CONFIG.SYS - BASEDEV Statements

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The Base Device Drivers are needed by OS/2 to install elementary services, like your hard disk, keyboard, etc. The Base Device Drivers are the first entries from the config.sys file that are loaded during the boot. They are not loaded in the same order as they appear in the config.sys file. They are loaded dependant on their file extension.

Here is the order of loading for the file extensions.

  1. *.SYS
  2. *.BID
  3. *.VSD
  4. *.TSD
  5. *.ADD - Adapter Device Driver
  6. *.I13
  7. *.FLT - Filter
  8. *.DMD - Device Manager

If the CONFIG.SYS contains several files with the same extension, those files will be loaded in the order they appear in the CONFIG.SYS file.

The Base Device drivers must be located in the root directory in the \OS2 directory or in the \OS2\BOOT directory. If you set up a Base Device driver in your CONFIG.SYS please use only the name of the driver without the path. The following pages describe these entries:

Device Driver

Ressource Management

Debugging

Floppy

Keyboard

Multimedia

PC Card

Socket Services

Host Bus Adapters

AHCI

ATA, IDE

I2O

SCSI

RAID

Applications

CAD Manager

CDS BackAgain

Back Again 2000
Back Again/2

Kaspersky Antivirus

Norman

CD-ROM Interfaces

Parallel Port Devices

ISDNPM

SCSI

Floppy

USB

CWUSB

DSP

Filters

Device Manager