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PCI-DA2100

PCI to SCSI Disk Array Controller

USER'S MANUAL

Hardware Installation

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Page 1: ...R PCI DA2100 PCI to SCSI Disk Array Controller USER S MANUAL Hardware Installation ...

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Page 4: ...1 2 System Memory DRAM SRAM 12 DRAM Memory Installation Procedures 13 3 Central Processing Unit CPU 15 4 Expansion Cards 16 Expansion Card Installation Procedure 16 Assigning IRQs for Expansion Cards 16 Assigning DMA Channels for ISA Cards 17 5 External Connectors 18 Power Connection Procedures 25 IV BIOS SOFTWARE 26 Support Software 26 Flash Memory Writer Utility 26 Main Menu 26 Advanced Features...

Page 5: ... DMI Configuration Utility 49 System Requirements 49 Using the ASUS DMI Configuration Utility 50 Notes 50 VI ADAPTEC EZ SCSI UTILITY 53 Quick Start Instructions 53 Windows95 or WindowsNT 53 Windows Windows for Workgroups 3 1x 53 DOS 53 Troubleshooting Tips 54 SCSI Device Troubleshooting 54 Windows95 WindowsNT Troubleshooting 54 Information for DOS Windows 3 1x Users 57 DOS and Windows3 1x Device D...

Page 6: ...cular installation If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on the user is encouraged to try to correct the interfer ence by one or more of the following measures Re orient or relocate the receiving antenna Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver Connect the equipment to an outlet ...

Page 7: ...ilure management that allows automatic bad block reassignment when a bad sector is encountered during a write Hot swapping is supported through automatic detection of failed drives followed by either automatic background rebuilding onto a spare if a spare is assigned or manual replacement of failed drive and manually initiated background rebuilding And all these failure recovery operations are per...

Page 8: ...ith independent RAID mode Up to 8 partitions per logical drive Dynamic mapping of LUNs to logical drives All channels are Ultra Wide SCSI 2 downward compatible to SCSI 1 SCSI 2 Compatibility and automatic matching of any SCSI hard disks complying with SCSI 1 SCSI 2 Fast Wide and Ultra Wide SCSI 1 or 2 specifications Full Wide SCSI 2 implementation including Tagged Command Queuing and Multi Threade...

Page 9: ...ASUS PCI DA2100 User s Manual 3 2 Features 2 Features Layout of the ASUS DA 2100 Fast Wide SCSI Ch 0 Fast Wide SCSI Ch 1 SIMM Socket for Cache upgrade 486 Processor Non Volatile SRAM ...

Page 10: ...Main Board Parts 3 1 Layout of the ASUS DA 2100 FLASH ROM 486DX2 66 Central Processing Unit JP1 JP6 Channel 0 Channel 1 Memory Expansion 72 Pin DRAM Non Volatile SRAM JP2 JP1 JP2 Factory use Open for normal operation JP6 LED Connector for Hard Disk Drive Activity light ...

Page 11: ... with or without parity is auto detected by ASUS PCI DA2100 but DRAM with parity is recommended for security Minimum DRAM required is 2 MBytes installed in SIMM socket Minimum of 4 MBytes is suggested for RAID 3 and RAID 5 operation ASUS PCI DA2100 supports 2MB 4MB 8MB 16MB 32MB DRAM SIMM module Maximum DRAM size is 32 MBytes To install DRAM SIMM 1 Power off the system and disconnect the power con...

Page 12: ... SCSI cables are properly terminated Disable the termination of channel 0 and enable the termination of channel 1 Power supply attached All operation parameters properly set Terminate the SCSI cable by either installing a terminator on the farthest hard disk from the controller or by installing an external terminator on the end connector The latter is preferred as removal of the hard disk will not...

Page 13: ... remove only the defective drive Removing the wrong drive will result in unrecoverable data loss In all cases data will have to be rebuilt onto the replacement drive Data rebuilding is done in the background meaning the host system can access the storage sub system as usual while the rebuilding is taking place 4 1 Operation With Spare Drive Following are guidelines with regards to disk failure rec...

Page 14: ...time and the failed drive replaced If the replacement drive is installed on the same channel and ID number you can then proceed to data rebuilding If the replacement drive is installed on a different channel or ID number it has to be Scan in as a new drive and then assigned as a spare drive of the logical drive Data rebuilding will have to be manually initiated as instructed in the following secti...

Page 15: ...rrupt level been assigned toASUS PCI DA2100 The level is in deci mal EDO RAM DRAM Displays the cache RAM type and size been installed on ASUS PCI DA2100 F W Show the firmware version of ASUS PCI DA2100 ASUS PCI DA2100 BIOS waits 3 seconds for a keystroke You can press Ctrl I to enter the configuration utility or press Q to skip waiting for a keystroke If Ctrl I is pressed to enter configuration ut...

Page 16: ...PerTrack 63 TotalHeads 255 3 Support for Disk 1 GB 4 Support Removable Disks as Fixed Disks to be supported in the future 5 Support for 3 Disks or More MS DOS v5 0 or Above For MS DOS version below 5 0 only supports up to 2 disks don t set this option to Yes on those version DOS system 6 Support for NOT ZERO SCSI LUN Set this option to Yes if you want the BIOS to support all SCSI Target LUNs 0 to ...

Page 17: ...nable SCSI Termination Use this option to enable disable SCSI termination 3 Configure SCSI Devices Use this option to change the low level SCSI features of SCSI devices The supported options are listed as follows Synchronous Transfer Period Maximum Tagged Command Queue SCSI Disconnect SCSI Parity 5 1 4 Reset to Defaults If this option is selected all the configurations are reset to the manufacture...

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Page 19: ... after running a period of time CHECK 1 PCI slot contact quality 2 Minimum of 2MB DRAM SIMM installed 1 ID numbers must be unique for each device on the same SCSI channel 2 Terminators are properly installed 1 ID numbers must be unique for each device on the same SCSI channel 2 Terminators are properly installed 1 Drive power connections 2 Drive SCSI cable connections 3 ID numbers must be unique f...

Page 20: ...annel Terminator Active software programmable SCSI protocol SCSI 1 2 Fast Wide SCSI 1 2 auto match SCSI transfer rate 40 MBytes sec synchronous Max SCSI drives 14 No of logical drives 8 with different RAID levels Partitions 8 per logical drive total of 64 No of LUNs 8 per channel total of 64 dynamic mapping to logical drives or partitions Control Via Text RAID Manager or GUI RAID Manager SCSI conn...

Page 21: ...th firmware and boot record is desired first select Advanced Maintenance Functions menu item then select Download Boot Record with Firmware 3 When prompt for operation confirmation appears select Yes to confirm 4 When prompted for a file name enter the name of the file containing the code to be downloaded If both firmware and boot record are being downloaded enter the name of the boot record file ...

Page 22: ...Specifications The Fast Wide SCSI 2 recommendation for a SCSI cable operating at a transfer rate of 20 MBytes sec is as follows Maximum length 2 meters Impedance Between 90 Ω to 132 Ω Signal Attenuation 0 095 dB meter 5 MHz max Pair Pair Propagation Delay Delta 0 2 ns meter max DC Resistance 0 23 Ω meter 20 C max ...

Page 23: ...eed increases as more drives are added Without RAID the speed slows down as more drives are installed Provides fault tolerance by mirroring or parity operation RAID 0 Block Striping Data is broken into logical blocks the size of a SCSI disk block and striped across several drives Drive 0 Drive 1 Drive 2 Drive 3 Drive 4 A0 A1 A2 A3 A4 B0 B1 B2 B3 B4 C0 C1 C2 C3 C4 D0 D1 D2 D3 D4 RAID 1 Mirroring an...

Page 24: ...eral drives For small read write as few as one drive may be activated for improved small record access speed Parity information is interleaved across the drive array In the event of failure original data is regener ated from the parity information Drive 0 Drive 1 Drive 2 Drive 3 Drive 4 A0 A1 A2 A3 A4 B0 B1 B2 P B3 B4 P C0 C1 C2 C3 C4 D0 D1 D2 D3 D4 P E0 E1 E2 E3 E4 F0 F1 F2 F3 F4 P G0 G1 Required...

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Page 27: ...k reassignment when a bad sector is encoun tered during a write Hot swapping is supported through automatic detection of failed drives followed by either automatic background rebuilding onto a spare if a spare is assigned or manual replacement of failed drive and manually initiated back ground rebuilding And all these failure recovery operations are performed in a way transparent to the host The c...

Page 28: ...rface Operation provides a user friendly menu driven system for configuring and manag ing the ASUS PCI DA2000 Series Controller The RAIDMAN EXE can be run under DOS NetWare Windows 95 and Windows NT environment 2 1 Text RAID Manager On execution of RAIDMAN EXE under DOS screen will display a list of target controllers Use the keys to position the cursor over the desired controller and press Enter ...

Page 29: ...Interface 2 RAID Manager RAID Manager utility Now the Main Menu will be displayed Main Menu Quick installation View and edit logical drives view And edit SCSI ID Map view And edit SCSI drives Scan new SCSI drive Rebuild logical drives view and Edit SCSI channels system Functions ...

Page 30: ...installed with 8 MBytes DRAM Total SCSI Channels 2 SCSI channel 0 is a drive channel id 7 SCSI channel 1 is a drive channel id 7 Scanning SCSI drives Please wait a few moments Pressing Enter will call up the Main Menu 2 RAID Manager Interface 2 RAID Manager RAID Manager utility Main Menu Quick installation View and edit logical drives view and edit SCSI ID Map view And edit SCSI drives Scan new SC...

Page 31: ...2 Terminal Interface Operation are as follows Left right up and down arrow to select options Enter To go into a submenu or to execute an option Esc To escape and go back to the preceding menu Ctrl l To refresh terminal screen NOTE If the password feature is enabled you will be prompted to enter the password before executing commands that affect configuration or operation ...

Page 32: ...capable of grouping connected drives into as many as 8 logi cal drives each configured to the same or different RAID levels Alogical drive can be further divided into a maximum of 8 Partitions During operation the host sees an unpartitioned logical drive or a partition of a partitioned logi cal drive as one single contiguous drive 1 Go to Main Menu Main Menu Quick installation View and edit logica...

Page 33: ...d press Enter RAID 5 Spare RAID 3 RAID 3 Spare RAID 1 RAID 1 Spare RAID 0 NRAID RAID Level RAID 5 4 If a fault tolerant RAID level has been selected drive parity initialization will be performed at this point Aprogress indicator similar to the one shown below will be displayed When initialization is complete the controller will automati cally map the entire capacity of the logical drive to SCSI ID...

Page 34: ...tion and press Enter 2 A prompt Delete all defined Logical Drives will appear 3 To confirm deletion type Y or use the to select Yes and press Enter Delete all defined Logical Drives Yes No 4 Choose a RAID level by typing 5 3 1 0 or N or use the keys to select a RAID level and press Enter 5 The controller will start initialization and automatically map the logical drive to SCSI ID 0 LUN 0 of first ...

Page 35: ...cal drives and press Enter 3 The screen will display the current Array configuration and status Logical Drive LG RAID Size MB Status OnLine STB Fail NAME 0 RAID5 4032 MB GOOD 5 1 0 1 NONE 2 NONE 3 NONE 4 NONE press Enter to start the creation of a new Logical Drive Main Menu Quick installation View and edit Logical Drives View And edit SCSI ID Map View And edit SCSI drives Scan New SCSI drive Rebu...

Page 36: ...l drive type Y or use the to select Yes and press Enter 6 Alist of supported RAID level will appear Chose a level by typing 5 3 1 0 or N or use the keys to select a level and press Enter RAID Level RAID 5 RAID 3 RAID 1 RAID 0 NRAID 7 A list of available drive will appear Mark the drives to be included in the current logical drive by using the to select the drive and pressing Enter Slot Chl ID Size...

Page 37: ...below will be displayed When initialization has finished logical drive creation is complete 9 At this point the logical drive has been partitioned into a single partition covering the entire drive capacity and is inaccessible to the host 10 If different partitioning is desired go to Partition Logical Drive section 2 4 2 4 menu to do the partitioning 11 When the Logical Drive is properly partitione...

Page 38: ...es and press Enter 2 The screen will display all the drives currently assigned to the logical drive as follows Slot Chl ID Size MB Speed LG_DRV Status Vendor and Product ID 0 1 0 2048 Seagate ST12400N 1 1 1 2048 Seagate ST12400N 2 1 2 2048 Seagate ST12400N 3 2 0 2048 Seagate ST12400N 4 2 1 2048 Seagate ST12400N 2 4 2 2 Add Stand By Drives 1 Type A or use the keys to select Add stand by drives and ...

Page 39: ... press Enter Delete Logical Drive Yes No 2 4 2 4 Partition Logical Drive 1 Type P or use the keys to select Partition logical drive and press Enter View scsi drives Add spare drives Delete logical drive Partition logical drive 2 The screen will display a partition table of up to 8 partitions with the last parti tion selected Press the Enter key and type the desired size for the selected partition ...

Page 40: ...Type the SCSI ID to be mapped unmapped or use keys to select a SCSI ID and press Enter 4 A list of LUNs and their respective mapping will be displayed similar to the following SCSI ID 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 LUN LG_DRV Partition Size MB RAID 0 0 0 8192 RAID5 1 0 1 8192 RAID5 2 1 0 2048 RAID3 3 1 1 2048 RAID3 4 5 6 7 Main Menu Quick installation View and edit Logical Drives view and edit SCSI ID Map view And...

Page 41: ...nter LG RAID Size MB Status OnLine STB Fail NAME 0 RAID5 4032 MB GOOD 5 1 0 5 2 If the Logical Drive has been partitioned into multiple partitions a list of parti tions will be displayed similar to the following Partition Offset Size 0 0 2048 1 2048 2048 2 4096 2048 Use the keys to select a partition number and press Enter 5 3 At the following prompt type Y to confirm the mapping operation or use ...

Page 42: ...will display all drives assigned to the logical drive Slot Chl ID Size MB Speed LG_DRV Status Vendor and Product ID 0 1 0 2048 0 SEAGATE ST12400N 1 1 1 2048 0 SEAGATE ST12400N 2 1 2 2048 0 SEAGATE ST12400N 3 2 0 2048 0 SEAGATE ST12400N 4 2 1 2048 0 SEAGATE ST12400N Main Menu Quick installation View and edit Logical Drives view and edit SCSI ID Map view And edit SCSI drives Scan New SCSI drive Rebu...

Page 43: ...r 3 Use the keys to select the SCSI channel where the new drive is installed and press Enter 4 Use the keys to select the SCSI ID number only available IDs will be dis played of the new drive and press Enter Main Menu Quick installation View and edit Logical Drives view and edit SCSI ID Map view And edit SCSI drives Scan New SCSI drive Rebuild logical drives view and Edit SCSI channels system Func...

Page 44: ...r a spare drive and display the failed drive informa tion Found Lg_Drv 0 Channel 1 ID 2 Failed Rebuild Yes No 4 To initiate rebuilding press Y or use the keys to select Yes and press Enter 5 Step 4 will automatically repeat for any other logical drives that needs rebuild ing Main Menu Quick installation View and edit Logical Drives view and edit SCSI ID Map view And edit SCSI drives Scan New SCSI ...

Page 45: ...er or use the keys to select a channel and press Enter Now the screen will show the following table SCSI ID SCSI Termination Sync transfer clock Wide transfer 2 9 1 SCSI ID 1 To change the SCSI ID type I or use the keys to select scsi ID and press Enter SCSI ID SCSI Termination Sync transfer clock Wide transfer Main Menu Quick installation View and edit Logical Drives view and edit SCSI ID Map vie...

Page 46: ...type Y to confirm or use the to select Yes and press Enter Change ID Yes No 2 9 2 SCSI Termination This function serves to enable or disable a SCSI channel s active termination 1 Type T or use the keys to select scsi Termination and press Enter SCSI ID SCSI Termination Sync transfer clock Wide transfer 2 Type Y or use the to select Yes and press Enter to toggle the channel termination function Dis...

Page 47: ...d press Enter SCSI ID SCSI Termination Sync transfer clock Wide transfer 2 Use the keys to select Sync transfer clock and press Enter 2 9 4 Wide Transfer This function serves to enable or disable wide transfer for the SCSI bus Note This feature is not available on the ASUS PCI DA 2000 1 Type W or use the keys to select Wide transfer and press Enter SCSI ID SCSI Termination Sync transfer clock Wide...

Page 48: ...ompt is displayed type Y to confirm the change or use the to select Yes and press Enter to disable beeper Main Menu Quick installation View and edit Logical Drives view and edit SCSI ID Map view And edit SCSI drives Scan New SCSI drive Rebuild logical drives view and Edit SCSI channels system Functions Mute Beeper Write Back Cache enabled Scsi Motor spin up disabled Scsi Reset at Power up disabled...

Page 49: ...can help to prevent overloading the power supply when several drives spin up at the same time 1 To toggle the current setting Use the keys to select Scsi Motor spin up and press Enter 2 When the following prompt is displayed type Y to confirm the change in setting or use the to select Yes and press Enter to enable sequential motor spin up 2 10 4 SCSI Reset At Power Up This option determines whethe...

Page 50: ...he following prompt is displayed type Y to confirm the change in setting or use the to select Yes and press Enter 2 10 6 Total Cache Size The screen will show the total cache size This cannot be modified 2 10 7 Firmware Version The screen will show the firmware version This cannot be modified 2 10 8 Bootrecord Version The screen will show the boot record version This cannot be modified 2 10 9 Seri...

Page 51: ... by Enter Old password 3 Aprompt to enter a new password will appear Type the new password followed by Enter You will be prompted to enter the new password twice 4 When the prompt to enter the new password a second time appears type the new password followed by Enter again 2 10 12 Modem Setup This function can be used to set up parameters used for modem operation 2 10 13 Reset Controller This func...

Page 52: ...No 4 For running Text RAID Manager RAIDMAN EXE a message similar to the following will appear select Yes for downloading Download Firmware Yes No For RS 232 Terminal Interface Operation a message similar to the following will appear indicating the controller is awaiting a response from the host Download code only leaving boot record intact Waiting for Download of Firmware Binary Please use ZMODEM ...

Page 53: ...river under DOS by adding the following command lines to the CONFIG SYS and AUTOEXEC BAT files in the root directory of the boot drive as follows In CONFIG SYS file DEVICE path1 I2DOSASP SYS DEVICE path1 ASPICDRM SYS d driver signature LASTDRIVE logical drive In AUTOEXEC BAT file path2 MSCDEX d driver signature where path1 A complete DOS path string including logical drive identifier and subdirect...

Page 54: ...SYS and AUTOEXEC BAT files respectively In CONFIG SYS file DEVICE C DA2000 I2DOSASP SYS DEVICE C DA2000 ASPICDRM SYS D mscd001 LASRDRIVE E In AUTOEXEC BAT file C DOS MSCDEX D mscd001 Note that there are no restrictions with regard to where these lines are added in the CONFIG SYS Also note that the ASUS PCI DA2000 Series ASPI Manager will automatically select an optimal configuration so no load lin...

Page 55: ...uration Utility to disable ISAMail box Emulation mode default is disabled To do this at system bootup press Ctrl I select Configure Card option then change IO Port Address to DIS ABLED 2 UseASUS Text RAID Manager or RS 232 Terminal Interface Operation to con figure Logical Drives and SCSI Devices and map them to valid SCSI IDs LUNs Note that SCSI ID 7 is reserved for the ASUS PCI DA2000 Series ada...

Page 56: ... slot the ASUS PCI DA2000 Series been plugged into Write down the slot number for later using in STARTUP NCF 9 At this point press Enter If ASUS PCI DA2000 Series driver installs suc cessfully the system console will display the following messages on the screen PCI Bus 0 Device 9 Port E400 IRQ 10 ASUS Disk Driver Installed Successfully 10 Load the driver DA2000 DSK once for each installed ASUS PCI...

Page 57: ... the CD ROM Drive used to perform the installation is connected to an ASUS PCI DA2000 Series make sure the ASUS PCI DA2000 Series ASPI manager I2DOSASP SYS CD ROM driver ASPICDRM SYS and Microsoft CD ROM extension program MSCDEX EXE are specified in DOS files CONFIG SYS and AUTOEXEC BAT 5 Plug up to four ASUS PCI DA2000 Series into host PCI slots then power on ASUS PCI DA2000 Series BIOS will show...

Page 58: ...apter cards to be installed in the host Load a disk driver listed Enter Load a disk driver not listed Ins Unload a disk driver Del Scroll help windows F5 up F6 dn Change lists F2 Help F1 Continue F10 Abort INSTALL Alt F10 8 FollowtheinstructionsintheNetwareUser sManualuntilfollowingscreenappears NetWare Server Installation v4 x NetWare loadable Module Path A will be scanned for drivers to install ...

Page 59: ... wait for the following screen to appears Loaded Drivers NetWare Server Installation v4 x NetWare loadable Module Select a new disk driver to install DA2000 DSK ASUS PCI DA2000 Series PCI TO SCSI Disk Driver for NetWare v4 0x v4 1 ASUSASPI DSK ASUS ASPI Manager for Netware v3 1X v4 0x and v4 1 This driver supports up to four ASUS PCI DA2000 Series and multiple SCSI LUN When you load DA2000 DSK you...

Page 60: ...ule loading driver DA2000 DSK Please wait 13 Press ALT ESC keys at the same time to switch to system console screen or wait for the NetWare installation program to time out When it times out the following screen will appear NetWare Server Installation v4 x NetWare loadable Module DA2000 DSK did not finish loading in the time allowed 15 seconds Controller will be switched to the system console scre...

Page 61: ...ding module ASUSASPI DSK ASUS ASPI Manager for NetWare v3 1x v4 0x and v4 1 Version 1 11b October 27 1995 Supported Slot values are 11 Slot 11 The slot number value is auto detected by ASUS PCI DA2000 Series driver ac cording to which PCI slot theASUS PCI DA2000 Series been plugged into Write down the slot number for later using in STARTUP NCF 15 Press Enter on system console screen Driver DA2000 ...

Page 62: ... drivers is similar to the following load DA2000 slot x x is the slot number of slot into which where the ASUS PCI DA2000 Series been plugged The slot number is auto detected by ASUS PCI DA2000 Series driver and shown on the system console screen during ASUS PCI DA2000 Series driver loading 16 Press Enter to continue the installation NetWare Server Installation v4 x NetWare loadable Module Select ...

Page 63: ... NT is not installed on your computer or if you are upgrading to new version of Windows NT 1 UseASUS PCI DA2000 Series BIOS Configuration Utility to disable ISAMail box Emulation mode default is disabled To do this at system bootup press Ctrl I select Configure Card option then change IO Port Address to DIS ABLED 2 UseASUS Text RAID Manager or RS 232 Terminal Interface Operation to con figure Logi...

Page 64: ...ort Then press Enter to select this driver 10 Press Enter to continue Windows NT setup and follow the steps given in Win dows NT Installation documentation 5 2 Installing in an Existing NT System If you are adding an ASUS PCI DA2000 Series adapter to a computer that already has an ASUS PCI DA2000 Series adapter installed for Windows NT then follow step 1 through step 2 only If you are adding an AS...

Page 65: ...u facturer 7 Insert ASUS PCI DA2000 Series Distribution Diskette into floppy drive A and press Enter The screen displays ASUS PCI DA2000 Series PCI TO SCSI RAID Miniport Then select OK to select this driver then select Install 8 Enter the path normally it is A to the directory with the device driver then select Continue Windows NT Setup copies device driver to your disk and updates configuration t...

Page 66: ...0 SYS c winnt system32 drivers Skip step 2 if the version of your Windows NT is not v3 1 2 If one of the ASUS PCI DA2000 Series adapters control the system boot disk use ATTRIB EXE to disable the hidden system and read only attributes of c ntbootdd sys then copy the same driver to c ntbootdd sys and restore the attributes of c ntbootdd sys For example attrib h r s c ntbootdd sys copy a winnt v3_1 ...

Page 67: ...rminal Interface to configure Logi cal Drives and SCSI Devices and map them to valid SCSI IDs LUNs Note that SCSI ID 7 is reserved for the ASUS PCI DA2000 Series controller and thus no logical drives or devices should be mapped to this SCSI ID 3 Follow the instructions in Windows 95 installation documentation to install Windows 95 4 When Windows 95 installation is complete restart Windows 95 5 Cli...

Page 68: ...the system is booting up an Unknown Device warning window will be displayed this is a normal behavior because a virtual target is registered by ASUS PCI DA2000 Series family Miniport Driver to supportASUS GUI RAID Manager Please select Do not install a driver and click on OK 16 Make sure that the ASUS PCI DA2000 Series family Miniport Driver is work ing properly by using Device Manager tab of Syst...

Page 69: ...hen Double click on the ASUS PCI DA2000 Series PCI to SCSI RAID Adapter icon Click on the Driver tab 5 On the Driver tab click on Change Driver 6 Click on the Have Disk button and enter a win95 as the subdirectory to copy the manufacturer s file from Click OK 7 Select ASUS PCI DA2000 Series PCI to SCSI RAID Adapter and click on OK 8 Click on OK The driver is copied 9 You must restart your system f...

Page 70: ...bled To do this at system bootup press Ctrl I select Configure Card option then change IO Port Address to DIS ABLED 2 Use ASUS Text RAID Manager or RS 232 Terminal Interface Operation to configure Logical Drives and SCSI Devices and map them to valid SCSI IDs LUNs Note that SCSI ID 7 is reserved for the ASUS PCI DA2000 Series adapter and thus no logical drives or devices should be mapped to this S...

Page 71: ...nager or RS 232 Terminal Interface Operation to con figure Logical Drives and SCSI Devices and map them to valid SCSI IDs LUNs Note that SCSI ID 7 is reserved for the ASUS PCI DA2000 Series controller and thus no logical drives or devices should be mapped to this SCSI ID 3 Execute the program DDINSTAL by selecting the Device Driver Install icon within the System Setup folder of OS 2 System folder ...

Page 72: ...2 All command line options begin with the slash character 3 The exclamation character is a negation operator that is it negates the option that follows it 3 Driver Options V Verbose Either Display the driver name version number date adapter Information and device information if the driver loads successfully or display error messages if the driver fails to initialize ET Disable Enable Embedded Targ...

Page 73: ... DA2000 Series BIOS displays device number in hex value you must translate that into decimal value ET Disable Enable Embedded Target Support Makes the driver disable enable not zero SCSI LUN support to the specified adapter by A n Default setting is ET DM Disable Enable Direct Access Storage Device DASD Manager Support Dis able Enable all the units connect to the adapter specified by A n to be sup...

Page 74: ...D DMD The default setting is DM The boot device MUST be sup ported by DASD Manager or the computer can not be able to boot OS 2 SM i1 i2 i3 OR SM i1 l1 i2 l2 Disable Enable SCSI Manager Support Where i1 i2 i3 is the specified SCSI Tar get ID i1 l1 i2 l2 is the specified SCSI Target ID LUN Disable Enable the specified SCSI Target ID LUN of the adapter specified by A n to be supported by the IBM sup...

Page 75: ...rt Address to DIS ABLED 2 UseASUS Text RAID Manager or RS 232 Terminal Interface Operation to con figure Logical Drives and SCSI Devices and map them to valid SCSI IDs LUNs Note that SCSI ID 7 is reserved for theASUS PCI DA2000 Series controller and thus no logical drives or devices should be mapped to this SCSI ID 3 Check IO devices CD ROM or TAPE drive is properly installed 4 Insert the N1 boot ...

Page 76: ...r Insert the diskette press Enter Follow the appropriate SCSI manual to install the SCO UNIX from the installa tion media floppy tape or CD ROM 8 A message similar to the following will be displayed Please insert the pcida volume and press ENTER Insert the ASUS BTLD diskette again and press ENTER 9 At the following prompt type y The BTLD packages will now be added to the Link Kit The Link Kit is n...

Page 77: ...following prompt press ENTER The following packages are on this diskette NAME DESCRIPTION pcida ASUS PCI DA2000 Series SCSI Disk Array Driver for SCO UNIX system Please enter the names of the packages you wish to install or q to quit _ default pcida 11 The ASUS PCI DA2000 Series driver will now be linked into the SCO UNIX kernel ...

Page 78: ...ID number scsi Terminator Enable or disable SCSI channel active termination Sync transfer clock Change Sync transfer clock Wide transfer Enable or disable wide transfer system Functions Mute Beeper Turn beeper off Write Back Cache Enable or disable write back caching Scsi Motor Spin Up Enable or disable the staggered spin up of connected drives Scsi Reset at Power Up Enable or disable reset of SCS...

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