DC-395 Series User’s Manual
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3. CONFIGURING YOUR SCSI CARD
3.1 Setting the System BIOS
After the DC-395 is inserted in an available PCI-BUS slot and the jumpers and cables are
properly set, first turn on the power to your external SCSI devices and then power on the
system.
When installing a SCSI drive as drive C: (or D:), set the
CMOS HDD drive type
according to the
IDE
drive installed. The CMOS HDD is NOT related to SCSI HDD
.
Note
: With most mainboards, IDE (Intelligent Drive Electronics)/ST506 and ESDI
(Enhanced Small Device Interface) drives always take precedence over SCSI drives.
That means that if one IDE/ST506/ESDI drive has already been installed, you cannot
install the SCSI drive as drive C:. If two IDE/ST506/ESDI drives already exist, no
SCSI drives can be installed as C: or D:. However, if your mainboard BIOS has
multiple boot options, such as “boot from SCSI device”, this will allow the system to
boot from any bootable SCSI device connected to the DC-395 series controller.
Since the mainboard BIOS will automatically shadow the PCI adapter’s BIOS, there is no
need to set the shadow option between C800 and DFFF. This option is for ISA adapter ROM
only. The I/O Base Address and IRQ ROM shadow addresses are also assigned by the
mainboard BIOS automatically. You do not need to worry about it. Just Plug & Play and
enjoy it.
Right after exiting the system BIOS CMOS setup, the following message will pop up and
prompt you to enter the PCI Configuration Utility to configure the card:
TEKRAM DC-395UW PCI-SCSI Controller
BIOS v3.00 Date: 1999-02-22
Installed at IOPORT = 6800h, IRQ =10 - Level triggered
BIOS ROM mapped at C800h
<< Press F2 or F6 to enter configuration Menu >>
ID-LUN:6-0 MICROP 2217-15MZ1001905HQ30 Fixed disk 1678MB ==> C: (80h)
C/H/S=214/253/63, Xfer Rate=20.0MB/Sec, Sync Offset=15Bytes
ID-LUN:3-0 SONY CD-R CDU924S 1.1d CD-ROM
Xfer Rate=4.0MB/Sec, Sync Offset=15Bytes
SCSI BIOS installed !
