Adaptec 1744 Guía de instalación

so ASPI MS-DOS Manager with ASPI Disk Module Version 3.0 PIN: 472800-01 Rev - B

Section One Introduction to support programs that use virtual memory (i.e., MS Windows 3.0, MS Windows 386, Quarterdeck QEMM 386, Qualitas 386MAX) to

Section One Introduction Ifonly a total of two or less hard drives is in the system <e.g., two stan-dard hard disks, one standard hard disk and one

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Section Two Installation The first installation step is to copy the files from the ASW-1410 program diskette to a directory on drive C using the-DOS C

Section Two Installation When the driver is loaded, the display should look similar to: AHA-1540/1542/1640 ASPI Manaoer for DOS Version 3.0 Copyrloht

/L Section Two /P <port address> /S<slot number> /D /W ASW-141O Ver. 3 Installation Sets the port address that the driver uses to communic

/V Section Two Installation /WM This option has the same function as the /W option except that this will always allocate the 64K virtual buffer from

II Section Two Installation IN<bus on time> IF<bus off time> Five values are predefined: 00 - 5.0 MB/sec (i.e.,/XOO) 01-6.7 MB/sec 02

Section Two Installation /NORST This option will cause the driver to not issue a hard reset to the host adapter during initialization only if the BI

Section Two Installation COMMAND LINE OPTIONS The following command line options may be added to the ASPIEOOS.SYS driver to change the parameters of t

Section Two Installation ASPIDISK.SYS INSTALLATION In order for the ASPIDISKSYS driver to recognize logical drives partitioned with AFDISK, the CON

Section Two Installation If you add the '/D' command line option to both drivers (i.e. , DEVICE = ASPI400s.5YS /D DEVICE =ASPIDISK.SYS /D)

Section Two Installation To invoke AFDISK, simply type AFDISK at the OOS prompt. Currently three slash options are available with AFDISK. These are:

Section Two Installation The displayed list shows all installed SCSI disk drives, including remov-able media devices. The "HAN" field ind

Section 1\vo Installation The existing partitions on the drive will be displayed on the upper right-hand comer of the screen. Both DOS and non-DOS pa

Section Two Installation When the desired cylinder numbers have been entered, press the <Esc> key. The screen will look similar to: Adaptec Di

Section Two Installation A drive that was installed with the host adapter BIOS cannot be parti-tioned with AFDISK. If such a drive is selected, the fo

Section Three Software Considerations Some programs that use the virtual mode of the 386 sometimesrequire a virtual buffer allocated to run correctly

Section Three Program 386MAX by Qualitas MOVE'EM· by Qualitas Any protected mode Software (No VDS support) Any protected mode· Software

Section Four Using Multiple Host Adapters The ASPI400s.SYS and ASPIEOOS.SYS drivers will support multiple host adapters. Support for multiple host ad

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Section Four Using Multiple Host Adapters The host adapter at port address 330 will be assigned to HA #0, and the host adapter at port address 334 wil

Section Four Using Multiple Host Adapters AHA-1740 Standard Mode: When the AHA-1740 is in Standard Mode, the ASPI4DOS.SYS driver should be used. Multi

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Section Fi.ve Commonly Asked Questions Q. What is VDS? A. VDS stands for virtual DMA Services. It is a standard, developed so that bus master devi

Section Five Commonly Asked Questions Q. What are the DOS partition limits with my SCSI host adapter? A. The maximum 005 partition size is determi

Section Six Error Messages ASPI4DOS.SYS Invalid entry for 'Ip' setting You have entered an invalid'IP' setting on the command lin

Section Six Error Messages Unable to set Bus Master transfer rate The driver failed in its attempt to set the host adapter's Bus Master DMA trans

Section Six Error Messages Not enough memory available to load driver This error only occurs with DOS 5.0 and above. This message will only be display

Section Six Error Messages ASPIDISK.SYS No SCSI logical drives to support. This indicates that ASPIDISK has not found any logical drives to support. T

Section Six Error Messages Failed to read, or invalid, boot record. This messgae will appear if ASPIDISK was unable to read data from a disk, or if th

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Preface COPYRIGIIT Copyright 1991 Adaptec, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or t

Table of Contents 1.0 INT'RODUCTION ... 1-1 ASPI J)()S MANAGE

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Section One Introduction This document provides installation infonnation on Adaptec's Advanced SCSI Programming Interface (ASPJ) DOS Manager for