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Introduction
The Adaptec
®
AAA
™
-131CA PCI-to-Wide UltraSCSI Array Adapter
provides powerful disk array support in PCI Windows NT personal
workstations. The AAA-131CA is a single-channel, half-size PCI
array adapter, with 50-pin and 68-pin internal connectors and a
68-pin external connector.
This Installation and Hardware Guide explains how to initially install
the AAA-131CA adapter, create the first array, and then install the
supporting software. The Array1000
™
CA Family Array Management
Guide, which is also included with your array adapter, explains how
to use the supporting software to create and manage additional
arrays.
System Requirements
The minimum system requirements for the AAA-131CA are
■
PCI-based 90-MHz Pentium or equivalent motherboard with
PCI-to-PCI bridge support
■
An available half-length, unobstructed PCI slot that supports
Bus Mastering
■
A minimum of one SCSI hard disk drive
■
A standard 72-pin, 16-MByte, Fast-page mode 70-ns or faster
SIMM (non-EDO). (See the Adaptec Web Site at
http://www.adaptec.com/RAID for a list of approved SIMMs
and vendors.)
■
Five MBytes of hard disk space for the AAA-131CA software
(five MBytes of free hard disk space on the Windows system