"This filter driver supports all of the ATAPI disks that IBMATAPI does (LS-120, ZIP-100, JAZZ), and in addition the ZIP-250 (including full media swapping).

Current implementation status:

• it suffers from the same bugs as IBMATAPI.FLT (except for the trap at APM resume when the base S506 driver exports forced ATAPI fake devices)
• it is not yet as optimized as DaniS506.ADD"

Future plans from Daniela:

• optimize
• merge with the IDE CD filter driver
• merge with the base S506 driver
• implement the ASPI interface

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"This is a modified version of IBM's OS/2 driver (Jan-06-99) for USB modems. It should fix some severy problems when using modems other than 3Com.

Summary of modifications
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• fixed bug that caused system trap when plugging hardware other than 3Com.
• disabled detection of optional "COMM_FEATURE". My test hardware pretends to support this mode, but it doesn't work at all.

Known problems
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• poor performance after a few minutes of operation
• PMFax / Faxworks not working
• no hardware emulation for MSDOS / WinOS2 support"

"This is a modified version of IBM's OS/2 driver (Jan-06-99) for UHCI style USB host controllers. It should support mainboards equipped with an INTEL, VIA or ETEQ(?) chipset, as well as VIA USB addon cards.

Summary of modifications
-----------------------

• added workaround for VIA chipset bug
• added support and autodetection for upto 4 mainboard ports. (not tested)
• fixed load message to screen (also fixed by IBM in the 4/29/99 build)
• various stability enhancements"

• Added uninstall icon back into the Workplace Shell icon list.


• Fixed bugs in hardware line drawing and re-enabled line drawing for all drivers. Checked to ensure that JMark line drawing tests work properly.


• Fixed bitmap corruption problems and crashes in Netscape when running in 24bit display modes.


• Fixed problems causing SDD/2 to crash on SMP systems. You should now be able to run SDD/2 on SMP versions of OS/2 without a problem (although the write combining support needs some work).


• Fixed crash problem with S3 boards when exiting from fullscreen DOS or WinOS/2 sessions. Also fixed problems when starting WinOS/2 sessions on S3 Trio64 based boards, or switching to and from fullscreen DOS sessions.


• Fixed problems with S3 Trio based boards displaying garbage bitmaps and icons on the desktop. Also appears to have fixed the bogus black lines in the cursor image that you see occasionally.


• Fixed bugs in S3 Trio and S3 Vision line drawing, cause bogus lines to draw on the screen in various places.


• Major re-write of display memory FIFO handling for S3 Trio32/64/64V+ family of boards. This eliminated the display distortion on these boards, and they should all now be working properly. You can also get much higher refresh rates with these boards than you could before.


• Fixed acceleration code for S3 Trio32 and Trio64 boards, causing only the first meg of memory to be available in low resolution display mode. All display modes should flip correctly with GACtrl now.


• Fixed problem with black screen and black icons for Rage IIC and earlier ATI chipsets. Also fixed problems related to the hardware cursor not being able to correctly move off the top of the screen.


• Fixed cursor glitches for ATI Rage family of chipsets, causing the cursor to temporarily go black when the mouse cursor image changes.

List of all supported chips:
----------------------------

This is a complete list of the various graphics cards that this version of SciTech Display Doctor supports. Please note that this list refers to the actual chips being used, not a board-level implementation. Thus you will not see any products from Hercules or STB on the list, but their products are supported because they use S3, Cirrus, Tseng, etc. chips. Also, any card with less than 512KB of memory cannot be supported by SciTech Display Doctor.

• Alliance ProMotion 6422, ProMotion AT24, ProMotion AT25
• Alliance ProMotion AT3D
• Cirrus Logic CL-GD5434, CL-GD5440, CL-GD5436, CL-GD5446
• Cirrus Logic Laguna 5462, Laguna 5464, Laguna 5465
• InteGraphics IGA1680, IGA1682, IGA1683, CyberPro 2000
• InteGraphics CyberPro 2010
• Intel i740
• ATI Mach64 GX, Mach64 CX, Mach64 CT, Mach64 ET, Mach64 VT, 3D Rage
• ATI Mach64 VTB, 3D Rage II, 3D Rage II+, Mach64 VT4, 3D Rage IIC
• ATI 3D Rage Pro, 3D Rage LT Pro, Rage Mobility, Rage XL, Rage XC
• ATI Rage 128
• Matrox MGA Millennium, MGA Millennium II, MGA Mystique
• Matrox MGA Mystique 220, MGA-G100, MGA-G200, MGA-G400
• Cyrix Media GX, Media GXi, Media GXm
• Macronix 86250, 86251
• NVIDIA RIVA-128, RIVA-128ZX, RIVA-TNT, RIVA-TNT2
• Philips 9710, 9712
• Rendition Verite V1000, Verite V2100/V2200
• S3 Vision 864, Vision 964, Vision 868, Vision 968, Trio32, Trio64
• S3 Trio64V+, Trio64UV+, Trio64V2/DX, Aurora64V+, Virge, Virge/DX/GX
• S3 Virge/VX, Virge/GX2, Virge/MX, Trio3D, Trio3D2x, Savage3D
• S3 Savage4
• Sigma Designs RealMagic 64 GX
• SiS 6202, 6205, 6215, 5597/5598, 6326, 5595/530, 5595/620
• Tseng Labs ET6000, ET6100
• 3DLabs Permedia, Permedia 2, Permedia 2V
• 3dfx Voodoo Banshee, Voodoo3

Note that there are many more chipsets that will work with our existing legacy VBE/AF based drivers, that are not included in this list. For a complete list of all chipsets supported in our prior Windows and DOS products, please visit our web site. We are currently in the process of moving all our existing device support code to our new SciTech Nucleus device driver architecture. The above list only lists those drivers that have been converted, and we won't be supporting any chipsets not on the list until those drivers are properly converted.

Changes in BETA 8:
------------------

• Fixed problems with the install script for Object Rexx.
• Added workaround for crashes due to bugs in BVHSVGA.DLL in OS/2 fullscreen sessions. Bug fix for BVHSVGA.DLL is in the works.
• Removed support for GRADD based refresh control, which has been causing problems in prior beta releases. All refresh control is done via our GACtrl fullscreen utility program. DDC Plug and Play will now automatically choose a good refresh rate if you have a Plug and Play monitor.
• Temporarily removed line drawing acceleration which is broken. Proper fix will be forthcoming in the next beta release to reenable acceleration of lines. Line drawing appears to be the cause of a lot of crashes in beta 7.
• Fixed (hopefully) the last bug related to too many open file handles to our device driver. This bug affects fullscreen OS/2 and windowed command line programs.
• Added support for TVOut on all ATI chipsets (RageII, RagePro and Rage128). Our drivers will function correctly if you have a TV attached when your system boots, and will also allow you to switch between TV and CRT only mode using the GACtrl program.
• Added support for LCD flat panels on ATI chipsets, including the Rage LT Pro and Rage Mobility series. Our drivers will function correctly if you boot up on an LCD laptop, or if you have an LCD flat panel monitor attached. You can also switch between LCD and CRT modes using the GACtrl program.
• Added support for S3 Savage3D and Savage4 acceleration. Full acceleration is supported in all display modes.
• Fixed bugs in the early S3 Virge (DX etc) chipsets, causing them to crash when the system booted.
• Fixed bugs and added support for the early S3 Vision series of chipsets, with full acceleration. RAMDAC's currently supported are IBM RGB5xx, TVP3026 and BrookTree Bt485.
• Revamped the 3dlabs Permedia drivers, and fixed a number of bugs. The drivers are still unaccelerated however, and acceleration is coming soon.
• Added 3dfx Voodoo Banshee and Voodoo3 drivers. The driver currently supports all display modes, but is unaccelerated. Acceleration support is coming soon.
• Added NVidia RIVA-128, RIVA-128ZX, RIVA-TNT, and RIVA-TNT2 drivers. The driver currently supports all display modes, but is unaccelerated. Acceleration support is coming soon.
• Added NeoMagic chipset support, with full acceleration. However the driver will currently only function on an external CRT monitor, and will cause strange results when running on an LCD panel. We are working to get full LCD panel support working in the next beta.
• Added as many IBM monitors into our monitor database as possible, based on INF files downloaded from IBM's web site.

Zip File contents - September 28, 1999
Readme - this file
IBMATAPI.FLT - OS/2 Device Driver (Filter) for the IOMEGA ZIP 250 drive This is a beta version of this driver. The final version should be available in the November 1999 time frame.

This beta version supports only the 250 cartridges at this time. The driver will be updated to support the 100MB in the ZIP 250 for the final version.

• 3DLabs Permedia, Permedia 2, Permedia 2V
• Alliance ProMotion 6422, ProMotion AT24, ProMotion AT25
• Alliance ProMotion AT3D
• ATI Mach64 GX, Mach64 CX, Mach64 CT, Mach64 ET, Mach64 VT, 3D Rage
• ATI Mach64 VTB, 3D Rage II, 3D Rage II+, Mach64 VT4, 3D Rage IIC
• ATI 3D Rage Pro, 3D Rage LT Pro, Rage Mobility, Rage XL, Rage XC
• ATI Rage 128
• Chips & Technologies 65550, 65554, 65555, 68554, 68555, 69000
• Cirrus Logic CL-GD5434, CL-GD5440, CL-GD5436, CL-GD5446
• Cirrus Logic Laguna 5462, Laguna 5464, Laguna 5465
• Cyrix Media GX, Media GXi, Media GXmInteGraphics IGA1680, IGA1682, IGA1683, CyberPro 2000
• InteGraphics CyberPro 2010
• Intel i740
• Macronix 86250, 86251
• Matrox MGA Millennium, MGA Millennium II, MGA Mystique
• Matrox MGA Mystique 220, MGA G100, MGA G200, MGA-G400
• Philips 9710, 9712
• Rendition Verite V1000, Verite V2100/V2200
• S3 Vision 864, Vision 964, Vision 868, Vision 968, Trio32, Trio64
• S3 Trio64V+, Trio64UV+, Trio64V2/DX, Aurora64V+, Virge, Virge/DX/GX
• S3 Virge/VX, Virge/GX2, Virge/MX, Trio3D, Trio3D2x, Savage3D
• S3 Savage4
• Sigma Designs RealMagic 64 GX
• SiS 6202, 6205, 6215, 5597/5598, 6326, 5595/530
• Tseng Labs ET6000, ET6100

• Finally fixed the bugs stopping our legacy VBE/AF drivers from working! Now SDD/2 should work on just about *any* graphics card, using Nucleus for maximum performance on new drivers, and VBE/AF for support of legacy cards. Hence we now support even ISA and VLB cards all the way back to the old Tseng Labs ET3000 and Trident 8900s!
• Nailed the nasty bugs causing Watchcat, Process Commander and other fullscreen (and PM) applications to crash. Hopefully now all stranges crashes in the system with other applications will have been solved.
• Added extended text modes back into the driver, now that the above problems have been solved.
• Added full Plug and Play monitor detection when SDD/2 loads for the first time. This will automatically detect the monitor capabilities and filter the list of display modes and refresh rates based on this information.
• Updated the GAMon monitor selection program to be more friendly. If you run this program with no command line and a monitor has been selected, it now reports the configured monitor information. This can be used to determine what SDD/2 automatically detected for your monitor via Plug and Play. It also allows you to force certain flags on and off, such as DPMS, GTF and 16:9 display modes.
• Reverted to using hardware default memory clock for Matrox drivers to avoid problems with overclocking memory. Our control panel will eventually allow the user to overclock their hardware if they wish.
• Added a new GAMemClk command line program, which allows the user to manually tweak the memory clock on their board to achieved maximum performance.
• Added a new GAMode command line program to allow the user to add and delete custom display modes and refresh rates to the Nucleus driver. Basically this is the Dial-A-Mode command line program.
• Added support for generating a valid GRADD.MOD file when SDD/2 loads. This can be used to provide automatic support for Workspace On Demand in SDD/2.
• Fixed centering and refresh for text modes in GACtrl, so that the adjusted values are now correctly saved for the drivers.
• Added support for the Matrox MGA-G400 chipset, as well as additional support for 24bpp modes on Matrox Millenium and Millenium II boards. Also updated the Millenium and Millenium II support so that all high resolution modes are available (up to 1600x1200x32 on 8Meg boards).
• Added support for S3 Vision series of chipsets. The drivers are not fully QA'ed at this stage, but should work well.
• Added support for more ATI chipsets, including the Rage Mobility and Rage XL/XC chipsets.
• Updates and fixes for Cirrus Logic drivers, including enabling full acceleration for Cirrus Laguna 5465 chipsets.