Booting From A Scsi Device; Formatting Media; Using Removable Media; Table 3-3. Files Necessary To Set Up Booting From A Scsi Device - Dell 6100 User Manual

Booting From a SCSI Device

Follow these steps to set your system to boot from a SCSI
device:
1. For an Adaptec 78xx host adapter, use the
SCSISelect utility to configure your preferred
boot device by setting the Boot Target ID option.
2. Use the MS-DOS fdisk utility to create a small
MS-DOS partition. (Follow Novell's recommen-
dation for size.) MS-DOS must be loaded on
sector 0 (zero) of the boot drive.
3. Format the drive using the MS-DOS format com-
mand (for example, format c: /s). Boot the
system from this drive.
4. Copy the appropriate files shown in Table 3-3 to
the root directory.
Table 3-3. Files Necessary to Set Up
Booting From a SCSI Device
Diskette
NetWare System-
1 diskette
NetWare 4.x driver
diskette (created
from CD)
5. Reboot your server and execute the server.exe file.
NetWare should boot at this point.
6. Enter your file server name and internal IPX
number.

Formatting Media

NetWare's install.nlm program lets you optionally for-
mat a hard-disk drive for use with NetWare. If you are
using SCSI drives, it allows you to low-level format
several SCSI drives simultaneously. The NetWare format
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Directory Files
Root server.exe
install.nlm
\scsi readme.txt
aic7870.dsk
aspitran.dsk
aic7870.ddi
procedure is not the same as using fdisk or format under
MS-DOS.
CAUTION: You should not use NetWare to format
a hard-disk drive that contains partitions for other
operating systems because that information may be
destroyed.
CAUTION: When you perform a low-level format
operation on a hard-disk drive, it is important to
ensure that the drive's surrounding temperature
is at or near the temperature at which the drive
will be operated. Failure to do so can result in
relocation of the tracks on the disk platters.
NOTE: When you select a hard-disk drive to format, the
Install program prompts you to enter an interleave value
from 1 to 9. You may also enter an interleave value of 0
(zero). When formatting SCSI hard-disk drives or remov-
able drives on the Adaptec 78xx host adapter SCSI bus,
Dell recommends that you use an interleave value of 0.
This 0 interleave value instructs the hard-disk drive to
use its optimal interleave value. This option was not
available in NetWare 3.0.

Using Removable Media

The aic7870.dsk driver module fully supports remov-
able-media disk drives, including magneto-optical drives.
Removable media is treated as a standard SCSI hard-disk
drive, with some exceptions:
•
The driver only recognizes and registers media with
512 bytes/sector.
•
NetWare allows you to mount or dismount the media
and lock or unlock the media.
These removable media options are supported by Net-
Ware's monitor.nlm program.
Follow these steps to set up the removable media:
1. Load monitor.nlm to display the various options.
2. Select Disk Information.
All system hard-disk drives appear.