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Appendix A
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Appendix A Driver Installation
WARNING:
There are a few operating systems that will perform a system reset
automatically during installation. The default setting of the ASUS PCI-
DA2100/-DA2200 RAID controller is “Write-back Cache – Enabled.” If the
system resets while there is still data in the cache, the cache data will be
cleared. What does all this mean? The system reset during installation will
prevent OS installation from completing, since data in the write-back cache
gets cleared before it has been written to the SCSI drives. So, it is
recommended to “Disable” the write-back cache (i.e., use write-through
mode) prior to OS installation. Following OS installation, the setting can be
switched back to “Write-back Cache – Enabled.” Please see section 8.6.1,
Caching Parameters, for details on how to disable the write-back cache.
1 MS-DOS
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ASPI Drivers Installation
The ASUS PCI-DA2100/-DA2200 can be used as a host adapter for
SCSI tape drives and CD-ROM drives. To access such devices
under MS-DOS, it is necessary to install the ASUS PCI-DA2100/-
DA2200 MS-DOS ASPI Manager device driver.
The ASUS PCI-DA2100/-DA2200 MS-DOS ASPI Manager allows
MS-DOS/Windows applications and OS Installation Programs to
access CD-ROM drives or SCSI tape drives that are connected to and
properly configured under the ASUS PCI-DA2100/-DA2200. The
ASUS PCI-DA2100/-DA2200 MS-DOS ASPI Manager and CD-ROM
Driver are installed as device drivers under MS-DOS by adding the
following command lines to the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT
files in the root directory of the boot drive:
In CONFIG.SYS file
DEVICE=[path1]DA2000.SYS
DEVICE = [path1]ASPICDRM.SYS /d:[driver signature]
LASTDRIVE = [logical drive]
In AUTOEXEC.BAT file
[path2]MSCDEX /d:[driver signature]