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22.08.2000
A different flavor of driver for Trident9680 (from RCB)
Since some drivers of Trident9680 don't recognize some cards of this type, I uploaded to Hobbes a flavor of driver that works (ie, recognize my card at install) with my Trident9680.

-> Hobbes-Search: trident9680-os2-15beta2.zip
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(E)IDE/ATAPI driver (from Joerg Sievers)
IBM has updated its (E)IDE/ATAPI driver (8/17/2000).

-> URL: http://en.os2.org/software/driver/?id=51
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ISOFS V0.1.1 (from Chris Wohlgemuth)
ISOFS V0.1.1 is avaiable for download. ISOFS is an installable file system for OS/2 to access ISO rawfiles suitable for burning on CD. It allows transparent access to the contents of the raw file. Currently only Joliet filenames and singlesession image files are supported but this may change in the future. To learn more about it you may have a look at the documentation avaiable online.

-> URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Sector/5785/index.html
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20.08.2000
GRADD 0.83 (from Laurent)
On 15th of August IBM released the version 0.83 of the GRADD drivers. The GRADD dricvers support various graphic chipsets. They include a functionally crippled - yet useful - version of the SDD (Scitech Display Doctor).

-> URL: ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/videopak/graddbb/gradd083.exe
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17.08.2000
DaniATAPI.FLT r0.3.0 (from Achim Hasenmueller)
Also DaniATAPI.FLT has been updated by Daniela Engert:
  • can deal with the ATAPI ZIP-250
  • improved ZIP performance (up to factor 4 on ZIP-250)
  • supports arbitrary swapping of 100MB and 250MB media
  • reflects the current media capacity up to FDISK, DISKIO or the like
  • OS/2 boot from ZIP is possible
  • faster 32bit PIO in conjunction with DANIS506.ADD (rel. 1.1.1 or later)
  • Busmaster DMA mode works and is tested with Intel, VIA, AMD, HPT, SiS and
  • CMD chipsets until now. Busmaster DMA is available now for ALi as well
  • (CD/DVD-ROM is safe, but some chip revisions fail on DMA write operations!). Due to hardware limitations there is no 32bit PIO and no busmaster DMA possible for ATAPI devices attached to a Promise Ultra controller.
  • ATAPI devices appear to the rest of the system as regular SCSI-2 devices if used with DANIS506.ADD (rel. 1.1.5 or later). This may be disabled globally or individually.
  • advanced "hot-swap" support if used with DANIS506.ADD (rel. 1.1.9 or later)
  • support for PCCard (formerly: PCMCIA) ATAPI devices (like the Iomega PCMCIA ZIP-250 or the Iomega Click!40)
  • the translation of old-style 6-byte SCSI commands into their more modern 10-byte counterparts is no longer hardcoded. The device is sensed now to check if it requires this translation.
  • like DaniS506.ADD, this driver stores boot messages internally for later readout. To view them, issue "copy ATAPI$ con:", to dump them into a file, issue "copy ATAPI$ anyfile".
  • automatic media unload on shutdown if desired


-> Hobbes-Search: daniatapi.zip
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DaniS506.ADD r1.3.0 (from Achim Hasenmueller)
Beyond zillions of minor fixes, enhancements, and other changes, some big steps forward could be made. Have a look at the current feature sets:
  • (supports the Intel PIIX, just like IBM1S506 does) plus some PIIX4 variants unsupported by IBM1S506
  • supports the Intel i8xx ICH/ICH0/ICH2 (Whitney/Camino/Carmel/Solano)
  • supports the VIA 571 IDE controller (improved)
  • supports the ALi 5229 IDE controller (improved)
  • supports the SiS 5513 IDE controller
  • supports the CMD 643/646/648/649 IDE controllers (this includes OEMs like AMI)
  • supports the Promise Ultra33/66/100 IDE controllers
  • supports the Cyrix 5530 IDE controller (Cyrix MediaGX)
  • supports the HighPoint HPT366/368/370 IDE controller
  • supports the AMD756 IDE controller (Athlon 'Irongate' chipset)
  • supports the Artop ATP850UF and ATP860 IDE controllers (experimental)
  • generic busmaster support for SFF-8038i compliant controllers
  • supports PCCard (formerly: PCMCIA) ATA/ATAPI controllers

  • 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 and ALi
  • Ultra ATA-100 on Promise, HighPoint, Intel, CMD, and ALi (all of these experimental).
  • faster PIO due to 32bit IO
  • sets device inactivity timers (POWERSV.SYS is no longer needed)
  • adjustable SMS length

  • adjustable drive noise level
  • improved support for removable media drives (in particular Castlewood ORB EIDE)
  • 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/auto-adapts chip timings to PCI clock
  • supposed to work with drive capacities up to 128GB (ATA limit),
  • tested with drives up to 61GB now

  • improved compatibility with current BIOSes (IBM1S506.ADD fails on an increasing number of recent BIOS implementations)
  • performance and feature tuning options


-> Hobbes-Search: danis506.zip
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15.08.2000
Symbios Logic 8xx (from Joerg Skottke)
This is the latest Symbios Logic SCSI driver for Sym8xx chips.

-> URL: http://de.os2.org/software/treiber/?id=41
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14.08.2000
SCM Parallel to ATAPI und Parallel to SCSI Chipsets (from Joerg Skottke)
These are new drivers for SCM's parallel to ATAPI and parallel to SCSI chipsets

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10.08.2000
S3 Drivers (from Joerg Skottke)
Following new S3 Drivers are ready for download:


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04.08.2000
SciTech Display Doctor 7.0.3 - BETA 32 (from Kendall Bennett)
Scitech released a new BETA 32 of their universal graphic driver SciTech Display Doctor 7.0.3 for OS/2. Check out this page for a list of changes. Changes in BETA 32:
  • Integrated latest versions of IBM GRADD components.
  • The registration information is now displayed at bootup time, and the evaluation time remaining is properly displayed again.
  • Expired beta now prompts for registration info, without the user needing to reboot.
  • Added support for the ATI Rage Mobility 128 chipsets.
  • Updates to installer, to work even if TMP environment is invalid.
  • Updates to fix lockup on reboot for ATI Rage Mobility chipsets.
  • Added support for the Blade 3D on motherboards that use VIA MVP4.
  • Added support for the S3 Vision 864 on IBM PC730 systems.
  • Updated Cirrus Logic driver for IBM PC300GL systems.
  • Updated driver for the Voodoo 5 chipset. For 2D, it can only use one of the two on-board chips, so only 32Meg of memory is reported.
  • Updated VBE/Core to fix incorrect colors in 15-bit on some cards.
  • The amount of graphics memory reported to OS/2 is now limited to 32Meg, since OS/2 has problems with memory mappings beyond that. This fixes strange problems on 64Meg boards, such as the Nvidia Quadro.


-> URL: ftp://ftp.scitechsoft.com/sdd/beta/os2/sdd-os2-7.0.3-b32.exe
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03.08.2000
iHPFS v1.29 (DOS) (from Klaus Staedtler)
The iHPFS-driver (developed by Marcus Better and now by Veit Kannegiesser), a HPFS-driver for DOS, has been updated to version 1.29. Changes from 1.28 to 1.29 by Veit.Kannegieser@gmx.de:
  • supports partition of >4 GB size
  • better supports NW/DR DOS 7 (AccMode)
  • supports partitions on ASPI media (like IOMEGA ZIP 100)
  • supports HPFS floppy
  • unmounts on changed media and removes from cache
  • DiskFree no longer alters high parts of ebx and edx
  • can coexist with Personal Netware
  • parses extended partition type 0f
  • files and volume label with spaces are now visible
  • can report 0 bytes free
  • can limit reported disk size to 2 GB


-> URL: http://www-user.tu-cottbus.de/~kannegv/programm/ihpfs129.arj
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