Exiting Scsiselect; Installation For The Microsoft Windows Nt Operating System; Installation Overview; Installing Windows Nt And The Driver - Dell PowerEdge 4200 Series User Manual

Adaptec Format Disk utility is compatible with the
vast majority of SCSI disk drives.
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CAUTION: The Format Disk option destroys
all data on the hard-disk drive.
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Verify Disk Media — This option runs a utility that
allows you to scan the media of a hard-disk drive for
defects. If the utility finds bad blocks on the media, it
prompts you to reassign them; if you select Yes,
those blocks are no longer used. You can press
<Esc> at any time to exit the utility.
Exiting SCSI Select
To exit SCSISelect, press <Esc> until a message prompts
you to exit. (If you changed any 78xx series host adapter
settings, you are prompted to save the changes before you
exit.) At the prompt, select Yes to exit, and then press any
key to reboot the computer. Any changes you made in
SCSISelect take effect after the computer boots. (You can
select No at the prompt if you are not ready to exit
SCSISelect.)
I
nstallation for the Microsoft Win-
dows NT Operating System
Read this section to find out about Windows NT operat-
ing system installation, including:
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Installing and/or updating the SCSI drivers for the
Windows NT operating system
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Removing a host adapter
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Swapping a host adapter
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Restoring a configuration if Windows NT fails to
boot

Installation Overview

This section provides the information needed to install
and use the Dell SCSI drivers for the 78xx series of SCSI
controllers with the Windows NT operating system.
The Windows NT 3.51 or 4.0 driver diskette you create
for the Microsoft Windows NT Server operating system
contains the files needed for driver installation. The scsi
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subdirectory on the diskette contains the following files
to be used with Windows NT:
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aic78xx.sys — Adaptec's 78xx series driver for Win-
dows NT
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oemsetup.inf — A file used by Windows NT Setup
for driver installation
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readme.txt — A text file describing the Adaptec
78xx driver for Windows NT
If you are performing a first-time Windows NT
installation, see the following subsection, "Installing
Windows NT and the Driver," to begin driver installation.
If Windows NT is already installed in your system, see
"Using Windows NT to Install or Update the Driver"
found later in this section.

Installing Windows NT and the Driver

The Windows NT 4.0 operating system has SCSI drivers
for the Adaptec 78xx series of SCSI controllers integrated
into the operating system. When you load the operating
system software, the drivers are automatically loaded.
However, Dell recommends that you update the
aic78xx.sys driver using the diskette of drivers that you
created from the Dell Server Assistant CD. To install or
update the aic78xx.sys driver for Windows NT 4.0, see
"Using Windows NT to Install or Update the Driver"
found later in this section.
If you are installing Windows NT 3.51, read the follow-
ing section, which describes how to install the
aic78xx.sys driver at the same time you install Windows
NT 3.51. If Windows NT 3.51 is already installed and
you wish to install or update the aic78xx.sys driver, see
"Using Windows NT to Install or Update the Driver,"
found later in this section.

Performing a Windows NT 3.51 Installation

Follow these instructions only if you are installing Win-
dows NT 3.51 for the first time. You can install Windows
NT 3.51 from a diskette drive or from a CD-ROM drive;
whichever you choose, make sure the hardware installation
is completed prior to following these steps.
NOTE: An older version of the aic78xx.sys driver is
included on the Windows NT installation diskettes (or on
the CD-ROM). To avoid loading the older driver during
Windows NT installation, use the following procedure to