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Trantor Systems, Ltd.
5415 Randall Place
Fremont, CA 94538
510-770-1400
510-770-9910 FAX
510-656-5159 BBS
August 11, 1992
These drivers are for Trantor T128, T228, T338 , T348 and T130B SCSI
host adapter cards and OS/2 2.0. Earlier versions of OS/2 are not
supported.
These drivers are Copyright 1992 by Trantor Systems, Ltd. All rights
reserved. They may be freely distributed to owners of Trantor products
as long as this documentation file is included with the files. Latest
revisions of these files can be obtained from the Trantor BBS system or
they may be ordered on disk from the Trantor office for a small charge.
Files on this release:
README.OS2 This file
OS2.FAQ OS2 Frequently Asked Questions -
Check here for answers before FAXing
for Technical Support
T128SCSI.ADD T128 / T228 driver
T13BSCSI.ADD T130B driver
T338SCSI.ADD T338 MiniSCSI driver
T348SCSI.ADD T348 MiniSCSI Plus driver
T128SCSI.DDP T128 / T228 Install script
T13BSCSI.DDP T130B Install script
T338SCSI.DDP T338 MiniSCSI Install script
T348SCSI.DDP T348 MiniSCSI Plus Install script
All files are being distributed in a compressed file format as
OS2-TSL1.ZIP or as a self-extracting archive file called OS2-TSL.EXE for
use with BBS systems.
AUTOMATIC INSTALLATION
Copy all the files to a floppy. This floppy is now a device support
diskette. Insert it in A: and run DDINSTAL from the OS/2 prompt. The
Device Driver Install icon can be found by selecting the OS/2 System
icon on the desktop, then the System Setup icon in that window. Insert
your floppy in a disk drive and double click on the Device Driver
Install icon.
MANUAL INSTALLATION
The desired driver must be copied to the OS/2 2.0 directory:
COPY A:*.* C:\OS2
This driver should be installed in the config.sys file as follows:
....
BASEDEV=TxxxSCSI.ADD /T <=== add /t for most CD-ROMs
BASEDEV=OS2DASD.DMD
IFS=C:\OS2\CDFS.IFS /Q <=== CD-ROM only
DEVICE=C:\OS2\CDROM.SYS <=== CD-ROM only
BASEDEV=OS2SCSI.DMD
....
where xxx stands for the adapter type: 128, 13B, 338, 348.
All of the above drivers are necessary for CD and HD support. They
should be inserted in your CONFIG.SYS. Some of these drivers
might already be in your CONFIG.SYS file. All drivers except for
TxxxSCSI.ADD are usually placed in the OS2 directory during the initial
OS2 installation.
OS2DASD.DMD is already in the CONFIG.SYS, but the other drivers may not
be there. Be sure you add them either manually or with the OS/2
Installer.
The OS/2 .ADD driver we supply is fully compatible with any driver that
interfaces with the .ADD specification for OS/2 2.0. It will work
transparently with any hard disk supported by OS/2.
OPTICAL DRIVES:
IBM supplies a driver called OPTICAL.SYS for use with their 3.5"
Magneto-Optical drive and other Magneto-Optical drives. We have
confirmed that it works correctly with this .ADD release.
In addition, we have implemented an optional command line switch that
will enable some Magneto-Optical drives to be treated like a hard drive
when OPTICAL.SYS is not available. Adding the command line parameter of
/o to the .ADD driver forces the operating system to treat an MO drive
as a standard hard drive.
CD-ROM DRIVES:
IBM recommends using CDROM.SYS (which is supplied with OS/2 2.0) with
the /i option for non-IBM CD-ROM drives. This driver may not support
audio commands on all CD-ROM drives. IBM is planning to release an
updated driver that supports audio commands for most CD-ROM drives.
Please contact IBM for more information on their CD-ROM support and
future drivers.
To support CD-ROM drives that are not supported with the /i option of
CDROM.SYS, we have implemented a command line switch of /t in our .ADD
that emulates the IBM (Toshiba) CD-ROM drive and allows standard data
read commands to work with most SCSI CD-ROM drives. NOTE: Audio
commands are not supported and may cause unpredictable results with some
CD-ROM drives.
Add the command line parameter in the following manner:
BASEDEV=TxxxSCSI.ADD /t
In order to have a CD-ROM drive show on your desktop with a CD-ROM icon,
you must have a CD-ROM disc in your drive when the system is booted. If
you boot with an empty CD-ROM drive, the drive icon will appear as a
floppy disk instead of a CD-ROM disc. This will not affect the
operation of the CD-ROM drive itself.
If you have a CD-ROM drive with multiple Logical Units (LUNs), like the
Pioneer DRM-600, you will be able to access all Logical Units with the
August, 1992 driver. To restrict the number of logical units, the /U
command line parameter can be used, where, for instance, /U3 restricts
the driver to recognize only 3 Logical Units of the possible 6 in the
DRM-600.
HARD DISK DRIVES
Format the SCSI device first from DOS with the TFORMAT program that
comes included with the Trantor SCSI adapter. Select a single partition
after low level formatting the drive.
Boot OS/2 with the drivers installed and format the disk with the OS/2
formatter.
We have found removable media must be formatted with the OS/2 format
program before it can be recognized. Just format it as though it is a
floppy... selecting a 2.8M floppy, for instance, formats a Syquest
drive to 42M just fine. Removable media drives are not interchangeable
between DOS and OS/2.
NOTES:
- Removable media is supported. It was tested with a SyQuest drive.
- OPTICAL.SYS provided by IBM will support MO drives.
- option /o supports MO drives by treating them like HD's.
- option /t supports non-IBM CD-ROM drives for data only by
emulating the IBM CD-ROM drive.
- option /u restricts the number of Logical Units. Default is 7