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2. HARDWARE SETUP

DC-395 Series User’s Manual

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2.1 Board Layout

The following figures illustrate the jumper and connector locations for the DC-395 Series
PCI SCSI Host Adapters:

DC-395U

Ultra SCSI-3 adapter

DC-395UW

Ultra WideSCSI-3 adapter

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Summary of Contents for DC-395U

Page 1: ...8 bit 20 7 DC 395UW F SCSI 3 SE 16 bit 40 15 U Ultra SCSI Narrow UW F Ultra SCSI Wide The designation DC 395 is used throughout this manual in reference to the common features of all the above models...

Page 2: ...r more of the following measures Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna Move the equipment away from the receiver Plug the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the re...

Page 3: ...Options 19 3 2 4 Show SCSI Devices 21 3 2 5 Low Level Format Utility 22 3 2 6 Verify Disk Utility 22 4 DOS ASPI DRIVERS UTILITIES 23 4 1 Easy DOS Driver Installation Software INSTALL EXE 24 4 2 Instal...

Page 4: ...2 1 For NT Versions 3 5x 45 7 2 2 For NT Versions 4 x 46 7 3 Removing the SCSI Host Adapter from the System 46 7 3 1 For NT Versions 3 5x 46 7 3 2 For NT Versions 4 x 46 8 WINDOWS 95 98 DRIVERS 47 8...

Page 5: ...e 3 x 4 x 5 0 UnixWare 1 1 2 1 3 7 0 1 Linux Solaris 2 6 7 0 FreeBSD UnixWare SlackWare RedHat Linux and FreeBSD drivers can be accessed via www tekram com or ftp tekram com scsi Most SCSI Adapters re...

Page 6: ...dapter into your system make sure all jumpers on the card are correctly set according to the instructions outlined in section 2 2 Also take care that the SCSI ID number 0 6 for DC 395U 0 15 for DC 395...

Page 7: ...95 Series User s Manual 7 7 2 1 Board Layout The following figures illustrate the jumper and connector locations for the DC 395 Series PCI SCSI Host Adapters DC 395U Ultra SCSI 3 adapter DC 395UW Ultr...

Page 8: ...Hard Drive LED on the front panel of your computer case 2 3 Setting the SCSI IDs Each SCSI device attached to the SCSI card as well as the card itself must be assigned a unique SCSI ID number SCSI ID...

Page 9: ...e terminators on all other devices connected in between 3 When both internal and external devices are connected to the DC 395 series adapter Leave only the terminators mounted on the last internal dev...

Page 10: ...cting external SCSI devices Internal SCSI connector The internal flat cable should connect to the internal SCSI connector with its colored stripe normally red aligned with Pin 1 of the connector Maxim...

Page 11: ...uch 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 adapt...

Page 12: ...ing Bootup is disabled It also allows you to modify your settings without rebooting to enter the PCU When running UTIL EXE it s best to boot clean from a DOS floppy disk After powering up the system t...

Page 13: ...ger Type and Data Xfer Type is provided by the DC 395 series adapter itself The rest of the information in this table is provided by the mainboard s BIOS which should support the PCI PnP specification...

Page 14: ...to their default values Adapter SCSI ID 0 7 The default ID for the DC 395 series adapter is 7 It is recommended not to change this default value of 7 as it gives the adapter the highest priority on t...

Page 15: ...ROM option in the mainboard s BIOS setup which is relevant only to ATAPI CD ROMs INT13 Extension Enabled default Disabled When enabled the DC 395 will support more than 1024 cylinders for use with op...

Page 16: ...led by BIOS INT 13H such as IDE ESDI ST506 SCSI fixed disks removable cartridges and re writable optical disks MO without the need for device drivers under DOS 5 0 or above This setting may be disable...

Page 17: ...i e media change is not allowed b The Media must be inserted before the system boots up c Only media with 512 Bytes sector is supported Disabled If this option is disabled the removable media devices...

Page 18: ...ost devices to get ready for proper operation Since some older hard drives may need more time to spin up you may need to extend the delay for those devices Max number of tagged commands 2 4 8 16 32 de...

Page 19: ...SU M2513A Optical disk 604 M 2 SONY CD R CDU924S CD ROM 121 M 3 NEC CD ROM DRIVE 462 CD ROM 4 IOMEGA ZIP 100 Removable disk 95 M 5 6 WANGTEK 5525ES SCSI M74H Tape drive 7 For DC 395UW Press Tab to see...

Page 20: ...apter will initiate SCSI synchronous negotiation when the system boots up NO Asynchronous Negotiation mode is normally at a lower rate and not related to timing MAX Sync Xfer Rate 20 0 40 0 MB sec The...

Page 21: ...Product Revision level 0820 Device Type Fixed disk SCSI Version SCSI II Synchronous Transfer Supported Linked Command Supported Tagged Command Queuing Supported SCAM Protocol Not Supported SCSI Bus Wi...

Page 22: ...ter After selecting the desired device and confirming the operation the low level format will proceed Under normal circumstances it is both unnecessary and inadvisable to perform low level formatting...

Page 23: ...e as logical drives and also recognizes data formats used by other adapter manufacturers TRMCD SYS The device driver for CD ROM and CD Changer devices This driver is loaded after T3X5ASPI SYS in the C...

Page 24: ...step by step installation procedures can be found in Chapter 3 DOS ASPI DRIVERS UTILITIES The following screens illustrate the DOS driver install procedure 1 To begin this screen displays information...

Page 25: ...nt to install CD ROM Driver Y N Y 5 The following screen specifies the directory path for the device drivers This directory can have any name you choose The default path would be C DC3x5 For this exam...

Page 26: ...program will modify both the CONFIG SYS and AUTOEXEC BAT files This installation program will modify system CONFIG SYS by adding the following lines DEVICE C DC3x5 T3x5ASPI SYS DEVICE C DC3x5 TRMDISK...

Page 27: ...system and boot into DOS 2 Insert the DC 395 Driver Disk1 into your floppy drive 3 Copy the drivers and utilities into a properly named directory e g C ASPI 4 Add a line in the CONFIG SYS DEVICE C AS...

Page 28: ...0 to 7 It is recommended that DOS 4 x or higher be used For DOS 3 x logical drive capacity is limited to 32M bytes The logical drive scanning sequence of TRMDISK SYS starts with adapter 0 SCSI ID 0 pr...

Page 29: ...is changed 4 4 Disk Partition Utility TFDISK EXE is a disk partitioning program for modifying or creating partition tables under DOS Valid DOS partitions can be created by DOS FDISK only for drives c...

Page 30: ...ram can be acquired from Microsoft separately 1 Add a line after the ASPI driver DEVICE C ASPI T3X5ASPI SYS DEVICE C ASPI TRMCD SYS d cdrom0 Note 1 For Trantor s Music Box you have to add one more opt...

Page 31: ...an support the following tape backup subsystems under DOS SYTOS PLUS Tape backup program from SYTRON CORP SYTOS V3 xTape backup program from SYTRON CORP ARCserve SoloTape backup program from Cheyenne...

Page 32: ...r same directory on the software diskette This directory contains the following drivers DC3X5 HAM supports SCSI devices such as Fixed Disks Removable Cartridges and Re writable Optical Disks MO and pr...

Page 33: ...are 4 xx This subsection explains major installation procedures for NetWare Versions 4 00 4 01 4 02 4 1x 4 2 4 2SB 1 Begin the file server installation according to the instructions in the file server...

Page 34: ...ed CDM Auto Loader is enabled Supported SLOT Options are 3 2 Select SLOT Option 3 When prompted for a slot number accept the slot numbers displayed This slot number is SLOT and MAINBOARD dependent 10...

Page 35: ...E LOADER lswap loader exe C SERVER 312 SERVER EXE CD SERVER 7 Create the directory C SERVER 312 CDSAVE 8 Copy CDROM NLM to C SERVER 312 CDSAVE 9 Change directory to the C SERVER 312 312PTD NATIVE LOAD...

Page 36: ...Options are 3 2 Select SLOT Option 3 When prompted for a slot number accept the slot numbers displayed This slot number is SLOT and MAINBOARD dependent 13 Write down the slot number for use below and...

Page 37: ...ng n Using Queue Tag Option Command Line option qtagtype option Default value ORDERED Valid options ORDERED SIMPLE Function Select the type of queue tag to be used when tagged command queuing is enabl...

Page 38: ...ures 5 3 Removable Media Support Removable media devices including Magneto Optical MO Disks differ from Fixed Disks in that the media can be dynamically changed ejecting and inserting disks while the...

Page 39: ...dia while the file system is mounted will have no effect If the volume name of the new media is unknown it can be checked by selecting the item Volume Options after typing load install Return at the N...

Page 40: ...he file TRM3X5 ADD from the directory OS2DRV on the Tekram driver disk to the root directory of DISK 1A made in step 1 3 Edit the CONFIG SYS of DISK 1A At the end of the file add the following line BA...

Page 41: ...of the file add the following line BASEDEV TRM3X5 ADD Note1 If OS 2 is booting from an IDE drive the line BASEDEV TRM3X5 ADD must appear after the line that loads the IDE driver e g IBM1S506 ADD in th...

Page 42: ...where x starts from 0 is the order number of the adapter that was found in the system Unit switch An option that applies to device s unit I Ignore the specified adapter DM Enable DASD manager support...

Page 43: ...e or CD ROM The following is the procedure for installing the Tekram adapter driver while installing Windows NT 7 1 1 Boot from Diskette 1 Insert the Microsoft Windows NT Setup Diskette for CD ROM ins...

Page 44: ...ice in your computer Tekram DC 395U UW or Dc 315 U PCI SCSI Adapter Ver XXX Press ENTER to continue and copy the driver files At this point simply follow the Microsoft Windows NT installation procedur...

Page 45: ...ve SCSI Adapters 3 Click the Add button and select Other Requires a disk form a hardware manufacturer 4 NT will prompt you to insert the Manufacturer supplied support disk Insert the DC 395 driver dis...

Page 46: ...are already on the system Select Current if you want to use existing driver or select New if you want to replace or upgrade the current driver then enter in the path to the driver files A WINNT 3_51...

Page 47: ...iver to the appropriate directories 1 Start the Windows 95 Setup according to the Microsoft instructions 2 Open the Control Panel and double click the System Icon 3 Click the Device Manager Tab and do...

Page 48: ...ert the Tekram Driver diskette in drive A 9 Click Other Locations and specify the path as A Win95_98 10 Update Device Driver Wizard dialog box shows Windows found the following update driver for the d...

Page 49: ...installed from is brought up Click on the Next button 11 The Wizard summary window appears Click on the Finish button 12 A System Settings Change dialog box appears Remove the driver disk from the dr...

Page 50: ...er entry Click the Properties button 7 Click the Driver tab 8 Click the Update Driver button 9 Update Device Driver Wizard starts and provides several windows with choice Follow the steps below to cor...

Page 51: ...displaying a list of drivers from a specific location Choose search and click on the Next button 8 The next window allows the user to specify which device s will be searched and Specify path as A WIN9...

Page 52: ...different driver names used for DC 395 series under either SCO Unix 3 2v4 x or SCO OpenServer 5 0 DC 395U UW F SCO Unix 3 2v4 x t3x5 SCO OpenServer 5 0 X t3x5 9 1 New SCO UNIX Installation with DC 39...

Page 53: ...ed link 3 What package do you need linked in the system or a to quit Type the following package name to proceed t3x5 The system will keep booting from floppy N1 then request to have the driver diskett...

Page 54: ...mmand to install the driver t3x5 If system prompts to replace original driver press return to confirm 6 A series of messages will be displayed The procedure is completed 7 If any SCSI device is to be...

Page 55: ...evices Model No SCSI I SCSI II SCSI 3 DC 395U 4 4 4 20 7 DC 395UW F 4 4 4 40 15 Boot ROM support On chip state machine to control the SCSI sequences in hardware Target Command Set Support Single Ended...

Page 56: ..._____________________ Video card _____________________ Hard disk Floppy card 1 _____________________ 2 _____________________ Network card _____________________ Hard disk drive s 1 ____________________...

Page 57: ...t in the PCU If the above solution does not work you must boot from a floppy and run FDISK EXE to delete the partitions Then re Fdisk and Format the drive to make it compatible with the DC 395 2 The B...

Page 58: ...onnected SCSI device 6 Possible incompatibility problems when enabling the More Than 2 Drives Support option in the PCU Due to the condition of occupying the 1KB 639KB 640KB of memory space some softw...

Page 59: ...file needed is the updated BIN file which contains the actual BIOS code This file will have the extension bin such as Trm3x5 bin Make sure these files are on the diskette or hard drive in the same di...

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