Shining PCMCIA IDE Controller Win2000

Windows device driver information for Shining PCMCIA IDE Controller Win2000

This device is capable of supporting up to two IDE channels (primary and secondary) with two devices per channel for a total of four devices. It is a compatibility device that has a well defined programming interface at a fixed address and it uses fixed IRQs. It contains a code that allows the maintenance of compatibility of the programming model. It allows other devices to maintain the same register level programming interface while addressing the register at non standard locations and using non standard IRQs. It helps avoid resources conflict and thus allowing multiple controllers of the same type to be in a system. The channels are independent and thus do not affect each others operation. The control registers for each channel to follow the AT attachment interface standard. It consists of eight input output ports that provide various status commands.

The control block register consists of two bytes. The second byte is read only and has interesting quirks where the top bit of this byte is shared with the floppy controller. The class code in the controller configuration space is used by software to determine and control the mode that the device is operating in. the specifications are Rev 2.1 compliant. Its bus power management interface specification is 1.1 compliant. It contains both PIO mode and master DMA mode support. The scatter/ gather function is compliant to the bus master programming interface for IDE ATA controller Rev. 1.0 it supports PIO mode 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4 over 16.6 MB/s data rate. It also supports two IDE channels and each channel supports two devices. It also has independent timing for disk command and data register. It also includes a programmable active and recovery cycle timing. It is highly recommended you run a free registry scan for and Shining PCMCIA IDE Controller Win2000 errors before installing any driver updates.