Driver Files

Drivers make device independence possible for Windows NT applications, providing the hardware-specific interface between physical devices and Windows NT. The Setup program can install several kinds of drivers for Windows NT, including the following:

Note Multimedia and printer drivers are optional.

Windows NT includes the following driver files.

Table 4.3 Driver (.DRV and .SYS) Files

Filename

Description

4MMDAT.SYS

4 mm DAT drive support; Archive® 4x20, WangDAT, HP® 35470a, HP 35480a, COMPAQ®

4MMSONY.SYS

Archive 4x20 Sony driver

8514A.SYS

Miniport driver

ABIOSDSK.SYS

MCA non-SCSI (WD1003 compatible controller); x86 only

AFD.SYS

Ancillary Function Driver that provides kernel-mode support for Windows Sockets transport interface by extending the functionality of TDI

AHA154X.SYS

Adaptec™ 154x SCSI driver

AHA174X.SYS

Adaptec 174x SCSI driver

AIC78XX.SYS

CSI miniport driver

ALWAYS.SYS

Always SCSI miniport

AM1500T.SYS

AMD AM2100, AM1500T, and PCnet driver support

AMI0NT.SYS

AMI series 44/48 SCSI controller driver

ANSI.SYS

MS-DOS utility

ARCHQIC.SYS

Tape driver support for Archive 2150s, 2525s, 2750

ARROW.SYS

SCSI miniport disk driver for Adaptec 2740/AIC 777x

ASYNCMAC.SYS

Remote Access Server Serial network driver

ATAPI.SYS

CD-ROM driver with non-SCSI interface

ATDISK.SYS

ISA/EISA non-SCSI (WD1003 compatible controller)

ATI.SYS

ATI video display driver (640 x 480 x 16 colors up to 1280 x 1024 x 16,777,216 colors)

BEEP.SYS

Speaker port driver (ISA, MCA, EISA)

BHNT.SYS

Network Monitor driver for capturing packets

BRHJ770.DLL

Network browser kernel component; redirector

BUSLOGIC.SYS

BusLogic family SCSI miniport

BUSMOUSE.SYS

Microsoft or Logitech bus mouse driver

CDAUDIO.SYS

CD Audio support, only for specific non-SCSI-2 CD-ROM drives

CDFS.SYS

CD-ROM file system driver

CDFS_REC.SYS

CD-ROM file system recognizer

CIRRUS.SYS

Cirrus Logic display driver (640 x 480 x 16 colors to 1024 x 768 x 256 colors)

COMM.DRV

Win16 communications driver

COUNTRY.SYS

MS-DOS utility; supports international time, dates, currency, case conversions, and decimal separators

CPQARRAY.SYS

COMPAQ disk array driver

DAC960NT.SYS

Mylex DAC960 SCSI driver

DELL_DGX.SYS

Dell® DGX video display driver (640 x 480 x 256 colors to 1280 x 1024 x 256 colors; note: 1152 x 900 x 65536 color mode)

DELLDSA.SYS

Driver for Dell intelligent disk array controller (available on high-end server systems from Dell)

DIGIFEP5.SYS

Digiboard® FEP 5 adapter driver

DISKDUMP.SYS

Crash dump disk driver

DISKPERF.SYS

Disk performance statistics gatherer, collects simple statistics on the system disk performance; used in conjunction with the Performance Monitor

DLC.SYS

Data Link Control driver

DLTTAPE.SYS

Digital Equipment TZ86 and DLT2000 SCSI tape driver

DPTSCSI.SYS

EISA DPT controller

DTC329X.SYS

DTC329x SCSI miniport driver

EE16.SYS

Network NDIS driver: Intel EtherExpress® card

ELNK16.SYS

Network NDIS driver: 3Com Etherlink-16 card

ELNK3.SYS

Network NDIS driver: 3Com Etherlink-III card

ELNKII.SYS

Network NDIS driver: 3Com Etherlink-II card

ELNKMC.SYS

Network NDIS driver: 3Com Etherlink-MC card, 3Com® EtherLink® MCA driver

ET4000.SYS

Video driver for Tseng Labs ET-4000 video chipset

EXABYTE1.SYS

Tape driver for Exabyte 8200 series (SCSI-1)

EXABYTE2.SYS

Tape driver for Exabyte 8500 series (SCSI-2)

FASTFAT.SYS

File Allocation Table (FAT) file system driver

FAT_REC.SYS

FAT file system recognizer

FD16_700.SYS

SCSI miniport driver for Future Domain® 16xx series cards

FD7000EX.SYS

SCSI disk driver for Future Domain/Western Digital™ 7000EX controller (EISA)

FD8XX.SYS

SCSI disk driver for Future Domain 8xx controller

FLOPPY.SYS

Floppy disk driver (non-SCSI)

FS_REC.SYS

File system recognizer

FTDISK.SYS

Fault Tolerant volume management driver

HIMEM.SYS

XMS driver for VDMs

HPFS_REC.SYS

High-performance file system recognizer driver

HPSCAN16.SYS

Scanner

I8042PRT.SYS

Keyboard and i8042 mouse port driver

IBMTOK.SYS

Network NDIS driver for IBM® Token Ring adapter and IBM Token Ring adapter/A

IBMTOK2I.SYS

IBM Token Ring 16/4 Adapter II ISA network driver

INPORT.SYS

Microsoft InPort mouse port driver

KBDCLASS.SYS

Keyboard class driver

KEYBOARD.DRV

Win16 keyboard driver

KEYBOARD.SYS

Command-line keyboard driver

LANCE.SYS

Network NDIS driver: DEC® Lance adapter driver

LANMAN.DRV

Win16 LAN Manager network driver

LOOP.SYS

Microsoft loop-back network NDIS driver

LT200.SYS

Software for Macintosh, Apple® LocalTalk® driver

MCIAVI.DRV

MCI driver for AVI

MCISEQ.DRV

MCI driver for MIDI sequencer

MCIWAVE.DRV

MCI driver for waveform audio

MINIQIC.SYS

Exabyte 2501 miniqic driver

MIPSSND.SYS

MIPS ARCSystem 100/150 sound

MITSUMI.SYS

Mitsumi non-SCSI CD-ROM driver

MKECR5XX.SYS

MKE CR-56X/CR-52X miniport driver

MOUCLASS.SYS

Mouse Class driver

MOUSE.DRV

Win16 mouse stub driver

MSACM32.DRV

Microsoft Audio Compression Manager driver

MSFS.SYS

Mailslot file system driver

MUP.SYS

Network Multiple UNC Provider (required)

MVAUDIO.SYS

Media Vision™ ProAudio Spectrum 16 driver

MVOPL3.SYS

Media Vision OPL3 FM Synthesizer driver

NBF.SYS

NetBEUI Frame (NBF) driver

NBT.SYS

NetBIOS for TCP/IP driver, used for Windows Networking (RFC1001/1002)

NCR53C9X.SYS

NCR® SCSI disk driver for MIPS-based computers

NCR77C22.SYS

Video driver for NCR 77C22 SVGA adapters

NCRC700.SYS

SCSI disk driver for NCR 53c700 controller

NCRC710.SYS

SCSI disk driver for NCR 53c710 controller

NCRC810.SYS

NCR 53C810 SCSI driver

NDIS.SYS

NDIS wrapper driver; required for NDIS drivers

NDISTAPI.SYS

NDIS 3.0 connection wrapper driver

NDISWAN.SYS

Remote Access network driver

NE1000.SYS, NE2000.SYS, NE3200.SYS

Network NDIS drivers for Novell® NE1000, NE2000, and NE3200 adapters

NETBIOS.SYS

NetBIOS API driver; Microsoft NetBIOS Transport Interface

NETBT.SYS

Netbt driver

NETDTECT.SYS

Network card detection driver

NETFLX.SYS

Network NDIS driver for COMPAQ NetFlex/DualSpeed Token Ring adapter card

NETWARE.DRV

Netware driver

NPEISA.SYS

Network peripherals FDDI, EISA NDIS driver

NPFS.SYS

Named pipes file system driver

NPMCA.SYS

Network peripherals FDDI, MCA NDIS driver

NTCX.SYS

Network NDIS driver for Digiboard C/X adapter

NTDOS.SYS

Command-line emulation drive

NTEPC.SYS

Digi International EPC communications miniport driver

NTFS.SYS

Windows NT file system driver

NTFS_REC.SYS

Windows NT file system recognizer driver

NTIO.SYS

MS-DOS emulation BIOS driver

NTXALL.SYS

Network NDIS driver for Digiboard PC/Xi, PC/2e, PC/4e, PC/8e

NTXEM.SYS

Network NDIS driver for Digiboard PC/Xem

NULL.SYS

NULL device driver

NWLINK.SYS

NWLink library

NWLNKIPX.SYS

NWLINK2 IPX protocol driver

NWLNKNB.SYS

NWLINK2 IPX NetBIOS protocol driver

NWLNKRIP.SYS

NWLINK2 RIP protocol driver

NWLNKSPX.SYS

NWLINK2 SPX protocol driver

NWNBLINK.SYS

NetWare® NetBIOS Link (NWNBLink) network transport driver

NWRDR.SYS

NetWare redirector file system driver

OLISCSI.SYS

SCSI disk driver for Olivetti® ESC-1/ESC-2

PARALLEL.SYS

Parallel port driver

PARPORT.SYS

Parallel port driver

PCIMAC.SYS

Network NDIS driver for Digiboard ISDN adapter

PINBALL.SYS

HPFS driver

PRONET16.SYS

Proteon ProNET4/16 Token Ring network driver

QIC117.SYS

Floppy tape driver for QIC 117 floppy/tape drive

QV.SYS

Video miniport driver for COMPAQ Qvision

RASARP.SYS

Remote Access IP ARP driver

RASHUB.SYS

RAS Hub driver

RDR.SYS

Network redirector driver

S3.SYS

Video driver library for S3 video chipsets (640 x 480 x 256 colors up to 1280 x 1024 x 256 colors)

SCSICDRM.SYS

SCSI CD-ROM class driver

SCSIDISK.SYS

SCSI disk class driver

SCSIFLOP.SYS

SCSI class floppy driver; not required for startup

SCSIPORT.SYS

SCSI port driver

SCSIPRNT.SYS

SCSI print class driver

SCSISCAN.SYS

SCSI scanner class driver

SERIAL.SYS

Serial port driver

SERMOUSE.SYS

Serial mouse driver

SETUPDD.SYS

Windows NT Setup (kernel mode portion of character-based phase)

SFMATALK.SYS

Services for Macintosh AppleTalk protocol driver

SFMSRV.SYS

Services for Macintosh file server driver

SLCD32.SYS

SLCD CD-ROM controller driver

SMBTRSUP.SYS

SMB trace support; required for RDR.SYS and SRV.SYS

SMC8000N.SYS

Network NDIS driver for SMC (Western Digital) network adapter cards

SNDBLST.SYS

Audio driver for Creative Labs Sound Blaster™, also the Media Vision Thunder Board

SNDSYS.SYS

Multimedia kernel driver

SONIC.SYS

Network NDIS driver for MIPS (built-in on Jazz computers)

SOUND.DRV

Win16 Sound driver

SPARROW.SYS

Adaptec 151x and 152x SCSI miniport driver

SPOCK.SYS

SCSI MCA SCSI driver

SRV.SYS

Network Server driver

STREAMS.SYS

Streams driver; used by Streams-based protocols including TCP/IP and NWLink

SYNTH.SYS

Synthesizer driver

SYSTEM.DRV

Win16 system driver

T128.SYS

Trantor 128 SCSI miniport driver

T13B.SYS

Trantor 130b SCSI miniport driver

TANDQIC.SYS

Tape driver for Tandberg 3660, 3820, 4120, and 4220

TCARC.SYS

ARCNET network driver

TCPIP.SYS

TCP/IP driver; includes TCP/IP modules such as IP, UDP, TCP, and ARP

TDI.SYS

Network TDI wrapper (required)

TELNET.SYS

Telnet driver

TIMER.DRV

Timer driver for PC compatibles

TMV1.SYS

SCSI miniport driver for Trantor MediaVision

TRIDENT.SYS

Video driver for Trident display adapters (640 x 480 x 16 colors to 1024 x 768 x 256 colors)

UBNEI.SYS

Ungermann-Bass® network adapter driver

ULTRA124.SYS

SCSI disk driver for UltraStor 124f controller

ULTRA14F.SYS

SCSI disk driver for UltraStor 14f, 34f controller

ULTRA24F.SYS

SCSI disk driver for UltraStor 24f controller

V7VRAM.SYS

Video Seven VRAM driver

VGA.DRV

Windows-16 VGA stub driver

VGA.SYS

VGA class driver

VGA_ALT.SYS

VGA alternate video driver

VIDEOPRT.SYS

VGA video port driver

VIDEOSIM.SYS

Frame buffer simulator

WANGQIC.SYS

Tape driver for Wangtek 525, 250 tape drives

WD33C93.SYS

SCSI disk driver for Maynard/Western Digital 33c93 controller (ISA)

WDVGA.SYS

Video driver for Western Digital/Paradise display adapters (604 x 480 x 16 colors to 1024 x 768 x 256 colors)

WFWNET.DRV

Windows for Workgroups 16-bit network stub driver

WINSPOOL.DRV

Win32 print spooler interface that contains the print spooler API calls

XGA.SYS

XGA video driver