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In the following section you will find commonly asked questions and answers to problems

encountered during the installation of your host adapter.

Question:

Why isnt the INI-9XXX banner !!! Press <CRTL><I> for SmartSCSI Setup Utility

!!! displayed when I power up the host system?

Answer:

Verify that all cabling to the host adapter is installed correctly, refer to the hardware

installation section of this manual.

Question:

On boot-up the message SCSI BIOS Installed is displayed, but my system hangs.

Answer:

Verify that the CMOS interrupt structure is set to INTA and the CMOS IRQ level

matches the jumper settings on the motherboard. Refer to your PC user manual.

Question:

On boot-up, not all the peripherals are scanned and recognized.

Answer:

Verify that each of the SCSI devices on the bus has its own distinct SCSI ID number

and all peripherals are receiving power. Refer to your peripheral manual for informa-

tion regarding changing SCSI IDs.
Verify the SCSI Termination is set correctly. Make sure the last peripheral on the

SCSI bus has termination. See the peripheral manual for proper termination

information.
After the above steps are executed, if you are still not recognizing all attached

peripherals, configure the host adapter to operate in an Asynchronous Transfer

mode by changing its setting under the SCSI Devices Setup section of the

SmartSCSI Setup Utility. This feature is discussed thoroughly in the chapter entitled

Host Adapter Setup.

Question:

On boot-up I get a message Missing Operating System, displayed. The boot drive

is greater than 1 gigabyte.

Answer:

Verify the DOS SPACE> 1 GB is enabled in the INI-9XXX SmartSCSI Setup Utility.

Question:

Under SCO UnixWare, the system displays a panic message or crashes during

bootup:

Answer:

Reboot the system and verify that the INI-9100A is using IRQ10. Please Refer to

your system documentation to set the interrupt levels and your peripheral docu-

mentation for help in setting SCSI IDs.

In order to boot from the old UnixWare kernel, reboot the system and execute the

following steps:

Begin an interactive boot session by pressing the

at the

BOOTING UNIXWARE prompt.

At the system

[boot]#

prompt, type

KERNEL=unix.org <ENTER>

Type

go <ENTER>.

Troubleshooting

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Page 1: ...initio i User s Manual initio INI 9090U ...

Page 2: ...ng Initio products check this document first You will find answers to most of your questions here If you need further assistance please contact us We offer the following support and information services Monday Friday 8 00 AM to 5 00 PM Pacific time Toll Free 800 99 INITIO Phone 408 577 1919 Fax 408 577 0640 Initio provides on line support for software upgrades utility programs and other informatio...

Page 3: ...NSTALLATION 17 Overview 17 Installing the Initio ASPI driver to an existing MS DOS system 17 Installing the Initio ASPI driver to an existing Win3 1x system 18 ASPI Manager command line options 19 ASPI CD ROM Driver Command Line options 19 ASPI Disk Driver Command Line options 21 ASPI Partition and Format Utility 22 6 MICROSOFT WINDOWS 95 95B OSR2 DRIVER INSTALLATION 23 Overview 23 Installation 23...

Page 4: ...sting OS 2 system 40 Device driver command line options 40 10 SCO UNIX DRIVER INSTALLATION 43 Overview 43 Installation 43 Updating interrupts and hardware settings 43 Installing the Initio driver in a new SCO UNIX system 44 Adding the Initio driver to an existing SCO UNIX system 44 Changing to the INI 9XXX as the bootable host adapter 45 11 SCO UNIXWARE DRIVER INSTALLATION 47 Overview 47 Installat...

Page 5: ...CI bus at speeds up to 133 MBytes per second The SmartSCSI Setup Utility program enables integration of the host adapters into most platforms and operating systems Compliancy with Plug n Play applications on systems using the PCI bus standard INI 9090U host adapter supports synchronous UltraSCSI bus transfers at a rate of 20 MBytes per second It utilizes full support of UltraSCSI standards defined...

Page 6: ...ifies major components pertaining to your INI 9090U host adapter You will find it helpful to refer to this illustration while installing the host adapter and attaching the cables FIGURE 1 INI 9090U Board Layout Technical Illustration ...

Page 7: ...in SCSI bus configuration Onboard BIOS supports MS DOS Windows 3 1x INI 9090U has the necessary software support on board allowing you to run disk drive operations for MS DOS and Windows 3 1x without any extra drivers Windows 95 Windows NT OS 2 SCO UNIX UnixWare Linux and NetWare Driver Support INI 9090U is compatible with all major operating systems ISGE Integrated Scatter Gather Engine Initio ho...

Page 8: ...g Queuing Sync Async Transfers Disconnect Reselect Arbitration ProductSpecifications Power Requirements 5 0 0 25 V at 0 51 Amps maximum not including bus termination Physical Dimensions 5 75 x 3 40 14 61 cm x 8 65 cm Environmental Specifications Operating Temperature 0 to 55 C 32 to 131 F 10 to 90 relative humidity non condensing Storage Temperature 40 to 75 C 40 to 167 F 5 to 95 relative humidity...

Page 9: ...vice Each peripheral has a specific device ID commonly referred to as a SCSI ID Please refer to your peripheral documentation to determine switch or jumper settings for SCSI ID s No two devices can have the same ID the device ID uniquely defines the device to the SCSI bus SCSI bus termination The SCSI bus structure has a length limitation as well as a requirement for termination at each end of the...

Page 10: ... are three ways to manually control terminating the host adapter on the SCSI bus see TABLE 1 n o i t a r u g i f n o C s e c i v e D I S C S n o i t a n i m r e T l e n n a h C I S C S y l n O s e c i v e D l a n r e t n I 1 N O y l n O s e c i v e D l a n r e t x E 1 N O s e c i v e D l a n r e t x E l a n r e t n I 2 F F O TABLE 1 INI 9090U possible termination settings 1 Assumption Host adapter...

Page 11: ... H D High Density TABLE 2 Connector Details To increase the reliability of the cabling being used with the host adapter it is recom mended that the following guidelines be observed SCSI 1 up to 6 meters or 20 feet UltraSCSI up to 6 meters or 20 feet Impedance of the cable should be between 90 110 ohms Use high quality shielded connectors Installation inTen Easy Steps 1 Power down the host computer...

Page 12: ...g the host adapter into a PCI slot 4a Installation of internal SCSI cables The number of internal and external connectors for Initio s SCSI host adapters are referenced in the hardware installation section TABLE 2 All internal connectors may be used simultaneously or singularly depending on your bus configuration Installation of internal SCSI cables must be performed before replacing the system co...

Page 13: ...ufacturers instructions FIGURE 4 Connecting the 50 pin internal flat ribbon cable 4b Installation of external SCSI cables Installation of external SCSI cables can be performed after the cover has been closed The cable is limited in length to a total of six meters including any internal cabling The external cable can be daisy chained to include up to seven with the host adapter in combination with ...

Page 14: ...one host adapter inserted into at least two distinctly different computer systems sharing peripheral devices In these circum stances it is possible to have one of the two computer systems turned off Under these conditions the host adapter has a jumper that can be enabled closed to set the active on board termination on all the time regardless of whether power is applied or not The host adapter is ...

Page 15: ...st computer system power The system monitor should display the following information but may vary based on the system BIOS manufacturer The normal Power On Self Test and memory test procedure The host adapter sign on message including a list of attached SCSI devices The list should match the peripheral devices attached to the bus In most cases the host computer system is now configured and ready f...

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Page 17: ...ng drives Running the SmartSCSI Setup Utility To start the SmartSCSI Setup Utility verify that all devices attached to the SCSI bus are powered up when the host computer system is turned on Once the power switch has been turned on and the system begins its on screen power up sequence the Initio ban ner will be displayed for a brief period During this time the Initio SmartSCSI Setup Utility is acce...

Page 18: ...ities to be extended up to 8 GBytes yes Please refer to the Appendix titled DOS Space 1 GB for further information on this feature NO DOS limits the number of cylinders per drive to 1024 The host adapter defines head and sector usage to 64 heads and 32 sectors This format allows for maximum capacity of 1 gigabyte per disk storage YES The upper limit can be extended from 1 GByte to 8 GBytes by incr...

Page 19: ... the peripheral SCSI device also has this option turned ON BIOS Setup Enable Host Adapter BIOS This option controls the host adapter usage of SCSI disk I O routines inside the host adapter BIOS By disabling this option you will eliminate the host adapter s ability to utilize boot capabilities in INI 9090U Setting this to no will also disable all subsequent features displayed by this on screen pane...

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Page 21: ...eted installing the Initio ASPI driver using the MS DOS based installation routine described in this User s Manual it is not necessary to repeat the procedure for a Windows 3 1x environment on the same system Installing theASPI drivers to an existing MS DOS system The ASPI driver is found on the INI 9XXXU 9XXXUW DRIVER DISK 1 It is important that the SCSI bus hardware and operating system are inst...

Page 22: ...INSTALL to install both the DOS ASPI drivers and the Windows 32 bit Disk Access drivers Use this option if you are unfamiliar with configuring a DOS or Windows manually Choose CUSTOM INSTALL to select DOS ASPI drivers or the Windows 32 bit Disk Access drivers manually Use this option only if you are familiar with configur ing a DOS or Windows PC manually 5 Follow the on screen directions and or op...

Page 23: ...tions INICD SYS is a DOS device driver for supporting SCSI CD ROM drives It is the interface between MSCDEX EXE supplied by Microsoft and the physical CDROM drive INICD SYS is automatically loaded in the CONFIG SYS start up file by the Initio DOSSETUP or SETUP programs INICD SYS requires that the Initio ASPI Manager be loaded INICD SYS can be loaded with either the DEVICE or DEVICEHIGH com mand IN...

Page 24: ... X0 1 2 This will exclude the drive on Host Adapter 0 with target ID 1 and lun 2 X0 2 This will exclude the drive on Host Adapter 0 with target ID 2 and ANY lun X0 This will exclude ALL drives on Host Adapter 0 SAMPLE CONFIG SYS AND AUTOEXEC BAT FILES These samples assume that the user has loaded the Initio drivers in the following directory c iniaspi Config sys DEVICEHIGH c iniaspi aspi910u DEVIC...

Page 25: ... facilitate a disk change to a disk with more partitions than the original disk present at boot time The value after the R r option determines how many drive letters will be reserved on a device basis For example if the user specifies a R4 option and there are two removable devices attached to the SCSI bus then a total of eight 8 drive letters will be reserved T t This option is used to specify a ...

Page 26: ...S and INIDISK SYS drivers to be loaded in order for it to function properly INIFDISK EXE is installed by the Initio DOSSETUP or SETUP programs Upon invocation the initial screen will have two windows The top window will list all of the SCSI devices installed in the system The user can highlight a particular device by using the up and down arrow keys The bottom window will display information about...

Page 27: ...ng Windows 95 or Windows 95B OSR2 system Updating INI910U MPD device driver The procedures described to make changes to the system have distinct differences It is strongly suggested that the selected procedure be read and understood before proceed ing with the system configuration changes Please read the instructions carefully To determine which version of Windows 95 you have installed on your sys...

Page 28: ...ERS In the SELECT DEVICE window select HAVE DISK 3 In the INSTALL FROM DISK window enter the Initio Driver path name Insert the INI 9XXXU 9XXXUW DRIVER DISK 1 into drive A Type A WIN95 select OK 4 Select Initio INI 9XXXU UW PCI SCSI Host Adapter select OK then OK again to install the INI910U MPD driver onto your hard disk drive It may be necessary to direct Windows to look for the driver in A win9...

Page 29: ...XU 9XXXUW DRIVER DISK 1 into drive A Type A WIN95 select OK 3 Select Initio INI 9XXXU UW PCI SCSI Host Adapter select OK then OK again to install the INI910U MPD driver onto your hard disk drive It may be necessary to direct Windows to look for the driver in A win95 before the driver can be copied This step may need to be repeated more than once 4 This completes loading the Host Adapter Driver You...

Page 30: ...e Initio Driver path name Insert the INI 9XXXU 9XXXUW DRIVER DISK 1 into drive A Type A WIN95 select OK 4 Select Initio INI 9XXXU UW PCI SCSI Host Adapter select OK to install the INI910U MPD driver onto your hard disk drive It may be necessary to direct Windows to look for the driver in A win95 before the driver can be copied This step may need to be repeated more than once This completes updatin...

Page 31: ...e MAIN DESKTOP Execute the following steps Select CONTROL PANEL from within the MY COMPUTER group Select SYSTEM from within the CONTROL PANEL group Select DEVICE MANAGER tab from within the SYSTEM group Select the OTHER DEVICES category from within the DEVICE MANAGER listing Select one of the PCI SCSI Bus Controller sub category from within the OTHER DEVICES listing In the Initio PCI SCSI Bus Cont...

Page 32: ...rly installed before proceeding further 1 Microsoft Windows 95 will detect the presence of new hardware upon boot up and will display a dialog window titled update Device driver wizard 2 Insert the INI 9XXXU 9XXXUW DRIVER DISK 1 into floppy drive Select NEXT Select the OTHER LOCATION Type A Win95 then select OK Select FINISH At window Insert Disk labled INI 9XXXU 9XXXUW driver select OK At window ...

Page 33: ...WIN95 then select OK Select FINISH At prompt Insert Disk labled INI 9XXXU 9XXXUW driver select OK At prompt Copying file replace the highlighted directory path with A Win95 then select OK This will complete loading the INI910U MPD driver onto your hard disk drive This completes updating the Host Adapter Driver Follow the on screen directions to restart you computer and activate the new driver It i...

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Page 35: ...ine and will remain resident on the drive This is accomplished by following one of the two installa tion procedures listed New Windows NT installation Adding or updating the INI 9XXX Host Adapter Driver to an existing Windows NT System The procedures described to make changes to the system have distinct differences It is strongly suggested that the selected procedure be read and understood before ...

Page 36: ...host adapter driver is now installed The on screen instructions will continue for a complete installation of Windows NT Refer to your Windows NT users manual for completion of the operating system installation procedure Adding or updating the Initio driver to an existingWindows NT system For computer systems using other SCSI host adapters or an IDE drive to provide the system boot routine these in...

Page 37: ...9XXXU UW PCI SCSI Host Adapter from within the SCSI CONTROLLER listing If This device is working properly is displayed on your screen the driver has been correctly installed Installing a new Windows NT system and Initio driver without floppy disks For computer systems installing or upgrading to Windows NT from a floppyless setup such as a share on your network these instructions will guide you thr...

Page 38: ...t adapter driver installation The Windows NT driver will be found on the INI 9XXXU 9XXXUW DRIVER DISK 1 It is important that the hardware has been installed successfully before proceeding further 1 Boot your system from a Windows NT CD 2 When initial boot screen Black and white screen prior to blue screen shows the message Setup is inspecting your computers hardware configuration pressF6 3 A setup...

Page 39: ...rivers developed by Initio for NetWare will be installed on the disk drive used for NetWare system initialization It is strongly recommended that the selected procedure be read and understood before continuing with the system configuration or change Please read the instructions carefully New IntraNetWare Installation Drivers for the Initio host adapter may be found on the INI 9XXXU 9XXXUW DRIVER D...

Page 40: ... This will load the HAM driver If a DSK driver is required or an updated HAM driver is needed it is recommended that you complete the installation and use NetWare s INSTALL utility to update change the driver Adding the Initio driver to an existing IntraNetWare system 1 To begin the installation you will need to change the directory to the location of the server and initialize the network server e...

Page 41: ...driver you wish to replace upgrade and press ENTER Repeat steps 4 and 5 for each instance of the driver 6 When all of the drivers you wish to upgrade replace have been removed highlight Select an additional driver and press ENTER 7 Press INS followed by F3 8 Enter the location path of the drivers A 9 Select the driver you wish to load INI9100 HAM or INI910U DSK and press ENTER If the HAM driver s ...

Page 42: ...thname INI9100 Driver Config Option Driver Config Options V Verbose Mode provides detail information about driver on system command line when driver is initialized V NonVerbose Mode default L Driver assumes that all targets have more than one LUN L Driver assumes that all targets only have LUN 0 default T xxxx Target enable maskWORD Default scan all targets B b dd Scan device only on PCI BUS b PCI...

Page 43: ... Adding INI 9XXX host adapter to existing OS 2 The steps used to install the Initio drivers have different system requirements that may affect basic operation if not installed properly It is strongly suggested that the selected procedure be read and understood before proceeding Please read all instructions carefully New OS 2 installation These instructions will guide you through the Initio OS 2 de...

Page 44: ...ding the Initio driver to an existing OS 2 system For computer systems using other SCSI host adapters or an IDE device to provide the system boot routines these instructions will guide you through INI 9XXX host adapter driver installation The OS 2 driver will be found on the INI 9XXXU 9XXXUW DVR DISK 1 It is important that the SCSI bus hardware and OS 2 are installed correctly before pro ceeding f...

Page 45: ...and line switches is BASEDEV INI910U ADD Driver Config Option Driver Config Options V Verbose Mode provides detail information about driver on system command line when driver is initialized V NonVerbose Mode default ET Driver assumes that all targets have more than one LUN ET Driver assumes that all targets only have LUN 0 default T hhhh Target enable mask WORD Default scan all targets in hex form...

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Page 47: ... host adapter Installation The SCO UNIX drivers developed by Initio will be installed on the disk drive used for system initialization It is strongly suggested that the selected procedure be read and understood before continuing with the system configuration or change Please read the instructions carefully Updating interrupts and hardware settings The following interrupt configuration settings are...

Page 48: ...IVER DISK 2 diskette into your floppy drive Press ENTER 3 Please refer to the SCO UNIX Documentation for additional information You have com pleted the installation of the SCO UNIX driver Adding the Initio driver to an existing SCO UNIX system 1 Insert the INI 9XXXU 9XXXUW DRIVER DISK 2 diskette into your floppy drive 2 Type installpkg under the command prompt ENTER 3 The system will ask you what ...

Page 49: ...kages you want to install Type i91u ENTER 3 Change the mscsi file cd etc conf cf d ENTER cp mscsi mscsi bak ENTER vi mscsi ENTER In the example below The XXXX would be replaced with i91u ha attach number ID lun XXXX Stp 0 2 0 XXXX Sdsk 0 0 0 XXXX Srom 0 5 0 4 Rebuild the UNIX kernel link_unix ENTER 5 You have completed the link procedure for the Initio device driver Exit and reboot the system SCO ...

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Page 51: ...upt to the host adapter Host adapter interrupt level must be set to IRQ 10 for proper installation of the Initio driver Please refer to your system documentation to set the interrupt levels and your peripheral documentation for help in setting SCSI IDs Installing the Initio driver in a new UnixWare system Drivers for the host adapter may be found on the INI 9XXXU 9XXXUW DRIVER DISK 2 In most cases...

Page 52: ...call that UnixWare is case sensitive cp stand unix stand unix org press ENTER pkgadd d diskette1 press ENTER 2 Select i910u ihv hba from the list of available host drivers press ENTER 3 If the INI 9XXX is intended to be the bootable host adapter the next step to updating the driver will require a revision to the I910u file These instructions will guide you through changing the current software set...

Page 53: ...ase refer to your system documentation to set the interrupt levels Space for each host adapter in the system is configured and allocated by a separate line in the file ETC CONF SDEVICE D I910U 1 Verify that Y is selected in the second field at the line starting at I910u in the file ETC CONF SDEVICE D I910U for each INI 9XXX in the system UnixWare will automatically rebuild the kernel when an addit...

Page 54: ...er Installation 2 Then rebuild the UnixWare kernel by executing the following commands at the system prompt etc conf bin idbiuld B K ENTER cp etc conf cf d unix stand unix ENTER cd ENTER shutdown g0 where 0 is Zero ENTER Y ENTER ...

Page 55: ...be found on Initio s Technical Support website www initio com support htm They consist of the following files boot This is a floppy image of a boot disk with Initio s Linux drivers initio 2 0 32 gz This is a gzip patch file used to patch kernel sources with Initio s Linux drivers Installation Instructions cp initio 2 0 32 gz usr src linux cd lusr src linux zcat initio 2 0 32 gz patch p1 s rescue T...

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Page 57: ... peripheral on the SCSI bus has termination See the peripheral manual for proper termination information After the above steps are executed if you are still not recognizing all attached peripherals configure the host adapter to operate in an Asynchronous Transfer mode by changing its setting under the SCSI Devices Setup section of the SmartSCSI Setup Utility This feature is discussed thoroughly in...

Page 58: ...s on your selected disk drive At this point you can switch the setting reinstall the operating system and restore your backed up files All device drivers for the INI 9100A Host Adapter will support different head mappings based on the setting of DOS Space 1GB option MS DOS OS 2 Windows NT Under MS DOS OS 2 Windows NT we recommend you enable DOS Space 1GB option if your SCSI hard disk has more than...

Page 59: ...the same head mapping be used across multiple operating systems on one drive However you can use different head mappings on different drives with the exception of SCO UNIX It is recommended that you enable DOS Space 1GB option if the capacity of your SCSI hard disk has more than 1 GByte ...

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Page 61: ...UP 15 DSK drivers 34 35 F File Manager 22 H HAM driver 34 35 HAVE DISK 24 Host Adapter Driver 23 I I910u 46 i910u ihv hba 46 INI9100 HAM 34 ini910U DSK 34 INI910U INF 21 INI910U MPD 21 23 27 28 INI910U SYS 29 INICD SYS 17 INICD001 18 Inidisk sys 19 INIFDISK ASPI Partition Format Utility 20 INIFDISK EXE 20 Integrated Scatter Gather Engine 3 IRQ 45 K KRNL32 DLL 21 L Load Pathname ini910u 36 M MO 19 ...

Page 62: ...22 PROGRAM MANAGER 16 R README TXT 16 S SCO UNIX 41 SCO UNIXWARE 45 SCO UnixWare 45 SCSI CONTROLLER 23 31 SCSI CONTROLLERS 28 SCSI IDs 45 SETUP EXE 22 SYSTEM INI 16 T TXTSETUP OEM 29 U UnixWare 47 UPDATE DRIVER 28 W Windows 3 x 25 Windows 95B 25 26 WINDOWS NT WORKSTATION SETUP 30 Windows NT 29 Windows NT 4 0 29 ...

Page 63: ...TH THE USE OR PERFOR MANCE OF THE PRODUCT EVEN IF INITIO HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES FCC Compliance Statement This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules Operation is subject to the following two conditions 1 this device may not cause harmful interference and 2 this device must accept any interference received including interference that may cause undesired operation...

Page 64: ...The right to retest this equipment to verify compliance with the regulation was given to the ZZF EN 55 9100UW2 Declaration of Conformance This is to certify that the INI 9090U PCI FastSCSI Bus Master Host Adapter is shielded against the generation of radio interference in accordance with the application of Council Directive 89 336 EEC Article 4a Conformity is declared by the application of EN 55 9...

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