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All Operating Systems
Boot from a fibre channel drive
Boot BIOS works with the existing system BIOS on Intel Pentium PCI
motherboards and allows a system to boot from a fibre channel drive.
Connect a fiber optic cable to a copper port
Use an MIA to convert media.
Upgrade the host adapter's driver
You must first remove the existing driver before installing a new driver.
Upgrade the host adapter's firmware
Using the DOS utility, save a new copy of the host adapter's firmware in its
flash ROM
Windows NT
Assign Windows NT ALPA
Permanently assign an ALPA (Arbitrated Loop Physical Address) to the host
adapter.
Use the Windows NT event viewer
The Windows NT SCSI driver verifies the success of the PCI Host adapter’s
Power On Self Test (POST). In case of a failure or suspected failure, an error
log entry is issued to the Windows NT System Event Logger (Viewer).
Enable simultaneous networking and storage over Windows NT
Install two host adapters in the same Windows NT computer and use one for
storage and one for networking.
