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Main Menu Options
SmartSCSI's main menu provides five possible setup options for meeting your
system configuration:
Scan Bus
Choosing this option results in the host adapter utility to scan the SCSI bus to
determine peripheral devices attached to the host adapter. All device ID's are
displayed on the screen including SCSI ID's without devices attached. This
allows for a better definition of location and priority on the SCSI bus.
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A device ID should only be changed if it conflicts with another device
address on the same bus. Refer to your peripheral documentation for
changing SCSI ID's.
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The best ID for a bootable hard disk is SCSI ID-0.
Device Setup
Asynchronous Transfer. Use this option to set the synchronous data transfer
mode. PCI-SIU2 will transfer data at a maximum rate of 80 MBytes per sec-
ond in synchronous mode and a maximum rate of 10 Mbytes per second in
asynchronous mode. Use this option to set the synchronous data transfer mode.
The default setting for this option is for synchronous operation. (No)
Maximum Synchronous Transfer Rate. This option determines the speed at
which data is moved across the SCSI cable. PCI-SIU2 has the option of run-
ning from 80 MBytes per second in synchronous mode.
DOS Space > 1 GB. Using this option allows for single disk capacities to be
extended up to 8 GBytes (Yes). Please refer to the Troubleshooting Section
titled DOS Space > 1 GB for further information on this feature.
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(NO) DOS limits the number of cylinders per drive to 1024. The host
adapter defines head and sector usage to 64 heads and 32 sectors. This
format allows for maximum capacity of 1 gigabyte per disk storage.
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(YES) The upper limit can be extended from 1 GByte to 8 GBytes by
increasing the number of heads to 255 and number of sectors used per
track to 63. NOTE: This is a powerful option. Data can be lost by
changing settings.
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4. Host Adapter Setup
ASUS PCI-SIU2 User's Manual
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