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1. Using Battery Operated Computers Advanced Power Management PC Cards are very new technology While more and more computers are being designed to be PCMCIA compliant some are not The idea of simply plugging in a pocket sized card e a fax modem hard drive etc without having to disassemble your computer is catching on quickly However there are some cautions to this lug and play Just as you wouldn t pull the plug to your VCR from the electrical outlet while recording a TV program you don t want to allow the lug to be pulled on your card while it is live or connected to your computer Many battery operated computers have a system known as Advanced Power Management APM which monitors system activity shutting down various components and even the computer itself whenever they have been idle for a set period of time This can make a significant difference in the length of time you can work before having to recharge the battery Many APM equipped computers are PC Card ware This means that they can detect when a PC Card is present and can notify CardWare and other PC Card support software when system power is about to be turned off If your computer and system software does not support this feature we suggest that you disable suspend mode while you are using your PC Cards Types of PC Cards This chapter will introduce you to common types of PC Cards Chapter 6 describ
2. Help 5 If you are editing an existing Device Definition having selected Devices dit from the main menu you only need to select the name of the Device Definition you wish to edit from the Name list box Then you will reassign the system resources that are to be changed to this Device Definition The system resource fields will display their current assignments for your convenience Assigning System Resources for Device Definitions One or more of the following system resources will be required depending on the type of Device Definition Please bear in mind that this manual must assume that the PC Card you wish to define and associate includes complete documentation Such documentation would naturally include the data referred to below This is especially important if the card is not generic and or does not completely conform to the PCMCIA specifications of revision 2 10 Specifying UO Ranges or I O Addresses I O resources required by a device are specified by a base address and in some cases a length Some device types such as serial ports use a fixed number of I O ports For these types of devices the length is implied and PC Card Control does not allow a length to be specified The base address of an I O range is entered using a drop down combo box This address is specified in hexadecimal typically between 100H and 3FFH The length of an I O range is specified in bytes typically as a power
3. is EVICE C DOS HIMEM SYS DEVICE C DOS EMM386 EXE RAM X CFOO D7FF Changes to Your AUTOEXEC BAT BUFFERS 10 0 FILES 30 FCBS 4 0 DOS HIGH UMB LASTDRIVE I SHELL C DOS COMMAND COM C DOS e 512 p f EM THE FOLLOWING FILES HAVE BEEN ADDED FOR CARDWARE EVICE C CARDWARE DPMS EXE EVICE C CARDWARE SSxxxxxx EXE EVICEHIGH C CARDWARE PCCS EXE EVICE C CARDWARE PCRM EXE AUTODETECT R R EVICEHIGH C CARDWARE PCENABLE EXE EVICEHIGH C CARDWARE PCDISK EXE EM END OF THE CARDWARE FILES DUUUUUUD If you have placed the CardWare files in a different subdirectory or drive change all of the references above to C CARDWARE with the appropriate drive and subdirectory also known as the path Be sure a backslash still separates the path from the filename as shown above The DPMS driver allows Socket Services SSxxxxxx EXE Card Services PCCS EXE and PC Enable to be loaded into extended memory If you prefer using a memory manager such as EMM386 EXE or QEMM386 SYS which provides upper memory blocks UMB you can use the DEVICEHIGH statement to load all drivers high with the exception of PCRM which does not stay The ability to load the drivers high is exclusively a function of th
4. 5 Online Help Designed for exclusive use with PCCard Control for Windows Directory Typing Alt N opens an edit box where you can specify both the drive and directory where CardWare is to be installed Modifying Your The final step in the installation and setup of CardWare is to modify your System Files system boot files AUTOEXEC BAT and CONFIG SYS You will be offered the choice of making the changes or not CardWare 2 x Setup Setup needs to make the following modifications to your configuration iles CONFIG SYS Add CardWare devices to startup procedure AUTOEXEC BAT Add CardWare directory to your PATH variable Let Setup do the modifications for you Setup will modify your CONFIG SYS and AUTOEXEC BAT automatically Before doing changes Setup will backup your existing configuration file CONFIG SYS to CONFIG BAK AUTOEXEC BAT to AUTOEXEC BAK Let you review all changes and make modifications later Setup will create files CONFIG CW and AUTOEXEC CW in your CardWare directory You may review changes before updating your configuration Do not modify configuration files Setup will not modify your configuration files Please use this op tion with care CardWare may not operate correctly You should not select this option if you update the existing CardWare 1 x version Ce Let Setup do the modifications for you lt gt Let you review all changes and make modifications later lt gt Do not modify configuration
5. PCM3 The Phoenix Card Manager Plus version 3 installation will add some or all of the following lines to your CONFIG SYS DEVICE C PCMPLUS CNFIGNAM EXE DEFAULT DEVICE C PCMPLUS PCMSS EXE DEVICE C PCMPLUS PCMCS EXE DEVICE C PCMPLUS PCMRMAN SYS DEVICE C PCMPLUS PCMSCD EXE DEVICE C PCMPLUS PCMATA EXE DEVICE C PCMPLUS PCMFFCD EXE DEVICE C PCMPLUS MS FLASH SYS Note that the above assumes the default drive and directory are used yours will look differently depending on your selections during installation Additionally PCM3 includes PCMWIN EXE This provides the Windows interface for PCM3 and you should remove it from the Startup Group and or from the un line in your Windows WIN INI CardSoft CardSoft from SystemSoft will add the some or all of the following lines to your CONFIG SYS DEVICE C CARDSOFT SSxXxxxxx EXE DEVICE C CARDSOFT CS EXE DEVICE C CARDSOFT CSALLOC EXE DEVICE C CARDSOFT ATADRV EXE DEVICE C CARDSOFT MTSRAM EXE DEVICE C CARDSOFT MTAA EXE DEVICE C CARDSOFT MTAB EXE DEVICE C CARDSOFT MTI1 EXE DEVICE C CARDSOFT MT1I2 EXE DEVICE C CARDSOFT MTDDRV EXE DEVICE C CARDSOFT SSMSFLSH SYS DEVICE C CARDSOFT CARDID EXE INSTALL C CARDSOFT CS_APM EXE Note that the above assumes the default drive and directory are used yours will look differently dep
6. This does not mean that CardWare is only active in DOS when using PC Card Control Rather CardWare is activated every time you boot your computer and continues to actively monitor your PCMCIA system while your system is on PC Card Control is your DOS PCMCIA system configuration utility Cards Devices Options Card MEGAHERTZ KJ124FM Device AUTO Configured by PCENABLE Socket 2 Card SunDisk SDP Device D rive i Configured by PCENABLE Starting PC Card Control for DOS PC Card Control will be installed into your CardWare subdirectory on the hard drive you selected during Install The basic startup command would be drive path PCCARD lt Enter gt For example using the installation defaults you would type C CARDWARE PCCARD lt Enter gt where drive C path CARDWARE Using PC Card Control for DOS PC Card Control for DOS responds to both the keyboard and the mouse if a Microsoft Mouse compatible DOS mouse driver is installed Keyboard Along the bottom of the screen you will see some general help for keyboard commands Alt X Exit Pressing the gt while holding down the Alt key will terminate the session and return you to DOS F6 Next Socket The F6 key allows you to toggle between the sockets displayed on the screen F10 Menu The F10 key activates the main menu on the top line of the screen Use the left and right arrow keys to highlight a menu entry pressing E
7. determine either then you will not be able to alter that field 3 To change the type of the card choose the appropriate Type for the card If the card has already been recognized by CardWare you will NOT be able to change the type 4 Next you need to specify the PC Card Device Definition associations in this context a Device Definition is simply the specification of the system resources the card will use If the card is generic it will already have devices associated with it 5 You can move the Device Definitions from the Defined to the Associated box and vice versa by simply double clicking on the Device Definition or by selecting a Device Definition and clicking the Include or Remove button REMEMBER If your card comes with its own configuration software select Do Not Config This will permit your software to correctly control the card There are two important things to remember about associating devices with a PC Card 6 CardWare will try to configure the card in the order the Device Definitions appear in the Associated box 7 The system resources referenced by the Device Definition s must be available which means a they must have been placed under the control of CardWare see below ssigning System Resources for Device Definitions b they must be physically present in the system c they must not be in use by another device and d they must match any requirement the card may hav
8. hexadecimal typically between 100H and 3FFH The length of an I O range is specified in bytes typically as a power of two between 1 and 32 If the Device Definition type permits an I O range to be entered but the definition does not require an I O range then both the address and length must be set to None If the definition allows the I O range to be located wherever space is available then the length should be set to the size required and the address to Any Some devices may require multiple I O ranges PC Card Control allows a Device Definition to have up to two I O ranges If a Device Definition uses two I O ranges the base address for both ranges must be specified The Any entry may not be used when multiple I O ranges are specified Specifying Memory Ranges Memory resources required by a device are specified using a base address and a length The base address is entered using a drop down combo box This entry is specified in hexadecimal as an Intel x86 segment value typically in the range of AOOOH to FOOOH The length is also entered using a drop down combo box This entry is expressed in decimal in KByte units typically as a power of two between 4 and 64 If the device type permits a memory range to be entered but the definition does not require a memory range both the address and length must be set to None If the definition allows the memory range to be located wherever space is available the address should be s
9. COM3 or COM4 is IRQ 5 Other useful IRQ are 10 and 11 5 Select OK and complete the configuration At this point choosing this COM resource for your fax modem will be recognized at the I O address and IRQ desired See Chapter 6 C Card Control for Windows for more information about I O addresses IRQs and configuring PC Cards Fortunately the current trend has been to build computers with a dedicated mouse port entirely separate from any COM port If your mouse connects to the computer using a circular not a rectangular or D shape connector you probably have such a port The only concern then would be to not associate any PC Card with IRQ 12 The following flow chart provides an overview of the steps taken by CardWare as it attempts to register each type of PC Card for the first time INSERT CARD l GENERIC CARD SPECIFIC CARD UNRECOGNIZABLE RECOGNITION RECOGNITION PC CARDS m identification m Acknowledged E Requires Manual E Configuration E Not specifically ID d Installation Not auto configured 1 BEEP 1 BEEP 3 BEEPS ERROR MESSAGE 3 BEEPS FIRST USE USE CARD Cards lt Cards lt _ Cards lt Edit Edit Edit Reconfigure lt _ Card Reconfigure lt Type Device Definition ERROR K MESSAGE Recognized Reconfigure and 3 BEEPS Configured Card 3 BEEPS 3 BEEPS y SEE CARD USE CARD USE CARD MANUFACTURER
10. Cards and ATA Harddisk and Flashdisk PCDISK EXE aese 8 7 Example CONFIG SYS Modification 8 8 Changes to Your AUTOEXEC BAT ccccceeeeeeeeeeeee eee e eee eeeeaaeeeeeee ee eteecaaeeeeeeeeeteecdiaaeeeeeeeeenee 8 9 Installation of Socket and Card Services only ssessssseessssessssrsrssssssrrrrrstsssrrrrrnnnnsssrrnnnnne 8 10 BET elle ere VUE 8 10 Re enabling CardWare rssrserene iaaa aaa Eaa enaA E IEAA AaS Anaan A aiaa aaa Taat 8 11 ulee VE 8 11 Installing CardWare into Windows 8 12 E Assigning System Resources to CGardhWare tees eeeeeeccaeeeeeeeeeteenaaeeeeeeeeeneed 8 13 Ree ele le Ee 8 14 Mouse Driver Interterence AAA 8 14 PC Card Control does not notify you of low or Dead baten 8 14 Not Ready Reading Drive DOS Error Reading a Flash Card 8 14 PCPREP reports rror retrieving Driver Parameter Table ceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeteaees 8 15 Cards not identified as same card between DOS and Windows Card Control 8 15 Aloel o c EANET E E REE E dnt el Moke tale tales Se tetas EE EE ELE 8 15 No Beeps in Windows but Beeps in DOS isssssseeesssssssrirrrersssrriirrrtssssrrrnrnnsssssrrnnsnnsesnt 8 15 Erratic or Unstable Performance with a Desktop Card Header 8 15 G Frequently Asked Questions Zeite getest ett stinn eeh getest tee dE e rabinek me reae iets 8 16 Hi EN EE 8 19 Proprietary Notice and Disclaimer Unless otherwise noted this document and the information herein disclosed are proprietary to AWARD Soft
11. O tontim Status O Bun Miximized O Etse on removal E Application Please select an application to launch File Name Directories winfax exe c winfax List Files of Type Applications exe To change the type of the card choose the appropriate Type for the card If the card has already been recognized by CardWare you will NOT be able to change the type If it is Unknown you will need to select the correct type To create a new type of card select a type similiar to your card then select New Device below the Defined box See Defining New Device Definitions below for a description of how to assign resources to a device Next you need to associate Device Definitions with the card in this context a Device Definition is simply a listing of the system resources the card will use If the card is generic it will already have devices associated with it You move the Device Definitions from the Defined to the Associated box and vice versa by simply double clicking on the Device Definition or by selecting a Device Definition and clicking the Include or Remove button REMEMBER If your card comes with its own configuration software select Do Not Config This will permit your software to correctly control the card Finally you have an opportunity to associate an application with this card This means that you can select an application which you would lik
12. PCMCIA adapter later PCIC 82365SL B ste DI X Install Socket Services X3 Install Card Services X Install Clients Create the CardWare Group for Microsoft Windows Auto start PCCARD Control for Windows Disk Space Kb available REI Directory C CARDWAREN Enter Continue Alt B Back Alt K Exit Alt F Choose Clients Alt N Change Dir PCMCIA Adapter While this list box provides a list of adapters to choose from it is generally NOT a good idea to change the entry displayed This is because Install advanced diagnostics has already detected the adapter type We recommend that you change the adapter only if you are certain the autodetection is in error of if you know you will be installing another PCMCIA controller Installation Options The next five check boxes allow you to select which services you wish installed Install Socket Services Socket Services is PCMCIA compatible software which directly supports the hardware adapter and provides standard software control of the adapter Ordinarily this should always be installed If your system includes a proprietary and unsupported adapter with PCMCIA Release 2 10 compatible Socket Services then you may not need to install the CardWare Socket Services In this event no other CardWare dri vers will load and CardWare will not be functioning Install Card Services Card Services is PCMCIA compatible software which provides standard software control of PC cards Again t
13. PCMCIA adapter unless you either are selections click on the arrow at the right of Bee E was wrong or you want to replace the the list window It is not recommended that this be altered from the autodetect unless you are certain it is error Install Socket Services Ed Install Card Services Dd Install Clients Create the Cardware Group for Microsoft Windows Install Socket Services This provides underlying support for your adapter Auto start PCCARD Control for Windows Disk Space Directory Kb required 801 C CARDWARE Kb available 111160 H Install Card Services This allows you to configure PCMCIA cards selectively Install Clients Clients are software applications which make use of Socket and or Card Services Clicking on iles will open a window allowing you to select from 1 Generic I O Card Enabler This is software designed to recognize I O cards when they are inserted 2 Generic Memory Card Enabler This is software designed to recognize Memory cards when they are inserted 3 PC Card Control for Windows Main CardWare interface for configuring PCMCIA cards 4 PC Card Control for DOS This is the main CardWare interface for configuring PC Cards 5 Online Help Designed for exclusive use with PCCard Control for Windows Create the CardWare Group for Microsoft Windows This allows Setup to create a CardWare group in Windows This is a convenience since it makes it easier to fin
14. PCRM PCRM is a DOS utility that allows initialization of resources which are available to Card Services PCRM is placed in your CONFIG SYS file When activated at boot up it reads the RESOURCES section of the CARDWARE INI file and initializes Card Services If the AUTODETECT switch is used PCRM automatically detects free COM ports free LPT ports and free IRQ s NOTE Do not try to load PCRM high This is unnecessary and can hang your system It is not necessary to load PCRM high because it only initializes the Card Services resource table and it does not stay resident Syntax DEVICE PCRM H F FILE INI NONE AUTODETECT X MEM base length share X 1 O base length share lines X IROQ level share where H Print the help text AUTODETECT Enable autodetection features F FILE INI_ Specifies an alternative INI file name default CARDWARE INI located in directory where your CardWare files have been installed F NONE Do not process any INI file MEM Add length bytes of memory at base with share 1 O Add length bytes of I O at base with share and lines IROQ Add IRQ level with share XMEM Exclude length bytes of memory at base with share XI O Exclude length bytes of I O at base with share and lines XIRQ Exclude IRQ level with share D Installation Information Uninstalling Other PCMCIA Software CardWare is the sum of severa
15. This is not the same as re sizing a window within Windows CardWare provides several different sized images of the slots and cards themselves There are two ways of changing the size of PC Card 1 Using the View menu 2 Using the Toolbar View Menu The View menu item is opened by typing Alt V or by clicking the mouse directly on the main menu item iew Toolbar v Toolbar The toolbar is a row of buttons which allow quick access to some of the items displayed in this menu When checked the 7100 toolbar is displayed below the main menu When not 75 checked the display area used by CardWare will be smaller 50 See sing the Toolbar below 25 Free scale Status Bar Iconize The status bar is an area which displays information about Always on top the current view When checked the status bar is displayed Adjust sockets in line at the bottom of the PC Card Control window When not Adjust sockets in column checked the display area used by CardWare will be smaller Adjust sockets to default Adjust window to contents Frame See The check mark indicates the current sizing as percentage of v Save Settings on exit 8 the default size Upper Socket Free Scale allows you to manually enter the size as a percent Scaling Inconize changes the size to that of an icon and places the window in the lower left hand corner of the desktop The icon still graphically represents the sockets and any cards in them Only the menus are m
16. This prevents you from being prompted to configure this card in the future ATA Flashdisk and Harddisk Cards Memory Cards An ATA Flashdisk or Harddisk card can be inserted into the PC Card Socket either before or after turning on your system If you insert the ATA card before power on you will hear three beeps at the end of the POST messages signifying that the card has been successfully installed and is now active If the card is inserted at the DOS prompt or while running Windows the system will also sound three beeps on successful recognition Your ATA PC Card will be automatically recognized and installed as a disk drive if it has a valid CIS which conforms to the PCMCIA Committee s Standard 2 10 If the card CIS is not valid or has been damaged it cannot be configured by CardWare If your ATA drive is a generic drive its name will not appear in the Cardlist when you choose the Cards Edit Any Card command If you want to change the configuration for a generic drive edit the associations for the Generic ATA Disk card If you want to change the configuration for an ATA PC card see chapter 6 C Card Control for Windows CardWare will attempt to dynamically configure the card using the Device Definitions in the same order as they appear in the Associations box for the card If your drive is not already partitioned and formatted you must use the PCPREP utility see Appendix B sing PCPREP before you can
17. Windows Installation This chapter describes how to install CardWare from Microsoft Windows The installation includes CardWare for DOS as well as for use with Windows Even if you seldom use Windows with your PC Cards this installation will give you every option necessary to install only those components you really need If you do not use Windows see Chapter 3 OS Installation Check the contents of your CardWare package e Make sure you have the correct equipment and operating system to install and run CardWare See ystem Requirements in Chapter 1 e Make a backup of both CardWare diskettes What is Included with CardWare e This User Manual e CardWare software diskettes 2 Installing CardWare Before you install CardWare it is important that you know the brand and type of your Computer PCMCIA system The CardWare Windows installation program can only be run from within Microsoft Windows If you do not wish to use Windows see Chapter 3 OS Installation or Appendix D Installation Information for a discussion of the files required and the changes necessary to your system boot files The same section also describes how to uninstall CardWare If CardWare was included with your computer system it may already be installed Before performing any of the steps described below verify that the computer system manufacturer has not already installed CardWare If you are replacing PC Card PCMCIA software from anothe
18. card is recognized associated Device Definitions are used to determine the system resource required and how the card is configured See also PC Card A term applied to a peripheral in a computer system Examples are hard drives serial ports and network adapters Devices require system resources to perform the function they provide CardWare calls the combination of system resources required by a device the Device Definition See also Device Definition Device Definition A collection of system resources that a PC Card uses when it is configured by CardWare Device Type IDE Generic The card type the Device Definition is intended to support Card definitions may only be associated with Device Definitions of the same type Different device types use different combinations of system resources See also Associated Acronym for Integrated Drive Electronics Used to describe hard drives with an on board controller The interface to the controller is described in the ATA specification PC Card s may contain information that allows CardWare to determine the type of function they perform If this information is available CardWare Nloes not require that a specific card definition be developed to allow the card to be used Instead CardWare configures the card based upon a generic card definition appropriate to the card s type Generic card recognition greatly reduces the number of specific card definitions required and allows a clas
19. fails CardWare will try to Auto Configure the card If the card is neither Specific nor Generic CardWare will try to Auto Configure the card In this case CardWare will attempt to configure the card with one of the Device Definitions already defined but not associated If this fails CardWare tries to create a Device Definition on the fly and to configure the card with this new device definition There are three possibilities when a new PC Card is inserted for the first time 1 The card is a generic type of PC Card and if the resources are available is automatically installed by CardWare CardWare can recognize modem and ATA flashdisk or harddisk cards as generic cards 2 The card is Auto Configured by CardWare because either a generic card could not be configured with the associated Device Definitions because the requested resources are not available or the card is not generic such as a LAN card 3 The card could not be configured because either the requested resources are not available or the CIS structure on the card does not include enough information to recognize the card and to register it for future use PC Card isa eneric Card Many but not all PC Cards contain standard information which CardWare can read One piece of information that may be present is the type of function performed by the PC Card If CardWare recognizes a new PC Card as a fax data modem or as an ATA flashdisk or harddisk it configures the c
20. files Enter Continue Alt B Back Alt K Exit If you allow Install to make the necessary modifications a copy of each original unmodified file will be copied to the root directory with the extension BAK For example CONFIG BAK will represent your CONFIG SYS before Card Ware changes were made If you DO NOT allow Install to make the changes Install will place samples of each in the CardWare destination directory leaving the originals unchanged Later you can review these proposed changes and make a decision about implementing new system files Completing the Installation When the installation of CardWare is complete and your system files updated remove the CardWare distribution diskette from your floppy drive Then you must reboot your computer to activate CardWare It will not be necessary to reboot if you have not updated your AUTOEXEC BAT and CONFIG SYS If Setup cannot detect a memory manager such as EMM386 EXE QEMM386 SYS etc you will be reminded that if one is added later you must configure it NOT to use certain areas of memory which must be reserved for CardWare use See Appendix D for an example CONFIG SYS modification and see CWINI TXT installed into the CardWare subdirectory for more information If a memory manager is detected then Setup will automatically make the correct changes for you CardWare PCMCIA and Your Computer This chapter will discuss how CardWare using the resources provided by your compute
21. use your drive This is because ATA flashdisks and harddisks require a special format which is not supported by the DOS and Windows disk format commands DO NOT use DOS format or the Windows File Manager to prepare these cards A memory card can be inserted into the PC Card Socket either before or after turning on your system If you insert the memory card before turning your system on you will hear three beeps at the end of the POST messages Using SRAM Cards Using FLASH Cards signifying that the card has been successfully installed and is now active If the card is inserted at the DOS prompt or while running Windows the system will also sound three beeps on successful recognition You can use SRAM cards the same way you use diskettes If your SRAM card is not already formatted you must use the PCPREP utility see Appendix B sing PCPREP or the FORMAT command before you can copy files to your Memory card You can also use the Windows File Manager for Formatting and Copying If you want to use FLASH Memory cards you must use the Microsoft Flash File System IT FFS D FFS Iis not part of the CardWare package and must be purchased separately from Microsoft If you have already installed FFS I install the MS FLASH SYS driver after PCDISK EXE in your CONFIG SYS Your CONFIG SYS should look like this DEVICE C CARDWARE DPMS EXE DEVICE C CARDWARE SSxXxxxxx EXE DEVI
22. you cannot load PCRM high because it only initializes Card Services and does not stay resident The lines added to the CONFIG SYS file should be after any entries used to load memory managers such as Quarterdeck s QEMM Qualitas 386MAX or Microsoft EMM386 They MUST also be placed after any entries which load Power Management software WARNING If you are using memory management software QEMM 386MAX Disabling CardWare EMM386 etc you MUST instruct the manager to exclude the ROM Expansion area assigned to CardWare Review the MEM entries in the Resources sections of the initialization file CARDWARE INI to determine the area s to exclude To temporarily disable CardWare follow this simple procedure e Modify your CONFIG SYS file using a text editor capable of editing ASCII files without changing the format Locate the following DEVICE statements DEVICE C CARDWARE DPMS EXE DEVICE C CARDWARE SSxxxxxx EXE DEVICE C CARDWARE PCCS EXE DEVICE C CARDWARE PCRM EXE AUTODETECT DEVICE C CARDWARE PCENABLE EXE DEVICE C CARDWARE PCDISK EXE e Insert GEM at the beginning of each line Note that there is a space after the letters GEM The case is irrelevant but the space is required REM turns each of the four DEVICE lines into a remark line thereby preventing the loading of your CardWare Remember to save the file Re enabling CardWare Removi
23. A PC Card Control is the program for configuring your PC Cards To start PC Card Control for Windows click on the Icon in the CardWare group Personal Computer Memory Card International Association has created and documented a series of specifications to allow you to plug in and use almost any compliant PC Card Recognized Socket To CardWare recognized means that a PC Card is identified when it is inserted A PC Card must be recognized before it can be configured using an associated Device Definition See also Associated The 68 pin receptacle into which the PC Card is inserted to make physical and electrical connection to the PC Card adapter See also Adapter System Resources A system interacts with its world through three resources 1 Memory 2 Interrupts 3 I O ports Device Definitions describe the set of resources used by a PC Card once it is configured See also I O Interrupts Memory Tuple Tuples are special fields in the internal memory of certain PC Cards PCMCIA compliant tuples describe the configurable characteristics of Memory Only and VO Cards See also CIS WAV Files A WAV pronounced ave file is a file of digitized sound like on a CD Because the extension of the file name the three characters following the period in the file name is WAV e g SOUNDS WAYV these segments of sound have become known as WAV files
24. CE C CARDWARE PCCS EXE DEVICE C CARDWARE PCRM EXE AUTODETECT DEVICE C CARDWARE PCENABLE EXE DEVICE C CARDWARE PCDISK EXE DEVICE C MSTOOLS MS FLASH SYS If your FLASH card is already formatted you can use it the same way you use diskettes The procedure for copying and deleting files on a FLASH card is the same as with a SRAM card You can also use the Windows File Manager If your FLASH card is not already formatted you must use the MEMCARD utility which comes with your Flash File System to Partition and Format your FLASH card Consult the MEMCARD manual for further information You can not use the DOS FORMAT command the Windows File Manager or the PCPREP utility for this purpose PC Card Resource Requirements This section will list the devices associated with each type of PC Card and their default resource requirements Fax Modem Fax Modem cards are a type of serial port Cards Associations COM1 COM2 COM3 COM4 UO Range 3F8h 2F8h 3E8h 2E8H Length Bytes 8 Memory Range None IRQ None Any 2 15 Defaults COMI 3F8h 8 Bytes None memory range IRQ A COM2 2E8h 8 Bytes None memory range IRQ 3 COM3 3E8H 8 Bytes None memory range IRQ 4 COM4 2E8h 8 Bytes None memory range IRQ 3 Network Network cards are commonly referred to as LAN1 LAN2 etc However Adapter Cards since there are a number of Network topographies protocols and architectures there are a wi
25. CardWare 2 5 User Manual PC Card Control for Windows D I GH Devices DEI Info View Help Dech See For Help press i S l E press ForHelp pressFI eee sy VM is OC A K AWARD SOFTWARE wo ONAL ASS ASIA NORTH AMERICA EUROPE Revision History 2 5 New DOS First Ammended Draft May 2 1995 PC card 00 an MnitialDraft TI March 02 1994 Print Date CW25 DOC 05 02 95 9 07 AM Table of Contents de TT Lo n MR E E E E E E E E E What IS Cardhare EEEE 1 1 How to Use This Manual 1 2 A Word about CardWare in DOS and in WIndows cecceeeeeeeeeeeneeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaeeeeeeetteesnaaeeeeeees 1 2 A Special Note about Windows tnt ntantt ttnn nnn nanttn EEEE EnA annn EEnEnnn nanne nn nnen n a 1 2 Mouse TErmS ee 1 3 Keyboard Terms nnet aset ttnn AAAA SeE EEE EEAASSOEEEEENENAnSn nE EEE nannan nenn nananet 1 3 General TermS ccc cccccccc cece cece cece cece eee eee ennn EEE EEE nnana EEEE EEEE EEE E ELLE EEE E ELLE EEE E TELE EEE EE RERE ERRER RRR 1 3 Resources IN your PACKAGE 0 eee ee cece eeecceeee cette eee eeeaaee eee e ee eteeaaaeeeeeeeeeeeceaaaeeeeeeeeeseccaaaeeeeeeeeeseensiaeeeeees 1 4 System Requirements 00 0 2 c cece cece eee eee eter ee eee eee eee eee e eee EEAS E EEEE E een 1 4 Windows Installation EE What is Included with Carchhare tmt 2 1 I stalling GardWare cciana aa a a a aae 2 1 What Setup Kale 2 2 SLL LU GE 2 2 Eer EE 2 3 EE EE
26. Control and configuring PC Cards Finally Chapter 8 includes several appendices a troubleshooting section and a glossary Throughout this manual you will find references to lines required in your CONFIG SYS One line in particular will include reference to a device driver described as Sxxxxxx exe This is a generic reference to software which supports a specific type of socket controller The x are specific to a certain type of controller while S means Socket Services If you need more detailed information use CardWare s Online Help see etting Help in Chapter 6 This Online Help provides a uick Tour designed to cover all your questions as well as to provide index searches for the help you need See your Windows documentation for information about how to use Online Help A Word about CardWare in DOS and in Windows Once installed CardWare works in the background in both DOS and Microsoft Windows This means that both DOS and Windows applications can make use of your PCMCIA cards PC Cards A Special Note about Windows To gain the full benefits of CardWare you should first familiarize yourself with Windows This manual assumes you know how to use Windows and uses Mouse Terms Keyboard Terms General Terms Windows specific terminology throughout For help with Windows see your Windows documentation The following terms indicate specific mouse actions e Point means to move the mouse pointer to a speci
27. al Battery Low Battery Dead CardWare will run through the list of associations attempting to find the correct combination of available resoucrs The ards Advisor selection provides immediate configuration status information about a card in a given socket and allows you to edit the card as described above CardWare provides several additional features which allow you to tailor PC Card Control to your preferences Type It O or click on the ptions menu item Selecting this displays a chart containing information about resources available to the system highlighting those being used This chart can be used when configuring unrecognized cards or unique device settings See below efining New Device Definitions As already discussed in Chapter 4 CardWare uses beeps to notify you when cards are inserted or removed Selecting Event Notifications allows you to instruct CardWare to interrupt your work in Windows when certain events occur These events are 1 Card insertion removal 2 Battery low or dead CardWare can perform as many as three actions with each event 1 It can restore the CardWare Card Control pare window O Restore Card Control C Display Message 2 It can display an appropriate message Play Sound BG ae 3 It can play a wave file Card Services Options DOS Beeps Off Wave files files with the WAN extension are Windows compatible sounds By selecting Set Sound you can associate wave files wit
28. an ISA BUS modem and a modem PC Card This means that you should insert your modem prior to running any 3rd party fax or telecommunication software Removing or ot Swapping of PC Cards during the operation of a such a software package i e replacing the modem with a different type of card is not recommended Network Adapter Cards NOTE A LAN card can be inserted into the PC Card Socket either before or after turning on your system If you insert the LAN card before turning your system on you will hear two beeps at the end of the POST messages signifying that the card has been successfully recognized If the card is inserted at the DOS prompt the system will sound two beeps on successfully recognition By default LAN cards are set to Do Not Config and CardWare will not attempt to configure them CardWare issue three beeps if a given LAN card has been setup to be auto configured or its software has already been loaded If you plan to run LAN cards while in Windows it is important that the LAN card be inserted before Windows is loaded This is a result of the manner by which Windows allocates and recognizes resources Also depending on the type of network software you are using the network software must be running prior to Windows being loaded This will allow Windows to recognize the availability of a LAN and reserve the resources Since none of the current network software is designed to support PC Card Hot Swapping you
29. ard according to Device Definitions associated with these generic card types By default modems are setup as the next available COM port and ATA flashdisks and harddisks are connected to the logical drive letter assigned to the PC Card socket where the card was inserted The Device Definitions associated with generic modems are changed by the card display and configuration utility PC Card Control for Windows This procedure is described in Chapter 6 and the CardWare Online Help PC Card is uto Configured Some PC Cards can be recognized even if they do not include all the required CIS information These cards will be Auto Configured by default You have to ensure that the software which is intended to use these cards is configured according to these settings If you are running PC Card Control you can determine the settings by right clicking on the device name which is displayed below the socket see Chapter 6 From DOS you can type DOSCARD D to get this information If a card has enough information in the CIS to be recognizeable each time it is inserted it is possible by carefully using PC Card Control see Chapters 6 and 7 to configure the card properly This would have the effect of inserting it into CardWare internal database and making it a Specific card If you want a card not to be Auto Configured by CardWare use PC Card Control to change the way CardWare tries to configure the card You are also able to tell CardWar
30. ardware 2 x J then inspect the proposed changes and make E j e Back Exit es em em them yourself later 3 Do not modify configuration files Please use this option with care Otherwise CardWare may not be able to function properly Multiple Configurations Many users of MS PC DOS 6 0 and later have taken advantage of the ability to boot up into a menu of system configuration options This is because many non Windows applications notably games require different memory configurations and or special drivers It is also true that to conserve memory in general infrequently used drivers scanner drivers for instance can be selected or not by menu instead of having to rewrite the CONFIG SYS and re boot The CardWare Setup can detect these multiple configurations and install itself selectively according to your preferences If you have multiple configurations you will be presented with three choices Available Configurations Scammer Setup detected that your computer uses multiple configurations Please select the configurations to install Cardware 1 You may select to add CardWare to one of your curr ent configurations by selecting it from the list 2 You may have CardWare create a new special configuration for itself A 3 You may have CardWare added to all of your configurations Since you will probably always want access to your PC cards this will be your best choice Finishing the Installation Click on Cont
31. at provides support for such devices PCDisk can only be loaded from the CONFIG SYS file not from the DOS command line If you will be using PC Cards most of the time we suggest you load the CardWare files from the CONFIG SYS file CardWare Files The following CardWare files are listed in their proper order of usage DOS Protected Mode Manager DPMS EXE The protected mode manager uses the DOS Protected Mode Specification DPMS to install and manage CardWare software in high memory This driver allows CardWare to operate with an absolute minimum usage of memory below 640K Socket Services SSxxxxxx EXE This is the software which supports the PCMCIA controller used in your computer CardWare includes support for many controllers see the README TXT for a description of which file is required for each supported controller In general each Socket Services file name begins with Ss Can be loaded in high memory Card Services PCCS EXE This is the software which enables PCMCIA compliant Card Services Can be loaded into high memory Resource Manager PCRM EXE As described above PCRM EXE performs a one time resource inventory and communicates its findings to Card Services Cannot be loaded into high memory PC Card Enabler PCENABLE EXE This is software which detects PC Card insertion removal and manages the process of card configuration resource allocation PCENABLE is a lient application because it uses the API provid
32. ated BIOS is available there are two possible solutions 1 Remove all installed PC Cards before restarting your systems with the Ctrl Alt Delete key sequence or 2 restart your system by cycling the power OFF and then back ON Most computers have a Reset button which safely cycles power in such a manner What CIS information is used by CardWare to recognize the card Four pieces of information are included in three tuples The information is stored in the following tuples 1 Manufacturer ID 2 Function ID 3 Level 1 Version Product Information tuple Two pieces of Information are used from this tuple a Manufacturer s Name b Product String What target platforms does the software work with currently Check the README file for information about which platforms are supported Do you support Type Ill cards CardWare supports Type IH ATA drives How do you deal with a non PCMCIA compliant card On card insertion an end user will be notified that the information required to configure the card is not available or cannot be read by the software Only a single beep tone will occur indicating that the card was inserted but not recognized by the software How is hot swapping of cards handled An interrupt is generated by the system on insertion and removal of a PC Card This interrupt is used to either flag that the card needs to be configured or released Can you boot from a PC Card The current PCMCIA specifications
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34. computer Simply follow the step by step instructions to complete the desired action If you wish to exit without completing Setup choose the Exit button when it is displayed Choose Continue or press ENTER to continue Setup procedure If you wish to review a previous entry choose the Back button when it is displayed Enter Continue Alt K Exit Installation Choices While Install is starting it will attempt to determine if CardWare has already been installed If it has you will be asked if you wish to reinstall or remove einstall CardWare If einstall is chosen Install will delete the CardWare files remove its subdirectory and modify your system boot files CONFIG SYS and AUTOEXEC BAT to remove all references to CardWare The rest of this chapter will discuss what happens when you perform an installation Installing CardWare for DOS The first installation screen allows you to select your computer platform and the type of setup you wish performed CardWare 2 x Setup Please select your platform from the list f your platform is not specified select Controller Autodetect If this will not operate properly consult the README TXT file in the CardWare directory AST PowerExec DI Express Setup Recommended gt Install all CardWare files in C CARDWARE subdirectory Configure CardWare for selected platform Create the CardWare group for your Microsoft Windows Startup PCCARD Co
35. d CardWare Auto Start PCCARD Control for Windows This allows CardWare to be active each time you begin a Windows session Directory Selecting Change will allow you to specify the destination drive and subdirectory for the CardWare files Modifying Your The final step in the installation and setup of CardWare is to modify your System Files system boot files AUTOEXEC BAT and CONFIG SYS Setup will offer you three choices 1 Let Setup do modifications for you r Setup needs to make the following modifications to your configuration files This option allow S Setup to make all neces sary CONFIG SYS Add Cardware devices to startup Bes nat a ardware directory to your PATH changes and to back up the originals changing their extension to BAK Setup will modify your CONFIG SYS and AUTOEXEC BAT automatically Before doing changes Setup will backup your existing configuration file CONFIG SYS to CONFIG BAK 8 Kin der Mersch 2 Let you review all changes and make Let you review all changes and make modifications later modifi cations later Care ee ee GE gii No chan ges made but modified versions of both Do not modify configuration files will be copied to the installation directory and Setup will not modify your configuration files Please use this option with care Cardware may not operate correctly You should not select this option if you update have the extension CW appended You can the existing Cardware 1 x version to C
36. der range of resources available for this type of card By default a network card will be set to Do not configure UO Range None Any 100h 3EOh ATA Flashdisk and Harddisk Cards Length Bytes 8 16 32 64 Memory Range None Any C800h CE00h Length Kbytes None 4 8 16 32 64 IRQ None Any 2 15 Defaults LAN1 300h 32 Bytes None memory range IRQ 5 LAN2 300h 32 Bytes DOOOh 16 Kbytes IRQ 5 IBM 3270 2D0h 16 Bytes CEOOh 8 Kbytes IRQ 9 The standards defining this type of PC Card are an extension to the standards for conventional fixed disk drives As such the principal requirement for configuring such a device is to allocate it a drive letter UO Range Any Length Bytes 16 Memory Range None IRQ None Defaults The above are the defaults and cannot be changed Memory Cards Just as the ATA settings above are fixed so too are those allocated to memory cards Please note that while memory cards should be automatically detected and configured CardWare will display nknown for the card Type Getting Help PC Card Control for Windows This chapter will describe how to use PC Card Control for Windows The emphasis here will be PC Card configuration as well as configuring CardWare to work as you wish it to PC Card Control is a Windows application providing complete and intuitive control for your PC Cards It presents you with a graphical representat
37. do not provide for booting from PC Cards However the PCMCIA committee is working to define a methodology which allows the DOS file structure to be read from a PC Card during boot Why isn t support for booting included in current platforms What part of Socket Services must be included in the BIOS The PCMCIA software specifications are new enough so that in many cases the system vendors have not included the 4K of Socket Service support code in their current BIOS Eventually we expect that all 4K of Socket Service code will migrate into part of the system BIOS It is reasonable to expect that system vendors will hold off on integrating the Socket Service code into the BIOS until such time as it is possible to boot a system from a PC Card and to execute a program from a PC Memory Card What file formats do you support with memory cards Currently we are supporting DOS FAT Microsoft Flash File System II and Datalight TrickACS How are you going to support new cards as they are released For a card to be PCMCIA 2 x compliant it must have a Card Information Structure CIS Since our software uses the CIS information to configure the card any card which is PCMCIA compliant will automatically be recognized and supported by our software In addition AWARD has established a Card Review Program designed to promote the review and testing of card manufacturers CIS with CardWare How do you update the CARDWARE INI file What is the i
38. e Please check the CARDINFO TXT file in your CardWare directory for information about your card If you have edited a card which is currently in use you must tell CardWare that you want to reconfigure it For this purpose select the Cards econfigure option from the main menu To create a new device configuration click on New Device To inspect or modify a device configuration click a on Edit Device or from the Main Menu click on evices Edit Device Configuration There are three situations in which you may define a Device Definition 1 To create a new Device Definition for a card you are currently defining 2 To create a new Device Definition for a card that has already been defined It may have been configured and you wish to change that configuration or you were told that it could not be configured because the required system resources are not available 3 To edit an existing Device Definition e g changing memory base address or IRQ If you want to create a new Device Definition choose Devices ew from the main menu You need to give the new Device Definition a name and to select the Type of device from the Type list When you have entered the name and selected the type skip to subsection Assigning System Resources for Device Definitions below Type I 0 Range Range Memory Base Hex Length KBytes Range 1 None None Range 2 None None IRQ DI System
39. e memory manager ability to provide enough upper memory and it is very unlikely that the manager will be as successful as the DPMS driver Remember you cannot load PCRM high because it only initializes Card Services and does not stay resident The above listing represents a complete installation of CardWare For a minimal installation see nstallation of Socket and Card Services Only below The CardWare path usually C CARDWARE should be added to your PATH statement in your AUTOEXEC BAT The following is an example of a fairly common path statement PATH C C WINDOWS C DOS To add CardWare to the path you would modify the above to read PATH C CARDWARE C C WINDOWS C DOS Installation of Socket and Card Services only NOTE If you need only the PCMCIA Application Programming Interface API and want CardWare not to enable the PC cards you do not need to use PCENABLE EXE and PCDISK EXE In that event you would only need to add the following four lines in your CONFIG SYS DEVICE C CARDWARE DPMS EXE DEVICE C CARDWARE SSxXxxxxx EXE DEVICE C CARDWARE PCCS EXE DEVICE C CARDWARE PCRM EXE AUTODETECT Recall that the DPMS driver allows the Socket and Card Services to be located in extended memory for a minimal impact on free DOS memory Additionally you can load both high using the DEVICEHIGH statement but DPMS will probably free more memory Remember
40. e not to configure the card at all This is necessary if the card comes with its own software This procedure is described later in Chapters 6 and 7 and in the CardWare Online Help PC Card is ot Recognizable Some PC Cards which are not truly PCMCIA compliant cannot be recognized because there is not enough information on the card to act as a unique identifier Resources Not Available Of Mice Serial Ports and System Resources Even if a PC Card is recognized it may not be possible to configure it This occurs if system resources described in the associated Device Definitions are not available when the PC Card is inserted This usually indicates that the resources described in the Device Definition s are currently in use by another PC Card or system peripheral As an example imagine a fax modem PC Card is inserted that has been associated with the Device Definitions COM1 and COM If the system already has a COM1 device installed on the motherboard and another PC Card in a different socket that is configured as COM2 then the newly inserted card cannot be configured On the other hand you may change the card definition to use COM3 or COM4 if you can do so on your system using the card display and configuration utility PCCard Or you can remove the mouse or modem board already installed to make COM1 or COM available to the PC Card However removing the mouse is not an attractive alternative especially in Windows A
41. e to be automatically started whenever the card is inserted For instance you might associate fax data communications software with a To associate an application either directly enter the path and startup command or select rowse to locate the application Finally you have the options of running the application minimized for instance for background reception and closing it when the card is removed When you have checked the appropriate boxes and are satisfied with the card configuration select K The next time the card is inserted it will be fully configured and ready to go There are two important things to remember about associating devices with a PC Card 1 CardWare will try to configure the card in the order the Device Definitions appear in the Associated box 2 The system resources referenced by the Device Definition s must be available which means a they must have been placed under the control of CardWare see below ssigning System Resources for Device Definitions b they must be physically present in the system c they must not be in use by another device and d they must match any requirement the card may have Please check the CARDINFO TXT file in your CardWare directory for information about your card If you have edited a card which is currently in use you must tell CardWare that you want to reconfigure it For this purpose select the Cards econfigure option from the main menu or si
42. ed by Socket and Card Services If your PC Card has its own enabling software you would ordinarily use that instead of PCENABLE PCENABLE EXE requires that Socket and Card Services be loaded before it is activated Can be loaded into high memory Memory Cards and ATA Harddisk and Flashdisk PCDISK EXE PCDISK EXE is used to provide access to ATA harddisk and flashdisk cards This includes services such as formatting and partitioning as well as mediating simple reads and writes PCDISK must be loaded in the CONFIG SYS It also must be loaded after all of the above This means that if you will be using such cards all of the above software must be loaded by way of the CONFIG SYS The syntax for loading PCDISK is DEVICE d path PCDISK EXE QUEUE nn QUEUE Specifies the number of concurrent erasures for cards that support background erasure 1 9 Default QUEUE 1 Example CONFIG SYS Modification This section will provide a before and after look at an example CONFIG SYS Beyond the obvious addition of the CardWare command files you will also note a change to the EMM386 EXE memory manager There are three special and very important points to observe about the modified listing 1 If you are using or plan to use FLASH memory cards you must use the Microsoft Flash File System II FFS D FFS I is not part of the CardWare package and must be purchased separately from Microsoft If you have already insta
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44. elected Mame Devices dit from the main menu you only need to HSN Seid Post Baze Hee Length E pies 170 Range 1 Mons 2 Wons D select the name of the Device Definition you wish to edit from Pons the Name list box Then you will reassign the system Wand resources that are to be changed to this Device Definition Bazu Hee Length Bytes The system resource fields will display their current assignments Meno Rosge 1 Mons 2 Monel Mone for your convenience and IRQ Level Mane System Resources for Device Definitions s One or more of the following system resources will be required depending on the type of Device Definition Please bear in mind that this manual must assume that the PC Card you wish to define and associate includes complete documentation Such documentation would naturally include the data referred to below This is especially important if the card is not generic and or does not completely conform to the PCMCIA specifications of revision 2 10 Specifying UO Ranges or I O Addresses T O resources required by a device are specified by a base address and in some cases a length Some device types such as serial ports use a fixed number of I O ports For these types of devices the length is implied and PC Card Control does not allow a length to be specified The base address of an I O range is entered using a drop down combo box This address is specified in
45. ending on your selections during installation Also note that the first line contains Sxxxxx EXE The XXXXX are replaced with letters indicating the Socket Controller used in your system CardSoft Windows support is managed by SSCOMM EXE SSVCD EXE SSVRDD 386 and SSWINCS EXE You will need to see that they are removed from your Windows files To remove the CardSoft modifications place a semicolor or delete the lines referring to the CardSoft files NOTE that there are two lines which have had a semicolor placed in Configuring CardWare front These should remain in the file and have the semicolons remove The following is an example of CardSoft modifications to SYSTEM INL Boot comm drv C CARDVIEW SSCOMM DRV comm drv comm drv 38 6Enh device C CARDWIZ SSVRDD 386 device C CARDWIZ SSVCD311 386 device C CARDWIZ PCCARD 386 EMMEXCLUDE D000 DFFF device C CARDVIEW SSVRDD 386 device C CARDVIEW SSVCD 386 device vcd CardWare is composed of a set of files which perform specific functions CardWare files may be loaded as 1 Device drivers by including a DEVICE line followed by the program start up commands in your CONFIG SYS 2 Normal DOS TSR programs loaded from the DOS command line The files must be loaded as device drivers if you need support for PC Cards which store files i e static RAM and flash memory cards or ATA flashdisk or harddisk cards The file th
46. es configuring your PC Cards with PC Card Control for Windows and includes a discussion about assigning System Resources for Device Definitions CardWare recognizes nearly all types of PC Cards including SCSI Sound and Video cards but the four most common types are 1 Fax modem cards 2 LAN cards 3 ATA flashdisk and harddisk cards 4 Memory Cards As we saw in Chapter 4 CardWare attempts to configure a PC Card whenever one is inserted You can view the status of your cards in both DOS and Windows 1 In DOS use the DOSCARD command to display the Device Definition being used or run PCCARD for a text mode graphical representation of your cards 2 In Windows double click on the PC Card Control icon This will open a graphical representation representing the number of available sockets and the cards plugged into each Displayed below each occupied socket will be text identifying the type of device detected such as a fax modem and the System Resource associated with it such as COM3 NOTE Please see also the CARDINFO TXT file for the latest information about several PC Cards and their recommended settings Fax Modem Cards A modem card can be inserted into the PC Card socket either before or after turning on your system If you insert the modem card before turning your system on you will hear three beeps at the end of the POST messages signifying that the card has been successfully installed and is now active If t
47. et to Any and the length set to the size required If a device requires a second memory range enter this data on the Memory Range 2 line as you did on line 1 Specifying IRQ Levels IRQ levels required by a device are specified by a single value This value is specified in decimal and range from 2 to 15 The IRQ value is set using the same kind of combo box as used to set the I O and memory ranges Different types of devices traditionally use certain IRQ s For example serial port devices typically use IRQ4 for COM1 and COM3 and IRQ3 for COM2 and COM4 Ifa device or its device driver require a specific IRQ level it must be set using the IRQ field If the device and its driver can use any IRQ level the IRQ field should be set to Any If an IRQ level is not required by a Device Definition it should be set to None Notes PC Card Control for DOS PC Card Control DOS vs Windows In nearly every respect PC Card Control for DOS is identical to the Windows version The most obvious differences relate to the differences in operating modes between real mode character based DOS and the protected mode high resolution graphics of Windows PC Card Control for DOS is a single tasking application which allows you to configure your PC Cards As such it only lacks the obvious ability to always be available even while working with other applications as well as lacking the enhanced Advisor capabilities of the Windows version
48. fic object e Press means to press and hold down a mouse button e Release means to release a mouse button which is being pressed e Click means to quickly press and release the left mouse button while pointing to an object e Double Click means to rapidly click the left mouse button twice while pointing to an object e Drag means to press the left mouse button while moving the mouse e Right Click means to click the right mouse button while pointing to an object The following terms indicate specific keyboard actions e Press means to press and release a specific key on your keyboard e Type indicates that you are to enter specific information on the keyboard The following general terms are common to both the Windows and DOS versions of CardWare One notable difference will be in how Windows and DOS highlight a letter in a word to indicate a shortcut usually when the letter is pressed while the alternate key It is also pressed as in Alt F Windows uses and underline as in iles while in DOS CardWare will color the character differently We will use the underline in this manual to indicate such a shortcut character Menus can have submenus This means that a menu entry can have a menu of its own For example when you open the Card menu you will notice that the menu entry allowing you to edit your PC Card configuration Edit is followed by three periods an ellipsis This indicates that choosing this entry
49. figuring New or Unrecognized Cards Whenever configuring or reconfiguring a PC Card you might find it convenient to refer to Chapter 5 C Card Resource Requirements Configuring a new or unrecognized PC Card is a six step process 1 Choose Cards Edit from the main menu you can also double click on the card name You are given the choice of editing a card currently inserted in one of the sockets or any card or card type currently available in the CardWare database Socket 0 Any Card Rename Delete Reconfigure Advisor Any Card will present a dialog box which allows you to choose a specific card to edit 2 Select the card you wish to edit from the Card field If Card there is a card already inserted CardWare will attempt to determine its name and its type If it can determine Associated either then you will not be able to alter the Card field Click on the arrow to the right to drop open a scroll box listing cards available in the CardWare database O Eontim Staryp O Bun Miimized O fase on zement Edit Card Card MEGAHERTZ CC3144 Devices Unknown E Serial Port Defin Parallel Port ATA Hard Drive Auto Corivideo Adapter Do Not Gnetwork Adapter Advanced Associated Application O Sentise Stare O Sen Minimizes O Etse on somoval OK Cancel Help Edit Card Card MEGAHERTZ CC3144 Type Serial Port Associated
50. gured using an associated Device Definition 4 A two tone warning is sounded twice if a recognized PC Card cannot be configured because none of the associated Device Definitions are available or the CIS was bad This warning is made after the initial two beeps have signaled card insertion and recognition The use of beep tones to signal card insertion recognition and configuration may be disabled by the card display and configuration utility PC Card Control The current state of any installed PC Card can be determined by viewing the program s display While in Windows beeps can also be replaced with wave files see Chapter 6 C Card Control for Windows How CardWare Recognizes a PC Card First Time Insertion of a PC Card When you insert a PC Card into your system CardWare reads the Card Information Structure CIS from the Card The CIS normally supplies specific information about the type of card e g LAN or Modem and how the card can be configured If CardWare can read the CIS it will not be able to recognize or configure the card Next CardWare searches its internal database for a Specific record for this card If such an entry exists CardWare will try to configure the card with one of the Device Definitions associated with it If no record exists CardWare checks whether the card is Generic If it is CardWare will try to configure the card with one of the Device Definitions associated with generic cards If this
51. h each event You may also find it convenient to turn the DOS beeps off see below CardWare allows you to specify how long CardWare will try to reconfigure a card before it times out and quits trying The default is 3000 milliseconds When this is checked the DOS beeps will be suppressed If you have assigned wave files with card events you may wish to turn the DOS beeps off Defining New Device Definitions Devices New Edit Rename Delete Again you may find it convenient to refer to Chapter 5 C Card Resource Requirements There are three situations in which you may define a Device Definition 1 To create a new Device Definition for a card you are currently defining 2 To create a new Device Definition for a card that has already been defined It may have been configured and you wish to change that configuration or you were told that it could not be configured because the required system resources are not available 3 To edit an existing Device Definition e g changing memory base address or IRQ If you want to create a new Device Definition choose Devices ew from the main menu You need to give the new Device Definition a name and to select the Type of device from the Type list When you have entered the name and selected the type skip to subsection Assigning System Resources for Device Definitions below Device Settings If you are editing an existing Device Definition having s
52. he card is inserted at the DOS prompt or while running Windows the system will also sound three beeps on successful recognition Your modem PC Card will be automatically recognized and installed as a modem if it has a valid CIS which conforms to the PCMCIA Committee s Standard revision 2 10 If your CIS is not valid or has been damaged the card cannot be configured by CardWare If your modem is a generic modem it will not appear by name in the Card list when you choose the Cards Edit Any Card command If you want to change the configuration for a generic modem edit the associations for the Generic Modem card see Chapter 6 If more than one Device Definition is associated with a specific or generic fax modem CardWare will attempt to dynamically configure the card trying each Device Definition in the same order as it appears in CardWare internal database For example if you associated the card with COM1 COM4 and COM3 respectively then when the card is inserted CardWare will attempt to first configure the card as COM1 If COM1 is being used by another device mouse printer etc the software will next attempt to configure the card as COM4 and COM3 if necessary Hence there will never be a resource allocation conflict between devices as can happen with ISA cards with physical jumpers or DIP switches None of the 3rd party fax and telecommunication programs being sold today are able to detect the difference between
53. his ordinarily should be installed If you will be using a special PC card or one with it own proprietary software then you may not need to install the CardWare Card Services On the other hand you may find these services to be indespensible and well worth their inclusion Install Clients Clients are software which attach themselves to Card Services and act as enablers and or a user interfaces An enabler is used to identify a PC card type to allocate deallocate resources for its use when it is inserted removed and to initialize the card A user interface provides PC card status information to the user as well as allow the user to manage the use of PC cards Pressing Alt F allows you to select which clients are to be installed CardWare 2 x Setup Please select Card Services clients to install X Generic I 0 Card Enabler X3 Generic Memory Card Enabler CK PCCard Control for Windows X PCCard Control for DOS X Online HELP Disk Space Kb required 827 Kb available REI Enter Continue Alt B Back Alt K Exit CardWare provides five Card Services clients 1 Generic I O Card Enabler This is software designed to recognize I O cards when they are inserted 2 Generic Memory Card Enabler This is software designed to recognize Memory cards when they are inserted 3 PC Card Control for Windows Main CardWare interface for configuring PCMCIA cards 4 PC Card Control for DOS This is the PCCARD interface for DOS
54. in Windows but Beeps in DOS Open Options vent menu in PC Card Control and confirm that Beeps are activated Also make sure your speaker is not turned off Erratic or Unstable Performance with a Desktop Card Reader Such a card reader is dependent on the CMOS setup of the base computer Especially important would be system bus speeds and I O timings since the reader requires the use of a bus slot Symptoms would be errors reported by CardWare while the system is booting and the CardWare drivers are loading or errors reported during normal operation G Frequently Asked Questions My system works fine when l first turn it on but if I restart it by pressing the Ctrl Alt and Delete keys at the same time my PC Cards don t seem to work properly Some computer systems do not reset the PC Card socket controller when they are restarted using the Ctrl Alt Delete key sequence Any configured PC Cards installed when the system is restarted may be incorrectly sensed by the system s BIOS to be peripherals that reside on the motherboard or in an adapter board installed in an expansion bus The BIOS then believes it should handle the operation of these peripherals creating a conflict with the CardWare software This situation may often be corrected by updating the system s BIOS When a computer manufacturer realizes that the BIOS fails to reset the socket controller hardware they typically release a BIOS update that fixes this problem Until an upd
55. inue to complete the installation then change diskettes when instructed to do so If Setup cannot detect a memory manager such as EMM386 EXE QEMM386 SYS etc you will be reminded that if one is added later you must configure it NOT to use certain areas of memory which must be reserved for CardWare use See Appendix D for an example CONFIG SYS modification and see CWINI TXT installed into the CardWare subdirectory for more information If a memory manager is detected then Setup will automatically make the correct changes for you Remember if you allow Setup to alter your configuration files you will need to quit Windows and re boot your computer before CardWare can become active If Setup does not alter your configuration files CardWare will not function until all necessary changes are implemented Notes DOS Installation What Install Does Using Install The CardWare DOS install program is a powerful program which installs updates or uninstalls CardWare for DOS on your computer system Install will do the following 1 Allow you to specify where CardWare is to be installed 2 Copy CardWare files to your system 3 Modify CONFIG SYS and AUTOEXEC BAT 4 Install Windows components of CardWare to your system if you desire Along the way you will need to know the brand and type of your computer PCMCIA system You will also be given the option for either an express or a custom installation The express in
56. ion and add more options later by running Setup again ZS nati Cal Platform The platform is the type of computer PCMCIA system on which you are installing CardWare Setup attempts to automatically detect the platform In most cases your system will be eneric To change the platform click the mouse on the list arrow at the right of the Platform selection window This will open a list of more than twenty choices With the exception of the AST PowerExec and the NCR Safari the default Controller Autodetect should be sufficient Setup Type You are offered two types of installation 1 Express Setup 2 Custom Setup Express Setup The Express Setup will install all CardWare features using the default drive C and directory CARDWARE You will not be prompted to select individual components You will be prompted about changing your system files CONFIG SYS and AUTOEXEC BAT see below You can skip the following text up to the section titled inishing the Installation Custom Setup The Custom Setup allows you to select 1 the type of PCMCIA controller being used in your system the default is Controller Autodetect 2 which CardWare components to install and 3 which drive and subdirectory to use PCMCIA Adapter PCMCIA Adapter The the type of PCMCIA controller being aa eA recognise all PCMCIA adapters compatible with Cardware used in your system To view more Please do not change the autodetected
57. ion of the PC Card socket s the PC card s you have inserted and how it they are configured PC Card Control allows you to configure your cards and to define new Device Definitions Perhaps the most powerful feature of PC Card Control for Windows is the Advisor The Advisor feature simplifies the card configuration process by offering you the lists of resources which the PC Card itself requires This allows you to quickly determine an available configuration and to select it Later and each time the card is inserted the Advisor will check available resources and post a warning to you if there is a conflict CardWare has a powerful Online Help system which provides detailed information for all topics You can get help by choosing Help from the main menu or by simply pressing the function key PU whenever you need help If you do not know how to use help choose the How to Use Help menu entry If you press Shift Fl the cursor will change to a question mark and you can point to the region for which you need help Viewing PC Card Control for Windows One of the objectives of PC Card Control is to allow you to quickly glance at your CardWare window to see the status of your PC Cards To accomplish this CardWare provides you with a graphical representation of your PCMCIA slots and any recognized cards currently inserted To be even more convenient CardWare also allows you to change the size and placement of your view of the slots
58. issing Double click on the icon to restore PC Card Always on top Checking this will allow CardWare to always be visible Even when you are using another Windows application the card and slot representation will be visible Adjust sockets in line Checking this places the sockets side by side Adjust sockets in column Checking this places the sockets one above the other This is the default Adjust sockets to default This places the sockets in a column returns the sockets to their default size and sizes the window to the socket size If you have multiple sockets but not all are visible selecting this will place all into view Adjust window to contents This sizes the window such that the sockets are centered with the window at its minimum size Frame settings Selecting this pops up a window with the current settings for size location and alignment of the sockets Save settings on exit Checking this will cause CardWare to use the last settings each time Windows and CardWare are re started Lower socket This entry allows you to view the settings of the lower socket image Upper socket This entry allows you to view the settings of the upper socket image for help 100 Size rae Default Be Display about 25 Size Columns Size to socket _____ Select object Toolbar The toolbar is a row of buttons with icons representing shortcuts to common functions for scaling and aligning images of your PCMCIA slots Con
59. l individual components By taking a modular approach to PCMCIA support CardWare allows you to select which pieces you really need This section will cover e Removing other brand PC Card PCMCIA software e Each component e What it does e How to use it e How it relates to the other components e Modifying your CONFIG SYS and AUTOEXEC BAT before and after e Socket and Card Services only e Disabling and removing CardWare e Installing PC Card Control into Microsoft Windows The CardWare installation programs can detect and replace earlier versions of CardWare but they cannot remove another brand PC Card software if you replace it with CardWare This manual will describe two other known and documented PCMCIA software installations and how to remove them These packages are from Phoenix Technologies Ltd and SystemSoft Corporation Whether you are using one of these or a software package from another software company the most effective method of removal will be to use their own uninstallation if one exists Otherwise you should check the documentation included with the software for instructions for removal Failing that your next best choice will be to contact the publisher technical support In general you will need to inspect your CONFIG SYS and either delete or remark out the lines loading the software By emark out we mean to add the letters EM at the beginning of each line Note that a space must follow the E
60. lled FFS I install the MS FLASH SYS driver after PCDISK EXE in your CONFIG SYS Typically you would place the following line at the bottom of your CONFIG SYS after all of the other CardWare files DEVICE C MSTOOLS MS FLASH SYS The lines added to the CONFIG SYS file are placed after any entries used to load memory managers such as Quarterdeck s QEMM Qualitas 386MAX or Microsoft EMM386 They MUST also be placed after any entries which load Power Management software Please compare the third line of both CONFIG SYS listings You will notice that an area of memory has been excluded from the EMM386 EXE memory manager If you are using any memory management software QEMM 386MAX NetRoom EMM386 etc you MUST instruct the manager to exclude the ROM Expansion area assigned to CardWare Review the MEM entries in the Resources sections of the initialization file CARDWARE INI to determine the area s to exclude See section E Assigning System Resources to CardWare below for more information The following listing is an example of a fairly common CONFIG SYS DEVICE C DOS SETVER EXE DEVICE C DOS HIMEM SYS DEVICE C DOS EMM386 EXE RAM BUFFERS 10 0 FILES 30 FCBS 4 0 DOS HIGH UMB LASTDRIVE I SHI ELL C DOS COMMAND COM C DOS e 512 p f The next listing is the same but with the CardWare files added DEVICE C DOS SETVER EXE
61. ly troubles occur with new software because of incompatibilities with your system BIOS We recommend that you confirm that you have the latest system software Many portable computers have the BIOS in flash memory which can be easily updated Most portable computer manufacturers provide special BBS support which allows you to down load an updated BIOS via modem PC Card support is an evolving area and some systems have better support in newer BIOS software Older BIOS software with limited PC Card support may interfere with CardWare In most cases updating your BIOS to the latest release will reduce the potential for problems If Socket Services is loaded into a system that already has another socket services installed a warning message is displayed Socket Services continues initializing all other hardware but does not disturb the previous socket settings If your system hangs immediately after Socket Services is loaded during CONFIG SYS file processing or if your system begins to behave erratically Oe beeping etc power off and restart with a cold boot If the PC Card in the socket is a non memory card e g modem or LAN adapter attempts to read write data in a file format will return an error However if an ATA card is loaded when a MemCard Erase a function of MS Flash is issued an invalid media message is received and the card is totally erased Mouse Driver Interference When movement of the mouse is erratic or interferes wi
62. mouse has traditionally been connected to a standard serial port such as COM1 or COM Unfortunately using a fax modem on COM3 or COM4 may still cause a conflict with a mouse This is true of a mouse on COM 1 and a fax modem on COM3 or a mouse on COM2 and a fax modem on COM4 The problem is that COM3 and COM4 are newly supported personal computer devices and each uses a vital resource an IRQ previously reserved for COM and COM2 respectively What makes this unfortunate is that IRQs cannot be shared A example of what could happen is your mouse freezing when you send or receive a fax If you are in Windows you cannot get your mouse to function without quitting then restarting Windows It is possible to avoid this problem in Windows by configuring Windows to let COM 3 and 4 use different IRQs To change your port settings in Windows 1 Open the Control Panel usually found in your Main Windows group and select Ports This will provide you with icons for ports COM 1 4 2 Choose the port you wish to reconfigure 3 Next select Settings This will allow you to configure the baud rate data bits etc Refer to your fax modem documentation for the correct settings PC Card Recognition Flow Chart 4 Then select Advanced This will provide a menu allowing you to set the base I O address for the selected COM port in addition to the IRQ The I O address probably will not need to be changed The most common IRQ selection for either
63. mply click on the card image displayed in the socket Reconfiguring a Card When you select Edit for a socket containing a recognized card you are given the opportunity to Card Intel Corporation Ethernet LAN Card Type Network Adapter perform all of the functions described above for a new a ere card On the other hand you will notice that the Edit 7 Tretude 3 Do Not Conta Card screen is slightly different There are two additional buttons between the Defined and Associated lists 1 Advisor Associated Application _______________ O Confirm Startup O Run Minimized 2 Nanny O Close on removal _fancet_ Hep Advisor The CardWare Advisor also reachable by way of ards Advisor displays the list of valid configurations associated with the card There can be any number of possible configurations The information displayed for each valid configuration Name MEGAHERTZ XJ124FM is information which CardWare has gathered from the Type Unknown 170 PC Card itself as well as from CardWare s own database The number of available configurations is iy nae hen Sie BAA i noted near the bottom of the window between the ae j EE Previous and Next buttons Use those buttons to page Pei eer EE eee between the configurations Memory Range Base Size KByte e e S z Ee See The information displayed in these windows cannot be i i EE altered However you may find that one or both of 2 N
64. must NEVER remove the LAN card while connected to the network When connected to the network logout prior to removing the card from the socket When configured by CardWare LAN cards behave as conventional ISA BUS LAN adapters allowing PC Card LAN adapters to be used with existing network driver software Your LAN PC Card will be automatically recognized and installed as a LAN if it has a valid CIS conforming to the PCMCIA Committee s Standard rev 2 10 If your CIS is not valid or has been damaged the card cannot be configured by CardWare If you want to change the configuration for a LAN card see chapter 6 C Card Control for Windows By default LAN cards are not configured by CardWare If configured otherwise CardWare will attempt to dynamically configure the card using the Device Definitions in the same order as they appear in the Associations box displayed for the card by PC Card Control For example if you assigned LAN1 LAN3 and LAN to a card when the card is inserted the software will attempt to first configure the card as LAN1 If LAN is being used by another device perhaps by another LAN adapter then the software will next attempt to configure the card as LAN3 Unlike ISA cards there will never be a resource allocation conflict between devices If your PC card already comes with client software which does not require CardWare to configure the card associate the Do not configure Device Definition with the card
65. n the following example assume that C CARDWARE is your CardWare directory If path reads PATH C C CARDWARE C DOS Change to read PATH C C DOS If you installed CardWare in a different directory substitute the name of that directory for CARDWARE 3 Remove all files from your CardWare directory Remove PCCARD EXE from your Windows Startup Group 5 Remove the CardWare Group from your Windows Program Manager This section will continue to assume that you have installed the CardWare files into the CARDWARE subdirectory on your C drive If you have installed CardWare elsewhere simply replace C CARDWARE references to the correct drive and directory All that remains then is to add PC Card Control for Windows PCCARD EXE to one of your Windows groups for convenience we recommend the Startup group Starting from the Program Manager the steps are Select File New 2 Either directly enter C CARDWARE PCCARD EXE or select Browse to locate PCCARD EXE in the C CARDWARE directory E Assigning System Resources to CardWare NOTE NOTE In order for CardWare to operate it must be assigned system resources These resources are used for configuring PC Cards to avoid conflicts over system resources with other peripherals in your system System resources include e system memory address space e Interrupt ReQuest IRQ levels e System I O address space These system resources mus
66. nd flash drives Auto Configure Card CardWare automatically attempts to configure each PC Card inserted It does this by reading the CIS If the CIS does not contain enough information CardWare will attempt to logically configure the PC Card However even if successful CardWare will not update CARDWARE INI until the user employs PC Card Control to configure the card A PCMCIA compliant card Also known as a PC Card See also PC Card Card Definition Card Definitions are used by CardWare to determine how to configure a PC Card A definition includes a card name information from the Card Information Structure CIS that is used to recognize the card when it is inserted and a list of associated Device Definitions See also Configure Card Information Structure Associated Device Definition Card Information Structure See CIS Card Type CIS The type of function performed by a PC Card Examples are ATA hard drive Network Adapter Parallel Port Serial Port and Other See also PC Card The CIS Card Information Structure is a memory area inside certain PC Cards This memory area is divided into Tuples fields of data which allow the system and application programs to know what is required to properly use that PC Card See also Tuple Configure Device The act of programming a socket and PC Card for use in a system When a PC Card is inserted CardWare uses a card definition to recognize the card Once a
67. nformation format so that I end user can modify or troubleshoot it When a card is configured specifically for the first time CardWare stores this configuration information in the CARDWARE INI file CARDWARE INI is an ASCII text file and is similar in structure to a conventional Windows INI file This means that any simple ASCII text editor should be capable of editing it However this does not mean that it should be altered by any means other than by CardWare itself If you wish to attempt any manual change to this file please first read the CWINI TXT file included with the CardWare software At the very least you should always back up the CARDWARE INI file before attempting any changes H Glossary Adapter The hardware which connects a computer bus to PC Card sockets Also Certain PC Cards are commonly called adapters Associated The description of the relationship between a Device Definition and a Card Definition CardWare uses associated Device Definitions to determine how to configure a PC Card with the appropriate system resources See also Association System Resources Association ATA Device Definitions are associated with Card Definitions This association allows CardWare to configure a PC Card with the appropriate system resources See also Device Definition System Resources Acronym for AT Attachment specification The industry standard for interfacing to Integrated Drive Electronics IDE hard drives a
68. ng CardWare e Remove the PCCARD EXE command from the run line of the WIN INI DO NOT REMOVE the entire line just the C CARDWARE PCCARD EXE portion To re enable CardWare modify your CONFIG SYS file using a text editor capable of editing ASCII files without changing the format Locate the following REM REM REM REM REM REM REM DEV DEVI DEVI DEVI DEV DEVI CH C CESC CESC CESC CESC CESC DEV CARI CARI CARI CARI CE statements CARDWARE DPMS EXE DWARE SSXXXXXX YYY DWARE PCCS EXE DWARE PCRM EXE AUTODETECT DWARE PCENABLE EXE CARDWARE PCDISK EXE Delete the REM at the beginning of each line Be sure to remove the space after the letters GEM REM turned each of the I DEV TCE lines into a remark line thereby preventing the loading of your CardWare Removing CardWare from your system requires the following steps 1 Remove the following lines from the CONFIG SYS file DEV DEVI DEV CE ICE DEVI DEVI DEVI CE CE CE ICE AAAAAN CAR CARI CAR CAR CAR CAR DWARE DPMS EXE DWARE SSxXxxxxx yyy DWARE PCCS EXE DWARE PCRM EXE AUTODETECT DWARE PCENABLE EXE DWARE PCDISK EXE Installing CardWare into Windows 2 Remove the CardWare directory from the path command in your AUTOEXEC BAT file I
69. nter to select it Inside a menu you can use the up and down arrow keys to highlight a selection again pressing Enter to activate it Press the Esc key to close any menu or dialog Window Mouse Use the mouse as you would in Windows You can click on a socket window to bring it to the front If you press and hold the mouse button on the top line of a socket window you can drag it about on the screen Release the button to place it Click on menu items to select them or click on the keyboard help on the bottom of the screen to select those commands Configuring PC Cards There are five steps involved in configuring a new PC Card Intel Corporation Ethernet LAN Netzwerk Adapter Associated Auto Config IBM 3270 Do Not Config Include scil LANL LAN2 lt Remove 5 john john New Device Edit Device E 0K 5 Cancel 5 1 From the main menu choose Cards Edit You have the choice of editing a card inserted in one of the available sockets or choosing a card out of all available cards currently inserted in an available slot or any card currently available in the CardWare database Any Card will present a dialog box which allows you to choose the card you want to edit 2 Select the card to edit from the Card field Clicking on the arrow on the right opens a list box of card types If there is a card already inserted CardWare will attempt to determine its name and its type If it can
70. ntrol for Windows during Windows startup Custom Setup You can choose which CardWare options to install You can create a custom CardWare installation and add more options later by running Setup again Ce Express Setup lt gt Custom Setup Enter Continue Alt B Back Alt K Exit Platform Install provides a list box of computers and or card readers specifically supported by this version of CardWare If your system is not listed select ontroller Autodetect Setup Type The same screen will allow you to choose between two different types of setup 1 Express Installation 2 Custom Installation Express Installation Recommended This is an installation based on the most common defaults for your platform controller combination It will simply allow Install to create the default subdirectory on your C drive copy all files to that directory and to make the necessary changes to your CONFIG SYS and AUTOEXEC BAT see below Custom Installation This selection will allow you to tailor CardWare to your particular system You will be allowed to select the specific type of PCMCIA adapter in your system what files are actually installed and where the files are to be installed CardWare 2 x Setup PCMCIA Adapter Setup is able to recognise all listed PCMCIA adapters automatically Please do not change the autodetected PCMCIA adapter unless you either are absolutely sure that autodetection was wrong or you want to replace the
71. of two between 1 and 32 If the Device Definition type permits an I O range to be entered but the definition does not require an I O range then both the address and length must be set to None If the definition allows the I O range to be located wherever space is available then the length should be set to the size required and the address to Any Some devices may require multiple I O ranges PC Card Control allows a Device Definition to have up to two I O ranges If a Device Definition uses two I O ranges the base address for both ranges must be specified The Any entry may not be used when multiple I O ranges are specified Specifying Memory Ranges Memory resources required by a device are specified using a base address and a length The base address is entered using a drop down combo box This entry is specified in hexadecimal as an Intel x86 segment value typically in the range of AOOOH to FOOOH The length is also entered using a drop down combo box This entry is expressed in decimal in KByte units typically as a power of two between 4 and 64 If the device type permits a memory range to be entered but the definition does not require a memory range both the address and length must be set to None If the definition allows the memory range to be located wherever space is available the address should be set to Any and the length set to the size required Options Info If a device requires a second memory range en
72. one None Available a EE the arrows associated with the IRQ Level is not 2 EE grayed out If you can toggle the IRQ values this indicates that the card supports mulitple IRQs This china ua may be important if you wish to create a new configuration Edit This button allows you to directly edit the available resources See tions y y D Resources Resources below Find Create Nanny Reconfigure Pressing the Find button will cause CardWare to search all available configurations for one for which all required resources are currently available in your system If one is found the Find button will change into Create Pressing Create will all you to define a new device setting See efining New Device Definitions below Once a new device definition has been defined the PC Card must be reconfigured by either selecting ile Reconfigure or double clicking on the symbol of the card displayed by CardWare The Nanny function only is available if the installed card is not configured When active the Nanny allows you to have the CardWare advisor automatically determine a valid device setting and to configure the card and update the CardWare database immediately The ards Reconfigure menu selection causes CardWare to immediately attempt to configure or reconfigure a card inserted into the selected slot Advisor Options Resources Event Notifications PCCARD Event Notification Event Card Insertion Card Remov
73. r makes PCMCIA work for you As you will see CardWare operates in the background making every effort to simplify your use of PC Cards It does this by attempting to automatically recognize and configure any card inserted into your PCMCIA slot CardWare has two main objectives 1 Simplicity 2 Compatibility In spite of the well documented PCMCIA 2 10 standards not all PC Cards are perfectly compatible CardWare attempts to recognize and configure as many PC Cards as is possible Even when it does not fully recognize a card CardWare will still attempt to configure it CardWare also gives you every opportunity to fine tune its ability to recognize a given card The next chapter Chapter 5 will introduce you to the types of PC Cards most commonly used today and where appropriate the Device Resources commonly associated with them Finally in Chapters 6 and 7 you will meet CardWare Card Control for Windows and DOS Here you will learn to individually tailor your PC Card to your system and vice versa Terminology Several expressions are used in the following chapters to describe how CardWare recognizes and configures PC Cards While the Glossary defines most of the terminology used within this manual there are several key concepts to understanding how CardWare works CIS Most new PCMCIA compliant PC Cards contain a Card Information Structure CIS providing information about the card what it does and what resources it needs to func
74. r vendor it is very important that you remove the old software completely See ninstalling Other PCMCIA Software in Appendix D What Setup CardWare Setup is a powerful program which installs updates or uninstalls does CardWare on your computer system It supports DOS 6 x multiple configuration boot menus and allows you to install only the components of CardWare which you really need Setup will do the following 1 Allow you to specify where CardWare is to be installed 2 Copy both DOS and Windows CardWare files to your system 3 Modify CONFIG SYS and AUTOEXEC BAT Setup may also create a new entry in the Menu section of your CONFIG SYS 4 Create a CardWare group in your Windows Program Manager Starting Setup To start the Card Ware Setup program in Windows 1 Start Windows 2 Put the CardWare Disk 1 in a floppy drive we assume drive A 3 Choose File Run from the Program Manager main menu 4 Inthe command line text box type A SETUP then choose OK This opens the CardWare Installation dialog box a Cardware 2 x Setup Setup installs updates or deinstalls the CardWare software on your computer Simply follow the step by step instructions to complete the desired action If you wish to exit without completing Setup choose the Exit button when it is displayed If you wish to review a previous entry choose the Back button when it is displayed Choose Continue or press ENTER to con
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76. s of devices to be handled in a standard manner with automatic configuration from the first insertion Currently CardWare recognizes two types of cards generically These are ATA flash and hard drives and serial ports All PC Cards recognized as ATA drives are automatically configured by CardWare using the Device Definitions associated with the ATA Drive card definition A number of PC Cards use a serial port interface These cards include FAX Data modems and GPS receivers When CardWare detects the insertion of a FAX Data modem if the card has information identifying it as a serial port CardWare uses the Device Definitions associated with the Generic Modem card definition to configure the PC Card GPS Acronym for Global Positioning System GPS is a navigational system using satellites GPS receivers may be implemented as PC Cards GPS PC Cards typically are built using a Serial Port for an interface Hot Spot An area on the display screen where clicking with a mouse results in a move to another area of the help file The cursor will change from an arrow to a small hand when positioned over a hot spot Hot Swap Inserting a PC Card in the socket while the computer is powered on is called Hot Swapping To insert a modem into the expansion channel bus inside your computer requires you to turn off the power among other things Interrupts Interrupts are used to get the system s attention If a PC Card generates interrupts CardWare config
77. selected Use the arrow keys to move about a list of check boxes press the space bar to either select or un select 4 Edit box An edit box is a field where you can enter and edit a line of text Type the text as usual using the arrow keys to move about the text the backspace key to delete the character before the cursor the delete key deletes the character at the cursor Edit boxes also support an insert mode and edit highlighting with the mouse Press Enter when finished or Alt B to abort any changes In general you use either the Tab key or a mouse click to move from field to field within a screen If one letter of the text used to identify a field is highlighted pressing that letter while the Alt key is being pressed will move you directly to that field When all the fields are configured as you wish pressing Enter will accept the entries and take you to the next screen Pressing Alt B will move you back one screen while Alt X will abort the installation program Finally to run Install you will need at least 520 Kbytes of free memory Starting Install To start the CardWare DOS installation program 1 Place the first CardWare diskette in your floppy drive we will assume drive A 2 Make the drive the current drive Do this by typing A lt Enter gt 3 Next enter INSTALL lt Enter gt CardWare 2 x Setup Welcome to the Cardware Setup Setup installs updates or deinstalls the CardWare software on your
78. stall Gard Services yars Ae aaa 3 6 Stall CUMS eek teen a 3 6 Create the CardWare Group for Microsoft Windows 3 7 Auto start PCCARD Control for Windows 3 7 Bleus Te EE 3 7 Modifying Your System Files eee ee eeecaaeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaeeeeeeeeegeecaaeeeeeeeeteeennaaaes 3 7 Completing the Installation es EES EES a a AR E 3 8 CardWare PCMCIA and Your COmputter cccceeeeeeeeeeeneneeeeeeeeeseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeneeeeeeeees Terminy sis s sr aaa aa TE ae e e Te aE ia a a e eTa 4 2 Kette Ee RRE TA ARA TREERE EAA A 4 3 BEE EE EE EE 4 3 What the Beeps Mean ects eee eteeceaaeee sees eeteeaaaeseeeeeectencaaaeeeeeeeegeeecaaeeeeeeeentnee 4 3 How CardWare Recognizes a PC Card 4 4 First Time Insertion Of a PC Can 4 4 PC Cardisa Ne e KE 4 5 PC Card is Ut CONGUE Aien ea Se ee ee ees 4 5 PC Card is ot Recognizable eer en 4 5 Resources Not Available aa aa aai aa aa aa a aaa a a aaa a aiaa EELER SERA biet ag 4 6 Of Mice Serial Ports and System RESOUICES ccccccccceccceceeeeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeneess 4 6 PC Card Recognition Flow Chat 4 7 Using Battery Operated Computers 4 8 Advanced Power Management 4 8 TYDGS Of PC Card E Fax Modem Cards ee ee 5 2 Network Adapter Cards 5 3 ATA Flashdisk and Harddisk Cards 5 4 Memory CArGS a ccvestessaneedecesseeseesauterevebededebesetadebesebepebasetacetesebepedegetadedeeebepebeebatedepebetebebs betete tere pebeeeede 5 4 Using SRAM Cards 000 cccccccce
79. stallation will provide the most common CardWare configuration On the other hand the custom installation will allow you to specify which files are to be installed where they are to be installed and to control what system files are updated The Install program uses the bottom row of the screen to display the keyboard commands for each installation screen Generally each screen which presents you with options which have one or more of the following types of fields 1 List box A list box will initially be displayed as a wide box with a down arrow J in the right corner and containing a single line of text When it is active for use the line of text will be highlighted and the flashing underline cursor will appear at the end of the line To open the list box NOTE when active press the down arrow on the keyboard A small scroll box of selections will open Simply use the arrow keys or the mouse to maneuver to the correct selection and press Enter 2 Radio button There is never just one radio button Radio buttons are used when only one of two or more choices can be selected Radio buttons are displayed as empty parentheses or as parentheses surrounding a dot when an item has been selected Use the arrow keys or the mouse to select 3 Check box A check box is used when an item can either be selected or not A check box is displayed as empty brackets or brackets surrounding an when an item has been
80. t be excluded from use by other system software such as memory managers and Windows The CardWare initialization file CARDWARE INI has a default Resources section This section should be customized for the host system The defaults provided may operate without modification However if you encounter any problems with PC Card recognition or configuration improper resource assignment is the first item to check see the CWINI TXT file for more information It is possible though not recommended to edit the initialization file CARWARE IND directly with a text editor capable of editing ASCII files PC Card Control offers a much better solution for modifying the system resources Choose Options esources from the menu Be careful when editing the file with a word processing program such as WordPerfect or Microsoft Word These programs normally do not save files as ASCII and may damage the initialization file If you are using a memory manager you must exclude any of the Expansion ROM area assigned to CardWare from the memory managed by that program This is typically done by adding a command line argument to the DEVICE line used to load the memory manager in the CONFIG SYS As an example Microsoft EMM386 requires the argument X mmmm nnnn where mmmn is the starting segment address and nnnn is the ending segment address of the area to be excluded See your memory manager documentation for more information F Troubleshooting Occasional
81. t the Beeps Mean You also can use PC Card Control to instruct CardWare not to configure the card This is useful if your card comes with its own software for configuring the card To understand how CardWare recognizes and configures PC Cards it is important to be familiar with the following three key concepts 1 Configured A card is said to be Configured if it is installed in your system and successfully set up 2 Auto Configured A card is said to be Auto Configured if the Generic I O Card Enabler PCEnable determines how to install the card and uses this information for setting up the card 3 Generic A card is said to be Generic if it is a Fax Data or ATA PC Card and has a data field which informs CardWare of its function Beeps tones emitted from your computer s tiny speaker are the standard method CardWare uses to notify you that certain events have occurred Most of the time CardWare operates in the background without interrupting normal system behavior In its default configuration CardWare uses the system speaker to signal the recognition and configuration of PC Cards when they are installed Beeps sounded by CardWare are 1 A single beep signaling the insertion of a PC Card 2 A second slightly higher pitched beep is sounded to indicate that the PC Card has been recognized by the generic card enabler PCEnable 3 Finally a third beep is sounded at an even higher pitch when the recognized PC Card is confi
82. ter this data on the Memory Range 2 line as you did on line 1 Specifying IRQ Levels IRQ levels required by a device are specified by a single value This value is specified in decimal and range from 2 to 15 The IRQ value is set using the same kind of combo box as used to set the I O and memory ranges Different types of devices traditionally use certain IRQ s For example serial port devices typically use IRQ4 for COM1 and COM3 and IRQ3 for COM2 and COM4 If a device or its device driver require a specific IRQ level it must be set using the IRQ field If the device and its driver can use any IRQ level the IRQ field should be set to Any If an IRQ level is not required by a Device Definition it should be set to None Selecting the Options entry from the Main Menu will allow you to toggle the OS Beeps Off On setting This simply toggles on or off the speaker beep tones used by CardWare to indicate card insertion configuration status and card removal Selecting Info allows you to get information about the current version of PC Card Control for DOS as well as version information about Client software using CardWare services These clients are typically PC Disk and PC Enable Notes Appendices A Using DOSCARD DOSCARD is a DOS utility that displays the revision of the installed software and the current configuration of any installed PC Cards Syntax DOSCARD H D S n where H Print the help te
83. th PC Card activity this is usually caused by assigning the card to the COM port corresponding to the mouse s COM port e g COM1 and COM3 or COM2 and COM4 PC Card Control does not notify you of low or Dead battery For a low or dead batter beep warning to function it must be enabled under the Options vent main menu of PC Card Control panel Also make sure your speaker is not turned off Not Ready Reading Drive DOS Error Reading a Flash Card Check to see if your Flash Card has been formatted Is the Flash File System device driver in your CONFIG SYS The Flash Card may be damaged Consult your card documentation PCPREP reports rror retrieving Driver Parameter Table This error will occur when PCPREP is run from within Windows It is due to the limited manner by which Windows supports I O control functions Quitting Windows and running PCPREP from a conventional DOS prompt will fix the problem Cards not identified as same card between DOS and Windows Card Control If this is an update installation check to be sure you have updated the Windows ICON command line path for PCCARD EXE rather than to an older version with the same file name No Beeps Remove the card from the socket and make a visual inspection of the card and socket rails to insure that there is nothing that could obstruct a connection If there is an obstruction remove it and reinsert card FIRMLY Also make sure your speaker is not turned off No Beeps
84. tinue Setup procedure After introducing itself the Setup program begins by attempting to detect the presence of an earlier version of CardWare If one is found you will be given the following options Reinstall Choosing Reinstall will cause Setup to replace the current installed version of CardWare m Uninstall Choosing Uninstall will remove CardWare from your system configuration If you select this Setup will make the necessary changes then terminate you will see none of the following When Setup continues to either install or reinstall the program will provide complete instructions for its use If at any time you become uncertain of your responses to any instructions you will have the option of terminating Setup without completing the installation a Cardware 2 x Setup T Platform Controller Autodetect Please select your platform from the list If your platform is not specified select Controller Autodetect If this wil not operate properly consult the README TXT file in the CARDWARE directory Express Setup Recommended Install all Cardware files in C CARDWARE subdirectory of your hard disk Configure Cardware for selected platform Create the Cardware group for your Microsoft Windows Startup PCCARD Control for Windows during Windows startup OO Custom Setup You can choose which Cardware options to install You can create a custom cardware installat
85. tion Registered A PC Card is said to be Registered if the information used to identify the card when inserted has been recorded in an internal database by CardWare System Resources System Resources are system memory ranges I O ranges and IRQ levels When a card is inserted CardWare will assign resources to the card from the pool of available resources Device Device is the name used to identify a collection of system resources that the PC Card uses once it is configured For instance a COM port such as COM1 is a device which uses memory range 3F8 3FFh and IRQ 4 as system resources Device Definitions CardWare also records a list of ssociated Device Definitions in the database This list is an ordered preference list which CardWare will use to configure a device from the available System Resources nstalling a PCMCIA Card also referred to as onfiguring a PC Card in your system means 1 Mapping memory ranges from the PCMCIA Card into the system memory space 2 Mapping I O ranges from the PCMCIA Card into the system I O space 3 Routing an Interrupt from the PCMCIA Card to a system Interrupt By default CardWare tries to auto configure all PCMCIA cards inserted in your system In most cases CardWare will determine the correct setup for your card Beyond this CardWare gives you the ability to change the configuration of each card For this purpose you would use PC Card Control Key Concepts Beeps Wha
86. to your PC 1 CardWare provides an industry standard Application Programming Interface API This API allows third party software network drivers for instance to communicate with PCMCIA cards in an orderly manner The API consists of both Socket and Card Services and complies with revision 2 10 of the PCMCIA specification This level of support requires third party software which can install and configure PCMCIA cards Such software would then use CardWare services to manage the card s 2 CardWare can also install and configure PCMCIA cards on your system This allows standard software not just PCMCIA technology specific software to access the card This Generic Installation of PCMCIA Cards is performed by PCEnable Additionally CardWare allows you to use storage cards Memory Cards and PCMCIA ATA flashdisk and harddisk drives as if they were normal floppy or hard disk drives This is accomplished by PC Disk How to Use This Manual Note Chapter 2 describes installing CardWare from within Windows while Chapter 3 describes installing from DOS Both installations install both Windows and DOS versions of PC Card Control Chapter 4 provides an overview of how CardWare interacts with your computer system and your PCMCIA cards Chapter 5 discusses various types of PCMCIA cards also called PC Cards Chapters 6 and 7 introduce you to PC Card Control for Windows and DOS providing detailed instructions for both using PC Card
87. ures the card socket to route the card s interrupt signal to an available Interrupt ReQuest IRQ level in the system See also System Resources VO Ports Ports have a port number or address and are used to pass information to or from peripheral devices Port address space is separate from memory address space CardWare configures PC Cards with I O ports to use unoccupied port address space See also System Resources IRQ See Interrupts Memory Memory is the place used to store information while it is being used Computer memory is organized as a number on individual locations each identified by an address Memory address space is the sum of all of locations identified by an address The memory address space is often much larger than the actual PC Card amount of memory available to store data CardWare configures PC Cards to use the unoccupied address space in what DOS refers to as the upper memory area See also System Resources Term used to describe cards compliant with the PCMCIA PC Card Standard About the size of a credit card but varying in thickness these cards plug into a 68 pin socket and expand the capability of your system PC Cards can add additional storage using memory devices or ATA flash and hard drives Other types of cards are specialized devices such as modems network adapters or GPS receivers Some cards are actually interfaces through which your system can access even more devices PC Card Control PCMCI
88. ware Int l Inc Award Any person or entity to whom this document is furnished or who otherwise has possession thereof by acceptance agrees that it will not be copied or reproduced in whole or in part nor used in any manner except to meet the purposes for which it was delivered The information in this document is subject to change without notice and should not be considered as a commitment by Award Although Award will make every effort to inform users of substantive errors Award disclaims all liability for any loss or damage resulting from the use of this document or any hardware or software described herein including without limitation contingent special or incidental liability PC and AT are trademarks of IBM Corporation Flash File System II is a trademark of Microsoft Inc Copyright by Award Software Inc October 10 1998 Award Software International Inc Corporate Offices 7171 East Middlefield Road Mountain View CA 94043 4023 Tel 415 968 4433 Fax 415 968 0274 Introduction What Is CardWare CardWare is a PCMCIA 2 10 total software solution In general this means that CardWare is designed to painlessly manage the complexity of plugging and unplugging the latest generation PCMCIA cards Plus with its advanced memory management CardWare uses less valuable RAM to free up that vital resource for all of your applications More specifically CardWare is a software package which offers two kinds of services
89. will bring up another menu or window Note It is common usage to indicate a menu selection by referring also to the menu For instance the Card entry Edit is typically referred to as Card Edit This designation will be used throughout this manual See hoose below for an example Choose or select means to pick a specific menu or object using the technique you are most comfortable with For example to choose the Card Edit menu you can use either the mouse or the keyboard to open this menu by pressing ALT C then E Resources in your package Your CardWare package contains many resources to help you This User Manual provides basic information about CardWare Use it as your first information source While using PC ard Control you can press El to get Online Help Use this if you are searching for specific topics or if you need help while using PC ard Control Online Help provides help for nearly every dialog box used by PC ard Check the CardWare installation directory for a README file This file contains the latest information about CardWare System Requirements PCMCIA At least one socket using one of the supported controller IC s check the README file for the latest information Hard Disk Approximately 1 5MB of free space Floppy Disk 3 5 FDD drive during install process DOS Version 3 2 or newer If using PCDISK the version 5 0 or newer will be required Windows Version 3 1 or newer Notes
90. xt D Detailed information with card configuration S n Specifies the zero based socket number n if only information about this socket should be displayed default display information about all sockets B Using PCPREP PCPREP is a DOS utility which partitions and formats SRAM cards and ATA flashdisk and harddisk cards PCPREP should NOT be run within a Windows DOS box PCPREP can not be used on FLASH cards For FLASH cards you have to use special utilities which come with your Flash File System e g MEMCARD EXE for Microsoft s FFS II If you have a clean unformatted SRAM or ATA Flashdisk or Harddisk card you must prepare those cards for use with your system Following is a step by step description which assumes the drive letter E is assigned to the socket If you do not know which drive letter is assigned to the socket use the DOSCARD utility to determine the drive letter assigned NOTE NOTE 1 Insert the card in the socket 2 Type PCPREP E 3 PCPREP now starts to prepare your card You must not format your card with a FORMAT command after executing PCPREP 4 Your card is now ready for use in your system NEVER remove a PC Card while PCPREP is formatting it If your system requires an ATA Harddisk drive to be formatted like a floppy disk without partition table you can use the F switch e g PCPREP E F Also note that it is not recommended to use this switch for normal operation C Using

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