Stallion Technologies Software Release Note ===================== ATA Driver for BSDI ------------------- CONTENTS ======== 1. General 2. Release History _______________________________________________________________________________ 1. General =========== Media Format ------------ The ATA BSDI driver is delivered in zip and gzip formats and is a full driver diskette or tar file. The gzip file is a raw diskette image and needs to be written to a 1.44Mb diskette. The .tar.gz file is a UNIX tar archive containing the files and directories that make up the driver. This can be untarred to an empty directory. Disk Image Contents ------------------- The disk image contains the BSDI driver for EasyConnection and EasyIO. _______________________________________________________________________________ 2. Release History =================== ATA 5.4.0 ========= Date 4 December 1997 Ver 5.4.0 Characteristics --------------- Bus Architectures Supported: ISA : Yes MCA : Yes EISA : Yes PCI : Yes Description of Release: This is a general release of the ATA drivers for all supported operating systems. This is the first driver to support the new EasyIO-PCI and EasyConnection 8/64-PCI boards. It is also the first release to support the EasyConnection XP16 module. Compatible with: All previous ATA drivers. New features and changes: 1. Support for the EasyIO-PCI board. 2. Support for the EasyConnection 8/64-PCI board. 3. Support for the EasyConnection XP16, XP8D4, XP8R and XP16R Modules. 4. Many bugs fixed. Bugs Fixed ---------- 1427 D3 bug ALL - RTS can get stuck low 1539 D3 bug ALL - ONboard/Brumby output performance reduced under ATA 5.1.3 1551 D1 bug ALL - Diags hangs with Level interrupts configured 1577 D3 bug ALL - Cacheing doesn't work with old boards under ATA5 1597 D4 bug ALL - changing board types can confuse easyadm about resources 1600 D4 bug ALL - Allport stats screen help doesn't describe fields 1605 D3 bug ALL - mapcts flag does not work on ONboards and Brumbys 1607 D3 bug ALL - The ATA5.2 2681 slave crashed on most 128K brumbies 1644 D2 bug ALL - Onboards and Brumbies still don't work reliably with ATA5 1890 D3 bug ALL - EIO-4 rev 3.0 HW change requires Easyadm update 2140 D3 bug ALL - Input buffer flushing causes software flow control to bre _______________________________________________________________________________ [END]