VIA IDE Miniport Driver

What’s the meaning of these drivers? Sincerely cannot grasp the explanation given in the VIA website
It seems they didn’t want to let it clear at all
You think using them I could drop my HdTach CPU Utilization readings using WinXP and a MSI KT4V?
Will appreciate any advice, thanks Gustavo.-

I believe that VIA IDE Miniport driver is only required in four cases, when you have either :
- An IDE Zip drive, under all Microsoft operating systems, with a 686b
southbridge chip
- An ATA100 hard drive with Windows 2000 prior to Service pack 1
- An ATA133 hard drive under Windows 2000 and Windows XP
- An IDE Zip drive under Win2K

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IDE Miniport driver for nForce?

I have noticed that AMD itself is using for testing AthlonXP 2800+ with nForce2 the IDE miniport driver in their testbed instead the native WinXP driver.
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_756_3734%5E3746,00.html
What is this IDE miniport driver?
Will it increase HDD performance?
Where i can find it (for nForce not nForce2) ??
Operating System Windows XP Pro.
Manolis

IDE Miniport drivers are usually needed when the OS does not have native support for the IDE Controller.
In some cases if the OS have bad support for the IDE Controller it _might_ increase performance. It might also sometimes be needed to solve IDE compatibility issues.
EDIT, NOTE: In some cases where the native OS support does not allow an IDE channel to use UDMA mode, a IDE driver might fix that.

NEW: VIA IDE Accelerator Driver

http://www.bio-driver.com/downloads/pafiledb.php?action=file&id=18

Quote from: Bavarian on 13-February-05, 04:46:33
dont know why, but
after installing this driver and after the reboot windows told me my hardware changed and i have to activate now! formatted my 59 weeks old windows and installed the clean backup i made.
now i installed this driver again, and again after the reboot it wanted to go online for activation !!
i formatted again and installed my backup again, now WITHOUT this driver, and voila - no activation poo !!!!
i wouldnt recommend to try this driver!!!
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Hi transfered my i tunes liberary via a hard drive to my new laptop. It wont let me play anything I've bought from i tunes saying computer is not registered. i have registered it and when i go through the register process it says it is registered?

Help. transfered my itunes liberary via a hard drive to a new lap top. wasnt easy, cant play any thing I bought on the old computer says this one not registered? The box that comes up has my VERY old email on it, I change this to my current one put in password and it says computer is registered. This then just goes around in circles! Any ideas?

I found this article some time ago when I was trying to help someone else in this same situation. This is a copy and paste from the website. The website is provided below for you to read before you try this.
Plug your phone into iTunes
Click setup as a new device
Immediately unplug your phone from the computer
Give it about 30 seconds and iTunes will give a message (I don’t remember the specific, but regarding you unplugging the device and it not completing)
Plug your phone back in
Viola! no restore occurred and you can access everything again
This computer has previously synced with an iPhone or another iOS device.

Sony IDE DVD Drive not being recognized

Motherboard : P7n-SLI-FI
MS-7380
I recently upgraded my computer a bit with this new motherboard, ram, video cards, power supply. I used my older dvd drive that was working in my last computer. It is currently connected via IDE ribbon, but it does not show up in my computer or when I put in a CD does not auto run.
The unit does have power to it ( The eject button works, light on front blinks a little )
In BIOS I tried changing the IDE primary from AUTO to DVD/CD Drive and it still did not work.
Any suggestions ? Buy a new dvd drive that is SATA ?
Thanks

Also check the jumpers on the IDE optical drive so as they are set in Master mode as its the only IDE device in the system, assuming that you have a SATA hard drive, or if your hard drive is also an IDE one then you have to set the jumper to run as a Slave mode.

Installing New IDE Hard Drive.

I can not get my G3 to find and IDE hard drives. I can start up from a 10.2 cd and into os 9.2 but can not fid the added hard drive. Can anyone help

In addition the excellent advice already provided, here are some additional items:
First, to support two devices per ATA channel under OS9, you must have a Beige G3 ROM Rev 2 or 3. In OS9, select Apple System Profiler from the Apple menu. On the first page, look for the section labeled "Production information" and click the disclosure arrow to expand if needed. There will be an entry for "ROM Revision." If this code is not $77D.40F2, OS9 cannot support more than one device on each of your two ATA channels. This limitation is said to go away under OSX.
If you have a Rev 2 or 3, physically attach the extra hard drive to the same ribbon cable that serves the original hard drive. The original drive should be set as "master" via jumper settings (charts available at the drive manufacturer's web site) and the extra drive as "slave." Typically, the master drive is at the end of the ribbon cable and the slave uses the middle connector.
For maximum performance, do not mix fast devices (hard drives) and slow devices (CD-ROMS; internal ZIPs, etc) on the same channel. A slow device sharing a channel with a fast one can slow the fast device.
My Beige G3 has the following arrangement;
ATA0: Master-Maxtor 120GB HD
Slave-Maxtor 80GB HD
ATA1: Master-CD-R optical drive
Slave-internal ZIP 100
Works great with that set-up.

VIA Rhine NDIS Driver FOR NORTON GHOST

Hi,
I've got MS KT4AV mobo with integrated LAN (driver is VIA Rhine II Fast ethernet).
I have all the drivers on driver CD and you can download them from numerous sites but it's very hard to get the NDIS / DOS driver.
I need to create disc to boot up norton ghost 2003 to work peer to peer.
I've used numerous other LAN cards and drivers and there NDIS2 drivers have always contained an oemsetup file for with setup information.
All the VIA drivers I've found have no NDIS2 folder and the oemsetup file is huge and is not recognised by ghost when i try to setup a NDIS2 bootable disc.
Below is the setup info i had in with my previous SMC network card NDIS2 driver (which worked fine), but with the VIA Rhine driver the information is about 20 pages long and isn't recognised by norton (and it's not in a NDIS file anyway, it just comes with all the driver files).
SMC1255="SMC EZ Card 10/100 (SMC1255TX)",0,ndis,ethernet,real,SMC1255,SMC1255_nif
; Install Sections
[SMC1255]
devdir=?:SMC1255.dos
device=SMC1255.dos,@devdir\SMC1255.dos
[SMC1255_nif]
drivername=SMC1255$
param=SLOT,"Slot number",int,"1,4,1",1
param=MEDIA,"Media Type",text,"UTP,UTP_FD,UTP_100,UTP_100FD,AUTODETECT","AUTODETECT"
Unfortunately I'm not familiar with the correct commands so wanted norton ghost to setup the disc (it always has before).
I found a VIA Rhine NDIS2 drive at the link below but this has no oemsetup file and when i just load the DOS file it doesn't work.
http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/network/
Any ides would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Rob

well..i still haven't solved it yet, coz Ghost doesn;t "like" the DOS driver...I e-mailed nvidia as well but its becoming a ping-pong match.
Reply from nvidia:
Quote
Hello,
This support website is designed to support NVIDIA direct sales products, such as the NVIDIA DualTV tuner card
and the NVIDIA PureVideo DVD decoder, and also pre-sales questions about NVIDIA technology.
NVIDIA is a market leader in graphics and digital media processors. NVIDIA does NOT build graphics cards,
motherboards or PCs. While our partners and customers all choose NVIDIA's technology as a core component for
their solutions, they do implement them differently and therefore it is not possible for NVIDIA to directly support their products.
To obtain support, please contact the appropriate manufacturer or vendor of your product. For your convenience,
a partial list of our partners and customers can be found here. http://www.nvidia.com/page/partner_support.html
Best regards,
NVIDIA
My question to them:
I have already downloaded the NDIS.zip as directed by your site to use with Norton Ghost 2003.
There are only 2 DOS files:
NVNDIS2.DOS & NDIS.DOS
I tried building the Ghost Network Boot Disk with each of the DOS files & each time I ger this error:
ERROR: 33 Unable to bind.
I let the Ghost Wizard do the disk build tho' - please see attached build sheet.
Client:   Norton Ghost
Destination:   Floppy Drive A:
Network Driver:
Template:   NVIDIA nForce 4
Driver:   NVNDIS2.DOS
Driver Type:   NDIS2 Driver
Configuration Files:
AUTOEXEC.BAT:
@echo off
SET TZ=GHO-08:00
prompt $p$g
\net\netbind.com
MOUSE.COM
echo Loading...
CD GHOST
GHOST.EXE
CONFIG.SYS:
DEVICE=\net\protman.dos /I:\net
DEVICE=\net\dis_pkt.dos
DEVICE=\net\NVNDIS2.DOS
LASTDRIVE = Z
PROTOCOL.INI:
[protman]
drivername=PROTMAN$
[pktdrv]
drivername=PKTDRV$
bindings=nic
intvec=0x60
chainvec=0x66
[nic]
drivername = UNDIS$

Duplicate photos appearing when I transfer via a jump drive...

I transferred photos from a PC to my new Mac via a jump drive, one this was complete each of my photos had a corresponding folder attached to it that contained 2 duplicates of the photo I transferred. Any idea why this happens and how I can prevent this happeningagain???

Apple - MobileMe - MobileMe transition and iCloud.

Cinema Display hookup via a Thunderbolt drive

I believe it's possible to run a Cinema Display from my MBP via a Thunderbolt drive, going from the MBp to the TB and then, via a Mini-display to DVI cable, into the display.
I've hooked it up this way with the display also plugged into its power supply and usb'd into the MBP: nothing
When I click 'Find displays' I hear activity in the thunderbolt drive (a Lacie 2big) but that's about it. Nothing shows on the Cinema Display.
I'm doing somethin wrong probably, a familiar scene.
Anyone done this successfully?
(I'm running 10.7.3)

A dvi display with a resolution greater than 1920 x 1200 requires a dual link dvi adapter. I assume you are using a single link dvi adaper (or cable).

SOLVED: Mounting IDE ZIP Drives, "Special Device hdb4 Does Not Exist"

I thought I would post a follow-up, since I have finally resolved this long standing issue, which has plagued me since my first days with Linux many years ago.
As outlined in my original post below, every time I would attempt to access a Zip disk for the first time since boot, Linux (pretty much all distros I have ever tried, with the exception of SuSE 9.3) would fail to mount the disk and report back that "Special device hdb4 does not exist". Of course the "hdb4" part varies from distro to distro and machine to machine, depending on how your Zip disk is connected and how the distro names its disks, but the basic error has been constant. I have always worked around it by redoing the mount command specifying just the device, not the partition, and while that would always fail, it would force the creation of the device /dev/hdb4, and I could carry on. Annoying but effective.
FINALLY, a long term answer. I got my inspiration from a really snarky post I read in another online forum where someone had posted this very same question (this is a very common problem with no common answer it seems!). The respondant, who completely failed to provide a helpful answer, basically said "listen, the OS is telling you what is wrong - the device hdb4 doesn't exist - so fix it, and all will be just fine". Of course, the respondant didn't even bother to offer a suggestion about HOW to fix it.
However, therein lies the inspiration for the solution. Indeed they are right, /dev/hdb4 *doesn't* exist, so how to fix that? They had a point. I started researching the mysteries of mknod, a program that can create /dev files, and the even deeper mysteries of Linux device numbers, both major and minor.
In the end, I found a wonderfully informative document that described the current standard for the device numbering scheme used by mknod, and Linux in general. The key things of interest are this:
1/ The major number for IDE based drives is 3.
2/ IDE allows for 64 partitions per device, so the minor numbers are 0-63 for device "a", 64-127 for device "b" and so on. You derive the minor number of interest for your particular device by taking the starting value of the minor number range of interest for your device and adding the partition number to it. So, for example, hdb4 would have a minor number of 64 (the start of the minor number range for device "b") plus 4 (the partition number in "hdb4"), yielding a result of 68.
3/ The major number for SCSI based drives, or those that your OS treats as SCSI, is 8.
4/ SCSI allows for 16 partitions per device, so the minor numbers are 0-15 for device "a", 16-31 for device "b" and so on. You derive the minor number of interest for your particular device by taking the starting value of the minor number range of interest for your device and adding the partition number to it. So, for example, sdb4 would have a minor number of 16 (the start of the minor number range for device "b") plus 4 (the partition number in "hdb4"), yielding a result of 20.
In my case, Arch seems to be treating all of my disk based devices as SCSI, perhaps because I do have a real SCSI interfaced Jaz drive in my machine. So, the Zip disk of interest in my machine is sdc4 (my real SCSI jaz is sda, my Arch root is sdb, and the IDE Zip is sdc). Applying the above, for /dev/sdc4:
- The major number is 8.
- The minor number is 32 (start of range for device "c") plus 4 (the partition number) = 36.
Armed with this knowledge, I su'd to root and entered:
# mknod /dev/sdc4 b 8 36
and like magic, there is was, /dev/sdc4. I popped a disk into the drive and my first attempt to access it was greeted with success, not the usual "device does not exist" error! By the way, the "b" in the above command is just part of the mknod syntax, and indicates that I am creating a block device (vs. a character device, or some other type of device - disk drives all seem to be "block" devices for apparent reasons).
SO, determine your major number by device type (it will usually be 3 or 8), compute your minor number by device letter and partition number, and add a mknod command to your system startup (so you don't have to do it manually every time) and you are done! No more annoying "device does not exist" errors.
Now for the kicker. It turns out that this information has been available under my nose all along. I just didn't recognize the code. If you do the following:
# ls -ald /dev/sd*
Linux obligingly provides you with the major number and the start of the minor number range for your device. Since Linux has always detected the Zip *device* (just not the partition) this is really all you need to know. When I issue the above command, I get an output like:
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 32 date time /dev/sdc
Guess what, there they are! "8" is the major number of interest, "32" is the start of the minor number range of interest. If I had just recognized that, and known that all I had to do was add the partition number to the minor number to get the magic number to feed into mknod, things would have been easier.
Sorry for the long post, but like so many things in Linux, the OS doesn't make this easy on the uninitiated. I sincerely hope that this post may help lots of other people to resolve this vexing and longstanding problem.

Solved!
See the lengthy response in this post:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=36468
I posted the solution separately, with the most informative title I could come up with, so that others Googling this topic on the web may hopefully easily find it.

HT204057 Time machine back up via USB hard drive connected to Airport Extreme.

Why did Apple stop supporting time machine back-up via USB hard drive connected to Airport Extreme? It worked very well.

Why did Apple stop supporting time machine back-up via USB hard drive connected to Airport Extreme?
Time Machine backups are supported via USB hard drive connected to the AirPort Extreme"ac" version.
Time Machine backups were not supported via USB hard drive connected to earlier versions of the AirPort Extreme.
Some users who tried this on earlier version AirPort Extremes seemed to have some success with Time Machine backups....some had moderate success and some had no success with this. Count me in the "no success" category.
See the topic about Time Machine support for USB disks in this Apple Support document:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5924?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

I tried transferring my iphoto library from my old macbook onto my new macbook pro (via external hard drive), but when i open the new iphoto, it seems to have transferred ALL images ever used on my old macbook. so i tried to just del

i tried transferring my iphoto library from my old macbook onto my new macbook pro (via external hard drive), but when i open the new iphoto, it seems to have transferred ALL images ever used on my old macbook. so i tried to just delete all those images so i could try a different approach to transferring, but the new iphoto won't let me do anything and every time i try to delete anything it crashes (since the image amount is so high). please help!!
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To move an iPhoto Library to a new machine:
Link the two Macs together: there are several ways to do this: Wireless Network,Firewire Target Disk Mode, Ethernet, or even just copy the Library to an external HD and then on to the new machine...
But however you do choose to link the two machines...
Simply copy the iPhoto Library from the Pictures Folder on the old Machine to the Pictures Folder on the new Machine.
Then launch iPhoto. That's it.
This moves photos, events, albums, books, keywords, slideshows and everything else.

Can I use time machine to back up via a hard drive connected by USB to a HomeHub router?

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I want to transfer files from a functioning hard drive in a nonfunctioning MacBook Pro to an external drive. I have an IDE/SATA drive adapter. The files won't fit on the drive for a working computer I have. Can I use it to transfer files to the external?

I want to transfer files from a functioning hard drive in a nonfunctioning MacBook Pro to an external drive. I have an IDE/SATA drive adapter. The files won't fit on the drive for a working computer I have. Can I use it to transfer files to the external drive?

Good luck and you are welcome.
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This one is on sale for $16 http://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/ES2.5BPU2S/

Can I format an IDE Hard Drive from Mac Pro?

I use a mid - 2012 Mac Pro; run Mavericks OS X 10.9.2.
1. Can an IDE hard drive (using an external drive) be formatted to 10.9.2, from my Mac Pro using Mavericks? (the IDE hard drive is new/unformatted).
2. Once formatted to 10.9.2, can I reformat the IDE hard drive to Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.8, from my Mac Pro using Mavericks?
3. If so, would should I do to accomplish Question # 2 above?

The version of the OS that is running is not relevant to formatting the drive. When you format a drive in any OS, you should select "Mac OS extended journaled." (That is, unless you plan to share the drive with a Windows computer.) Formatted this way, the drive can be used with any version of Mac OS.
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