VIA Falcon IDE Storage Device Driver Package User Guide
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Package Contents
VIA Falcon IDE device driver package is a setup
package for user to install VIA IDE controllers and it is composed of MiniIDE driver and SATAIDE driver both. MiniIDE
driver is in charge of PATA controller. Oppositely SATAIDE driver manages SATA
controller.
Moreover, VIA SATAIDE driver provided the Hot-Plug
and Port Multiplier features on VIA SATA IDE controller. Any SATA device
connects to VIA SATA IDE Controllers could be automatic identified and added
into the computer without reboot system.
Support device types are as below:
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ATA Device: hard disk
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ATAPI device: CD/DVD DOM, CD/DVD
RW, Tape, ZIP, MO, ATAPI type CF media
Support transmission mode:
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PIO mode 0, 1, 2, 3, 4
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Multiword DMA mode 0, 1, 2
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Ultra DMA mode 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
6. The highest UDMA mode should be limited with opposite south bridge chipset.
You could get the detail information from your system operation book or
motherboard user guide.
The supported platform are described in System Requirement
section.
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This package
should be installed on the system with VIA
The RAID controller is not supported by this package.
Hot-Plug Feature only supported on
VIA SATA IDE controller, VX700, CX700, VT8251, VT8237R, VT8237 and VT
Port Multiplier feature only supported on VT
This software
package only supports Microsoft Windows© platforms. The setup program will detect
the current platform and install proper driver on your system. The supported platforms
are list below:
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MiniIDE Driver
MiniIDE driver supported these Windows platforms which listed below. For Windows 9X/ME/NT platforms, MiniIDE driver does not support it, please visit VIA Arena web site, http://www.viaarena.com/, to download proper driver for your VIA PATA IDE controller. For Windows Vista platform, please use the in-box IDE driver that is supplied with the Windows Vista operating system.
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Windows NT
32-bits Platforms
Windows 2000 (RTM and above)
Windows XP (RTM and above)
Windows Server 2003 (RTM and above)
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Windows NT
64-bits Platform
Windows XP X64 (RTM and above)
Windows Server 2003 X64 (RTM and above)
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SATAIDE Driver
SATAIDE driver supported these Windows platforms which listed below. For Windows 9X/ME/NT platforms, SATAIDE driver does not support it, please visit VIA Arena web site, http://www.viaarena.com/, to download proper driver for your VIA SATA IDE controller.
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Windows NT
32-bits Platforms
Windows 2000 (RTM and above)
Windows XP (RTM and above)
Windows Server 2003 (RTM and above)
Windows
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Windows NT
64-bits Platform
Windows XP X64 (RTM and above)
Windows Server 2003 X64 (RTM and above)
Windows
The setup program will display the released data
and version for this package at dialog title.
There is specific version syntax for package
identification:
The X is
the major version of this package; and YZ represents the minor version.
The
alphabetic is always appended after version field to represent the
qualification by Windows Hardware Qualification Lab. The A means the first
package for the same driver binary, B means the second released package for the
same driver binary, and so on.
In this section, we show the detail file list of ZIP-compressed package in which include setup and driver files.
0X0409.INI,
INSTMSIA.EXE, INSTMSIW.EXE, ISSCRIPT.MSI,
License.rtf,
PCIENUM.SYS, README.TXT, SETUP.EXE,
Setup.ini,
SETUP.ISS, SETUP.MLF, SETUP.SCF,
viasetup.dll,
VIASetup.msi Readme.html
English.slf, asia.slf, europe1.slf, europe2.slf
europe3.slf, 165x300.bmp, 500x60.bmp
VMINIIDE.INF, VIDEX32.SYS, VIDEX64.SYS
viprt.INf, viprt.sys, vibus.sys, viprtx64.sys
vibusx64.sys videinst.dll
There are two operation modes, Windows UI and command line, to execute installation and remove. The most popular is the Windows UI mode that provides convenient user interface and systematic operation. The command line mode, also called as silent mode, need user append more parameters behind SETUP.EXE as answer to make the setup program silence without pop any dialogs.
There are possible two types setup
package you may have. One is compressed as a zip file includes visible setup
and driver files. Another one is made as a self-extracted-execution file. In
the following, we will show you the steps to complete driver installation and
remove with both package types.
If the downloaded file is ZIP-compressed format, please extract it to proper location in your hard disk first. Then launch the SETUP.EXE by double-clicking. Otherwise, you could double-click the self-extracted-execution file and wait for few seconds for the self-extraction. The extracted file will be deleted automatically after setup has been terminated.
If it is the first time to execute the setup package, you will only have the choice of installation.
After the first time execution, you could have choice to make Update and Remove. You will see two options, Update and Remove in the first shown dialog. If you are going to update the driver, please active the Update radio button and press next button to enter next steps. Else, if you are going to remove the installed driver in your system, please active the Remove radio button and press next button to enter next steps.
There is another path to remove the installed driver is to go through “Add Remove Programs” service of control panel. An uninstall item is added after install , VIA Platform Device Manager, to handle all the installed VIA driver components. You could select the VIA IDE Bus Master item in the list box of Remove option.
The silent mode are usually applied to system maintainer for servicing hundreds systems that wont have interactive user interface. They would execute the setup through command line in console or batch file execution without closing any popped dialog popped or pressing next buttons. In addition, the command line parameters of these two types of downloaded file format get few differences.
In this type package, you could see a setup.exe in those extracted files. User could append parameters behind setup.exe as command line in console.
The
present command line parameters are: -s and /z"reboot;remove;kompnt:xx,yy,zz"
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Parameter |
Description |
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-s |
It is a required command line parameter to enable
silent mode operation. If this parameter is missed, the setup can’t execute
under silent mode. |
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-zParam1;K;ParamN |
It passes predefined parameters to SETUP.EXE.
Each parameter, Param1;K;ParamN, should be separated with semicolons. The predefined sub-parameters are: reboot It causes Setup.exe automatically to reboot after the silent mode operation completed. remove It is
a switch to cause Setup.exe to remove
components. If this parameter is absent, then SETUP.EXE will install
components. kompnt:xx,yy,zz It is
an optional parameter to assign specific component in this package to be
install/remove. The
xx,yy,zz should be replaced with component name in which is defined as same
as the component folder name of this package. |
Examples:
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Command line |
Execution
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setup.exe -s |
Silent install all included components but not
reboot the computer. |
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setup.exe -s /z"reboot" |
Silent install all component and reboot the
computer. |
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setup.exe -s /z"reboot;remove" |
Silent uninstall all include component and reboot
the computer. |
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setup.exe -s /z"remove" |
Silent uninstall all components but not reboot
the computer. |
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setup.exe -s /z"kompnt:
SATAIDE " |
Silent install SATAIDE component only |
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setup.exe -s /z"remove;kompnt:
SATAIDE " |
Silent uninstall SATAIDE component only |
This type is a single self-extracted-execution file. All necessary files are all integrated together so that user does not need to extract it to specific folder for operation. There is extra parameter to make the self-extracted shell to be in silent mode.
The present command line parameters are -s -a, -s and /z"reboot;remove;kompnt:xx,yy,zz"
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Parameter |
Description |
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-s -a |
It is a required command line parameter to make
the self-extracted shell program to be in silent mode. And it should be the
first parameter in command line. |
|
-s |
It is a required command line parameter to enable
silent mode operation. If this parameter is missed, the setup |
|
-zParam1;K;ParamN |
It passes predefined parameters to SETUP.EXE. Each
parameter, Param1;K;ParamN, should be separated with semicolons. The predefined sub-parameters are: reboot It causes Setup.exe
automatically to reboot after the silent mode operation completed. remove It is
a switch to cause Setup.exe to
remove components. If this parameter is absent, then SETUP.EXE will install
components. kompnt:xx,yy,zz It is
an optional parameter to assign specific component in this package to be
install/remove. The
xx,yy,zz should be replaced with component name in which is defined as same
as the component folder name of this package. |
Examples:
We assume that you download a self-extracted-execution file named as Hyperion.exe.
|
Command line |
Execution
|
|
Hyperion.exe -s -a -s |
Silent install all included components but not
reboot the computer. |
|
Hyperion.exe -s -a -s /z"reboot" |
Silent install all components and reboot the
computer. |
|
Hyperion.exe -s -a -s /z"reboot;remove" |
Silent uninstall all included component and reboot
the computer. |
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Hyperion.exe -s -a -s /z"remove" |
Silent uninstall all components but not reboot
the computer. |
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Hyperion.exe -s -a -s /z"kompnt:SATAIDE" |
Silent install SATAIDE component only |
|
Hyperion.exe -s -a -s /z"remove;kompnt:
SATAIDE" |
Silent uninstall SATAIDE component only |
The default-supported language in this package is in English.
If the executed Windows OS is in an un-supported language to this package,
the user interface will be represented in English.
This setup package support 33 languages as below
Chinese(Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Indonesian,
Japanese, Korean, Russian,
Thai, Turkish.
Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan,
Croatian, Czech, Danish,
Dutch, English, Finish,
French(Canada), French(France), German,
Greek, Hungarian, Italian,
Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese(Brazi),
Portuguese(Portugal), Romanian, Serbian,
Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
Swedish.
All the
language sequence is arranged as alphabetical.
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