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               Copyright (c) 2000-2002 SiS Technologies Inc.                                                                                       
           SiS Bus Master(Ultra DMA) PCI IDE Driver ReadMe.Txt           
                                    for                                  

                     Win9x/Win2000/Millennium/XP                               

      This readme file is used to provide the information for installation,

       Install and Uninstall "SiS Bus Master PCI IDE Driver".    
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    The SiS Bus Master IDE controller is a high performance Bus  Master PCI
  IDE controller to utilize the DMA operation of your Hard disk/CD-ROMs drives
  in order to release the I/O loading from the  CPU. You  could  refer  to  the
  related section to install the driver individually.

  This package include three parts.
  1. WinXP/Win2000 SCSI miniport driver: Which can support SiS ATA133 chipset.
  2. Win98/WinME IFSHook driver: Which can enlarge the file system cache.
  3. IDE utility: Which can display the IDE device current mode and other information.

                                CONTENTS
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1)  System Requirements
2)  Windows 9x/Windows Millennium Driver
3)  Windows 2000/Windows XP Driver
4)  Package Version Identify
5)  Silent Install Driver
6)  Verifying Installation of the Driver
7)  Notes
8)  Limitation


1) System Requirements

   * This package should be installed on the platform w/ SiS961 or later, 
     and others' chipset will not be supported.

   * The "SiS Bus Master PCI IDE/Performance Driver" supports the following Operation
     System.

        Operation System                Version
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        Windows 98                      4.10.1998
	Windows 2000			2195
	Millennium			RTM
	XP				5.1.2600.0 or above
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2)  Windows 9x/Melliennum Driver

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    ** Driver Installation **
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    Click the SETUP.EXE program and select "Install"  button  then it will
    install the "IFSHook VXD driver" automatically on your Windows 9x
    system. It will copy the driver to the \WINDOWS\SYSTEM\ and add it to system.ini.

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    ** Driver Uninstallation **
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    You  could remove the "IFSHook VXD driver" by selecting the
    "Uninstall" button. It will completely remove the driver from the sytsem.

3)  Windows 2000/ Windows XP Driver

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    ** Driver Installation **
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      Click the SETUP.EXE program and select "Install"  button  then it will
    install the "SiS IDE Bus Master Driver" automatically on your Windows
    system. It will copy the driver to the \WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS  and  set
    the related registry tree.

    Win2000 note:
    After first reboot, Win 2000 will find IDE controller, you just press 
    ENTER "Next" and do not select anything.

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    ** Driver Uninstallation **
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      You  could remove the "SiS Bus Master PCI IDE Driver" by selecting the
    "Uninstall" button. It will completely remove the driver from the sytsem.


4)  Package Version Identify

      The setup program will display the released data and version for this package.

5)  Silent Install Driver

   Run setupxp.bat for WinXP.
   Run setup2k.bat for Win2K.
   Run setup9x.bat for Win98/Millennium.


6)  Verifying Installation of the Driver

    For Win98/Millennium:
        1. Edit system.ini and search sisidepx.vxd. If can find it 
           then installation is successfully.


    For Windows 2K/XP:
        1. Open "Control Panel".
        2. Select "Device Manager" from "Control Panel".
        3. Check the "IDE controller" is "SiS bus master IDE drivers" or not.
        4  If it is then your installation is successful.

7) Notes
   *   It is recommended to install the CD-ROM which is not on the same
     channel with the hard drive for the performance issue.

       If you play VCD or DVD abnormally on some CD-ROM or DVD-ROM which
     is on the same channel with hard drive, we recommand you to setup
     the CD-ROM or DVD-ROM on the separatly channel.

8) Limitation
	1.Display the IDE devices with a ˇ§SCSIˇ¨ word head
	- Win2000 system supports the third party IDE drivers as a pseudo SCSI miniport 
	  driver. Even the device is a ATA/ATAPI device, it will be added a head 
	  mark ˇ§SCSIˇ¨ before the device model name so that the user will misunderstand
	  why the displayed device type is not identical to what they have. 
	  This limitation will not have any side effect to end usre.

	2.Windows 9x/ME will only support total disk size up to 128 GiB limited 
	  by the designation of FAT32 file system.