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Contents

Introduction

Device Drivers 1-2
Adaptec Ultra160 Family Host Adapters 1-2
Requirements 1-3

Microsoft Windows NT Installation

Installing the Driver When Installing Windows NT 2-2

Completing a Fresh Windows NT 4.0 Installation From

Floppy Disk 2-2

Completing a Fresh Windows NT 4.0 Installation

From CD-ROM 2-3

Installing the Driver When Windows NT is Already

Installed 2-4

Updating Windows NT 4.0 2-4

Using Advanced Configuration Parameters 2-5

Using Windows NT SCSI Parameters 2-5
Using Driver-specific Parameters 2-7

Using Windows NT and the Host Adapter 2-10

Removing a Host Adapter 2-10
Swapping a Host Adapter 2-11

Troubleshooting 2-12

Problems and Solutions 2-12
Error Messages 2-13

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Page 1: ...USER S GUIDE ULTRA160 FAMILY MANAGER SET...

Page 2: ...tas Boulevard Milpitas CA 95035 1999 Adaptec Inc All rights reserved Adaptec and the Adaptec logo are trademarks of Adaptec Inc which may be registered in some jurisdictions Printed in Singapore STOCK...

Page 3: ...R Ultra160 Family Manager Set for Windows NT Windows 95 98 Novell NetWare and SCO UnixWare User s Guide...

Page 4: ...s Windows Windows 95 98 and Windows NT are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the U S and other countries used under license All other trademarks are owned by their respective owners Ch...

Page 5: ...y Disk 2 2 Completing a Fresh Windows NT 4 0 Installation From CD ROM 2 3 Installing the Driver When Windows NT is Already Installed 2 4 Updating Windows NT 4 0 2 4 Using Advanced Configuration Parame...

Page 6: ...ating the Driver for Windows 95 3 7 Troubleshooting 3 8 Problems and Solutions 3 8 4 Novell NetWare Installation Installing the Driver When Installing NetWare 4 2 NetWare 3 12 3 2 4 2 NetWare 4 12 4 2...

Page 7: ...led 5 3 Back Up the Computer 5 4 Load the Package 5 4 Modify the New System File 5 5 Rebuild the UnixWare Kernel 5 6 Boot the New Kernel 5 6 Using UnixWare and the Host Adapter 5 7 Using Tunable Param...

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Page 9: ...ludes a table that lists all Adaptec host adapters and device drivers that make up the Adaptec Ultra160 Family as well as the minimum requirements needed to install the software The remaining chapters...

Page 10: ...Host Adapters The following Adaptec PCI to SCSI host adapters are collectively referred to as the Adaptec Ultra160 Family host adapters Operating System Ultra160 Driver Windows NT adpu160m sys Window...

Page 11: ...n installed primary boot floppy disk drive The drive must be able to read your operating system disks A 3 5 inch 1 44 MByte floppy disk drive is required The driver disks included with your Adaptec Ul...

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Page 13: ...he adpu160m sys driver supports all Adaptec Ultra160 Family host adapters Refer to the list on page 1 2 If you are performing a first time Windows NT installation see Installing the Driver When Instal...

Page 14: ...your SCSI host adapter 4 Press S again to specify an additional device 5 Press Enter to select Others insert the Ultra160 Family Manager Set disk for Windows in your floppy disk drive 6 Using the arr...

Page 15: ...to specify an additional device 4 Press Enter to select Others insert the Ultra160 Family Manager Set disk for Windows in your floppy disk drive 5 Using the arrow keys select the following driver and...

Page 16: ...Adapters icon 5 Click the Drivers tab and then click the Add button 6 In the Install Driver window click the Have Disk button 7 Insert the Ultra160 Family Manager Set disk for Windows into drive A 8...

Page 17: ...nter here A list of valid values follows Note The following value keys are case sensitive and must be entered exactly as shown DisableTaggedQueuing A nonzero value indicates that the SCSI host adapter...

Page 18: ...from the Edit menu Type Parameters in the Key Name edit box Leave the Class edit box blank 6 Click on the Parameters key 7 Select Add Key from the Edit menu Type Device in the Key Name edit box Leave...

Page 19: ...led If a number is not specified the maximum number or error log entries defaults to 32 Valid values are 0 128 The data type for this value is REG_SZ MAXTAGS nnn specifies the tagged command queue dep...

Page 20: ...y host adapters 8 Click on the Device key 9 Select Add Value from the Edit menu type Driver Parameters in the Key Name edit box Enter REG_SZ as the data type and press Enter 10 A String Editor text bo...

Page 21: ...lug related entries into the NT Registry including the driver specific registry value HOTPLUG Running hotp160m reg will overwrite your current driver specific registry values located at HKEY_LOCAL_MAC...

Page 22: ...device driver To eliminate the Warning message you must update the Windows NT software configuration as described below Removing a Host Adapter in Windows NT 4 0 1 From the Control Panel double click...

Page 23: ...s NT is Already Installed on page 2 4 It is not essential to remove the device driver for the host adapter you are replacing Windows NT dynamically detects the absence or presence of host adapter hard...

Page 24: ...cover 1 Undo any hardware changes you have made to the computer since it was last operational 2 Reboot the computer Watch the display carefully during bootup If the following message appears press the...

Page 25: ...has an Event ID of 11 There may be none or multiple driver events The top portion of the Event Detail dialog box displays information such as the time that the event was generated the computer on whi...

Page 26: ...occurred while the driver was setting up its internal data structures xxxxx011 Error issuing command The requested command is not supported by this driver xxxxx012 Error issuing command xxxxxx99 Error...

Page 27: ...ot or try installing it a different PCI slot xxxxx081 Adapter initialization failure xxxxxx8A Adapter initialization failure xxxxxx83 Adapter initialization failure An error has occurred while the dri...

Page 28: ...ceeded An I O request packet from the system contained a Scatter Gather element list that contained more elements than are supported by the miniport Scatter Gather is a list of data segments that defi...

Page 29: ...Installing Windows 95 98 on page 3 4 If Windows 95 is already installed in your system see Installing the Driver When Windows 95 98 is Already Installed on page 3 6 Note When Windows 95 98 starts if a...

Page 30: ...ould be modified config sys autoexec bat 1 Copy the files aspi8u2 sys and aspicd sys from the DOS directory of the Ultra160 Family Manager Set disk for Windows to your C drive At the DOS prompt type t...

Page 31: ...our Windows 95 or 98 CD ROM make a backup of the Boot disk Then copy aspi8u2 sys and aspicd sys from the DOS directory of the Ultra160 Family Manager Set disk for Windows to the root directory of the...

Page 32: ...isplayed select Driver from disk provided by hardware manufacturer 2 Insert your Ultra160 Family Manager Set disk for Windows and type a win95 as the path follow the instructions that appear on screen...

Page 33: ...n always select 1 Start Windows 98 Setup from CD ROM Windows installation will continue for some time 3 When you see the Add New Hardware Wizard screen and PCI SCSI Bus Controller is displayed click N...

Page 34: ...SI Controller icon Caution If Windows 95 98 cannot determine the type of host adapter installed in your computer a yellow question mark labeled Other Devices appears instead of the SCSI Controller ico...

Page 35: ...ps 1 through 7 in the previous section Installing the Driver When Windows 95 98 is Already Installed 2 Click Update Driver 3 In the Update Device Driver wizard select Yes then click Next 4 Under Locat...

Page 36: ...vice Manager tab Then double click the SCSI Controllers icon you should see the model name of the SCSI host adapter s installed in your system What if there is no SCSI Controllers icon under Device Ma...

Page 37: ...Use Automatic Settings box and edit the resources Interrupt Request Direct Memory Access etc so they match those used by the host adapter If the problem still remains there is probably a hardware reso...

Page 38: ...ers such as Hewlett Packard sjiix sys You have an older model SCSI 1 CD ROM drive that Windows 95 98 does not support You are using a CD Recorder drive however some newer models of CD Recorder drives...

Page 39: ...runs in Real Mode and the Windows 95 98 CD ROM driver does not match You can correct this in one of two ways Comment out the line that loads mscdex exe in the autoexec bat file Change the L switch on...

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Page 41: ...re 3 12 3 2 4 12 4 2 and 5 0 The adpt160m ham driver supports all Ultra160 host adapters Refer to the list on page 1 2 If you are performing a first time NetWare installation see Installing the Driver...

Page 42: ...are 3 12 3 2 from a CD ROM attached to an Adaptec Ultra160 Family host adapter follow the instructions in Install CD ROM Drivers on a DOS Bootable Hard Disk on page 3 2 to configure your computer for...

Page 43: ...erver 312 directory using Edit or a text editor with the following lines load c server 312 312ptd native start npapatch load c server 312 mmattrfx load c server 312 nbi31x load c server 312 adpt160m A...

Page 44: ...a160 Family host adapter 19 Load from the console prompt the following command load c server 312 312ptd patch312 20 Install the patches from the c server 312 312ptd directory 21 Edit the driver load c...

Page 45: ...ss F3 and enter a netware as the path to the adpt160m ham driver for NetWare 5 Select adpt160m ham and press Enter 6 Select No not to save existing file Yes to save existing file cdrom nlm 7 Select No...

Page 46: ...ter 3 Select Storage adapters and press Enter 4 Press Insert to add storage drivers 5 Press Insert to add an unlisted driver 6 Insert the Adaptec Ultra160 Family Manager Set disk for NetWare into your...

Page 47: ...rver s startup directory e g c nwserver c server 40 on your hard disk This overwrites any existing version of the driver in the directory Note For NetWare 3 12 3 2 and 4 12 4 2 the file is in netware...

Page 48: ...ad the driver is load pathname adpt160m ham options For example the command line to load the driver from the c nwserver directory with the verbose option on is load c nwserver adpt160m verbose y Comma...

Page 49: ...ing algorithm dev_enable 0 FFFF FFFF Allows you to enable the driver s registration of SCSI devices on a per target basis By default all targets are scanned A bit value of 0 causes the target not to r...

Page 50: ...n all targets are enabled This bit mask is entered in hex see Bit Mask Options on page 4 11 slot 0 xxxx2 0 Defines a physical slot number for the host adapter If 0 is specified or if this option is no...

Page 51: ...a simple load command with no option switches if loaded from drive A load a netware adpt160m ham If an error message appears when attempting to load the driver refer to Troubleshooting on page 4 16 He...

Page 52: ...unlock the media NetWare s monitor nlm program supports several removable media options Follow these steps to view and configure these options 1 Load monitor nlm to display the various options 2 Sele...

Page 53: ...he media must be in the Not Locked state before you can eject it If the media is Locked it cannot be ejected when you press the Eject button Using the NetWare Tape Backup Included with Novell NetWare...

Page 54: ...d and should not be loaded Adaptec s driver module takes advantage of ASPI interface features bypassed by adaptec nlm Novell publishes a list of SCSI tape drives supported by sbackup nlm Using a CD RO...

Page 55: ...increases the SCSI performance of the Adaptec Ultra160 Family host adapters under multitasking environments The firmware uses a paging mechanism to handle up to 255 simultaneous SCSI commands The Seq...

Page 56: ...tem xxxxx081 Adapter software initialization failure An error has occurred while the driver was setting up its internal data structures Verify that your adapter is supported by this version of the dri...

Page 57: ...the minimum amount of memory required by your operating system xxxxx096 Adapter hardware initialization failure possible resource conflict The driver has attempted to initialize the adapter hardware...

Page 58: ...k your hardware documentation for instructions on setting and changing IRQs xxxxx0c9 Invalid command line parameter A command line option for the driver is invalid See Using the Load Command Line Opti...

Page 59: ...or package is used with UnixWare 7 01 7 1 The adst21 and adst70 drivers support Ultra160 SCSI ASICs and host adapters Refer to the Adaptec Ultra160 Family host adapters on page 1 2 If you are performi...

Page 60: ...Enter you cannot load drivers from a secondary floppy disk drive As the driver loads a message identifying the installed host adapter briefly appears on screen The installation process determines whi...

Page 61: ...alling or updating the driver involves the following tasks which must be completed in the following order 1 Back Up the Computer Backs up the old UnixWare kernel and any other important files 2 Load t...

Page 62: ...instructions on screen to insert the IHV HBA disk or Ultra160 Family Manager Set disk for UnixWare 2 1x or UnixWare 7 01 7 1 into the boot floppy disk drive 2 Select the adst21 or the adst70 package...

Page 63: ...dify the New System File 1 Display the contents of the adst21 file by typing the following and pressing Enter For UnixWare 2 1x cat etc conf sdevice d adst21 For UnixWare 7 1 cat etc conf sdevice d ad...

Page 64: ...e UnixWare kernel is now ready for host adapter operation Boot the New Kernel To reboot the computer with the new kernel follow these steps 1 Follow the on screen instructions usually by pressing Ente...

Page 65: ...Enter after each line etc conf bin idbuild B cp etc conf cf d unix stand unix Note The drivers support tagged queuing and reinitialization Using Multiple Host Adapters When using multiple host adapter...

Page 66: ...nf pack d adst21 Driver o etc conf pack d adst21 space c etc conf pack d adst21 disk cfg etc conf sdevice d adst21 For UnixWare 7 01 7 1 etc conf bin idinstall d adst70 The following files will be del...

Page 67: ...go and press Enter Your computer should now boot from the backup kernel created earlier in Installing the Driver When UnixWare is Already Installed on page 5 3 4 For UnixWare 7 01 7 1 From the boot p...

Page 68: ...error xxxxx009 Command completed with error A request issued to a target device completed with an indication that there is an error In most cases the error is recovered and normal operation continues...

Page 69: ...the communication protocol A badly behaving device could cause this message to appear Normally this is not a serious problem If you get this message frequently over a short period of time it could in...

Page 70: ...covered and normal operation continues xxxxx048 Unable to abort command An error occurred while aborting a command Possibly the command has already completed and there is nothing to abort xxxxx049 Com...

Page 71: ...he driver or operating system xxxxx0a4 SCSI bus reset by third party Hardware such as an array enclosure may have reset the SCSI bus This is a normal condition unless you receive additional errors xxx...

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Page 73: ...ice configuration utility 5 2 Device manager 3 8 Disconnects 2 5 Drivers CD ROM 3 2 Ultra160 Family 1 1 1 2 E Error messages NetWare 4 16 UnixWare 5 10 Windows NT 2 13 H Host adapters Ultra160 Family...

Page 74: ...fo 5 5 R Registry editor 2 5 Removable media 4 12 Requirements 1 3 S Scatter gather 2 6 SCSI Card 29160 1 2 SCSI Card 29160N 1 2 SCSI Card 39160 1 2 Synchronous negotiation 2 5 System requirements 1 3...

Page 75: ...shooting 3 8 3 11 Windows NT adpu160m sys 1 2 2 1 2 2 driver installation 2 2 2 4 error log entries 2 7 error messages 2 13 hot plug PCI 2 8 parameters 2 5 2 6 2 7 problems and solutions 2 12 registry...

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