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 dependent 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

Resource Management

• ACPICA.ADD - ACPI.
• AODBSMD.SYS - ThinkPad Resource Management Driver.
• APM.SYS - Advanced Power Management.
• AST2RMU1.SYS - AST Bravo/AST PowerExec RMU.
• BATT.SYS - Toshiba T1900 Series APM features.
• CDISK.ADD - Commuter Hard Disk Driver.
• CMPXCHG8.SYS
• HD4DISK.ADD
• K6.SYS - Write combining.
• PNPBIODD.SYS
• PMVDMCC.SYS - Memory mapping for DOS VDMs.
• 586NPX.SYS - For Pentium processor with a bad math co-processor.

Debugging

• BOOTDLY.SYS - Boot delay
• KTRACE.SYS - Goldencode Kernel Trace

Floppy

• IBM1FLPY.ADD - non-ABIOS floppy
• IBM2FLPY.ADD - ABIOS floppy
• MEMDISK.ADD

Keyboard

• IBMKBD.SYS - IBM keyboard

Mouse

• GLIFFIC.SYS - Gliffic Plus Mouse/Pen Set Driver.
• PCLOGIC.SYS - Logitech mouse
• TRACKOS2.SYS - NP6500 Notebook Trackball

Multimedia

• CWCMMPM.SYS - Crystal PCI OS/2 interface
• CWCONFIG.SYS
• CWCSPUD.SYS - Crystal DSP manager
• CWGMSG.SYS - Crystal PCI message
• STARTUP.SYS - VIA 8233

PC Card

• ARCDRIVE.ADD - Arcdrive PCMCIA HD
• AUTODRV2.SYS - Auto-Configurator
• CBENABLE.SYS - CardBus enabler
• CSSCSI.SYS - IBM PCMCIA SCSI card support
• OEMHLP2.SYS - PCI search
• PCCOFF.SYS - PC Card/CardBus Power
• PCM2ATA.ADD - PC Card ATA

PCMCIA Resource Management (OS/2 2.1)

• AMB2RMU1.SYS - AMBRA RMU PCMCIA driver
• CAD2RMU1.SYS
• CMQ2RMU1.SYS
• ICRMU01.SYS - PCMCIA resource management
• ICRMU02.SYS - PCMCIA resource management for MicroChannel
• MAT2RMU1.SYS - Matsushita
• NCR2RMU1.SYS - NCR Safari
• NEC2RMU1.SYS - NEC Versa
• RMUOS2AT.SYS - AST Bravo/AST PowerExec
• TOS2RMU1.SYS - Toshiba
• ZEN2RMU1.SYS - Intel 82365SL for the Zenith Z-lite 425L
• ZOS2RMU1.SYS - Intel 82365SL for Zeos Color Notebook

Socket Services

• CL6832SS.SYS - Toshiba Tecra 510CDT
• IBM2AMB1.SYS - Ambra
• IBM2AST1.SYS - AST
• IBM2CAD1.SYS - CompuAdd
• IBM2CMQ1.SYS - Compaq
• IBM2NEC1.SYS - NEC
• IBM2NCR.SYS - NCR
• IBM2NCR1.SYS - NCR
• IBM2NEC.SYS - NEC
• IBM2SS01.SYS - IBM ThinkPad 750 (ISA bus)
• IBM2SS02.SYS - IBM ThinkPad 720 (Micro Channel bus)
• IBM2SS04.SYS - IBM ThinkPad 560
• IBM2SS14.SYS - IBM ThinkPad
• IBM2TOS.SYS - Toshiba
• IBM2TOS1.SYS - Toshiba
• IBM2ZEN.SYS - Zenith
• IBM2ZOS.SYS - ZEOS
• IBM2ZOS1.SYS - ZEOS
• IBMDSS01.SYS - IBM ThinkPad
• IBMDSS02.SYS - IBM ThinkPad 720
• SS2INTEL.SYS - Intel i82365
• SS2PCIC.SYS - TI 1130A CardBus Controller
• SS2PCIC2.SYS - Texas Instruments Cardbus
• SS2TICB.SYS - TI CardBus
• SSDPCIC1.SYS - Intel PCIC
• SSDTCIC1.SYS - DataBook TCIC
• SSPCIC.SYS - APSoft Socket Services
• SSVLSI.SYS - VLSI (AST Bravo, PowerExec, Ascentia 900, Ascentia 900N)
• TI11225CB.SYS - Dell Latitude CpiA
• TI1130CB.SYS - Dell Latitude Cpi
• TPIC95SS.SYS - Chembook 2600

Memory Card

• ICMEMCDD.SYS
• ICMEMMTD.SYS

Host Bus Adapters

• LOOP.ADD - Loopback
• NVME.ADD
• PHDX.ADD

AHCI

• OS2AHCI.ADD

ATA, IDE

• ADIO210.ADD - ADI
• ALI.ADD - ALi Aladin
• ATP8400A.ADD
• CMD640X.ADD
• EIDE2300.ADD
• IBM1S506.ADD
• OS2_32.ADD - Buslogic IDE Caching
• PTI1S506.ADD - Promise
• QDI1S506.ADD - QD6580 VL BUS IDE
• TRIOS2.ADD - Triones Bus Master EIDE/ATAPI
• TRMDC620.ADD - Tekram DC-620
• UMC1S506.ADD - UMC UM8886BF PCI
• VIAIDE.ADD - VIA Bus master

I2O

• I2OSOSM.ADD - I2O Storage OSM filter
• I2OXPORT.SYS - I2O Transport Device Driver

SCSI

• ACARD
  • ATP6820.ADD - AEC-6820 SCSI RAID
  • OS2671X.ADD - AEC-671X Ultra SCSI
• Adaptec
  • AHA152X.ADD - AIC-63x0
  • AHA154X.ADD - AHA-1540/1542
  • AHA164X.ADD - AHA-164x MC
  • AHA174X.ADD - AHA-1740/1744 EISA
  • AHA2920.ADD - AHA-2920 PCI
  • AIC7770.ADD - AIC-7770 VLB & EISA
  • AIC7870.ADD - AIC-7870
  • AIC78U2.ADD -
  • AICU160.ADD - AIC-7899 U160
  • AICU320.ADD - AIC-790x U320
• AdvanSys
  • ASC.ADD
• Always Technology
  • AL1IN2.ADD, IN2000.ADD - IN-2000
  • AL7000.ADD - AL-7000
• American Megatrends, Inc. (AMI)
  • AMI0OS2.ADD - AMI Series 15/44/441/48/70
• AMD
  • AMSIO2.ADD - AMD SCSI Driver for Tecra 700CT
  • AMSIO2T.ADD - AMD SCSI Driver for Tecra 700CT
• BusLogic
  • BTSCSI.ADD
• Dawicontrol
  • DC93M1.ADD - DC-93 MACH1
  • DC93M2.ADD - DC-93 MACH2
  • DC2964.ADD - DC-2964F
  • DC2974.ADD - DC-2974 PCI
  • DC2975.ADD - DC-2975U
  • DC2976.ADD - DC-2976UW
  • DC2980.ADD - DC-2980 U2W
  • DC29160.ADD - DC-29160 U3W
• DPT
  • DPT20XX.ADD
• DTC
  • DTC3270.ADD - DTC-3270
  • DTC3280.ADD - DTC-3280/3250
• IBM
  • AWS34XX.SYS - P/390 SCSI Tape Device Driver
  • IBMPSCSI.ADD - SCSI-2 Fast PCI Adapter
• LSI Logic
  • SYM416.ADD - Symbios Logic 53C416 ISA
  • SYM8XX.ADD
  • SYM_HI.ADD - Symbios Logic U2W SCSI
  • LSIMPT.ADD - Fusion-MPT
• NCR
  • OS2CAM.ADD -
• NewMedia
  • BSCOS2.ADD - Basics SCSI II PCMCIA
  • BTOS2.ADD - Bus Toaster
• Panasonic
  • SCSI37.ADD
• QLogic
  • Ql10OS2.ADD - ISP1020
  • QL40OS2.ADD
  • QL510.ADD
• Seagate
  • ST01.ADD
• SyQuest
  • SYQLOCK.FLT - SyQuest SCSI drive.
• Tekram
  • TMCSIM.ADD - Fast SCSI
  • TMSCSIW.ADD - Wide SCSI
  • TRM3X5.ADD - PCI SCSI
• Trantor
  • T128SCSI.ADD - Trantor Systems T128
  • TMV1SCSI.ADD - MediaVision PAS16 integrated SCSI
• UltraStor
  • ULTRA14.ADD‎
  • ULTRA24.ADD‎

RAID

• DAC960.ADD - Mylex
• IBMRAID.ADD
• ISSADSK.ADD - IBM SSA
• ISSAPCI.ADD
• PCI2220I.ADD - Perceptive Solutions PCI-2220i

CD-ROM Interfaces

• AZTCD268.ADD - Aztech CD-ROM.
• BPCDOS2.ADD - Backpack CD-ROM.
• CDBLAZER.ADD
• CDD110.ADD
• CDSETUP.ADD
• CDU535.ADD
• CRCCD2.ADD - Creative/Panasonic.
• DOLAT001.ADD - Dolphin 8000AT.
• EPATCD.ADD
• GSCDROM.ADD - GoldStar GCD-R420.
• IDECD.ADD
• IDEDRVR1.ADD
• ISACDOS2.ADD - IBM CD-ROM ISA.
• KME4OS2.SYS - Panasonic KXL-D740.
• LMS205.ADD - Philips.
• LMS206.ADD - Philips LMS205MS, LMS225MS, LMS206, LMS226.
• MITFX001.ADD - Mitsumi LU0002, LU00005, FX001.
• MKECR56X.ADD - Panasonic 2x.
• ONSCSI10.ADD - SimpleSCSI CD-ROM Parallel Port.
• POWER-CD.ADD - Freecom Parallel.
• SONYB31A.ADD - Sony CDU-31A Adapter Device Driver.
• TEACCD1.ADD - TEAC.

Applications

CAD Manager

• CADH.SYS - Ctrl+Alt+Del manager

CDS BackAgain

Back Again 2000

• CDSEIDE.FLT - ATAPI/IDE Tape Filter Driver
• CDSTAP2.DMD - Tape Device Manager

Back Again/2

• CDSTAPE.DMD - Tape Device Manager

Desktop Observatory

• DSKSES.SYS
• DSKSHLP.SYS

DBGHLP

• DBGHLP.SYS

Kaspersky Antivirus

• SEC32.SYS

Norman

• NVCHOOK.SYS - Norman Virus Control

Security/2

• SSES.SYS

Parallel Port Devices

• PRINT01.SYS - Parallel printer port
• PRINT02.SYS - Parallel printer port for ABIOS

ISDNPM

• SHOWIDT.SYS - Interrupt Monitor
• SHOWIRQ.SYS - Interrupt Monitor

SCSI

• DC1368.ADD - Dawicontrol DC-1368
• EPSA2.ADD - Shuttle EPSA-2
• EPST.ADD - Shuttle EPST
• PPAOS2.ADD - Iomega Zip

IDE

• EPIACD.ADD - Shuttle-EPIA parallel port to IDE adapter
• ONHDFLPY.ADD - LS120 Parallel Port

PCMCIA

• SPP100.SYS - Quatech SPP-100 PCMCIA parallel port driver PCMCIA

USB

• USBCDROM.ADD
• USBEHCD.SYS - EHCI compatible USB 2.0 controller
• USBOHCD.SYS - OHCI compatible USB controller
• USBUHCD.SYS - UHCI compatible USB controller

CWUSB

• CWUSBD.SYS
• CWUSBMSD.ADD
• CWUSBOHC.SYS
• CWUSBUHC.SYS

DSP

• VHDO0437.SYS - DSP Driver for MWave

Filters

• ARCIDECD.FLT - Arcdrive PCMCIA
• ATAPIMO.FLT
• BTSEIDE.FLT - Back Again/2 IDE
• CD_BOOT.FLT - CD boot filter
• CDBOOT.FLT
• CHINCDS1.FLT - Chinon SCSI CD-ROM
• CMDATAPI.FLT
• CTCDRFLT.FLT - Cirrus Unite CD Maker
• DANIADSK.FLT - IDE Filter
• DANIATAPI.FLT - IDE Filter
• DSKSLEEP.FLT - SCSI disk sleep
• EXT2FLT.FLT - ext2 partition
• FAUXDASD.FLT - DASD
• FAUXREM.FLT - removables
• HFS.FLT - Mac HFS media
• IBMRSCSI.FLT - Removable SCSI
• IOMGDRV.FLT
• LOCKCDR.FLT
• LS120DRV.FLT - LS120
• NFDASD.FLT - Netfinity DASD
• PIIXIDE.FLT - Intel IDE Filter
• RSJIDECD.FLT - RSJ CD Writer IDE Filter
• SCSIOPT.FLT - Modifies performance related settings of SCSI devices
• SYQUEST.FLT - Syquest removable media disk drives
• UP2TB.FLT
• VIACD.FLT - VIA IDE CD
• VRAID.FLT - Software RAID Filter
• XDFLOPPY.FLT - eXtended disk format

Device Manager

• AMD_K86.DMD - AMD K6-II
• CDSTAPE.DMD - Back Again/2 tape
• CDSTAP2.DMD - Back Again 2000 Tape
• DANIDASD.DMD
• MODISK.DMD - Fujitsu MO
• OS2ASPI.DMD - ASPI device manager
• OS2DASD.DMD
• OS2LVM.DMD
• OS2PCARD.DMD
• OS2SCSI.DMD
• SCSITAPE.DMD

MISC

• ATOMBIOS.SYS - ATOM BIOS widescreen video modes support.
• INTLBIOS.SYS - Widescreen modes for Intel GMA video adapters
• CPQFCAL.ADD - Compaq StorageWorks Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter.