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- Trantor Systems OS/2 driver installation
-
- For the T128, T128F, T228, T130B,
- T338 MiniSCSI and T348 MiniSCSI Plus SCSI adapters.
-
- May 1, 1993
-
- The drivers supplied by Trantor are called Adapter Device Drivers
- (.ADD). They provide an interface between the Trantor SCSI hardware and
- the OS/2 operating system. Support for different SCSI devices is not
- done by Trantor, but by IBM with their OS/2 high-level drivers.
-
- In order to use a Trantor SCSI adapter with OS/2, you must first install
- the OS/2 SCSI support, the DASD support for hard disk drives, and the
- CD-ROM support for CD-ROM drives. These drivers are included with OS/2,
- but were probably not installed when you first set up OS/2 on your
- computer. DOS support is usually automatically installed in the
- \os2\mdos directory, so you will see the virtual device drivers in that
- directory (VCDROM.SYS, etc). Do not delete these files if you want to
- use DOS as well.
-
- To install the IBM-supplied CD-ROM support drivers on a running OS/2
- system, you need to click on the SYSTEM SETUP icon in the OS/2 SYSTEM
- folder. Click on the SELECTIVE INSTALL icon and select OK from the
- first screen. A second screen of options will appear. For CD-ROM
- select the first option, CD-ROM Device Support and then click on the
- MORE button associated with this choice. Check both the CD-ROM IFS and
- IBM CD-ROM Device Drivers check boxes and then OK, and proceed with the
- installation.
-
- IFS=c:\os2\cdfs.ifs <-- This is the CD-ROM file system
- BASEDEV=os2dasd.dmd <-- This is the hard disk driver
- BASEDEV=os2cdrom.dmd <-- This is the CD-ROM driver
- BASEDEV=xxxxx.flt <-- Add the appropriate .FLT file
- here for your CD-ROM drive!
- BASEDEV=os2scsi.dmd <-- This is the SCSI driver
- BASEDEV=TxxxSCSI.ADD <-- This is the Trantor driver
-
- Every device connected to the Trantor SCSI adapter has to have, in
- addition to the Trantor .ADD, the IBM SCSI driver (OS2SCSI.DMD), the
- File System driver (CDFS.SYS for CD-ROM, HPFS.IFS for HPFS partitions,
- etc.), and the media support driver (OS2DASD.DMD for Hard Disks,
- OS2CDROM.DMD for CD-ROM drives, etc.).
-
- If any of these three levels is missing, your installation won't work!
-
- The order of the files usually doesn't matter, but if you are having
- trouble, put the files in the order shown above, with the IFS files at
- the beginning of your CONFIG.SYS and the rest of the files at the end of
- the CONFIG.SYS. We've found this always works for us!
-
-
- CD-ROM drive support with CDROM.SYS from IBM
-
- The Trantor OS/2 .ADD driver has a command line switch documented in the
- README.DOC file that comes with the TxxxSCSI.ADD driver. If you add the
- /T command line option to our .ADD, all CD-ROM drives then look to the
- IBM CD-ROM.SYS driver as though they were an IBM drive. This will allow
- data reads on all CD-ROM drives, but will not support audio commands. A
- special version of OS2CDROM.DMD with the appropriate .FLT file is needed
- to support audio commands on non-SCSI-2 drives.
- Do NOT use the /I parameter on the IBM CDROM.SYS file in your
- CONFIG.SYS.
-
-
- CD-ROM drive support with OS2CDROM.DMD and xxxxxxx.FLT files from IBM
-
- With this new driver (Available from IBM or on GEnie or Compuserve's
- OS/2 Forum) you need to make sure there is no /T option after the
- Trantor .ADD. Follow the instructions that come along with the
- OS2CDROM.DMD file and replace CDROM.SYS with the .DMD file and the
- appropriate .FLT file references for the CD-ROM drive you are using.
-
-
- Removable Media Drives (Syquest, Bernoulli, etc.)
-
- IBM treats removable media drives as though they are a very large
- floppy. This means you can't necessarily interchange removable media
- between DOS and OS/2.
-
- To format a removable media drive for OS/2, you first have to do a low
- level format under MS-DOS with the TFORMAT utility. Select a single
- partition... the IBM driver can't handle multiple partitions on
- removable media.
-
- Boot up your OS/2 system with this formatted cartridge in the drive.
- From the OS/2 SYSTEM folder, select the DRIVES icon and double click on
- it. Select the removable media drive (which will show up with a floppy
- icon) and click the center button. Select FORMAT DISK and use any
- available capacity... 2.88M will work just fine. The removable media
- drive will be formatted to its correct capacity with an OS/2 partition.
- You can now use the drive cartridge under OS/2. It may not be readable
- by an MS-DOS system.
-
-
- Setting up a Hard Drive for OS/2 use
-
- If you have an existing hard disk drive on your TRANTOR SCSI controller
- set up as a single partition under MS-DOS 4.01 or 5.0, you should be
- able to install it under OS/2 with no special requirements other than
- those discussed here earlier.
-
- If you have a disk partitioned under DOS 3.3 larger than 32M, you will
- need to re-format your disk under DOS 4.01 or later for OS/2, since
- partition sizes over 32M are non-standard. Warning - - All your data
- will be lost if you format your disk drive unless you back it up first!
-
- To format your hard disk drive, you must run the DOS-based TFORMAT
- program supplied with the Trantor SCSI adapter. There is no OS/2
- version of this program, but it will run from a DOS box or VDM on your
- OS/2 system.
-
- In order to make the Trantor SCSI adapter a primary OS/2 boot drive, you
- must have an optional BIOS ROM package called a T2ROM. T128 and T228
- cards are not shipped with this ROM package... they use a different
- version of the Boot ROM. The T2ROM for the T128 may be ordered from the
- Trantor sales office. T130B cards come standard with the T2ROM BIOS ROM
- installed. The T2ROM is also supported with the IBM generic INT13
- driver that is included with OS/2 and can be installed in your OS/2
- system.
-
-
-
- ***********************************************************************
- Support for Trantor's OS/2 drivers is available from the Trantor BBS at
- 510-656-5159, or by FAX at 510-770-9910.
- ***********************************************************************
-
-
-
-
- Error Messages
-
-
- The System cannot find the file "C:\OS2\SYSTEM\COUNTRY.SYS" specified in
- the COUNTRY command... The System is stopped.
-
- This error usually happens if the OS2DASD.DMD driver is not
- installed in the CONFIG.SYS. Make sure you have
- BASEDEV=OS2DASD.DMD in the CONFIG.SYS right after the
- BASEDEV=IBM1FLPY.ADD statement. If you installed the SCSI
- support on the OS/2 Installation, you should not get this
- message.
-
- This can also happen if you install OS/2 on a second partition
- of your C: drive and add a second SCSI hard drive for OS/2.
- OS/2, like MS-DOS, always mounts first partitions on hard drives
- before extended partitions. OS/2 will assign a second drive a
- drive letter D: and the second partition on the original C:
- drive will become E: rather than the D: it was without the
- second drive attached. OS/2 can't load files from the D: drive,
- since it is now re-assigned as E:. Since OS/2 always tries to
- load COUNTRY.SYS, it errors out at this point. You can change
- the drive that the OS/2 files are loading from to fix this
- problem.
-
-
- SYS1718: The System cannot find the file "... "
-
- The file indicated has not been installed. Most commonly
- happens when CD-ROM files are not copied to the System
- subdirectory. Use the OS/2 Selective Install program to install
- your CD-ROM support files.
-
-
- SYS1201: The device driver "C:\OS2\CDROM.SYS" specified in the DEVICE
- command on line... was not installed. Line is ignored.
-
- The .ADD driver for the SCSI adapter didn't load. Either there
- is not SCSI device attached, the SCSI adapter isn't installed,
- or there is a hardware conflict with the SCSI adapter. Check
- under DOS with SCSITEST to see if the SCSI device is identified.
-
-
- SYS1201: The device driver "TxxxSCSI.ADD" specified in the BASEDEV=
- command on line... was not installed. Line is ignored.
-
- The .ADD driver for the SCSI adapter didn't load. If you are
- using a MiniSCSI adapter, make sure the SCSI device is plugged
- in and powered up correctly. Check your installation under DOS
- and with SCSITEST to see if the SCSI device is indentified
- correctly. With a bus-based adapter and an internal drive,
- check that the ribbon cable is not on backwards and that the
- SCSI adapter is actually installed in the computer.
-
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