Tekram Technology DC-820B Manual de usuario
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EISAFastSCSICachingAdapter
DC-820B
Mirroring + Caching
EISA Fast SCSI Host Adapter
Acknowledgements of the following trademarks:
Intel is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation.
Adaptec, ASPI, and AHA 1540/1542 are registered trademarks of Adaptec.
Novell and NetWare are trademarks of Novell, Inc.
Sytos Plus is a registered trademark of Sytron Corporation.
ARCserve/Solo are registered trademarks of Cheyenne Corporation.
MS-DOS, Xenix, Windows, and Microsoft are registered trademarks of Microsoft
Corporation.
SCO Unix and SCO Xenix are registered trademarks of Santa Cruz Operation Inc.
ISC is a registered trademark of UNIX System Laboratories, Inc.
USL is a registered trademark of Interative Systems Corporation.
Unix is a registered trademark of America Telephone and Telegraph Company Bell
Laboratories.
OS/2 is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation.
NCR is a registered trademark of National Cash Register Corporation.
Mylex is a registered trademark of Mylex Corporation.
Music Box is a trademark and Trantor a registered trademark of Trantor Systems, Ltd.
(other trademarks shown are the property of their respective owners)
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FCC Compliance Statement:
This equipment has been tested and found to comply with limits for a Class
B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC rules. These limits are
designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in
residential installations. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate
radio frequency energy, and if not installed and used in accordance with the
instructions, may cause harmful interface to radio communications. However,
there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation.
If this equipment does cause interference to radio or television equipment
reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the
user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the
following measures:
. Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna
. Move the equipment away from the receiver
. Plug the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which
the receiver is connected
. Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/television technician for addi-
tional suggestions
Only equipment certified to comply with Class B should be attached to this
equipment, and must have shielded interface cables.
The FCC requires the user to be notified that any change or modifications to
the equipment by the user not expressly approved by the grantee or
manufacturer could void the user's authority to operate such equipment.
Each DC-820B is equipped with an FCC compliance label which shows only
the FCC Identification number: FCC ID: KHADC-820B
This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC rule. Operation is subjected to
the following two conditions: 1). this device may not cause harmful interference
and 2). this device must accept any interference received, including interference
that may cause undesired operation.
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. DOS - Sec 0.1:
A:> INSTALL
. NetWare - Chap 3
. UNIX - Chap 4
Re-boot the system
&
Play!!!
YY
Install
Driver?
. Install the cache DRAM - Sec 1.4
. Set your SCSI HDD's ID to 0 and 1 (if avail-
able)
. Plug the adapter onto your system & Cabling
. Power on the SCSI device(s) & then the system
QuickInstallationGuide
. ECU - Sec 1.6
No
No
CONFIG the
system for the
first time or Set
Adapter/Device
Options?
Yes
Enter the mainboard's CMOS setup & set
the Drive C:/D: to Non-installed for SCSI
HDDs.
(Shadow Adapter's ROM BIOS for
optimalperformance)
Yes
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Table of Contents
Chapter0INTRODUCTION ....................................................... 6
0.1EasyDOSDriverInstallationSoftware(INSTALL.EXE) ............................... 7
Chapter1HARDWARESETUP ............................................... 12
1.1BoardLayoutandJumperSetting ......................................................... 12
1.2CheckingtheTerminatorsontheSCSIBus ............................................ 13
1.3CableConnection(CN1,CN2,&CN3) .................................................... 14
1.4CacheDRAMInstallation ...................................................................... 14
1.5PoweringUpandEnteringtheSystemCMOSBIOSSetup ....................... 14
1.6RunningtheECU. ............................................................................... 15
1.6.1DC-820B AdapterHardwareOptions ................................ ...................................................17
1.6.2DC-820B Adapter FirmwareOptions ............................... ....................................................19
1.6.3DC-820B SCSI DeviceOptions ................................. ............................................................23
1.7TOOLBME.EXEUtility&DiskMirroringInitialization ................................ 26
Chapter2ASPI DRIVERFORDOS .......................................... 32
2.1InstallingtheASPIDriver ...................................................................... 33
2.2InstallingtheDISKDRV.SYSDriver ........................................................ 33
2.3DiskPartitionUtility............................................................................. 36
2.4CHKDRIVE.EXEUtility .......................................................................... 37
2.5InstallingtheCD-ROMDriver ................................................................ 38
2.6InstallingTapeStreamer(DAT) ............................................................. 38
Chapter3NetWareDrivers ..................................................... 40
3.1ASPIDriversforNetWare ..................................................................... 41
3.2DuplexingUtility .................................................................................. 44
Chapter4UNIXLOCK/UNLOCKDriverPackages .................... 46
4.1SCOUNIXV3.2.2 ................................................................................. 46
4.2ISCUNIXV3.2 ..................................................................................... 47
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AppendixA.TechnicalSpecification....................................... 50
AppendixB.ProductSupportForm........................................ 52
AppendixC.GeneralTroubleshootingTips............................. 54
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Chapter 0
Introduction
The DC-820B is an intelligent multi-tasking SCSI (Small Computer System
Interface) bus to EISA bus host adapter. Up to six DC-820B adapters can
be installed in one system with each adapter supporting up to seven SCSI
devices. In addition, the DC-820B offers hardware-based disk mirroring
under all operating systems in order to further safeguard your valuable data.
Another feature, the Disconnect/Reconnect, minimizes the performance down-
grade during multi-tasking operations.
The DC-820B effectively reduces disk access times by way of its on-board
co-processor which handles most of the disk access chores to relieve the
burden of the mainboard’s CPU. Through its multi-tasking support, the DC-
820B manages the SCSI sub-system efficiently and smoothly. The on-board
cache facilitates increased DTR (Data Transfer Rate) and markedly reduces
direct read/write accesses to the storage subsystem, thus prolonging the
lifetime of your drives. This feature applies to fixed disks or removable
media devices, such as removable cartridge, MO (Magneto-Optical) and
Floptical drives.
The DC-820B is both I/O register and command compatible with the AHA
1540/1542 series, and able to run with built-in Adaptec drivers. The follow-
ing are the operating systems that allow you to do so:
nMS-DOS (through BIOS INT 13H) nWindows 3.X/NT
nOS/2 1.31/2.X nSCO UNIX V3.2.X
nSCO ODT V1.X/2.0 nSCO XENIX V2.3.X
nISC UNIX V3.2 nAT&T UNIX SVR4.X
nUSL UNIX SVR 4.2 nSunsoft NextStep V3.1
nSolaris OS V2.1 nQNX V2.15
nPICK 5.2.4 nBanyan VINES(R) 5.00
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All versions of MS-DOS support two hard disk drives without adding device
drivers. If MS-DOS 5.0 is used, the DC-820B BIOS can handle up to eight
devices, including fixed disk and removable media, by enabling the DOS 5
Support enable/disable option during the ECU (EISA Configuration Utility)
setup process.
The driver diskettes shipped along with your DC-820B include ASPI (Ad-
vanced SCSI Programming Interface) drivers for DOS, NetWare drivers,
and UNIX LOCK/UNLOCK utility for removable media devices. Also, the
DC-820B comes with a utility program (TOOLBME.EXE) which provides
low-level format, mirroring initialization, and disk image copy/compare
functions. By implementing the ASPI drivers for DOS, the DC-820B recog-
nizes devices formatted by other adapters, such as Adaptec and Mylex, or
formats devices that will be recognized by other makers’ host adapters.
A software program, INSTALL.EXE, is included in the driver diskette to
ease the DOS driver installation. Further details can be found in the next
section.
0.1 Easy DOS Driver Installation Software (INSTALL.EXE)
The DOS driver diskette provides an INSTALL.EXE file to ease the driver
installation for your SCSI devices. The driver installation will be neces-
sary if: 1. more than two HDDs installed and without DOS 5 Support
enabled (sec.1.6.2) or 2. SCSI device(s) other than HDD installed. This
software program provides you the information about the adapter and your
SCSI devices. After choosing the device(s) which you want to install with the
driver(s), this program will update the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT
files. Further information about drivers and step-by-step installation proce-
dures can be found in the Chapter 2 ASPI DRIVER FOR DOS.
The following screens display the procedures of this software:
1). Firstly, this screen shows the information about adapter number (HA#0),
I/O port address (Base 330H), DMA channel (DMA 5), interrupt level (IRQ
11), and SCSI ID (ID 7). In this case, there is only one adapter available. If
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more than one adapter co-existing in the system, then you must select which
adapter you want to work with.
The System has the following Host Adapter(s)
1 DC-820B HA#0 Base 330H DMA 5 IRQ 11 ID 7
2). This screen provides the information of the SCSI devices controlled by
the chosen adapter (HA#0).
After selecting, more detailed information about each device can also be
found. For example, we select the Fujitsu drive:
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3) The following screen provides you the information about how many SCSI
devices installed in the system and requires you to answer if to install the
driver(s) or not:
The next following screen requires you to specify the directory pathname for
the device drivers:
If your system has CD-ROM device(s) and want to install the driver, another
screen will pop up and require you to assign the pathname for MSCDEX.EXE.
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And then you go on to assign the first drive letter for the CD-ROM drive(s)
used by the MSCDEX.EXE. In this case, Drive: F is reserved to the first
CD-ROM drive.
4).After confirmation, this installation program will modify both the
CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files.
5). After all these are done, re-boot the system and the driver(s) will then be
auto-loaded.
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