Stallion Technologies Software Release Note ===================== ATA Driver for MS-DOS --------------------- CONTENTS ======== 1. General 2. Release History _______________________________________________________________________________ 1. General =========== Media Format ------------ The ATA MS-DOS driver is delivered in zip and gzip formats and is a full driver diskette. The gzip file is a raw diskette image and needs to be written to a 1.44Mb diskette. The zip file is a standard zip archive containing the files and directories that make up the driver. This can be unzipped to an empty directory or to a diskette. Disk Image Contents ------------------- The disk image contains the Windows 95/98, Windows NT and DOS drivers for EasyConnection and EasyIO. MS-DOS diagnostics for all Stallion Multi-port cards is also included. _______________________________________________________________________________ 2. Release History =================== ATA 5.5.0 ========= Date 10 March 99 Version 5.5.0 Previous 5.4.0 Characteristics --------------- Bus Architectures Supported: [Y] ISA [Y] MCA [Y] EISA [Y] PCI Description of Release: General release of the ATA driver for DOS. Compatible with: All previous drivers. New features and changes: - adds support for EC/RA-PCI Bugs Fixed ---------- 1784 D2S prb ALL- EISA Configuration file error :- EC8/32-AT 2151 D4S bug DOS- OS ATA driver not dealing with out-of-memory situation 2201 D3S bug DOS- Top level install.bat file missing from Windows driver di 2230 D3S bug DOS- E/C 8/32 PCI Host Card Tx/Rx Character Loss 2277 D3S doc DOS- DOS.TXT file on ATA 5.4.0 disk is inaccurate 2278 D3S bug DOS- DOS ATA driver installation does not work as documented 2526 DNS prb DOS- DOS driver needs HIMEM if RAM window above 1M ATA 5.4.0 ========= Date 4 December 97 Ver 5.4.0 Prev 5.3.1 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. bugs fixed. Bugs Fixed ---------- 1892 D3 bug DOS - EasyConnection 8/32 micro-channel fails dos diags 1907 D2 bug DOS - some systems hang when running DOS diags with ONboards 1908 D3 bug DOS - standard DOS driver read times out 1945 D2 bug DOS - DOS driver output corrupted under certain conditions 2130 D3 bug DOS - bad error messages from ATA dos driver 2140 D3 bug ALL - Input buffer flushing causes software flow control to bre _______________________________________________________________________________ [END]