Mylex FlashPoint BT-930, Руководство по установке и инструкция пользователя

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Installation
Manual No. 3000863 2-11
Step 5: Power up the System
Once the adapter is installed, power up the system. As the system powers on,
the BIOS performs a self test. Any error conditions that arise from the self
test are displayed on the start-up screen. Should you encounter any
conditions that you can not resolve, contact Mylex Customer Service at the
numbers and/or addresses listed in Appendix B of this manual.
Step 6: Verify devices
The FlashPoint adapter comes with an onboard configuration utility,
AutoSCSI, which resides in Read Only Memory (ROM). AutoSCSI is a
menu-driven utility for configuring Mylex SCSI host adapters. You can use
AutoSCSI to set or change SCSI and BIOS-related configuration parameters.
In addition to simplified configuration, AutoSCSI offers diagnostics. See
Chapter 3, “Adapter and Device Configuration,” for information about how
to use this program to verify the connected devices.
Step 7: Set up hard drives
Most off-the-shelf hard drives are preformatted. If this is not the case, or
your drive requires a low-level format as indicated by error conditions, use
the low-level format utility included with the onboard AutoSCSI utility
described in “Performing a Low-Level Format of a Device” in Chapter 3 of
this manual.
Once the hard drive is low-level formatted, you will need to create a partition
(or multiple partitions) and high-level format the partition(s) to prepare your
drive for operating system installation. Your operating system may
incorporate these partitioning and high-level format functions as part of its
installation or may offer them as separate utilities. For example, DOS
provides FDISK and FORMAT in its utilities suite.
Step 8: Install device drivers
In addition, you may need to install device driver software if your operating
system does not include the required drivers for your installation as
discussed in Chapter 1.
Driver installation usually takes place as part of operating system
installation. Refer to your operating system installation instructions and the
FlashPoint Software User’s Guide for details.