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Adaptec AAA-UDMA Install Manual

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  • Page 1 NSTALLATION AND ARDWARE UIDE AAA-UDMA DMA/66 RAID C LTRA...
  • Page 2 Adaptec, Inc. 691 South Milpitas Boulevard Milpitas, CA 95035 © 2000 Adaptec, Inc. All rights reserved. Adaptec and the Adaptec logo are trademarks of Adaptec, Inc. which may be registered in some jurisdictions. Printed in Singapore STOCK NO.: 512408-03, Rev. A JG 02/2000...
  • Page 3 AAA-UDMA Ultra DMA/66 RAID Card Installation and Hardware Guide...
  • Page 4 Copyright © 2000 Adaptec, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be repro- duced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, elec- tronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written consent of Adaptec, Inc., 691 South Milpitas Blvd., Milpitas, CA 95035.
  • Page 5 • After-hours, weekend, and holiday support is available for a fee at 800-416-8066. Sales and Ordering Information • For pre-sales assistance with Adaptec products; to place an order for software, hardware, or cables; or to request additional documentation for Adaptec products, call 800-442-7274 or 408-957-7274, Monday–Friday, 6:00...
  • Page 6 This device complies with part 15 of the FCC rules. Operation is subject 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. Adaptec, Inc. Tested to Comply With FCC Standards...

  • Page 7: Table Of Contents

    1 Introduction System Requirements 1-2 Installation Overview 1-3 2 Installing the Hardware AAA-UDMA RAID Card Layout 2-2 Installing DIMM Memory 2-3 Installing the AAA-UDMA 2-4 Connecting the LED Activity Indicator 2-5 Setting Up UDMA Drives 2-6 Setting Jumpers on UDMA Drives to the Master...
  • Page 8 AAA-UDMA Installation and Hardware Guide 4 Installing the Software Driver for Windows NT Installing the Array1000UDMA Driver for Windows NT 4-2 Installing the Driver When Installing Windows NT 4-2 Installing the Driver When Windows NT is Already Installed 4-4 Windows NT Installation and Configuration Notes 4-5...
  • Page 9 A Using BIOSSelect and Disk Utilities BIOSSelect Default Settings A-2 Starting the BIOSSelect Utility A-3 Using BIOSSelect Menus A-3 Exiting BIOSSelect A-3 Using the Disk Utilities A-4 BIOSSelect Settings A-5 Bus Interface Definitions A-5 Device Configuration A-5 Additional Options A-6 B Troubleshooting Troubleshooting Checklist B-1 Windows NT Troubleshooting B-2...

  • Page 11: Installation Overview

    The Adaptec -UDMA RAID card provides powerful disk array support in systems that have a PCI bus. The AAA-UDMA is a full-size PCI UDMA RAID card with four, 40-pin internal UDMA connectors. A single UDMA drive can be connected to each of the four internal UDMA connectors on the AAA-UDMA (four UDMA drives total).

  • Page 12: System Requirements

    DIMMs and vendors 5 MB of free hard disk space for the AAA-UDMA software (5 MB of free hard disk space on the Windows system disk are also required for the temporary files created during installation of the software) ™...

  • Page 13: Installation Overview

    It is possible to lose data due to power failure or power brown outs. In order to pre- vent errors or data loss due to power failure, Adaptec strongly recommends that a UPS be installed to support your system.

  • Page 15: Installing The Hardware

    AAA-UDMA. Throughout the industry, these drives are also often referred to as ATA, EIDE, IDE, or Ultra DMA. The AAA-UDMA does not support CD-ROM, tape drives, or other non-hard disk drive devices.

  • Page 16: Aaa-Udma Raid Card Layout

    AAA-UDMA RAID Card Layout Figure 2-1 identifies the major components on the AAA-UDMA. You may find it helpful to refer to this figure while installing the AAA-UDMA and attaching UDMA drives to it.

  • Page 17: Installing Dimm Memory

    Before you can use the AAA-UDMA, the DIMM memory socket must be populated with a DIMM, as shown in Figure 2-2. In most cases, the AAA-UDMA comes pre-installed with a DIMM. If a DIMM is not pre-installed, a non-buffered 60 ns (or faster), 3.3V, ECC, 168-pin EDO DIMM can be used.

  • Page 18: Installing The Aaa-Udma

    PCI 2.1 or higher and must support Bus Mastering.) Save the slot cover screw for use in Step 4. Insert the AAA-UDMA in the PCI expansion slot; press down firmly until it clicks into place, then replace the slot cover screw.

  • Page 19: Connecting The Led Activity Indicator

    AAA-UDMA, you must disconnect the LED cable from the mother- board and connect it to the LED connector on the AAA-UDMA. If the LED has a 2-pin cable, connect the cable to pins 1 and 2 of the LED connector.

  • Page 20: Setting Up Udma Drives

    Setting Jumpers on UDMA Drives to the Master Setting Each UDMA drive you are connecting to the AAA-UDMA must be set to the Master setting. If your UDMA drive is set to the Slave set- ting, you must change it to the Master setting. This is typically done by changing jumper settings on the drive.

  • Page 21: Mounting Udma Drives And Connecting Power Cables

    0. (See Making the Array Bootable on page 3-8.) Cable Lengths To connect a UDMA drive to the AAA-UDMA, a UDMA/66 cable is required. Each UDMA/66 cable should not exceed 18-inches in length. Adaptec strongly recommends that you use only the two-connector UDMA/66 cables provided by Adaptec.

  • Page 22: Connecting Udma Drives

    AAA-UDMA Installation and Hardware Guide Connecting UDMA Drives The AAA-UDMA supports up to four UDMA drives. Before con- necting drives to the AAA-UDMA, be sure to also review Setting Up UDMA Drives on page 2-6. Connecting UDMA Drives to the UDMA Connectors...
  • Page 23 Plug the TO CARD (Blue) end of the cable to one of the four UDMA connectors on the AAA-UDMA. Figure 2-7. Connecting Cable to UDMA Connector Plug the TO DRIVE (Black) end of the cable to your UDMA drive. UDMA Drive Figure 2-8.
  • Page 24 AAA-UDMA Installation and Hardware Guide To connect additional UDMA drives, repeat steps 1 through 3. IDE 4 IDE 3 IDE 2 IDE 1 Figure 2-9. Connecting Additional UDMA drives 2-10...

  • Page 25: Configuring The Aaa-Udma

    After connecting all devices, reinstall the computer cover and connect all power cables. Turn on the computer. During BIOS initialization, the AAA-UDMA BIOS banner should appear on the screen, and each device connected to the card should be listed. If the BIOS banner does not appear, see Appendix B, Troubleshooting.

  • Page 27: Creating An Array With The Arrayconfig Udma Utility

    Creating an Array With the ARRAYCONFIG UDMA Utility In this Chapter Creating an Array Making the Array Bootable This chapter explains how to use the ARRAYCONFIG UDMA Util- ity to create a bootable or non-bootable array on your system. If you want a bootable array on your system, you must use the ARRAYCONFIG UDMA utility to create the bootable array.

  • Page 28: Creating An Array

    AAA-UDMA Installation and Hardware Guide Once the array is created, use Adaptec CI/O Management Software, which is included with the AAA-UDMA, to create additional arrays (CI/O is required for array management in order to provide the proper level of fault tolerance and event notification). Refer to the Adaptec CI/O Management Software User’s Guide for instructions on...
  • Page 29 Creating an Array With the ARRAYCONFIG UDMA Utility Insert the ARRAYCONFIG UDMA diskette into drive A and reboot the system. Wait for ARRAYCONFIG UDMA to start automatically. Read the text that appears on the initial screens. Press any key to view the next screen, or press Esc to return to the previous screen.

  • Page 30: Creating An Array With Custom Setup

    AAA-UDMA Installation and Hardware Guide When the next menu appears, select the type of applications that you will run on your system. (Select Others if you are not sure what type of applications you will use.) ARRAYCONFIG UDMA will use your answer to create the best array configu- ration for your applications.
  • Page 31 (One disk worth of capacity is needed to hold the parity information.) See the Adaptec CI/O Management Software User’s Guide for more information on selecting a RAID level. Select the number of drives you want in the array and press Enter.
  • Page 32 Ins or Enter. The names of selected drives appear in the Adaptec Array # box. To deselect the drive you most recently added, press Del.
  • Page 33 (CI/O is required for array management in order to provide the proper level of fault toler- ance and event notification.) See the Adaptec CI/O Management Software User’s Guide for more information. When all arrays are created, exit ARRAYCONFIG UDMA, remove the ARRAYCONFIG UDMA diskette, and reboot the system.

  • Page 34: Making The Array Bootable

    UDMA controller (for example, any IDE hard disk not connected to the AAA-UDMA at drive C). You must disable or remove all UDMA hard disks connected to an embedded UDMA controller if you want the system to boot from the AAA-UDMA.
  • Page 35 Creating an Array With the ARRAYCONFIG UDMA Utility Prepare the array as you normally would prepare a boot disk drive for your operating system. See either Chapter 4, Installing the Software Driver for Windows NT, Chapter 5, Installing the Software Driver for Windows 2000, or Chapter 6, Installing the Software Driver for Novell NetWare.

  • Page 37: Installing The Software Driver For Windows Nt

    (See Chapter 3) Once Windows NT and the driver are installed, install Adaptec CI/O Management Software and use it to add, delete, and manage arrays from the server console (CI/O is required for array management in order to provide the proper level of fault tolerance and event notification).

  • Page 38: Installing The Array1000Udma Driver For Windows Nt

    (RAID 5, 1, or 0/1) to take advantage of the redundancy and performance features of the AAA-UDMA RAID card. Installing the Driver When Installing Windows NT To install the cdaudma.sys driver when you are installing Windows...
  • Page 39 Select the Adaptec Array1000UDMA Family Adapter driver and press Enter. If you want to add drivers (other than for the AAA-UDMA), press S and repeat Step 5 for each additional adapter and insert the appropriate disk provided by the hardware manufacturer.

  • Page 40: Installing The Driver When Windows Nt Is Already Installed

    Enter. Enter the following path to the installation files and then click OK. The Adaptec Array1000UDMA Family Adapter driver is high- lighted by default. In the Install Driver window, Click OK.

  • Page 41: Windows Nt Installation And Configuration Notes

    Installing the Software Driver for Windows NT Windows NT Installation and Configuration Notes Windows NT 1 GByte Partition Limitation During Windows NT installation, if your system configuration has multiple arrays and/or single drives, Windows NT limits the size of the system partition you can create to 1 GByte. To work around this 1 GByte limitation, try the following: During Windows NT installation, create the 1 GByte partition (do not finish setup);...
  • Page 42 AAA-UDMA Installation and Hardware Guide Boot Order In Windows NT vs. ARRAYCONFIG UDMA During Windows NT installation, Windows NT does not show the devices in the boot order. Instead, it shows the arrays with the lower ID first. To minimize confusion during Windows NT installation, try...

  • Page 43: Installing The Software Driver For Windows 2000

    (See Chapter 3) Once Windows 2000 and the driver are installed, install Adaptec CI/O Management Software and use it to add, delete, and manage arrays from the server console (CI/O is required for array management in order to provide the proper level of fault tolerance and event notification).

  • Page 44: Installing The Array1000Udma Driver For Windows 2000

    Note: We recommend that you backup your system before you begin upgrading. The following steps assume that the Adaptec Array1000UDMA RAID Host Adapter is the boot adapter for the Windows NT setup that you may have. Startup Windows 4.0 completely.
  • Page 45 F6 when this message is displayed: Press F6 if you need to install third-party SCSI drivers Insert the Windows 2000 Driver disk for AAA-UDMA when the setup prompts you to insert the manufacturer supplied disk into drive A, and then continue.

  • Page 46: Installing The Driver For A Fresh Installation Of Windows 2000

    Press F6 when this message is displayed: Press F6 if you need to install third-party SCSI drivers Insert the Windows 2000 Driver disk for AAA-UDMA when the setup prompts you to insert the manufacturer supplied disk into drive A, and then continue.

  • Page 47: Installing The Driver When Windows 2000 Is Already Installed

    Select the Have Disk button. You will be prompted to insert the manufacturer supplied disk. Insert the Windows 2000 Driver Disk for AAA-UDMA in your floppy disk drive, and click on the OK button. Select the Adaptec Array1000UDMA Family Manager Set for Windows 2000 driver from the list, and click on the Next button.

  • Page 48: Windows 2000 Installation And Configuration Notes

    When the driver is copied on the hard drive, click on the Finish button. You will be prompted to restart the computer. Select Yes. After rebooting the system, install the Adaptec CI/O Management Software. Refer to the Adaptec CI/O Management Software User’s Guide for instructions on installing and using the software.

  • Page 49: Installing The Software Driver For Novell Netware

    Created the first array using the ARRAYCONFIG UDMA utility, if you plan to boot from an array. (See Chapter 3) Once NetWare and the driver are installed, install Adaptec CI/O Management Software from the server console (CI/O is required for array management in order to provide the proper level of fault tolerance and event notification).

  • Page 50: Installing The Array1000Udma Driver For Novell Netware

    AAA-UDMA Installation and Hardware Guide Installing the Array1000UDMA Driver for Novell NetWare To begin driver installation, see either Installing the Driver When Installing NetWare on page 6-2, or Installing the Driver When NetWare is Already Installed on page 6-6. Note:...
  • Page 51 When prompted, select Save parameters and continue. Select No when prompted to select an additional disk driver. Select Continue Installation. When NetWare installation is complete, install Adaptec CI/O Management Software from the server console. Refer to the Adaptec CI/O Management Software User’s Guide for instructions...
  • Page 52 Note: Older versions of the aic78xx.dsk driver (before v1.30) are compatible with cdaudmah.ham as long as the AAA-UDMA PCI slot is not specified on the command line (e.g., load aic7870.dsk slot=z). If there is an AIC-78xx based ™ card (e.g., AHA -2940) in the system, z must point to that card’s slot number and not to the AAA-UDMA slot number.
  • Page 53 – Delete the Storage Adapters drivers for adapters that are not present in your system. Insert the Adaptec Array1000UDMA Family Manager Set driver disk in your floppy disk drive. Select Storage Adapters and press Enter. To add Storage Adapter driver, press Insert.

  • Page 54: Installing The Driver When Netware Is Already Installed

    Change to the c:\nwserver directory and enter: server At this point, install Adaptec CI/O Management Software from the server console. Refer to the Adaptec CI/O Management Software User’s Guide for instructions on installing and using the software. Installing the Driver When NetWare is Already Installed To update or install the cdaudmah.ham driver if NetWare is already...

  • Page 55: Netware Installation And Configuration Notes

    DOS partition is too small. It, however, does allow you to continue installation. Ignore this error message. Unloading cdaudmah.ham When running Adaptec CI/O Management Software, do not unload cdaudmah.ham while iomgr.nlm is still loaded. Unstable behavior may result.

  • Page 57: A Using Biosselect And Disk Utilities

    BIOSSelect also includes disk utilities to list the IDs of devices con- nected to the AAA-UDMA and to format disk drives. Instructions for using these utilities are included.

  • Page 58: Biosselect Default Settings

    AAA-UDMA Installation and Hardware Guide BIOSSelect Default Settings The BIOSSelect default settings for the AAA-UDMA, listed in the table below, are appropriate for most systems. If you want to view and/or change the current settings, or if you would like to format a disk, see Starting the BIOSSelect Utility on page A-3.

  • Page 59: Starting The Biosselect Utility

    The menu that appears displays the options Configure/View Host Adapter Settings and Disk Utilities, as shown in Figure A-1. Adaptec Array1000 Family Adaptec Array1000 Family at Bus:Channel 00:A Would you like to configure the PCI device, or run the disk utilities? Select the option and press <Enter>.

  • Page 60: Using The Disk Utilities

    Format. Note: Low-level formatting takes a long time for large capac- ity disk drives. The Adaptec Format Disk utility is compatible with the vast majority of disk drives. Caution: A low-level format destroys all data on the drive. Be sure to back up your data before performing this opera-...

  • Page 61: Biosselect Settings

    Host Adapter ID— Sets the ID for the AAA-UDMA. The AAA-UDMA is set to ID 7, which gives it the highest priority on the bus. We recommend you do not change this setting. Parity Checking—When set to Enabled, verifies the accuracy of data transfer on the bus.

  • Page 62: Additional Options

    AAA-UDMA Installation and Hardware Guide Additional Options Array1000 BIOS—When set to Enabled, the AAA-UDMA BIOS is installed and all Int13 (except bootable CD-ROM) devices are supported at boot time. When set to Disabled, the AAA-UDMA BIOS is not installed. The default is Enabled.

  • Page 63: Troubleshooting Checklist

    AAA-UDMA and UDMA drives: Does the AAA-UDMA BIOS sign-on message appear during bootup? If not, check the following items: – Is the AAA-UDMA properly seated in a PCI expansion slot? Refer to your computer documentation for the slot location. –...

  • Page 64: Windows Nt Troubleshooting

    AAA-UDMA Installation and Hardware Guide Windows NT Troubleshooting Error Messages While Setting Up Windows NT “Setup is unable to locate the hard drive partition prepared by the MS-DOS portion of setup” “xxxx MB disk y at Id z on bus 0 on cdaudma.sys does not contain a partition suitable for starting Window NT”...
  • Page 65 Adaptec CI/O Management Software 1-3 Adaptec customer support ii Array booting from 3-8, B-1 creating 3-4–3-7 optimized for data protection 3-3 optimizing performance 3-3 ARRAYCONFIG UDMA 3-1–3-7 BIOS Array1000 A-2 scan A-2, A-5 sign-on message 2-11, B-1 Block size 3-7...
  • Page 66 AAA-UDMA Installation and Hardware Guide local memory 2-3 NetWare driver 6-2–6-7 overview 1-3 Windows 2000 driver 5-2–5-6 Windows NT driver 4-2–4-4 IRQ B-1 LED connector 2-5 Local memory 2-3 Manager set diskettes 4-3, 4-4 Memory, cache 2-3 Memory, local 2-3 NetWare 6-1–6-7...

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