CardWizard(TM) for Windows(r) NT 4.0 Release 5.10.04 April 6, 2000 Copyright 1996-2000 SystemSoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved ---------------------------------------------------------------- Section Contents: 1. General Description and Installation 2. Enhancements and New Functionality 3. Things to Know 4. Reference Material ----------------------------------------------------------------- 1. General Description and Installation CardWizard for Windows NT provides a complete PC Card solution for systems running Microsoft's Windows NT 4.0. It provides for Plug and Play of PC Cards enabling users to hot insert and remove PC Cards. Card types supported include ATA, Modem, Serial, Network, Combo, Multifunction, Specialty, Flash, SRAM, and Fortezza cards. For a complete list of certified cards, check the SystemSoft Web site at: www.systemsoft.com. To install CardWizard: ---------------------- This release of CardWizard for Windows NT requires Windows NT 4.0 Build 1381 or a later release of Windows NT 4.0. A user must have administrator privileges in order to install CardWizard for Windows NT. If the machine already has a copy of CardWizard for Windows NT installed, uninstall CardWizard before proceeding. (Control Panel Add/Remove Programs) From the Start Menu, the Explorer, or from a command prompt, run Setup.exe. Note: The contents of the installation diskettes can be copied to a directory on the hard disk and setup can be run from this directory. To do this, create a new (empty) directory for this purpose. For example: mkdir \WizInstall cd \WizInstall copy a:*.* setup [optional step] Setup can also be run from a network drive. To Uninstall CardWizard: ------------------------ Run the CardWizard un-installation program from the Start Menu or from the Control Panel Add/Remove Programs applet. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Enhancements and New Functionality The following features were added to this product: - Hot swap support for SCSI, Specialty and multifunction cards - Enhanced modem and ATA support by enabling the user to define Com Ports and Drive Letters for specific cards. - Support for simultaneous use of 2 CardBus cards - Binary access to SRAM cards through an MTD - Ability to modify the IRQ mask from the CardWizard application - Installation will now prompt for the Power Management option if you are select a Toshiba platform from the installer - Custom.ini file is now available to assist in configuring CardWizard for your site. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Things to Know: General: -------- - Hot-Swapping is available for all card types. For network, SCSI and Specialty cards, you may need updated drivers. See our certified card list on www.systemsoft.com for more information. If you remove a non Hot-Swappable card without first shutting down the system, it is possible for the system to freeze since the driver may not be written to handle PC Card removals. - When upgrading to Windows 2000, you must first uninstall CardWizard. If you do not uninstall CardWizard, then the system may hang on reboot. - PC Cards should not be removed or re-inserted before all beeps and notifications are completed. Failure to wait for completion may cause unexpected results. - PC Card support (from both SystemSoft and Microsoft) may not work on some platforms which have a Plug and Play (PnP) BIOS because the BIOS assumes that the operating system will handle setup issues which are not handled by Windows NT. If PC Card support does not work on your platform, you might be able to instruct the BIOS to disable PnP features; the details of how this is done vary from one platform to the next. Typically this can be done in the BIOS setup. For example, some setups have a setting similar to: Plug & Play O/S: [Yes] Set this to [No] to disable PnP BIOS features. Modem: ------ - In some situations, the Modem applet (in the Control Panel) will not be able to auto-detect the modem inserted in a slot. In this case, you should choose the appropriate modem from the list. - The Hayes Accura 56K PC Card Fax/Modem is has a reset timing problem with the firmware in revision .114. This revision of card may not work with CardWizard/NT. This problem was fixed in the current shipping product (revision 1.00). You can determine the revision number of the card by looking at the box for the number or using Hyperterminal and the ATI3 command. For customers who have the .114 card revision, the customer should call Hayes' Customer Service organization and request a replacement card. (State they need a new card because of the reset timing issue). The number to call is 770-441-1617. Network: -------- - Some of the drivers which ship with Windows NT may not work with CardWizard and will need to be updated. - If a PC Card network adapter is installed, and the machine is rebooted with the card removed from the system or disconnected from the network, the Service Control Manager may display the following error message, "At least one service or driver failed during system startup...". This is caused by limitations in the Windows NT operating system. It is safe to ignore this message. - Megahertz software beeps when their cards are successfully inserted. When running CardWizard with beeps on, the insertion of a Megahertz card will result in additional beeps. - If using the Netware client and the Ositech Jack of Diamonds combo card, there may be times when you can access the network but cannot browse it. This is because of the frame type. The frame type should be set to 802.2 to avoid this situation. SCSI: ----- - If you install a SCSI card, then later remove it, you may receive a Service Control Manager error message that "At least one service or driver failed during system startup..." or "Not enough server storage to process this card..." This is caused by limitations in the Windows NT operating system. It is safe to ignore this message. To keep this message from recurring, you must disable the driver for the SCSI card, or you must make sure the SCSI card is plugged in when you boot your system. - Some combinations of SCSI controllers and SCSI devices do not work together. The reason is that the SCSI specification does not specify which device, the SCSI controller or the SCSI device, is required to supply termination power. If neither device supplies the power, unusual behavior will result. For example, a CD ROM drive may have too many or no drives mapped to it. This problem can be fixed with an Active Termination Device which can be obtained from several manufacturers. - For the New Media Bus Toaster SCSI card, it must be used with SCSI devices that provide termination power or with an Active Termination Device. If the device is not attached or powered on when the Bus Toaster is inserted, then the system will hang at the system startup screen until the device is activated. Mass Storage Device (ATA, Flash, SRAM): --------------------------------------- - The FUJIX ATA card is now supported, however, Cardwizard does not recognized this card if it is write protected. - It is recommended that you stop Mass Storage Device cards using the Stop Card feature, prior to removing them from the system. Failure to do so can result in loss of data. - This version of CardWizard supports the following flash memory cards: Intel Series 2 Intel Series 2+ Intel Series 100 Intel Mini-Cards AMD Series C AMD Series D AMD Mini-Cards Intel Series 1 Flash cards are not supported. - Several of the early Calluna ATA cards may have timing issues with CardWizard and fail to configure. For resolution of this problem, you should contact Calluna. - If the drive letter for a Mass Storage card is changed in the Disk Administrator, it will not be reflected in the CardWizard Properties. This is a limitation of Windows NT. To set new drive letters for your card, use CardWizard (Card Management / Mass Storage). - Due to a timing issue with the Windows NT file system, sometimes the volume and file system format may not appear in the Mass Storage Properties menu. If you close the dialog box and reopen it, the information will be available for a previously formatted card. - Memory cards (Flash and SRAM) are implemented as removable media by CardWizard. If you try to copy a file which is larger than the memory cards capacity, Windows NT will prompt you for another "disk". However, removing the memory card and reinserting another card is not handled correctly by the copy command. - For Flash cards, when a flash card reaches capacity, performance degradation for reads and writes will occur. Reformatting the disk will help improve performance. Limitations: ------------ - Power Management does not support Ring/Resume at suspend for modems. - When using Intel LDCM with CardWizard for Windows NT, ATA and Modem resources will not be displayed by Intel LDCM. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Reference Material Look in the following areas for additional information on the product and its features. - User's Guide - SystemSoft Web site - www.systemsoft.com - Help system