Adaptec 1742A Bedienungsanleitung

AHA-1740A/1742A/1744

EISA-to-Fast SCSI

Host Adapter

User’s Manual

AHA-1740A/1742A/1744

EISA-to-Fast SCSI

Host Adapter

User’s Manual

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Changes

The material in this manual is for information only and is subject to change without

notice.

Adaptec reserves the right to make changes in the product design without reservation

and without notification to its users.

Literature

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Additional information may be obtained from:

Adaptec, Inc.

Literature Department - M/S 40

691 South Milpitas Blvd.

Milpitas, CA 95035

Technical Support

There are several ways to get technical assistance for your Adaptec product(s). Each is

described below. When requesting assistance, be sure that you have the following items

available (or if you write or FAX, send them along):

•the model of any Adaptec hardware product(s) you have.

•the model and version number of any Adaptec software product(s) you are

using.

•the type and version number of operating system you are using.

•the place at which you purchased your Adaptec product.

If you received your Adaptec host adapter as original equipment in a computer system,

first contact that computer manufacturer for technical assistance.

If you are an OEM, contact your local Adaptec sales office.

If you wish to contact Adaptec by telephone directly, our technical support phone num-

ber is: (408) 945-2550.

Outside of the U.S. and Canada, contact your local authorized Adaptec distributor.

The Adaptec electronic Bulletin Board Service (BBS) is available 24 hours a day at

(408) 945-7727. You can connect at 1200, 2400 or 9600 baud, using 8 bits, 1 stop bit and

no parity. Questions may be posted to the system operator (sysop). In addition, user

manuals, utility programs, and other information are also available through the BBS.

You can write to Adaptecat:

Adaptec, Inc.

Technical Support

691 South Milpitas Blvd.

Milpitas, CA 95035

If you would prefer to contact us by FAX, our number is (408) 262-2533.

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Table of Contents

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix

Conventions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x

Chapter One

Overview

General Product Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1

Installation Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4

BIOS Operation Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-5

System Caching Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6

Product Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-7

Associated Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8

Chapter Two

Hardware Installation

Unpacking and Inspection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1

Preparation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2

SCSI Terminators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3

SCSI Parity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4

SCSI ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4

Physical Installation in the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-5

Chapter Three

Using the Configuration Utility

EISA Configuration Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1

Host Adapter Interface Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-4

I/O Port Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-6

DMA Channel Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-7

Host Adapter BIOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-8

Host Adapter SCSI ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-10

SCSI Bus Reset at Power-on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-10

Advanced Enhanced Mode BIOS Options. . . . . . . . . 3-11

SCSI Device Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-12

Standard Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-13

Enable Parity Checking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-13

Initiate Synch Negotiation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-14

Enable Disconnection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-14

Enhanced Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-15

Error if Device Not Found . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-15

BIOS Support Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-16

Send Start Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-17

Enable Parity Checking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-17

Initiate Synch Negotiation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-17

Enable Disconnection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-18

Maximum Synch Xfer Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-19

Chapter Four

Multiple Host Adapter Support

Standard Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1

Enhanced Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1

Standard and Enhanced Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2

Chapter Five

Adaptec Download Utility

Running the ADL Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1

Download Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4

Firmware Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6

Low-Level Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-7

Exiting the ADL Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-9

Chapter Six

Host Adapter BIOS Operation

Standard Mode Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-1

Enhanced Mode Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3

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Chapter Seven

Troubleshooting

Determining Problems Using the LED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-1

Problems Detected During Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2

Problems Booting the System from a SCSI Drive . . . . . . 7-4

Problems Using a SCSI and a Standard Disk Drive . . . . 7-4

Problems Using Two SCSI Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-5

Appendix A

Disk Drives Over 1 Gigabyte

Extended Translation (Using DOS 5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-1

The DOS 1 Gigabyte Limit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-1

When to Use Extended Translation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-2

With DOS Version 5 Only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-2

Drives With Mixed Partitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-2

Using Extended Translation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-2

Using Fdisk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-3

Load ASW-1410 v3.0a . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-3

Questions and Answers About Extended Translation . . A-3

Appendix B

Loading the I/O Operating Environment Software

DOS/Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-1

Novell NetWare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-2

OS/2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-2

Unix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-2

Glossary

Index

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List of Figures

Figure 2-1. SCSI Device Termination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3

Figure 3-1. System Configuration Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2

Figure 3-2. System Configuration Detailed View . . . . . . . . . 3-3

Figure 3-3. Change Resources Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5

Figure 3-4. SCSI Configuration Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-12

Figure 3-5. Global Configuration Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-13

Figure 3-6. SCSI Device Configuration Settings . . . . . . . . 3-15

Figure 5-1. Host Adapter Listing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2

Figure 5-2. ADL Main Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3

Figure 5-3. Download Firmware Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4

Figure 5-4. Download Warning Message Screen . . . . . . . . . 5-5

Figure 5-5. Enhanced Mode Firmware Information . . . . . . . 5-6

Figure 5-6. Low-Level Format Device Selection Screen . . . . 5-7

Figure 5-7. Low-Level Format Option Selection Screen . . . 5-8

Figure 5-8. Exiting the ADL Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-9

Figure 6-1. Standard BIOS Boot Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-1

Figure 6-2. Enhanced BIOS Boot Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3

Figure 6-3. Boot Message with Error Detection Enabled . . 6-4

List of Tables

Table 1-1. AHA 1740A/1742A/1744 Program Files . . . . . . . . 1-4

Table 1-2. AHA 1740A/1742A/1744 Operation Modes . . . . . . 1-5

Table 1-3. AHA-1740A/1742A/1744 Product Specifications . 1-7

Table 3-1. BIOS Installation Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-9

Table 7-1. AHA 1740A/1742A/1744 LED Flash Codes . . . . . 7-2

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