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AAA-130SA Series Installation and Hardware Guide
System Requirements
The minimum system requirements for the AAA-13xSA RAID card
are
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PCI-based 90-MHz Pentium or equivalent motherboard with
PCI-to-PCI bridge support
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An available half-length (for AAA-131SA) or full-length (for
AAA-132SA/133SA), unobstructed PCI slot that supports Bus
Mastering
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A minimum of one SCSI hard disk drive
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A standard 168-pin EDO 3.3v, 60ns or faster DIMM installed on
the adapter. (A DIMM is typically pre-installed.) See the
Adaptec Web Site at
http://www.adaptec.com/raid
for a list of
approved DIMMs and vendors.
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Five MBytes of free hard disk space for the AAA-13xSA RAID
card software (five MBytes of free hard disk space on the
Windows system disk are also required for the temporary files
created during installation of the software)
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Windows NT
™
3.51 or 4.0 Server; or Novell NetWare 3.12 or
4.11
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A 3.5-inch 1.44-MByte primary (boot) floppy disk drive
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64 MBytes system memory for NetWare; more than 64 MBytes
memory recommended for Windows NT
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A CD-ROM drive for installation of Adaptec CI/O
™
Management Software
Caution:
An Uninterruptable Power Supply (UPS) is a key
feature for system fault tolerance. It is possible to lose data
due to power failure or power brown outs. In order to pre-
vent errors or data loss due to power failure, Adaptec
strongly recommends that a UPS be installed to support
your server system.
