
NOTE:
        This is not an official distribution of Promise's driver for
        DC2000 VLB-IDE adapter, if you know where to get it or you
        can download it from Promise's BBS (408-452-1267 in USA),
        contact me (f@gs.utu.fi). I have succesfully runned this
        driver with Promise Technology DC2000-VL2 adapter on 45 MHz
        VESA LocalBus for about 12 months. Though they say "Your
        mileage may very." Driver it self originates from Promise,
        but I have got it "mysterious ways" ie. it was e-mailed
        to me. DO NOT USE THIS DRIVER UNLESS KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU
        ARE DOING, and your adapter does not base on Promise's
        PDC20230 chip. Misuse may lead to total corrupt of your
        data.

INSTALLALTION AND PURPOSE:
        This driver is replacement of Microsoft Windows fastdisk
        driver. So what you do with it? It provides you better
        support for 32-bit disk access in Windows 3.1 enhanced
        mode. You may have noticed that with Promise's adapter
        slows down when using 32-bit disk access. When you
        are using BIOS instead, Windows uses either DOS
        driver provided with some cards or card's own EBIOS,
        which is equivalent to DOS driver.

        You install this driver by copying file DC2000.386 to
        Windows SYSTEM direcory and replacing string:

        device=*wdctrl

        with string:

        device=DC2000.386

        under [386Enh] section in SYSTEM.INI. I have had good
        results of this driver. File IO throughput has doubled
        as CPU time needed for IO has dropped down to 10-30%.
        Exspecially virtual memory operations are speeded up
        considerably. This is result with 45 MHz 486DX and
        Promise Technology DC2000-VL2 with it's own 8KB EBIOS
        ROM and Quantum ProDrive 240 and 540 harddisks.

KNOWN PROBLEMS:
        Like normal FastDisk driver, also this one is limited
        on half gigabyte drives (1024-limit). Another problem
        is that this driver replaces only *wdctrl, but not
        *int13, so it cannot provide support for Windows for
        Workgroups 3.11 32-bit FileAccess. There may be newer
        version of this driver with full documentation. Later
        problem can be avoided by using real mode mapper as
        documented by Microsoft, but I found it wasn't as
        stabile I hoped, and also CPU attention needed was
        much higher.
