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Generally, each installation procedure passes through these 4 menus, starting with level 1.
Therefore:
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First initialize the Physical Drives.
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Then configure the Logical Drives.
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Then configure the Array Drives (e.g. Array Drives with RAID 0, 1, 4, 5
and 10).
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Finally, configure the Host Drives.
C.2.3 Using CD-ROMs, DATs, Tapes, etc.
A SCSI device that is not a SCSI hard disk or a removable hard disk, or that does not behave
like one, is called a
Not Direct Access Device . Such a device is not configured with ICPCON
and does not form a Logical or Host Drive . SCSI devices of this kind are either operated
through the ASPI interface (Advanced SCSI programming Interface) (MS-DOS, Windows,
Novell NetWare or OS/2), or are directly accessed from the operating system (UNIX, Win-
dows NT). For more information on how to use these devices, please refer to the corre-
sponding chapters of this manual. Note: hard disks and removable hard disks are called
Direct Access Devices . However, there are some Not Direct Access Devices , for instance certain MO
drives, which can be operated just like removable hard disks if they have been appropriately
configured before (for example by changing their jumper setting).
But enough on the dry theory. Now here are the examples which explain step by step
all the necessary basics for setting up Host Drives with your ICP Controller
C.3 Example 1 - Installing a Single SCSI Hard Disk
Press the <CTRL><G> key combination when the ICP BIOS message comes up (shortly af-
ter switching on the computer) and load ICPCON from the Flash-RAM of the ICP Controller.
In this case no operating system is required.