@EFDA_94.ADF 08/10/1994
Different, added 4 pos[n], only two I/O ranges PCMCIA /A with Remote
2 Slot PCMCIA /A with
Rear Opening Slots (Maybe Japan only?) Stinger
under Linux Success? PCMCIA /A with Three 50 Pin Ports 67G5055 2-Slot PCMCIA [Stinger] [Ed] this is a stump the chump card set. My guess... The rear access adapter shares the same FRU as the Japanese 2 slot rear loading PCMCIA /A. This card set is an earlier FRU, and advances in design eliminated the need for the detached card. Note that a FRU relates to functional equivalence, where this card is a rear slot model, and the Japanese rear loading PCMCIA /A is also a rear slot model. The Japanese 2 slot rear loading PCMCIA -MIGHT- be a reduced cost version... PCMCIA Three Header, Front ![]() Oddly, I cannot make out ANY traces going to the MCA edge connectors. It appears that there is a whoppin' big ground plane. Note the utter lack of ANY chip. Not even a SIMMple logic chip to support POSID. Other MCA adapters exist that lack any POSID, and are invisible to POS [example - a gamecard]. These cards sit on the bus and respond to industry standard I/O addresses. PCMCIA Three Header, Rear ![]() Again, where are ANY traces to the edge contacts? PCMCIA Three Header, Tab ![]() ENUS194-402 Withdrawal: Selected Features (Options By IBM) November 15, 1994, IBM withdrew IBM PCMCIA Adapter/A (67G5055). Replacement Two Slot Front Access PCMCIA Adapter 81G4256 PCMCIA /A 81G4256: 2-Slot Front Access PCMCIA Adapter [O2MCPCM ?] ![]()
Note: If your PCMCIA Reader suddenly refuses to read / write, and you have been pulling it out / reinserting it a bit, one of the Littelfuse (white ceramic) might have had a solder joint fail. Check the solder joints carefully, look for a "fracture". I resoldered one, and restored my reader to life... U3-U6 Littelfuse 0459001 surface mount fast blow fuse, 1 ampere rating. Datasheet here J1 and J2 are HPDB80 pin connectors. PCMCIA
Socket Card Rear Opening 2 Slot PCMCIA /A PN 67G5054 / FRU 67G5055 [Stinger] ![]()
Curses. This makes my PCMCIA outline look poor. I'll
fix it by removing all of Tatsuo's outlines from my
site... If you are using OS/2 version 3, install the ThinkPad 720 PCMCIA drivers... The PS/2 E is an ISA machine... Duh! NOTE: An OPTIONS BY IBM HARDWARE MAINTENANCE MANUAL
SUPPLEMENT (S83G-9902, 83G9902) is available in support
of this product. Stinger under Linux Success > Did anyone ever make a working Stinger driver for Linux? Heinz Rath wrote: /linux-2.4.19/drivers/pcmcia/i82365.c The 2 sockets are detected and also the inserted Network card is found. Without the do_scan change the kernel will freeze when detecting the chip. The chip is a VD468. (Ed Thought it was the 468 or 469..) Posted by Landon Sheely Full WinNT4 Support David Ress was stalking the chimera, and bagged it! I would like to report that I just finished testing my PCMCIA Adapter/A under NT, and it looks like all is well. Looks like CardWare for NT solves our problem. Latest version is 6.00.041, and this version includes the refinements to work with the MCA bus. The download is a trial version that only works for 14 days. Tested a 3Com EtherLink III LAN PC Card (model 3C589D-TP) and it found it right away. Interesting enough, it provided me with the IO address, IRQ and other information necessary to install it, including opening the Network control panel. Oh, you need SP6 in order to install CardWare for NT. I have been experimenting with the CardWare for NT software for the past two nights, and based on the cards I have tried, I can honestly say that if the pcmcia card is on CardWare's list of supported adapters, it will work no problems. If it is not, then it takes a little monkeying. That said, it appears that New Media GameJammer and WAVJammer appears to be the only sound pcmcia adapter on CardWare's list. Does this mean your card does not work, of course not. My DaqCard-1200 from National Instruments is not listed either. It mounts, but CardWare for NT is not aware of its driver. Just takes some fiddling with the PC Card Database. For supported adapters, it may simply require the installation of a driver and a reboot - as I found out last night with the Adaptec APA1640 SlimSCSI card (needs sparrow.sys). Funny, for a while I had four SCSI adapters in my 9533. Tall about overkill. Tested
PC
Cards Half-Assed W95 Support From the god-Emperor of Microchannel Well, I am reporting "success" with the Stinger under W95. I got a mixed result that you all might accept- Install Ezplay. When it complains about not being able to rename config.pcm to config.sys, hit OK. Fire up Exploiter and save c:\ezplay\config.pcm as c:\config.sys Now open up c:\windows\ios.ini and add "diskdrv.sys" to the area with the rest of the IBM PCMCIA drivers. Reboot. Results- you will be able to use your hard drives in protected mode. The two PCMCIA slots and your CD Rom will be in compatibility mode. You got to suffer a little bit... The problem seems to be when IOS tries to issue Int 25 commands to the PCMCIA and CD. The diskdrv.sys is the crux of the matter. Look in IOS.LOG for errors. I tried must_chain, non_disk, monolithic. I got the same results with just the diskdrv.sys entry, so I just left it that way. I'm not totally sure what this will do with communications and network PC cards. It worked with my 105MB PCMCIA HD. YMMD 95 Bezel Hack Got tired of the dorky look of a bare B: drive bay. Did some measurements and started cutting. Basically, you cut the bottom of the PCMCIA opening flush with the bottom of the horizontal angle of the blank floppy cover. Measure 1.5" from the left and right edges of the floppy bezel. Those are the edges of the left and right side of the opening. I am still fighting with the top edge of the opening. .43" was too low. Much easier to cut excess away than put it back.... More Refined 95 Bezel "Hack"
This centers the 'drive' vertically in
the bezel opening with ample clearance to insert/remove
the PCMCIA cards. NO BEZEL HACKING REQUIRED. (Ed. What fun is that?) Two Slot PCMCIA Adapter for MCA Part Numbers ------------------------------------------------------------------------ OPT P/N O2MCPCM - MFG P/N 76H2738 for MCA-systems OPT P/N 82G7092 PS/2 Bezel kit FRU P/N 81G4261 PCMCIA Adapter for MC FRU P/N 81G4633 PCMCIA Bay FRU P/N 81G4634 PCMCIA Cable ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Operating System
requirements DOS 5.0 and higher, Windows 3.1 and
OS/2 2.1 Hardware Installation I prefer mounting the PCMCIA into the B: drive bay in a 95, but it works just as well in the A: drive bay... HW - Installation (Adapter and
Bay Assembly) Software Installation. Copy the files from the enclosed Micro Channel Options diskette onto the back-up copy of your system reference diskette. Start Update the System Configuration For All Systems Installing the Adapter Device Driver DOS Driver Installation Windows 3.1 Driver Installation
(includes DOS installation) OS/2 2.1 Driver Installation
Personal Experience- To install the dual slot adapter under OS/2 v.3, go to OS/2 System, System Setup, Selective Install, click on the button to the left of PCMCIA Support, choose the IBM ThinkPad 720. Preparing this Adapter for Use
Troubleshooting Adapter does not operate 1. Confirm logic card is installed correctly in computer's 16-Bit slot. 2. Confirm bay card is installed correctly in a 3.5 or 5.25 Inch bay. 3. Confirm that device drivers and support software have been installed and are operational. You will see a response from these drivers during the power on or re-booting sequence. (Ed. Use F8 during boot to do a step-by-step confirmation under Doze/W95) PCMCIA card does not operate
in a slot PCMCIA card does not operate
in either port Error message Invalid Drive
Letter appears.
Insert the following statement in the CONFIG.SYS before any device driver statements: lastdrive = # where # equals the letter of the last drive in the system. You must include two letters for the adapter and letters for all of the previously configured drives. DOS Configuration Example
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\DOS\SETVER.EXE The CONFIG.SYS File DOS CONFIG.SYS DEVICE=x
The letter x specifies the Socket Services already
installed on the computer. /baseslot=n This option sets the base slot address, where n specifies whether the address begins at (0) or (1). The default is 1. Set this switch to 0 only if you have a problem addressing the slots. If a value other than 0 or 1 is specified, this switch is ignored and the default setting is restored. /stbtime=n This option enables standby mode, where n specifies number of minutes that elapse before card goes to standby mode. The min value is 5 minutes, the max is 20 minutes. If a value greater than 20 is specified, this switch is ignored. All sockets are affected when you set this switch. (This feature does not support solid state cards.) OS/2 CONFIG.SYS file sequence
BASEDEV=OS2DASD.DMD switch options for the main
device driver /s:n Recognizes PCMCIA sockets, where n specifies number of physical PCMCIA sockets available. The default is 2, max is 4 sockets.
/i:m Ignores
specific PCMCIA sockets, where m specifies logical
socket number to be ignored. Multiple settings are
allowed. This is useful when a Type III card physically
occupies two sockets. /stbtime:n Enables standby mode. (Same as above for DOS stbtime option) /b This option specifies the OS/2 operating system to start (boot) from the PCMCIA-ATA card. If you specify this option, then PCMCIA.ADD module decreases the number of sockets specified by the /s switch because the startup PCMCIA-ATA card is treated as an internal IDE hard disk, not a PCMCIA-ATA card. When the OS/2 operating system starts (boots) from the PCMCIA-ATA card, if you use the /s:4 option w/o the /b option, the disk assigned to the last drive-letter will not be assigned to any physical socket. (To make this PC Card a bootable PC Card, see the documentation that came with the OS/2 operating system.) Notes About the /b Option PCMCIA Cards: Type I, II, III. Function of each type is only restricted by size. Type I -3.3mm thick SRAM or EEPROM memory cards. Type II -5.0mm thick, include SCSI, sound, modems, NIC, external device interfaces Type III -10.5mm thick cards that are most often hard drives. Software Drivers: Socket Services
Client and Super Client
Enablers Point Enablers
Other Drivers "Universal" PCMCIA
Drivers Card Memory Requirements
Table of Host Controllers Thinkpad Controller 310 TIPCI1131 340 RicohRF5C2661 350 Intel82365SL 355 RicohRF5C266 360 RicohRF5C366 365C/E RicohRF5C596 365X RicohRF5C366L 370C RicohRF5C366L 380-385/D/E/ED CirrusCL-PD6729 380-385/X/XD/Z TIPCI 1250A (CardBus) 390 TIPCI 1250A (CardBus) 500 Intel82365SL 510 RicohRF5C366 560/E CirrusLogic CLPD6729 560X/Z TIPCI 1250A (CardBus) 600 TIPCI 1250A (CardBus) 600E TIPCI 1251 (CardBus) 701 CirrusLogic CLPD6720 720 IBM "Stinger" Microchannel 710T-TPF Intel82365SL (x2) 710T-HDD Intel82365SL 730T CirrusLogic CLPD6710 &6720 750 Intel82365SL 755C/CS RicohRF5C266 (x2) 755CD/CE/CSE/CV/CX IBM"Zipang" (x3) 760C/CD/L/LD IBMZipang 760E/ED/EL/ELD/X/XD TICardBus PCI 1130 765D/L TICardBus PCI 1130 770 TIPCI 1250 (CardBus) 770E/X TIPCI 1250A (CardBus) 770Z TIPCI 1251 (CardBus) 1400 O2Micro 6833 1720 TIPCI1250A (CardBus) Notes: AdapterID 0EFDA "PCMCIA ADAPTER/A" Peter's version"I/O Address" I/O address. Each adapter must have a unique address range. <A3E0-A3E1>, A3E2-A3E3, A3E4-A3E5, A3E6-A3E7, A3E8-A3E9, A3EA-A3EB, A3EC-A3ED,A3EE-A3EF, B3E0-B3E1, B3E2-B3E3, B3E4-B3E5, B3E6-B3E7, B3E8-B3E9, B3EA-B3EB, B3EC-B3ED, B3EE-B3EF, 03E0-03E1 Actual ADF I/O Choice Prompt "I/O Address" Choice "A3E0-A3E1" pos[1]=XXXX000Xb pos[2]=1010XXXXb io 0A3E0h-0A3E1h NOTE: This version of @0EFDA.ADF uses pos[1] and pos[2] Huh... Default location for VG-469 registers is 3E0h/3E1h or 3E2h/3E3h AdapterID 0EFDAh "TWO SLOT PCMCIA ADAPTER FOR MICROCHANNEL" The option disk ADF is 08/10/1994 fixedresources pos[7]=X1011111b pos[6]=101X0011b pos[5]=1110XXX0b pos[4]=XXXX0X0Xb pos[3]=X1011111b pos[2]=10100011b pos[1]=1110XXX0b pos[0]=XXXX0X0Xb "I/O Address" Choice "03E0-03E1" pos[1]=XXXX000Xb pos[5]=XXXX001Xb io 003E0h-003E1h Choice "03E2-03E3" pos[1]=XXXX002Xb pos[5]=XXXX003Xb io 003E2h-003E3h Further meditation shows the 94 version fixedresources has pos[4-7] added. Option disk fixedresources pos[2] is 10100011b, Peter's pos[2] is XXXX0011b Option disk '94 pos[7]=X1011111b pos[6]=101X0011b pos[5]=1110XXX0b pos[4]=XXXX0X0Xb pos[3]=X1011111b pos[2]=10100011b pos[1]=1110XXX0b pos[0]=XXXX0X0Xb Peter's pos[3]=X1011111b pos[2]=XXXX0011b pos[1]=1110XXX0b pos[0]=XXXX0X0Xb I/O addresses Option Disk uses pos[1] and pos[5], Peter's uses pos[1] and pos[2] Option disk Prompt "I/O Address" Choice "03E0-03E1" pos[1]=XXXX000Xb pos[5]=XXXX001Xb io 003E0h-003E1h Choice "03E2-03E3" pos[1]=XXXX002Xb pos[5]=XXXX003Xb io 003E2h-003E3h Peter's Choice "03E0-03E1" pos[1]=XXXX000Xb pos[2]=0000XXXXb io 003E0h-003E1h So, the two ADFs are different, the '94 version adds more fixedresources, changes the pos[x] used for I/O, and now has been pared down to only TWO I/O addresses. It sure seems like IBM wouldn't want so many I/O choices, that would make troubleshooting more complex, plus 003E0-003E1 and 003E2-003E3 are used by the VADEM VG-468. |