Socket Chipsets Matrix PCMCIA

By Jonas Buys

PCMCIA Socket Chipsets Matrix

Most OS/2 users own a notebook nowadays, and though USB is a very powerful and flexible technology, it still can't compete with the popularity of the classic PCMCIA interface, which still is the standard for laptops.

PCMCIA is short for Personal Computer Memory Card International Association, which is an industry group organized in 1989 to promote standards for a credit card-size memory or Input/Output device that would fit into a personal computer, usually a notebook or laptop computer. The PCMCIA 2.1 Standard was published in 1993. As a result, PC users can be assured of standard attachments for any peripheral device that follows the standard. The initial standard and its subsequent releases describe a standard product, the PC Card.

CardBus is the trade name for an advanced PC Card specification. The technology is used primarily in notebook and portable computers. The CardBus card fits in a slot like a conventional PC card.

CardBus allows for all the functions that are possible with PC cards, but with some improvements:

• Direct Memory Access (DMA) is supported.
• A 32-bit path is used for data transfer.
• The operating speed is several times greater.
• CardBus works at lower battery voltage.

A CardBus slot, and the associated software, interrogates a card when the card is first inserted in the slot. If a PC card has been inserted, the computer uses it as if the slot were a conventional PCMCIA slot. If a CardBus card has been inserted, the computer reconfigures the slot to take advantage of the enhanced operating features. For CardBus to work, the operating system must support 32-bit data paths, precisely what OS/2 does support.

Note that other PCMCIA Socket drivers do exist. We have only picked out the most important ones that support the widest range of different chipsets.

The table below lists a selection of the chipsets that are known to be working with OS/2, and which drivers support them.

Column heading descriptions:

Chipset

This column lists the chipsets used in PCMCIA/PC Card solutions.

Revision

Some manufacturers tend to release new versions of the same product. For example: a version A, a version B... Sometimes, a driver must explicitly support these versions, since they sometimes each need a special identification system.

Cardbus (CB*)

The difference between PC Card and CardBus have been mentioned above. CardBus, of course, is better than just regular PC Card. :This column indicates whether the chipset is a CardBus device (✔) or just a regular classic PCMCIA socket ( ).

DeviceID

The identification number of the manufacturer of the chipset.

VendorID

The identification number of the device itself. You need the former and this one to figure out which chipset you have using pci.exe.

base OS (0)

Whether or not IBM OS/2 Warp 4 GA (Merlin) natively supports these chipsets.

IBM PC Card Director/ibm2ss14.sys v3.0 (1)

One of IBM's official driver that offers support for multiple chipsets (cardbus.exe). Part of SoftWare Choice.

Dani patch (Daniela's Texas Instruments Cardbus Driver) (2)

Whilst the socket services driver for TI cardbus bridges IBM2SS14.SYS provided by IBM (the driver above) does it's job, it supports only some of the many TI chips. Daniela's Texas Instruments Cardbus Driver is supposed to support all TI cardbus bridges. The driver is based on the IBM2SS14 v3.0/1.01.00 driver.

APSoft (3)

If you want more power, or if you can't get the free drivers to work then the German company APSoft has developed a commercial PCMCIA driver which is described here. This driver costs around € 60,-. It will be delivered without technical support. However, the company will receive bug reports and makes new releases as and when applicable, and corporate support for the driver is available via os2warp.be Corporate Support Services. The driver provides support for many Cardbus sockets and seems to be very promising. You can contact the company under sales@tssc.de. Make sure that you give the impression that you know what you are doing when you want to install the driver, otherwise they may refuse selling it to you (due to the technical support restriction). For os2warp.be Corporate Support Customers an installer for the APSoft device driver is provided which automatically detects the applicable chipset of the host computer and then installs PC Card Director and the SSPCIC.SYS driver with the correct required config.sys switches.

ibm2cl11 (4)

Older IBM driver that offers explicit support for Cirrus Logic 6729 chipsets.

ss2pcic2.exe (5)

IBM driver that combines the chipset support offered by the former driver and ss2intel.zip.

ss2pcic3.exe (6)

Driver that supports the SL-revision of Intel's 82365 chip.

playwill.exe (7)

A derived device driver of IBM's PC Card Director to support a selected number of chipsets used in IBM and DELL notebooks. Driver should - of course - also work with other notebooks.

dell.exe (8)

A derived device driver of IBM's PC Card Director to support some TI chipsets used in DELL CPxx notebooks.

cvlsi3.zip (9)

A driver that supports the VLSI chipset used in PCMCIA socket slots. We would like to express our thanks to [Norloff's OS/2 BBS] for allowing us to test and host this driver.

ss2intel.zip (10)

Private binary device driver that offers support for Intel 82365 chipset and compatibles (like some Texas Instruments solutions) too.

pctpgos2.exe (11)

IBM device driver that offers support for some chipsets used in a selected number of (older) IBM ThinkPad notebooks.

Note: we are hosting some drivers since some of them are not available via the official copyright holder. We are not responsible for possible loss of data nor damage to your system that may result from (improper) use of these device drivers. Refer to the documentation included with the drivers for copyright information.

Status

✔ Supported.

✓ Should be supported, no confirmations though.

? Can possible be supported, but no confirmations yet.

Chipset	Rev.	CB*	VendorID	DeviceID	(0)	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)	(7)	(8)	(9)	(10)	(11)
Acer Labs 82C786			0x1025					✔
Acer Labs M5235			0x1025	0x5235				✔
Cirrus Logic PD6710			0x1013		✔			✔
Cirrus Logic PD6720			0x1013	0x0e01	✔			✔
Cirrus Logic PD6722	0		0x1013					✔
Cirrus Logic PD6722	1		0x1013					✔
Cirrus Logic PD6729	A		0x1013	0x6729		✔		✔	✔	✔
Cirrus Logic PD6729	B		0x1013	0x6729		✔		✔	✓	✓
Cirrus Logic PD6729	C		0x1013	0x6729		✔		✔	✓	✓
Cirrus Logic PD6729	E		0x1013	0x6729		✔		✔	✓	✓
Cirrus Logic PD6730	A		0x1013					✔
Cirrus Logic PD6730	B		0x1013					✔
Cirrus Logic PD6832		✔	0x1013	0x1110				✔		✔		✔
DataBook DB 87144		✔	0x10b3	0x3106	0xb106				✔
DataBook DB86072 TCIC			0x10b3					✔
DataBook DB86081 TCIC			0x10b3					✔
DataBook DB86082 TCIC			0x10b3					✔
DataBook DB86082A TCIC			0x10b3				✔
DataBook DB86082B TCIC			0x10b3					✔
DataBook DB86084 TCIC			0x10b3					✔
DataBook DB86084A TCIC			0x10b3					✔
DataBook DB86183 TCIC			0x10b3					✔
DataBook DB86184 TCIC			0x10b3					✔
DataBook DB86272 TCIC			0x10b3					✔
DataBook DB86501 TCIC			0x10b3					✔
ENE Technology CB-1211		✔	0x1524	0x1211				✔
ENE Technology CB-1225		✔	0x1524	0x1225				✔
ENE Technology CB-1410		✔	0x1524	0x1410				✔
ENE Technology CB-1420		✔	0x1524	0x1420				✔
ENE Technology CB-710		✔	0x1524	0x0710				✔
ENE Technology CB-720		✔	0x1524	0x0720				✔
IBM King			0x1014					✔
IBM Stinger			0x1014		✔			✔
IBM ThinkPad 750			0x1014		✔			✔
IBM Tomcat			0x1014		✔			✔
Intel 82365			0x8086	0x0e00	✔										✔
Intel 82365SL	A		0x8086			?		✔		✔	✔
Intel 82365SL	C		0x8086			?		✔		✔	✔
Intel 82365SL	B		0x8086			?		✔		✔	✔
Intel PHIC			0x8086					✔
Intel PPEC			0x8086					✔
LSI Logic HT27			0x1000					✔
Mitsubishi MB86301 TCIC								✔
O2 Micro 6912		✔	0x1217	0x6972				✔
O2 Micro OZ OZ711EC1M1		✔	0x1217	0x7112				✔
O2 Micro OZ OZ711M1		✔	0x1217	0x7114				✔
O2 Micro OZ OZ711M2		✔	0x1217	0x7212				✔
O2 Micro OZ6722			0x1217					✔
O2 Micro OZ6729 PCI			0x1217	0x6729				✔
O2 Micro OZ6730 PCI			0x1217	0x673a				✔
O2 Micro OZ6812		✔	0x1217	0x6872				✔
O2 Micro OZ6832		✔	0x1217	0x6832		?		✔		✔
O2 Micro OZ6833		✔	0x1217	0x6832				✔
O2 Micro OZ6836		✔	0x1217	0x6836				✔
O2 Micro OZ6860		✔	0x1217	0x6836				✔
O2 Micro OZ6912 / 711E0		✔	0x1217	0x6972				✔
O2 Micro OZ6933		✔	0x1217	0x6933				✔
O2 Micro OZ711E0		✔	0x1217					✔
O2 Micro OZ711E1		✔	0x1217					✔
O2 Micro OZ711E2			0x1217	0x71e2				✔
O2 Micro OZ711EC1		✔	0x1217	0x7113				✔
O2 Micro OZ711M3		✔	0x1217	0x7223				✔
Omega Micro 82C722GX			0x119b					✔
PicoPower 82C786 (PCMCIA+)			0x1066					✔
Ricoh R5C475		✔	0x1180	0x0475		✔		✔
Ricoh R5C475 II		✔	0x1180	0x0475				✔
Ricoh R5C476		✔	0x1180	0x0476				✔
Ricoh R5C476 II		✔	0x1180	0x0476				✔
Ricoh R5C478		✔	0x1180	0x0478				✔
Ricoh R5C478 II		✔	0x1180	0x0478				✔
Ricoh R5C522			0x1180					✔
Ricoh RF5C266			0x1180					✔
Ricoh RF5C269			0x1180					✔
Ricoh RF5C366			0x1180					✔
Ricoh RF5C366L			0x1180													✔
Ricoh RF5C369			0x1180					✔
Ricoh RL5C476			0x1180		✔
TI 1030			0x104c	0xac11				✔
TI 1031			0x104c	0xac13			✔	✔
TI 1050			0x104c	0xac10				✔
TI 1130		✔	0x104c	0xac12		✔	✔	✔		✔		✔	✔
TI 1131		✔	0x104c	0xac15		✔	✔	✔		✔		✔	✔
TI 1210		✔	0x104c	0xac1a			✔	✔
TI 1211		✔	0x104c	0xac1e			✔	✔
TI 1220		✔	0x104c	0xac17			✔	✔		✔
TI 1221		✔	0x104c	0xac19			✔	✔		✔		✔			✔
TI 1225		✔	0x104c	0xac1c		✔	✔	✔		✔		✔	✔		?
TI 1250		✔	0x104c	0xac16			✔	✔		✔					?
TI 1250	A	✔	0x104c	0xac55		✔	✔	✔							?	✔
TI 1251	A	✔	0x104c	0xac1d		✔	✔	✔							?
TI 1251	B	✔	0x104c	0xac1f		✔	✔	✔							?
TI 1260		✔	0x104c	0xac18			✔
TI 1260		✔	0x104c	0xac30			✔
TI 1410		✔	0x104c	0xac50			✔	✔
TI 1420		✔	0x104c	0xac51		✔	✔	✔
TI 1421		✔	0x104c	0xac53			✔
TI 1450		✔	0x104c	0xac1b		✔	✔	✔
TI 1451		✔	0x104c	0xac52			✔	✔
TI 1510		✔	0x104c	0xac56			✔	✔
TI 1515		✔	0x104c	0xac58			✔
TI 1520		✔	0x104c	0xac55		✔	✔	✔
TI 1530		✔	0x104c	0xac57			✔
TI 1610		✔	0x104c	0xac5a			✔
TI 1620		✔	0x104c	0xac54			✔	✔
TI 1621		✔	0x104c	0xac59			✔
TI 4410		✔	0x104c	0xac41			✔	✔
TI 4450		✔	0x104c	0xac40			✔	✔
TI 4451		✔	0x104c	0xac42			✔	✔
TI 4510		✔	0x104c	0xac41			✔	✔
TI 4520		✔	0x104c	0xac46			✔	✔
TI 4550		✔	0x104c	0xac43			✔
TI 6420		✔	0x104c					✔
TI 7410		✔	0x104c					✔
TI 7510		✔	0x104c					✔
TI 7620		✔	0x104c	0xac8d				✔
Toshiba ToPIC			0x1179					✔
Toshiba ToPIC100		✔	0x1179	0x0617				✔
Toshiba ToPIC100 Donau		✔	0x1179	0x0617				✔
Toshiba ToPIC100 Nova 100		✔	0x1179	0x0617				✔
Toshiba ToPIC100 Nova 100SE		✔	0x1179	0x0617				✔
Toshiba ToPIC100 Nova 200		✔	0x1179	0x0617				✔
Toshiba ToPIC100 Suez		✔	0x1179	0x0617				✔
Toshiba ToPIC100 Sydney 99		✔	0x1179	0x0617				✔
Toshiba ToPIC95	a		0x1179	0x0603	✔			✔
Toshiba ToPIC95	b		0x1179		✔			?
Toshiba ToPIC95M		✔	0x1179	0x060a				✔
Toshiba ToPIC97		✔	0x1179	0x060f	✔			✔
Vadem VG-365			0x10e7					✔
Vadem VG-465			0x10e7					✔
Vadem VG-468			0x10e7		✔			✔
Vadem VG-469			0x10e7					✔
Vadem VG-469	8D		0x10e7					✔
VLSI VL82C146			0x1004	0x0e02				✔						✔

2.2. PC Card Director

The PC Card Director is an IBM-supplied utility that lets you use a PC Card with "Plug and Play" capability. The PC Card Director is to be used with most of the device drivers from the PCMCIA Socket Chipsets Matrix. It is available via driver (1) of the PCMCIA Socket Chipsets Matrix.

For your convenience, we host IBM's user's manual. In this document you will find everything you need to know concerning the PC Card Director.