VIA Falcon IDE Storage Driver Package User Guide
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VIA
Falcon 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
VIA PATA controller insides all VIA South-Bridge chips. Oppositely SATAIDE
driver manages VIA SATA controller insides VIA South-Bridge Chips. MiniIDE driver provides DMA capability for VIA PATA IDE
controllers and SATAIDE driver provides hot-plug capability on VIA SATA IDE
controller and support port multiplier device on some VIA South-Bridges chips’
SATA IDE controllers. For the detail of functionality, please refer with System
Requirements section.
1. PATA IDE controller:
VT6410, VX855/VX875
2. SATA IDE controller:
VT8251, VT8237/R, VT
3. PATA + SATA IDE controller:
CX700/VX700, VX800/VX820
(Note 1: VIA
Falcon IDE storage driver package doesn’t support VIA RAID controller and VIA
AHCI controller. It supports VIA IDE controllers ONLY.)
(Note 2: VIA
filter driver module only supports VIA SATA IDE controllers.)
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:
Microsoft Windows© 2000 32-bits
Microsoft Windows© XP 32-bits and 64-bits
Microsoft Windows© Server2003 32-bits and 64-bits
Microsoft Windows© Vista 32-bits and 64-bits
Microsoft Windows© Win7 32-bits and 64-bits
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"
|
Parameter |
Description |
|
-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. |
|
-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:
|
Command line |
Execution
|
|
setup.exe -s |
Silent install all included components but not
reboot the computer. |
|
setup.exe -s /z"reboot" |
Silent install all component and reboot the
computer. |
|
setup.exe -s /z"reboot;remove" |
Silent uninstall all include component and reboot
the computer. |
|
setup.exe -s
/z"remove" |
Silent uninstall all components but not reboot
the computer. |
|
setup.exe -s /z"kompnt:VIAMACH,VIASTORE" |
Silent install VIAMACH and VIASTORE components
only |
|
setup.exe -s /z"remove;kompnt:VIAMACH,
VIASTORE " |
Silent uninstall VIAMACH and VIASTORE components
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"
|
Parameter |
Description |
|
-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 VIASTORE.exe.
|
Command line |
Execution
|
|
VIASTORE.exe -s -a -s |
Silent install all included components but not
reboot the computer. |
|
VIASTORE.exe -s -a -s /z"reboot" |
Silent install all components and reboot the
computer. |
|
VIASTORE.exe -s -a -s /z"reboot;remove" |
Silent uninstall all included component and
reboot the computer. |
|
VIASTORE.exe -s -a -s /z"remove" |
Silent uninstall all components but not reboot
the computer. |
|
VIASTORE.exe -s -a -s
/z"kompnt:VIAMACH,VIAUDIO" |
Silent install VIAMACH and VIAUDIO components
only |
|
VIASTORE.exe -s -a -s
/z"remove;kompnt:VIAMACH,VIAUDIO" |
Silent uninstall VIAMACH and VIAUDIO components
only |
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