PCM2ATA.ADD

Product Support
OS/2 1.3
OS/2 2.0
OS/2 2.1	S
OS/2 2.11 SMP	S
OS/2 Warp 3	S
OS/2 Warp Connect	S
OS/2 Warp 4	S
OS/2 Warp Server for e-Business	S

Driver for PCMCIA harddisk drives.

BASEDEV=PCM2ATA.ADD <parameters>

Parameters

• /S:n - Specifies the number of PC Card slots. /S:1 shows that there is only one PC Card slot. When this parameter is not set, the number of PC Card slots is set to 2.
• /P:hhhh - Specifies the lower limit for the I/O address of the ATA card. The device driver assigns the next usable I/O address from this lower limit to the card. When this parameter is not set, the device driver looks for a usable address and assigns it to the card.
• /EXIRQ:n - Specifies the IRQ level that is not assigned to the card. You can set more than one IRQ level.
• /NOBEEP - Specifies not to beep when a storage card is installed. When this parameter is not set, you will hear a beep every time a storage card is installed into the PC Card slot.
• /B - Specifies that OS/2 has started from an ATA card. When this parameter is set, there will be no redundancy in assigning the logical drive to the slot where OS/2 was booted. It depends on the ATA card whether you can start OS/2 from it.
• /STBTIME:n - Specifies the time (from 1 to 21 minutes) until entering standby mode. When the ATA card is not accessed for the time specified by this parameter, the ATA card enters standby mode (only when your ATA card supports standby mode). When this parameter is not specified, standby mode for the ATA card is disabled.
• /MDRV:n - Specifies the number of extra drives that can be used in addition to the number of PC Card slots available for the PCMCIA storage devices. When this parameter is not specified, no extra drive is given to the device driver. The extra drives can be activated by the PCMCIA ATA Card Mount utility.
• /!DM - Specifies not to use OS2DASD.DMD as the device manager. When this parameter is set, OS2PCARD.DMD is used instead.

Example

Here it is a configuration of 2 PCMCIA slots.

BASEDEV=PCM2ATA.ADD /S:2 /!DM /NOBEEP

If your system has three or more PCMCIA slots, for example a notebook computer with docking station which has PCMCIA slots, the total number of PCMCIA slots which will be used for Storage PC Cards must be specified. For example, if you have four PCMCIA slots:

BASEDEV=PCM2ATA.ADD /S:4 /!DM /NOBEEP

Versions

Date	Version	Size	Comments
2001-10-25	10.57	28,074 bytes	Included in IBM PC Card R5

Links

• IBM PC Card Director R5