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PCI Disk Array

Controller Drivers

Installation Guide and

User Manual

Part Number 775079-01

08P4100

© Copyright 2000 Mylex Corporation.

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Page 3: ...l contents of this manual are copyrighted by Mylex Corporation The information contained herein is the exclusive property of Mylex Corporation and shall not be copied transferred photocopied translate...

Page 4: ...ntial or otherwise that may result from such error including but not limited to loss of profits resulting from the use or misuse of the manual or information contained therein even if Mylex Corporatio...

Page 5: ...ions Throughout the manual the following conventions are used to describe user interaction with the product bold The user must enter the bold text exactly as shown Press the Enter key Enter Press the...

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Page 7: ...2 3 4 5 6 7 8 NetWare Windows NT Windows 2000 SCO OpenServer UnixWare Solaris Linux...

Page 8: ...vi PCI Disk Array Controller Drivers Manual...

Page 9: ...tWare 4 2 2 3 Installing the Mylex Disk Array Controller into an Existing NetWare 4 2 System 2 4 Installing the Mylex Disk Array Controller as the Primary NetWare 5 0 Controller 2 6 Installing NetWare...

Page 10: ...DAC960P Series eXtremeRAID 1100 DAC1164P AcceleRAID 150 AcceleRAID 200 or AcceleRAID 250 4 13 Primary new Installation 4 13 Secondary new Installation 4 13 Secondary existing Installation 4 13 Upgradi...

Page 11: ...y Controller as the Primary UnixWare Controller with UnixWare 2 1 2 6 6 Installing the Mylex Disk Array Controller as the Secondary UnixWare Controller with UnixWare 2 1 2 6 8 Adding System Drives 6 1...

Page 12: ...x PCI Disk Array Controller Drivers Manual Appendix A Creating PCI Driver Installation Diskettes Introduction A 1 Creating Operating System Driver Diskettes A 2...

Page 13: ...s that the network administrator will be performing any of the installation procedures described herein NetWare Windows NT and Windows 2000 Use one of the following methods to obtain drivers for NetWa...

Page 14: ...k array controller configuration are properly completed If they are not please refer to the appropriate Mylex disk array controller hardware installation guide and to the RAID EzAssist Configuration U...

Page 15: ...hese basic installation procedures follow the Novell Installation manual with only the few minor differences that are described in this section The subdirectory netware on the DOS formatted NT4 NW Dri...

Page 16: ...install NetWare 4 2 from a CD ROM drive connected to a Mylex Disk Array Controller The procedure below assumes that the CD ROM drivers are available 1 Boot the system from a newly created DOS boot dr...

Page 17: ...disk device will require a unique SCSI ID different from any other device connected to the same channel Each device requires a driver module connecting it to the DAC adapter These modules are best lo...

Page 18: ...d and cdrom are supplied by Novell load mdac ham load scsicd cdm load cdrom nlm cd mount volume name After the CD ROM is mounted the volume on the CD ROM can be mapped from any workstation and accesse...

Page 19: ...Select a driver to install box select the appropriate driver for your controller MDAC HAM Controller model number 10 Select Yes at the confirmation box to install the driver 11 Press Enter to select t...

Page 20: ...are required to install NetWare 5 0 from a CD ROM drive connected to a Mylex Disk Array Controller The procedure below assumes that the CD ROM drivers are available 1 Boot the system from a newly crea...

Page 21: ...torage Devices Press the Insert key Select NWASPI CDM this driver is required to load GAM Press Enter Return to the driver summary by using the arrow keys NetWare 5 0 Bootable CD ROM In order to boot...

Page 22: ...through 7 to complete your driver installation Installing Peripherals Under NetWare 5 0 Non disk peripheral devices such as tape or CD ROM drives can be installed on any channel of the controller Each...

Page 23: ...Mylex Disk Array Controller later the controller will be a secondary non bootable controller After installing the controller hardware and configuring a disk array follow the procedure below to add th...

Page 24: ...rivers on the floppy diskette in the specified path 10 In the Select a driver to install box select the appropriate driver for your controller MDAC HAM Mylex Disk Array Controller model number 11 Sele...

Page 25: ...configuration and disk array controller configuration must be properly completed before proceeding with the Windows NT driver installation These basic installation procedures follow the Windows NT Ins...

Page 26: ...70LP 352 and eXtremeRAID 2000 3000 DAC2NT4 INF Setup file for DAC2NT4 SYS README NT Optional Last minute information on Windows NT Installation The subdirectory DISK on the NT4 NW Drivers Software Kit...

Page 27: ...de Used the Mylex RAID EzAssist Configuration Utility to create a drive configuration and initialized the drives for use following the instructions in your Mylex RAID EzAssist Configuration Utility ma...

Page 28: ...ve finished installing other drivers simply press Enter to continue installation 11 Insert Windows NT 4 0 setup diskette 3 when prompted 12 Follow the on screen instructions to continue Windows NT 4 0...

Page 29: ...will be a secondary non bootable controller After installing the controller hardware and configuring a disk array follow the procedure below to add the necessary controller drivers 1 Make sure Window...

Page 30: ...an Existing Windows NT 4 0 System 3 6 PCI Disk Array Controller Drivers Manual Figure 3 2 Control Panel SCSI Adapters 4 In the SCSI Adapters box click the Drivers tab to bring the Drivers page to the...

Page 31: ...page in the foreground click Add Figure 3 4 Figure 3 4 Add a New SCSI Adapter 6 The Creating driver list progress bar is displayed briefly Figure 3 5 and then the Install Driver box is displayed Figur...

Page 32: ...e Disk 8 Insert the NT4 NW Drivers Software Kit diskette into the floppy disk drive 9 From the Install From Disk box change the path to A NT4 as shown in Figure 3 7 and click OK Figure 3 7 Change Path...

Page 33: ...ue Figure 3 10 Confirm Diskette Driver Path The driver is copied from the diskette The System Settings Change box is displayed as shown in Figure 3 11 Figure 3 11 Driver Installation Complete DO NOT R...

Page 34: ...g the Mylex Accelerated Driver 14 With the Drivers page in the foreground click Add Figure 3 12 Figure 3 12 Add Another SCSI Driver 15 The Install Driver box is displayed Figure 3 13 Figure 3 13 Insta...

Page 35: ...ll From Disk box change the path to A DISK as shown in Figure 3 14 and click OK Figure 3 14 Change Path to A DISK 18 From the Install Driver box be sure the Mylex Accelerated Driver is selected and cl...

Page 36: ...kette Figure 3 16 Install the Accelerated Driver from Diskette 20 Again be sure the path is A DISK as shown in Figure 3 17 and click Continue Figure 3 17 Confirm Diskette Accelerated Driver Path The d...

Page 37: ...roceeding with the Windows 2000 driver installation The root directory of the Software Kit Windows 2000 driver diskette contains the following TXTSETUP OEM Setup text file required in root directory n...

Page 38: ...00 250 driver EXR2000 CAT Digital signature for the eXtremeRAID 2000 EXR2000 INF Setup file required for the eXtremeRAID 2000 driver EXR3000 CAT Digital signature for the eXtremeRAID 3000 EXR3000 INF...

Page 39: ...he instructions in your Mylex Disk Array Controller Configuration Utility manual Use the following table to determine the installation procedure to use Table 4 1 Installation Procedure to Use for Each...

Page 40: ...cording to the Microsoft User manual and Mylex PCI RAID controller is the bootable device configured with RAID EzAssist Go to Performing a Primary Installation on page 4 5 Secondary new Installation A...

Page 41: ...for details However here are some special instructions 1 As soon as the screen turns blue press F6 so that the correct driver will be installed for one of these controllers eXtremeRAID 2000 eXtremeRA...

Page 42: ...y disk drive select your controller and press Enter The driver will load and the installation program will ask you if you want to install any additional drivers 7 If you have drivers to install for ot...

Page 43: ...D 160 170LP AcceleRAID 170 or AcceleRAID 352 into your system Microsoft Windows 2000 Installation Procedure After the system reboots it will detect new hardware A brief message will be displayed There...

Page 44: ...as the Primary Windows 2000 Controller 4 8 PCI Disk Array Controller Drivers Manual 2 In the next dialog box see Figure 4 3 select the option to Search for a suitable driver for my device and then cl...

Page 45: ...4 W I N 2 0 0 0 3 The Locate Driver Files dialog box will appear see Figure 4 4 Insert the Mylex Windows 2000 Driver Diskette into Drive A click on the Floppy Disk Drives check box and then click Nex...

Page 46: ...ifying that the correct device driver was found click Next Figure 4 5 Driver Files Search Results 5 If the current version of the Mylex driver you are about to install is too new to have been tested a...

Page 47: ...ear if the driver contains a digital signature Figure 4 6 Digital Signature Dialog Box While the driver files are copied the dialog box in Figure 4 7 will appear to show the progress of this process T...

Page 48: ...ick Finish when the Completing the Found New Hardware Wizard screen appears see Figure 4 8 Figure 4 8 Completing the Found New Hardware Wizard Verification of the installation of a device supporting G...

Page 49: ...lation A primary installation is First time installation of Windows 2000 operating system according to the Microsoft User manual and Mylex PCI RAID controller is the bootable device configured with RA...

Page 50: ...Go to Updating the Mylex Controller Driver on page 4 16 Upgrading Windows NT 4 0 to Windows 2000 WARNING In order to avoid a system failure you must uninstall GAM components before you begin the Wind...

Page 51: ...ams utility and uninstall GAM Server and or GAM Client 3 Install Microsoft Windows 2000 upgrade 4 After the Windows 2000 upgrade go to Updating the Mylex Controller Driver on page 4 16 for driver upda...

Page 52: ...DAC960P Series eXtremeRAID 1100 DAC1164P AcceleRAID 150 AcceleRAID 200 and AcceleRAID 250 The Windows 2000 installation routine installed and used this driver during the Windows 2000 installation Thi...

Page 53: ...Control Panel screen double click the System icon Figure 4 11 Figure 4 11 Control Panel This will give you access to a series of screens that will instruct you how to set up your system to add the co...

Page 54: ...roperties screen click the Hardware tab to bring the hardware selections page to the foreground Figure 4 12 Figure 4 12 Hardware Tab 4 With the hardware selections page in the foreground click the Dev...

Page 55: ...ID controllers double click the name of the appropriate controller device Figure 4 14 Figure 4 14 Controller Device 6 At the top of the next screen select the Driver tab then click the Update Driver b...

Page 56: ...me to the Upgrade Device Driver Wizard screen Click Next Figure 4 16 Figure 4 16 Welcome to Upgrade Device Driver Wizard 8 When you see the Install Hardware Device Drivers screen click on the second l...

Page 57: ...gure 4 18 Select a Device Driver 10 When you have reached the Install From Disk screen insert the Software Kit Windows 2000 driver diskette in drive A check that you are at the A prompt and click OK I...

Page 58: ...evice Driver select the appropriate controller to correspond to the controller you installed Figure 4 20 Figure 4 20 Select Driver 12 From the Start Device Driver Installation screen notice that the n...

Page 59: ...Not Found for the driver the following dialog appears Figure 4 22 Click Yes to continue Figure 4 22 Digital Signature Not Found The next screen informs you that the files are being copied to a local...

Page 60: ...rs Manual 14 When the screen Completing the Upgrade Device Driver Wizard appears Click Finish Figure 4 24 Figure 4 24 Completing the Upgrade Device Driver Wizard Note If the system instructs you to re...

Page 61: ...eate a diskette This chapter assumes that the user has properly completed the hardware installation PCI configuration and the Drive Array Configuration If you have not done so please refer to the corr...

Page 62: ...roller Drivers for SCO UNIX a SCO UNIX driver diskette must be created according to the instructions in Appendix A Creating PCI Driver Installation Diskettes This diskette will be used in both the pri...

Page 63: ...uration has been saved The same is also true when using a CD ROM except the CD ROM needs to be set to SCSI ID 5 Prepare the system to receive the SCO OpenServer 5 0 x driver by performing the followin...

Page 64: ...the standard SCO UNIX installation procedure until you see the following message Please insert mdac package BTLD disk into the floppy drive so that it can be extracted onto the hard disk for incorpora...

Page 65: ...f the controller 10 This concludes the installation of SCO UNIX and the Mylex Disk Array Controller driver Reboot the operating system from the System Drive that was just installed Installing Addition...

Page 66: ...er to identify each system drive being created for SCO UNIX The following table shows the relationships of SCO UNIX target IDs and LUNs to System Drive numbers as defined under the Mylex Disk Array Co...

Page 67: ...e drive follow the standard SCO UNIX OpenServer installation for tape as described in the SCO UNIX documentation After SCO UNIX 5 0 x is installed the tape drive is configured as a standard tape devic...

Page 68: ...Controller Configuration Utility to configure the CD ROM Save the new configuration before trying to use the CD ROM under SCO UNIX To install UNIX from a CD ROM drive follow the standard SCO UNIX Ope...

Page 69: ...n saved The same is also true when using a CD ROM except the CD ROM needs to be set to SCSI ID 5 Secondary Controller Installation Procedure The procedure for installing the Mylex Disk Array Controlle...

Page 70: ...it mdac 8 Rebuild SCO UNIX kernel cd etc conf cf d link_unix 9 Reboot the system to invoke the new kernel 10 Run mkdev hd to configure the hard disks system drives on the controller Enter mdac for pac...

Page 71: ...led and will ask you to confirm that you want to replace it Type y for yes There is already a mdac installed Do you want to replace it with the version in madac y n q y 4 Rebuild SCO UNIX kernel cd et...

Page 72: ...126 NMPBUF Set this parameter for controller driver version 4 x or above Use the sar h command to find the Scatter Gather Buffer utilization and the Out of scatter Gather buffers condition to set the...

Page 73: ...UnixWare 7 x and UnixWare 2 1 2 and 2 1 3 The software is provided on the appropriate Software Kit distribution CD ROM with a file to create a diskette The UnixWare driver for the Mylex Disk Array Con...

Page 74: ...n page 6 3 If using a Mylex multifunction controller as a secondary controller2 please refer to Installing the Mylex Disk Array Controller as the Secondary UnixWare Controller with UnixWare 7 x 2 1 3...

Page 75: ...troller will be the primary bootable controller follow the instructions below Note If you are installing UnixWare 2 1 2 as a primary controller please refer to Installing the Mylex Disk Array Controll...

Page 76: ...Mylex Disk Array Controller driver for UnixWare is included on the Software Kit UnixWare dak driver diskette which was made from the Software Kit CD ROM During the installation you will be prompted to...

Page 77: ...6 8 If UnixWare is installed on a non Mylex controller install the Mylex Disk Array Controller driver for UnixWare as follows Note If installing onto a system that is SISL capable and using a SISL ca...

Page 78: ...roller with UnixWare 7 x 2 1 3 on page 6 3 1 Download the following files from the Technical Support area of the Mylex web site ptf3256 boot dd exe ptf3256 s exe 2 Insert a non bootable DOS formatted...

Page 79: ...ovided in the UnixWare 2 1 2 Installation Handbook The Mylex Disk Array Controller driver for UnixWare is included on the Software Kit UnixWare dak diskette made from the Software Kit CD ROM During th...

Page 80: ...secondary controller please refer to Installing the Mylex Disk Array Controller as the Secondary UnixWare Controller with UnixWare 7 x 2 1 3 on page 6 5 1 Download the following file from the Technic...

Page 81: ...and press Enter The patch files are installed 4 Remove the patch diskette then insert the Software Kit UnixWare diskette into the floppy diskette drive 5 Type the following match case exactly as shown...

Page 82: ...or only disk controller diskadd c0b0t0d1 for the second System Drive diskadd c0b0t0d2 for the third System Drive To Secondary Controller s For the first and second System Drives of a secondary contro...

Page 83: ...isk Array Controller is the primary controller and a second third or fourth Mylex Disk Array Controller is to be added set the interrupt for the secondary controller then power cycle the system power...

Page 84: ...Changing the Controller Configuration 6 12 Manual No 775079 6 U N I X W A R E...

Page 85: ...Solaris 7 0 The software is provided on the appropriate Software Kit distribution CD ROM with a file to create a diskette The Solaris driver for the Mylex Disk Array Controller supports disk drives t...

Page 86: ...w drivers to install or upgrade the Solaris operating environment on a system with new hardware primary installation or To add new drivers to support update new hardware on an already installed booted...

Page 87: ...2 means Continue The Select Solaris System Version screen is displayed Press Enter to choose the Solaris operating system It will show up as Solaris OS 2 7 7 Select the appropriate Solaris Operating S...

Page 88: ...l Driver Insert the diskette at that time The system will automatically reboot when the Solaris operating system has been completely installed Installing Solaris Using the Mylex MDAC Supplemental Driv...

Page 89: ...disk drive 5 Mount the MDAC Supplemental Diskette at the mnt mount point by typing the following command mount F pcfs dev diskette mnt Note You must mount the MDAC Supplemental Diskette at this point...

Page 90: ...ppears the installation will not be completed If you select y for yes the install sh script installs the driver You will see the following message Installation of MYLXmdac was successful 8 When you re...

Page 91: ...o continue You will see the following message Message Loading driver com bef is displayed The boot Solaris screen is then displayed 15 On the Boot Solaris screen select the device controller attached...

Page 92: ...Installing Solaris Using the Mylex MDAC Supplemental Driver Diskette 7 8 PCI Disk Array Controller Drivers Manual...

Page 93: ...lers1 Version 2 2 6 or higher is required for new PCI controllers 2 For instructions on how to install the disk array controller drivers see the appropriate instructions on the web site and refer to t...

Page 94: ...Installing the Disk Array Controller Drivers 8 2 PCI Disk Array Controller Drivers Manual...

Page 95: ...your Mylex controller You can create your own driver diskette from the RAID Management Software Installation menu under Windows Mylex provides driver diskettes for Windows 2000 Windows NT 4 0 and Net...

Page 96: ...cedure below the CD ROM must be inserted into a system running Windows 95 98 Windows NT 4 0 or Windows 2000 Create a driver diskette in six easy steps 1 Insert the CD ROM provided in your Mylex packag...

Page 97: ...A 2 Create Driver Diskette Menu 4 Click the appropriate operating system corresponding to the PCI driver installation diskette you wish to create Figure A 3 Appropriate Operating System Menu 5 When th...

Page 98: ...ler Drivers Manual Figure A 4 DOS Shell 6 Insert the blank diskette and press Enter to extract the image onto the diskette Use your newly created driver diskettes to install your Mylex controller oper...

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