Stallion Technologies Software Release Note ===================== ATA Driver for Windows NT ------------------------- CONTENTS ======== 1. General 2. Release History _______________________________________________________________________________ 1. General =========== Media Format ------------ The ATA Windows NT 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: This is a general release of the ATA driver for Windows NT. Compatible with: All previous drivers. New features and changes: This release: - adds support for EC/RA-PCI - this is the first version that provides Windows NT stalport (a command line utility similar to Unix bccstty that can be used to configure the driver behaviour) - various bugs fixed stalport.exe can be found in /i386/stalport.ex_. Prior to use you will have to uncompress stalport by doing something like the commands below from a DOS window: cd \temp c:\winnt\system32\expand a:\i386\stalport.ex_ stalport.exe See the directory /docs/wnt.txt for more details about stalport. stalport replaces the previous utilities set_dsrhigh and set_hwflow. Bugs Fixed ---------- 1939 D1S bug WNT-4.0 NT STOPs with RAS dial in and RAS dialout with ECP cards 1973 D3S sug WNT- Improve WindowsNT lantency / small packet response 2173 D2S bug WNT- Easyadmw does not appear in Control Panel with WinFrame 2195 DNS bug WNT- easyadmw report the new PCI cards as invalid 2241 D2S bug WNT- Losing the last 100 or 200 characters at end of print job 2244 D2S bug WNT- Problems to send/receive faxes with WinFax PRO 2265 D3S ftr WNT- Let the user change the valus of RXTHOLD 2308 D3S bug WNT- Datatrack Hexdump is losing bytes on output 2427 D3S prb WNT- Problems with Null Stripping and Event Char 2448 D3S bug WNT-4.0 Add adapter on top doesn't update ATA5 files 2503 D3S bug WNT- driver doesn't support forced XOFF/XON 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 driver for Windows NT. Compatible with: All previous releases. 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 ---------- 1731 D3 prb WNT - driver does NOT inform applications about SW overruns 1743 D3 bug WNT - rx char event signaling differs from standard driver 2060 D1 bug WNT - easyadmw can cause our driver to crash NT 2097 D3 bug WNT - RTS_CONTROL_TOGGLE is not completely implemented 2105 D2 bug WNT - Output corrupted printing many small files to new product 2111 D3 bug WNT - WinFrame system panic in ATA driver when tape backup star 2140 D3 bug ALL - Input buffer flushing causes software flow control to bre 2142 D2 bug WNT - PCI cards under NT may not be detected correctly ATA 5.3.1 ========= Date 10 Marh 97 Ver 5.3.1 Prev 5.2.0 Characteristics --------------- Bus Architectures Supported: ISA : Yes MCA : Yes EISA : Yes PCI : Yes Description of Release: This is a general release of the ATA driver for Windows NT. Compatible with: All previous releases. New features and changes: 1. Support for EasyConnection XP panels. 2. Support for EasyIO MK3 boards. 3. Easyadm for Windows - diagnostic tool added to Control Panel 4. set_dsrhigh.exe and set_hwflow.exe are provided (see details on DOCS\WNT.TXT) Bugs Fixed ---------- 1599 D2S prb WNT-3.5 stack overflow and crash on RAS and ECP 1662 D3S prb WNT- Windows NT driver has no DSRHIGH function 1725 D3S bug WNT- proprietary application hanging during reading 1748 43S prb WNT- problems with DOS applications 1778 D3S prb WNT- Some applications may not be able to access our ports 1840 D4S prb WNT- error connecting to RAS on ECP 1841 DNS prb WNT- new ioctl's - get and clear serial stats 1921 D3S bug WNT- Bug when reconfiguring PCI card _______________________________________________________________________________ [END]