U P D A T E N O T I C E
for Triones
Bus Master EIDE/ATAPI Device Driver
for Intel 82430FX/HX Chipset
Version 3.20a
(April 02, 1996)
1. Some ATAPI CD-ROM drives need different workarounds. These workarounds
were added into the drivers. Now more ATAPI CD-ROM models are supported.
The following CD-ROM drives were fully tested:
MITSUMI FX400,FX400B,FX400C,FX400D
SONY CDU55E,CDU76E,CDU77E,CDU78E
HITACHI CDR-7730
NEC CDR260R,CDR271,CDR272,CDR273
TOSHIBA XM-5302B
WEARNES CDD-120A,CDD-220,
OAK EVALUATION
PHILIPS LMS CM207
(version 3.0)
2. New workaround about WD Caviar hard disk drives recommended by Western
Digital was used.
(version 3.0)
3. In Windows 95 system, when entering the DOS mode, the original PIIX
configuration and drive configuration will be restored. There will be
no more error message or garbage characters when exiting into the
DOS mode.
(version 3.0)
4. The driver for Windows 95 now allows a maximum 64K data transfer size
for one command. The performance is much better than before.
(version 3.0)
5. For the previous versions, if a Windows 95 system was installed
without the DOS or Windows 3.1 pre-installed, for the following
device combination:
0x1F0: a DMA supported disk drive
0x170: a PIO only CD-ROM drive
accesssing the CD-ROM sometimes would result in an "Exception 0E ..."
error message.
This issue now is fixed.
(version 3.0)
6. The bus master IDE is a new technology. With so many IDE/ATAPI devices
already in the market, there are a lot of compatability issues. Our bus
master IDE/ATAPI device drivers are the first ones in the market. We
have been keeping in touch with the IDE hard disk and ATAPI CD-ROM device
manfacturers. Since the last release (version 3.0), we have gotten some
new feedbacks from them. We adjusted the default mode settings for some
hard disks into the drivers.
(version 3.1)
7. The following new CD-ROM models were tested:
WEARNES CDD-620
SANYO CRD-254P
8. We provided a new method to change back to the Windows 95 default
driver, please refer to the readme file.
(version 3.1)
9. When forcing to use PIO mode 0, the DOS driver sometimes reportes a
wrong PIO mode. This problem was fixed in this release.
(version 3.1)
10. Added DMA data transfer supporting on NEC CDR 280.
(version 3.11)
11. Changed display message from "Triton" to "82430FX".
(version 3.11)
12. Added the supporting of PIIX3 (82430HX).
(version 3.20)
13. Fixed the bug with Video CD in the Windows 95 driver.
(version 3.20a)
14. Rewrote the DOS ATAPI CD-ROM driver.
(version 3.20a)
15. Fixed the errors about de-installation of the Bus Master Windows 95
driver in the readme file.
(version 3.20a)