Panasonic AAA - Installation Manual

vii Contents D Obtaining SCSI Cables and Converters External Cables D-2Internal Ribbon Cables D-2Converters D-2 E Listing of Vendors Array Storage Enclosure Manufacturers E-1SCSI Disk Drive Manufacturers E-2 Index

1-1 1 ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ Introduction The Adaptec ® AAA ™ -131CA PCI-to-Wide UltraSCSI Array Adapter provides powerful disk array support in PCI Windows NT personal workstations. The AAA-131CA is a single-channel, half-size PCI array adapter, with 50-pin and 68-pin internal connectors and a 68-pin external con...

1-2 AAA-131CA Installation and Hardware Guide disk are also required for the temporary files created during installation of the software) ■ Windows NT ™ Workstation 3.51 or 4.0 ■ A 3.5-inch 1.44-MByte primary (boot) floppy disk drive ■ A minimum of 64 MBytes memory ■ Installed CD-ROM drive, for inst...

2-3 Installing the AAA-131CA Adapter and Connecting SCSI Devices Installing SIMM Memory Before you can use the AAA-131CA adapter, the SIMM memory socket must be populated with a standard 72-pin 16-MByte Fast-page mode SIMM, as shown in Figure 2-2. (The SIMM may already be installed in the socket.) V...

2-5 Installing the AAA-131CA Adapter and Connecting SCSI Devices Connecting the LED Activity Indicator (Optional) An LED on the front panel of most computers lights to indicate non-SCSI hard disk activity. If you want the LED to light whenever there is activity on the AAA-131CA adapter instead, you ...

2-6 AAA-131CA Installation and Hardware Guide Connecting SCSI Devices The AAA-131CA adapter supports both internal and external SCSI devices. Up to 15 SCSI devices can be supported on each SCSI chan-nel—either 16-bit devices alone or a combination of 16-bit and up to seven 8-bit devices. Note: If yo...

2-7 Installing the AAA-131CA Adapter and Connecting SCSI Devices Connecting Internal SCSI Devices Follow these steps to connect internal SCSI devices: 1 Prepare each SCSI device for installation: – Make sure each device (internal and external) is assigned a unique SCSI ID number from 0 to 15—no dupl...

2-8 AAA-131CA Installation and Hardware Guide 4 Attach the remaining connectors on the cable to the remaining internal devices. 5 Connect an available DC power cable (from your computer ’s power supply) to the power input connector on each SCSI device. Connecting External SCSI Devices For each exter...

2-12 AAA-131CA Installation and Hardware Guide ■ If the enclosure you are using for the array drives is not specif-ically designed as a array enclosure (such as a standard tower unit), be sure it has adequate cooling and ventilation. Installation Hints for Connecting SCSI Devices All SCSI Devices ■ ...

2-13 Installing the AAA-131CA Adapter and Connecting SCSI Devices Cable Lengths ■ The total length of cabling (internal and external) on each SCSI channel should not exceed the following: – Three meters (9.8 ft) if you are using Fast SCSI data transfer rates (10 MBytes/sec). – Three m (9.8 ft) if yo...

2-14 AAA-131CA Installation and Hardware Guide ■ In general, use lower SCSI IDs for single disks; and use higher SCSI IDs for drives used as array members or spares. SCSI Termination To ensure reliable communication on the SCSI bus, terminators must be installed (or enabled) on the devices at the ph...

2-15 Installing the AAA-131CA Adapter and Connecting SCSI Devices Note: We recommend that you enable termination power on all SCSI devices in the computer so that termination power will still be supplied if you replace one or more drives on the SCSI bus. Completing the Installation Reinstall the com...

4-1 4 ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ Installing Software This chapter explains how to install the software required to use the AAA-131CA in a computer system using Windows NT 3.51 or 4.0. Before installing the software, make sure the AAA-131CA adapter is already installed. If you plan to boot from an array, make sure the ...

4-2 AAA-131CA Installation and Hardware Guide Installing the Array1000CA Driver for Windows NT This section explains how to install the Adaptec Array1000CA Miniport Driver ( cda1000.sys ) for Windows NT. To begin driver installation, see either Installing the Driver When Installing Windows NT below,...

4-4 AAA-131CA Installation and Hardware Guide 2 Boot diskette installation: When prompted, insert diskette #2 in your floppy drive. After a few moments you will see a blue screen. To setup Windows NT now, press Enter and continue with Step 3 below. Boot CD-ROM installation: When the following messag...

5-2 AAA-131CA Installation and Hardware Guide Default AAA-131CA Adapter Settings The default SCSISelect settings, shown in the table below, are appro-priate for using the AAA-131CA in most computer systems. For sit-uations where you might want or need to change the settings, see the descriptions of ...

5-3 Configuring the AAA-131CA Adapter with SCSISelect Starting the SCSI Select Utility To start SCSISelect, press Ctrl-A when the following prompt appears when you turn on or reboot your computer: Press <Ctrl><A> for SCSISelect (TM) Utility! The menu that appears displays the options Con...

5-4 AAA-131CA Installation and Hardware Guide Using the SCSI Disk Utilities To access the SCSI disk utilities, select the SCSI Disk Utilities option from the menu that appears after starting SCSISelect. Once the option is selected, SCSISelect immediately scans the SCSI bus (to determine the devices ...

5-5 Configuring the AAA-131CA Adapter with SCSISelect SCSI Select Settings SCSI Bus Interface Definitions The following settings are the SCSISelect settings most likely to require any modification. ■ Array Adapter SCSI ID — This option sets the AAA-131CA adapter ’s SCSI ID. The default setting is SC...

5-6 AAA-131CA Installation and Hardware Guide Additional Options (SCSI Device Configuration) The SCSI device settings allow you to configure certain parameters for each device on the SCSI bus. To configure settings for a specific device, you must know the SCSI ID assigned to that device. If you are ...

5-7 Configuring the AAA-131CA Adapter with SCSISelect ■ Send Start Unit Command —This option determines whether the Start Unit Command is sent to the SCSI device at bootup (most devices do not require this). The default setting is No. ■ Include in BIOS Scan —This option determines whether the AAA-13...

A-1 A ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ Troubleshooting Troubleshooting Checklist Check the following if you have problems installing or running the AAA-131CA adapter and SCSI devices: ■ Does the AAA-131CA BIOS sign-on message appear during bootup? If not, check the following items: – Is the AAA-131CA adapter properly seated...

B-1 B ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ Advanced Topics Installing Multiple Adapters You can install an AAA-131CA array adapter in computers that have other PCI-, ISA-, or EISA-based host adapters. When installing mul-tiple adapters, keep the following considerations in mind: ■ If you are booting from a SCSI disk drive or an...

C-2 AAA-131CA Installation and Hardware Guide To complete the driver installation, edit the config.sys file to include command lines for aspi8dos.sys and aspicd.sys , and edit the autoexec.bat file to include a command line for mscdex.exe . The fol- lowing examples illustrate the command line format...

E-1 E ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ Listing of Vendors This appendix contains a partial listing of array storage enclosure and SCSI disk drive manufacturers. Array Storage Enclosure Manufacturers JMR Electronics, Inc.20400 Plummer StreetChatsworth, CA 91311USATel: (818) 993-4801Fax: (818) 993-9173Internet: http://www.jmr...

E-2 AAA-131CA Installation and Hardware Guide SCSI Disk Drive Manufacturers Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc.2904 Orchard ParkwaySan Jose, CA 95134-2009USATel (U.S.): (800) 626-4686Tel (Intl): (408) 432-6333Internet: http://www.fujitsu.com IBM Corporation1 Old Orchard RoadArmonk, NY 10504US...

Index-1 ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ Index A Adaptec CI/O Workstation Array Management software 4-7 Adapter setup program 4-5Advanced topics B-1Array bootable A-2creating 3-1–3-3enclosure 2-6, 2-11, E-1 Array storage vendors E-1ArrayConfigCA 3-1 aspi8dos.sys C-3 aspicd.sys C-2 B BIOS address B-1sign-on message 2-15, A-1...