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IBM OS/2 Driver Installation

Device driver command line options

The Initio device drivers support command line switches to optimize driver performance. Device drivers normally require no further information to work effectively. However, in certain situations some driver optimization may be advantageous to system perfor- mance. From inside the CONFIG.SYS file use the following format to edit the file.

The standard format for command line switches is: BASEDEV = INI910U.ADD [Driver Config Option]

Driver Config Options:

/V

Verbose Mode provides detail information about driver on system command line

 

when driver is initialized.

/!V

Non Verbose Mode (default)

/ET

Driver assumes that all targets have more than one LUN

/!ET

Driver assumes that all targets only have LUN 0 (default)

/T:hhhh

Target enable mask WORD (Default scan all targets) in hex format

/B:b,dd

Scan device only on PCI BUS #b, DEVICE #dd (in decimal format)

/B:b

Scan all the devices on PCI BUS #b (from 0 to 7)

/A:n

Assigns adapter number based on BIOS address

/DM:t,t,t

Enable direct access storage device (DASD) support

/!DM:t,t,t

Disable DASD manager support

/SM:t,t,t

Enable SCSI manager support

/!SM:t,t,t

Disable SCSI manager support

/Q:q

Specifies maximum number of tag commands per target

/!Q

No tag

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