUP <Enter>.
After entering the setup utility, just follow the instructions of the setup.
2.2 DE-INSTALLATION
1. To de-install the disk driver:
Edit CONFIG.SYS to remark "DEVICE=C:\IDE\TRIDMA.SYS".
2. To de-install the CD-ROM driver:
Edit CONFIG.SYS to remark "DEVICE=C:\IDE\TRICD.SYS ..." and also Edit
AUTOEXEC.BAT to remark "C:\DOS\MSCDEX /D:MSCD000".
3. To de-install the Fast Disk driver:
Edit SYSTEM.INI and remark "DEVICE=C:\IDE\TRIINT13.386" and
"DEVICE=C:\IDE\TRICTR.386", and also set the values of
"OverlappedIO" and "32BitDiskAccess" to OFF. All these entries
are under the "[386Enh]" section.
Where the IDE is the directory you copied the files to.
2.3 RESTRICTIONS OF DISK DRIVER and FAST DISK DRIVER
1. If you want to install both of the DOS disk driver and the CD-ROM
driver, you should setup the disk driver before the CD-ROM driver
in the CONFIG.SYS.
2. The Fast Disk driver for Windows can only function if the DOS disk
driver is loaded.
2.4 TROUBLESHOOTING
2.4.1 Overriding Drive Capabilities for the DOS Disk Driver
If the driver does not work properly after the installation, it could
be that the device drives report wrong capabilities. The driver provides
parameters for the user to override the capabilities reported by the
connected device drives.
The user can append parameters with the following format
[/V] [/drive [dma=dmamode|pio=piomode] [!lba] [!ms]]
to the "device=..." statement in the CONFIG.SYS file.
Where
V indicates to display verbose information, including device
scanning progress and the chip set timing register values,
and etc.
drive specifies which drive to override on. It can be:
PM primary/master
PS primary/slave
SM secondary/master
SS secondary/slave
dmamode specifies the overriding DMA mode. It can be:
SW2 single word DMA mode 2
MW1 multi-word DMA mode 1
MW2 multi-word DMA mode 2
U0 ultra DMA mode 0
U1 ultra DMA mode 1
U2 ultra DMA mode 2
NO not use DMA operation. The PIO will be used.
piomode specifies the overriding PIO mode. It can be:
0 PIO mode 0
1 PIO mode 1
2 PIO mode 2
3 PIO mode 3
4 PIO mode 4
If the pio_mode is specified, the driver will only use PIO
operation on the corresponding drive.
!lba indicates not to use LBA mode.
!ms indicates not to use multi-sectors commands.
For example:
device=c:\bmide\tridma.sys /PS dma=SW2 !lba
indicates that we will use single word DMA mode 2 and not use LBA mode
on the slave drive of the primary IDE channel.
2.4.2 Overriding Drive Capabilities for the CD-ROM Driver
If the driver does not work properly after the installation, it could
be that the CD-ROM drives report wrong capabilities. The driver provides
parameters for the user to override the capabilities reported by the
connected drives.
The user can append parameters with the following format
[/drive dma=dmamode|pio=piomode]
to the "device=..." statement in the CONFIG.SYS file.
Where
drive specifies which drive to override on. It can be:
PM primary/master
PS primary/slave
SM secondary/master
SS secondary/slave
dmamode specifies the overriding DMA mode. It can be:
SW2 single word DMA mode 2
MW1 multi-word DMA mode 1
MW2 multi-word DMA mode 2
U0 ultra DMA mode 0
U1 ultra DMA mode 1
U2 ultra DMA mode 2
NO not use DMA operation. The driver will use PIO on the
corresponding CD-ROM drive.
piomode specifies the overriding PIO mode. It can be:
0 PIO mode 0
1 PIO mode 1
2 PIO mode 2
3 PIO mode 3
4 PIO mode 4
If the pio_mode is specified, the driver will only use PIO
operation on the corresponding drive.
For example:
device=c:\bmide\tricd.sys /SM dma=no
indicates that we will not use DMA and only use PIO operation on the
master drive of the secondary IDE channel.
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.