******************************************************************* * * * * * BusLogic DOS Manager Version 4.20E * * * * * ******************************************************************* There are seven programs (BTDOSM.SYS, BTMDISK.SYS, BTCDROM.SYS, BTFDISK.EXE, DMAP.EXE, WINASPI.DLL, VASPID.386 ), that support DOS V3.3x or above, and Windows V3.x These programs can be applied to all of the current BusLogic SCSI bus master host adapters. 1) BTDOSM.SYS V4.20H BTDOSM.SYS is the BusLogic DOS Device Manager that supports ASPI (Advance SCSI Programming Interface). The DOS application program uses the ASPI DOS Manager to communicate with the SCSI host adapter and allow access to additional SCSI devices connected to the host adapter. - When the system is configured with more than two hard disk drives - When the system has more than one SCSI host adapter installed - When the configured SCSI hard disk has a Target ID other than 0 or 1 - When you want to support a SCSI tape device, and - When you want to support programs that use virtual memory (i.e., Microsoft Windows V3.1, Quarterdeck QEMM 386, Qualitas 386MAX). Configuring the BTDOSM.SYS DOS Device Manager: The DOS ASPI manager has several new features along with the WIN-ASPI interface module. Most of these features are related to command line switches at install (boot) time. Along with improvements in the existing switches, additional switches are present. In order for the BusLogic ASPI DOS Manager files to be loaded whenever the system is booted, the CONFIG.SYS file must contain the following DEVICE=command. The format is as follows: DEVICE = [path]BTDOSM.SYS [optional switches] COMMAND LINE OPTIONAL SWITCHES: The following options are available at this time. You may add it into the BTDOSM.SYS driver to change the parameters of the host adapter. /P - Sets the I/O port address that the driver will use to communicate with the host adapter. This value is in HEX. Valid addresses are 330 (default), 334, 230, 234, 130,and 134 The port specifier /P now is no longer required on most installations. All cards are located and are logged in. If the user wants to skip a port that may be found, any /P switch will defeat the port scans and only log the implicit port(s) entered. /D - This Option will display useful information about the attached SCSI target device. /L - This Option will enable support for SCSI logical units(LUNs) other than zero. The driver can recognize all eight possible SCSI LUNs on each target. /L16 | /L32 | /L64 Set the LUN support on WIDE SCSI cards (16, 32 or 64 LUN's) /N - Valid bus on time can be between 02 and 15 usecs. The value is in decimal. Default time is 11 usecs. /F - Valid bus off time can be between 01 and 64 usecs. The value is in decimal. Default time is 4 usecs. /I - This option will disable the loading of the embedded INT 13 module. When specified, INT 13 calls are routed through the host adapter BIOS instead of INT 13 handler in BTDOSM.SYS (only for SCSI disks installed with the host adapter BIOS). /E - Rescan SCSI bus on ASPI "Request Device ID" (cmd=01), will allow dynamic rescan of the bus. The DOS manager will discard the code if /E is not requested and thus saving about 1.6k of memory requirements. /B<# of Mailbox> - Allows the user to specify how many active mailboxes and associated ccbs are allocated. Default is 4, the user may specify between 4 to 8. Increasing the count from 4 to 8 will require about 1.5k of additional memory per card. /R - Disable DOS ASPI manager from "Hard" resetting the SCSI adapter if not under BIOS control. This will be useful in multi initiator configurations. /S - Enables SEEK command to operate. Default is disabled /J - Forces the DOS Manager to only scan 8 SCSI ID's on WIDE SCSI host adapters. /W - Active only with /D, and allows the screen display to pause when each card is scanned. This is to prevent the displayed information from scrolling off the screen so it may be analyzed. /M - For NetWare 386 server installation from CDROM, you must add this option to BusLogic DOS Device Manager. During NetWare installation of BusLogic (BT4X) from the parameter menu. You must HIDE the CDROM Target-ID. SCSI tartgets to hide from NetWare Continue to complete the standard NetWare installation /-PCI - Stops PCI I/O scanning on Mgr init. /+PCI - Stops ISA I/O scanning on Mgr. init. Example: CONFIG.SYS: BUFFERS = 20 FILES = 20 DEVICE = C:\BTDOSM.SYS DEVICE = C:\BTMDISK.SYS 2) BTMDISK.SYS V4.10K To access the SCSI hard disk devices that have a SCSI ID other than 0 or 1 in 'S' products or is not include in BIOS scan of 'C' products, you must install this extented hard disk driver. Otherwise, DOS cannot recognize them. The CONFIG.SYS file must contain the DEVICE=command. The format is as follows : DEVICE = [path]BTMDISK.SYS [optional switches] Example : DEVICE = C:\BTDOSM.SYS DEVICE = C:\BTMDISK.SYS The BTMDISK.SYS Extented Hard Disk Driver can support more than one BusLogic SCSI host adapter per system. COMMAND LINE OPTIONAL SWITCHES: /D Enables verbose mode. This permits the user to see the details of the device(s) being attached to the operating system. /L /L for luns=8, and may be set to /L8 /L16, /L32, and /L64 to set the LUN support on WIDE SCSI host adapters. Those not able to operate in the WIDE SCSI mode will be limited to 8 LUNs. /R This determines the number of logical drives that will be reserved for removable media. Valid value are 1 to 24. If not specified, the default number of reserved logical drives is 1. This is used for the situation where a particular piece of media may have more than one DOS partition. /J Forces the disk device driver to only scan 8 SCSI ID's on WIDE SCSI host adapters. /W Active only with /D, and allows the screen display to pause when each card is scanned. This is to prevent the displayed information from scrolling off the screen so it may be analyzed. /F Enable Floptical support. Make sure the BIOS does not also have the Floptical feature set to ON. /T Allows the removable drive-to-ready maximum time on cartridge insertion to be set. The valid values range from 0 to 9 where the time-out is the value multiplied by 5 seconds. Thus /T2 allows about 10 seconds before the O/S is informed of a not ready condition. /Q Allows cartridge drives to QUICKFORMAT the cartridge media. 3) BTCDROM.SYS V3.30C BusLogic SCSI CD-ROM device driver is compatible with Microsoft CD-ROM Extendtion V2.21. It required BTDOSM.SYS device driver to be loaded first. BusLogic SCSI CD-ROM device driver command line option switch: DEVICE=[path]BTCDROM.SYS [/D:MSCDxxx] [/L] Parameter: [path] Specified the pathname where the BusLogic CD-ROM Device Driver resides. (e.g. C:\BUSLOGIC\) [/D:MSCDxxx] Specifies the name that Microsoft CD-ROM Extended (MSCDEX) use to find the CD-ROM Device Driver. You will use this name in configuring your AUTOEXEC.BAT file. [/L] Enable SCSI Logical Unit Number (LUN) support. If enable (LUN) option, you must enable (LUN) support in BTDOSM.SYS device driver. [/Q] Enable quick scan method on SCSI LUN devices. Program will skip scanning SCSI LUN device if LUN#0 doesnot exist. Example: BusLogic BTDOSM.SYS and BTCDROM.SYS device driver in CONFIG.SYS file. DEVICE = C:\BTDOSM.SYS DEVICE = C:\BTCDROM.SYS /D:MSCD002 The Microsoft CD-ROM Extention "MSCDEX.EXE" utility is required for DOS application to access the CD-ROM data files or sound. Syntax: MSCDEXE [/D:device name] [/L:drive letter] [/M:value][/V][/E] Parameter: [/D:device name] Must be same as the name specified on BTCDROM.SYS command. [/L:drive letter] Assign DOS drive letter for CD-ROM [e.g., E,F,G,..] If this parameter is not specified then the next available drive letter will be used. [/M:value] Number of sector buffers reseved for MSCDEX utility. Switches: [/V] Display memory usage [/E] Use expanded memory if available Setup MSCDEX for DOS: Assume "MSCDEX.EXE" utility is on drive C: root directory, Device named for BusLogic BTCDROM.SYS device driver is "MSCD002", Drive letter referent by DOS = E:, number of sector buffers use by MSCDEX is 10, use Expanded memory if available, and display memory usage. Method #1: Auto load MSCDEX.EXE utility at boot time. You must add the following line to Autoexec.bat file C:\MSCDEX /D:MSCD002 /L:E /M:10 /V /E Method #2: Execute MSCDEX utility only when needed. At DOS command prompt type the following C:\MSCDEX /D:MSCD002 /L:E /M:10 /V /E Support CD-ROM drives : 1. CHINON CDS-431, CDX-431, CDS-435, CDX-435, CDS-525, CDS-535, CDX-535 2. HITACHI CDR-1750, CDR-3750 3. MATSUSHITA CR-501, CR-532 4. NEC CDR-38, CDR-73, CDR-74, CDR-83, CDR-84, CDR-300, CDR-500, CDR-741, CDR-841 5. NEC MultiSpin 3Xe, 3Xi, 3Xp 6. PANASONIC CD-531, CD-532, CDR-501, CDR-503, CDR-533 7. SANYO CRD-400I 8. SONY CDU-55S, CDU-541, CDU-561, CDU-4211, CDU-6211, CDU-6811, CDU-7811, CDU-7211 9. TOSHIBA XM-3301, XM-3401, XM-4101 10. PIONEER DRM-600, DRM-604 11. PLEXTOR (TEXEL) DM-3024, DM-5024, DM-3028, DM-5028, PX-43CH, PX-43CS, PX-45CH, PX-45CS 12. TEAC-CD-50 13. IBM 14. Other CD-ROM drives which support SCSI-2 command sets Multisession Photo CD-ROM drives : 1. SONY CDU-561, CDU-6211 2. CHINON CDS-535, CDX-535 3. TOSHIBA XM-3401B, XM-4104 4. PLEXTOR (TEXEL) DM-5024, DM-5028 5. NEC CDR-38, CDR-741, CDR-841, CDR-600 6. PANASONIC CDR-503, CDR-533 7. SANYO CDR-400 4) BTFDISK.EXE V3.30A The BusLogic Extented Hard Disk can be used to partition the SCSI disk devices, that has a SCSI ID of 0 through 7, or 0 through 15 for wide SCSI Used the standard DOS FDISK utility to partition a hard drive with SCSI ID 0 or 1 attached to the first SCSI host adapter. This program is very similar to FDISK.EXE in DOS; however, it only supports SCSI hard disks, note that BTDOSM.SYS must be loaded first. To invoke BTFDISK.EXE, type BTFDISK at the DOS prompt. Example: C>BTFDISK No optional switches are needed. 5) DMAP.EXE V4.10B (RIGID / REMOVABLE DEVICE DRIVER STATUS) DMAP is a utility that prints information to the screen about the status of all the drives running under the BTMDISK device driver. This information is particularly helpful if there are removables hard disk device(s) attached. To invoke DMAP.EXE, type DMAP at the DOS prompt. Example: C>DMAP No optional switches are needed. 6 & 7) WINASPI.DLL & VASPID.386 Device Driver for Windows V3.x Windows ASPI, or WINASPI, is a windows device driver layer used for re-entrant, multi-threaded SCSI bus access for windows 3.00 or higher. The WINASPI layer, provides an easy access method for Windows applications for SCSI I/O. This method is provided in the form of a DLL program (Dynamic Link Library). The name of the program is WINASPI.DLL. The DLL functions are imported by a Windows application during it's operation. The DOS Manager V4.10K will have the ability to run in the Windows protected mode environment. Also included for the WINASPI layer is a VxD, or Virtual Device Driver. The VxD is named VASPID.386. This code handles the locking and unlocking of the data buffers for Virtual DMA Requests during SCSI I/O. ***** MANUAL INSTALLATION ***** First, copy WINASPI.DLL and VASPID.386 to the WINDOWS directory. This may be on any drive or path, it depends on where you installed windows. Next, modify the SYSTEM.INI file to include the statment: "DEVICE=VASPID.386". This statement MUST be entered in the [386Enh] section. If Windows is in standard mode WITH a memory manager, such as EMM386, loaded WINASPI will not initialize. This mode is not recomended by Windows. This error is returned as SS_ILLEGAL_MODE. If the SCSI adapter is the primary adapter, and the SCSI IRQ is set at 14, then the SYSTEM.INI file MUST include the statment "VirtualHDIRQ=OFF". 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