ULTRASTOR ULTRA 12F, Installation Manual

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and sectors per track of each hard disk drive. You need to know only the total
formatted capacity for each floppy disk drive.
The controller exchanges information with the PC through a range of memory
addresses and through some "input/output ports." If the ULTRA 12F24 is going to be
the system's only disk controller, the default values for these numbers will probably
work just fine. If you wish to install it in addition to another controller, you will have
to know the memory and port addresses that other controller uses and perhaps those
used by other options installed in your PC; please refer to Appendix C, Co-Residence
Installation.
Finally, you will have to know which operating system your PC will be using (PC-
DOS or MS-DOS, OS/2, UNIX, or Novell) and which version of that operating
system.
The ULTRA family of caching controllers support many different operating systems
and networks. Installation instructions for several of them are included in this
document; In addition, UltraStor has several additional application notes available
upon request (See Appendix G).
There are three steps in the hardware installation prior to inserting the ULTRA 12F24
into a system I/O slot:
1. Verify the ESDI drive jumper configuration.
2. Verify the controller jumper configuration.
3. Connect all the necessary cables.
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CAUTION
Please take proper electrostatic discharge precaution
when handling the board. Handle the product by
the ends of the board.