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@Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 22:54:14 +1000
Subject: Re: Problem with a Microtech PCD47B compact flash reader
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Craig wrote:

>lengel wrote:
>  
>
>>What device drivers could come into play? I have the latest SYM8XX.ADD
>>from the LSI website and I tried both the latest DANIDASD and OS2DASD
>>that I could find. It really seems strange that the 32 Meg card works
>>perfect but no 64 Meg card can be read. That tells me (in my limited
>>knowledge) that it is FAT sector size or the way OS/2 is treating the
>>CF reader that is the problem. The icon for the Microtech reader looks
>>like a tape drive with a cartridge hanging out of it. It is not a
>>floppy icon nor a hard drive icon. What other device drivers effect
>>this type of drive?
>>    
>>
>
>Actually, it's a removable drive and disk cartridge hanging out.  =] 
>This icon is used for all removable media (Orb drives, CF cards ...)
>
>I don't think DANIDASD has anything to do with it, since that is for IDE 
>drives.  I've never done anything with the OS2DASD (not to imply I don't 
>use it; just that I've never changed anything with or about it).
>  
>
Hi Craig,
I don't know whether you have read the following section of the 
documentation for DANIS506.ADD [this was from version 1.6.5], note the 
SMILEYS line - not "just for IDE":

>  This release of my S506 driver is no longer based on the sources
>      provided by IBM on their DDK site. It has the latest feature set
>      as found in the current fixpacks and fixes later than these.
>
>      My enhancements are:
>
>      - (supports the Intel PIIX, just like IBM1S506 does) plus some PIIX4
>        variants unsupported by IBM1S506
>      - supports the Intel ICH/ICH0/ICH2/ICH3/ICH4/C-ICH/ICH5/ICH5R IDE
>        controllers
>      - supports the Intel ICH5/ICH5R Serial ATA controllers
>      - supports the VIA IDE controllers
>      - supports the ALi IDE controllers
>      - supports the SiS 5513/5517/5518 IDE controllers
>      - supports the CMD 643/646/648/649 IDE controllers
>        (this includes OEMs like AMI)
>      - supports the Promise Ultra33/66/100/TX2/133 IDE controllers
>      - supports the Cyrix 5530 IDE controller (Cyrix MediaGX)
>      - supports the HighPoint HPT302/366/368/370/371/372/374 IDE 
> controllers
>      - supports the AMD756/766/768/8111 IDE controllers
>      - supports the ACard ATP850/860/865 (experimental) IDE controllers
>      - supports the SMSC SLC90E66 IDE controller (PIIX4 look-alike) (exp.)
>      - supports the ServerWorks IDE controllers
>      - supports the Opti IDE controllers
>      - supports the Nvidia nForce/nForce2 IDE controller
>      - supports the National Semiconductor Geode SCx200 IDE controller
>      - supports the Silicon Image 680 IDE controller
>      - supports the Silicon Image 3112 Serial ATA controller
>      - generic busmaster support for SFF-8038i compliant controllers
>      - supports PCCard (formerly: PCMCIA) ATA/ATAPI controllers
> :-)      - supports ATA-Flash, Compact-Flash, CF+, SmartMedia, etc. in 
> PCCard slots :-)
>      - supports internal DriveBays
>      - supports the external DriveBay and other PCCard attached units
>      - no need for chipset initialization by the BIOS
>        (Intel, VIA, ALi, SiS, CMD, Promise, and HighPoint)
>      - Ultra33-DMA on all of the above chipsets which can do Ultra-DMA
>      - Ultra ATA-66 on AMD, VIA, SiS, Promise, HighPoint, Intel, CMD, ALi,
>        SMSC, and Acard
>      - Ultra ATA-100 on HighPoint, Promise, VIA, CMD, Intel, AMD, SiS, 
> Nvidia
>        (these all tested), ACard and ALi (these two experimental).
>      - Ultra ATA-133 on ACard, ALi, Nvidia (exp.)
>        Intel, VIA, SiI, HighPoint, Promise, and SiS (tested)
>      - faster PIO due to 32bit IO
>      - sets device inactivity timers (POWERSV.SYS is no longer needed)
>      - adjustable SMS length
>      - adjustable drive noise level
>      - optional write protection of the first track of a disk drive
>      - unlocks full capacity of disks which are programmed to report a 
> lower
>        capacity to be compatible with older BIOSes
>      - improved support for removable media drives (in particular
>        Castlewood ORB EIDE and the Fujitsu M2541B MO drive)
>      - can change removable media drives to fixed media drives and 
> vice-versa
>      - supports devices which don't spin up automatically
>      - optional limit data transfer rates for more reliability
>      - adapts (feature removed: auto-adapts) chip timings to PCI clock
>      - supposed to work with drive capacities up to 2TiB (OS/2 ADD limit),
>        tested with drives up to 160GB now
>      - improved compatibility with current BIOSes (IBM1S506.ADD fails 
> on an
>        increasing number of recent BIOS implementations)
>      - performance and feature tuning options
>      - up to 8 EIDE channels
>      - enhanced S.M.A.R.T support


-- 
Regards,
Mike

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