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ULTRASTOR CORPORATION
ULTRA 12F24
ESDI CONTROLLER
INSTALLATION MANUAL
REVISION A
4.1.92

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  • Page 1 ULTRASTOR CORPORATION ULTRA 12F24 ESDI CONTROLLER INSTALLATION MANUAL REVISION A 4.1.92...

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Appendix Reference I Appendix Reference II Introduction This manual explains how to install the ULTRA 12F24 ESDI (Enhanced Small Device Interface) and floppy disk controller. While emphasis is placed on PC's running MS-DOS, the requirements for other operating systems are noted and references given to application notes (some of which are included in this document).

  • Page 4: Features

    AT class machine operating under MS-DOS with one ULTRA 12F24 controller that has two ESDI drives and up to three floppy drives, the information contained in this document will be sufficient for a successful installation.

  • Page 5: Hardware Installation

    Co-Resident with Another Controller in the System Supports Any Combination of Three Floppy Drives (3.5" or 5.25") or Two Floppy Drives Plus One Floppy Tape Unique Support Of Duplexing and Mirroring Under Novell and OS/2 LAN Manager Preserves Drive Manufacturer’s Defect Lists Screen Edit Menus for Easy Installation DOS, Xenix, UNIX, Novell, OS/2 Compatible Supports Any Mix of 10, 15, 20, 22 or 24MHz ESDI Drive...
  • Page 6 The controller exchanges information with the PC through a range of memory addresses and through some "input/output ports." If the ULTRA 12F24 is going to be the system's only disk controller, the default values for these numbers will probably work just fine.

  • Page 7: Esdi Drive Jumper Configuration

    ESDI Drive Configuration The ESDI drive should be configured as follows: a. Verify and set the drive select jumper on the drive as follows: 1. If a straight 34 pin control cable is used, jumper the first drive as drive select 1, and jumper the second drive as drive select 2.
  • Page 8 ···· :::::::::: :::::::::: ::::::::::::::::: ::::::::::::::::: JP17 JP11 :::::: JP10 JP12 Ultra 12F24 U16RAM ··· JP20 Figure 1.0 - ULTRA 12F24 BOARD LAYOUT TABLE 1.0 DEFAULT JUMPER SETTINGS JUMPER FUNCTION ULTRA 12F24 Cache Enable No Jumper BIOS Address (C800:0) JP10 Floppy Configuration...
  • Page 9 TABLE 2.0 JUMPER DEFINITION JUMPER NUMBER DESCRIPTION Reserved Cache Disabled OUT: Cache Enabled JP10 BIOS Address Setting: BIOS Address ----- ----- ----- ------------------------- OUT OUT OUT Disable BIOS OUT OUT IN C800:0 OUT IN OUT CC00:0 OUT IN D000:0 OUT OUT D400:0 OUT IN D800:0 OUT DC00:0...

  • Page 10: 3.3 Cable Connection And System Integration

    drive (Either 3.5" or 5.25"). Floppy secondary port address is 370-377 OUT: Floppy primary port address is 3F0-3F7. 9-10 Dual speed floppy drive support. OUT: Single speed floppy drive. 11-12 IN: Precompensation is fixed at 125ns for all data rates. OUT: Precompensation varies according to floppy data rates;...

  • Page 11: Software Installation

    Software Installation There are three steps for software installation: 1. Low Level format using the ULTRA 12F24 on-board BIOS utility. 2. Disk Partitioning using the FDISK command under DOS. 3. High Level format or surface scanning using the operating system’s format command.
  • Page 12 Before the low level format is executed, set up the drive parameters. Select the "Drive Parameter Setup" option from the main menu (Figure 2.0); the on-board utility will go into "UltraStor BIOS Setup Menu", as shown in Figure 3.0. The on-board utility will read the drive parameters from the attached ESDI drive(s) and put the values into the appropriate field on the screen.

  • Page 13: Ultrastor Bios Setup Menu

    FIGURE 3.0 ULTRASTOR BIOS SETUP MENU Drive 0 Parameters Drive 1 Parameters Type ESDI Type NONE Cylinder 1457 Cylinder Head Head Sector Sector Precomp 65535 Precomp Landing Zone 1457 Landing Zone One Spare Sector/Trk One Spare Sector/Trk Sector Mapping Sector Mapping...
  • Page 14 1.2GB. With this option, the user will be able to use drives that are greater than 528MB without any third party software. This cannot be used under Novell, or Unix/Xenix operating systems. UltraStor provides a device driver for OS/2 (See Appendix F).
  • Page 15 (if the board is jumpered to C800:0) OR g=CC00:5 (if the board is jumpered to CC00:0) c. The UltraStor "Utility Main Menu" will appear on the screen (See Figure 2.0). d. Select the "Drive Preparation" option by using the up/down arrow keys and press "Enter".

  • Page 16: Hard Disk Drive Preparation Menu

    FIGURE 4.0 HARD DISK DRIVE PREPARATION MENU Drive Interleave HdSkew CylSkew AutoFormat Defect List Primitives Brief Retrieve Verify Drive Cylinder Head Sector Precomp Landing Zone Capacity(MB) 1457 NONE 1457 679.4 DEFECT LIST HD/CYL/SC/BFI/LEN HD/CYL/SC/BFI/LEN HD/CYL/SC/BFI/LEN Use ARROW KEYS to change fields, SPACE BAR to select options, ESC key to exit, RETURN key to execute, and F1 to pause or continue Hard Disk Drive Preparation Menu...
  • Page 17 Store the grown defect list discovered during drive verification. Format the grown defects as bad sectors. Extended: The Extended version of AutoFormat will use the write and verify command instead of the verify command, as in the Brief AutoFormat. The rest of the sequence and the commands are the same as in the Brief AutoFormat.

  • Page 18: Disk Partitioning And High Level Format

    Novell and COMPSURF A feature to speed up and ease Novell COMPSURF installation is provided. This UltraStor feature enables the user to perform Novell COMPSURF in minutes rather than hours. After the disk has been prepared using the "-N" options (in the...

  • Page 19: Trouble Shooting Guide

    (both the 34 pin and the 20 pin cable). 3rd Floppy Drive Installation (For DOS Only) Contact your vendor for the UltraStor 3rd floppy device driver "EXFDRV.SYS" and see Appendix B, Installing the 3rd Floppy Drive. Tape Backup Unit Installation Please see Appendix B, Installing the 3rd Floppy Drive.
  • Page 20 Video Card Conflict If using a different BIOS address (see Debug Hangs) does not solve the problem, try turning the VGA memory access to 8 bit mode. Contact your vendor for technical assistance. Slow in Formatting OR Every Sector is Reported as Bad During Verify Check to see that drive is set to hard sector mode.
  • Page 21 Make sure Track Mapping is disabled in UltraStor Drive Parameter Setup Menu. "Invalid Hard Disk Controller Failure"- Check jumper settings on the controller. Reference Manual Page 19...
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  • Page 23 ≤1.2GB ≤1.2GB >1.2GB 1024 map OS/2 1.1, 1.2, 1.3: 1 spare/trk sect map track map 1024 trunc Without UltraStor OS/2 Device Driver (Max capacity 528MB) 1 spare/trk sect map track map ≤1.2GB ≤1.2GB >1.2GB 1024 trunc With UltraStor OS/2 Device Driver...
  • Page 24 APPENDIX A UNIX Group (1) 1 spare/trk sect map track map 1024 trunc AT&T UNIX 3.2.2, SCO UNIX 3.2, 3.2.2 SCO XENIX 2.3.2, Intel UNIX 3.2 and ESIX 3.2 Interactive UNIX 2.2 UNIX Group (2) 1 spare/trk sect map track map 1024 trunc Interactive UNIX 2.02 NOVELL 286 Group...

  • Page 25: Appendix B Installing The 3Rd Floppy Drive

    APPENDIX B Installing the 3rd Floppy Drive This document describes how to install the 3rd Floppy Drive on an UltraStor disk controller. Please note that UltraStor provides software to run the 3rd floppy under DOS only.. Part 1: Cable Requirement...
  • Page 26 APPENDIX B ULTRA Controller 3rd Floppy Drive A Drive B FIGURE 2 Part 2: Hardware Setup 1. Select either option 1 or option 2 above and jumper the drive according to the option selected. 2. Take out the terminators in both the 3rd floppy drive and drive B. Leave the terminator in drive A only.
  • Page 27 3rd floppy device drive. 3. Copy DRIVER.SYS provided with DOS 3.2 and above, and the UltraStor 3rd floppy device driver file (EXFDRV.SYS) onto your usual boot drive.
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  • Page 29: Appendix C Co-Residence Installation

    This application note describes the co-residence of two controllers controlling up to 2 hard disk drives combined. The UltraStor controller will be used as secondary controller. The primary controller can be a built-in controller (such as PS/2 Model 30-286), or IDE type interface (such as COMPAQ DeskPro 386/20e), or a regular AT MFM, RLL, ESDI or SCSI type of controller.
  • Page 30 APPENDIX C Refer to Sections 3.1. and 3.3 to set up and connect ESDI drives. Refer to Section 4.1, Low Level Format Utility in the ULTRA Installation Guide. After the low level drive preparation is done, the drive(s) is ready for OS partitioning and formatting, such as FDISK and FORMAT command in the DOS operating system.

  • Page 31: Appendix D Novell Netware 386 Disk Duplexing

    Novell for disk duplexing; please refer to Novell IMSP Level 1 Disk Driver Bulletin #D-97, available upon request. UltraStor’s ULTRA 12F24 and 12C ESDI disk controllers are currently the only controllers in the market that support NetWare 386 disk duplexing in any 386 AT compatible system.
  • Page 32 :LOAD INSTALL This invokes the system installation options. The drives that are attached to the ULTRA 12F24 or 12C controller will be shown under the drive options. Proceed with Novell installation procedures to do the partitioning, mirroring, mounting, volume creation, and surface testing of the hard disk drives. Note: Please refer to Novell NetWare 386 installation guide.
  • Page 33 APPENDIX D supplied with version 3.0. This driver will run without problems; however, it does not support the "read after write verify" capability which is available in version 3.1. Method 2. Patch the new ISADISK.DSK so that driver does not check the F000 segment for drive parameter table location.
  • Page 34 APPENDIX D Installing Under NetWare 386 Version 3.11. NOTE Firmware and BIOS level -009 (for ULTRA 12F24 only) and above is required for version 3.11. Like NetWare 386 Version 3.1, a patch is still required for dual channel operations. Fortunately, that patch has already been implemented by Novell so that there is no need to do the patch manually.
  • Page 35 ULTRA 12F24 or 12C co-resides with these controllers without any conflicts and without requiring re-installation of the operating system. Using any combination of both ULTRA 12F24 or 12C as primary and secondary controllers, up to four ESDI drives can be used in the operating system, e.g. with four 650 Mbyte (formatted) ESDI drives, a total of 2.6Gbyte storage capacity is available for the system.
  • Page 36 APPENDIX E changed to 4. Change to directory /etc/conf/cf.d and Run configure -y NDISK to see the current setting of the NDISK if it is 2, change it to 4 by running configure NDISK=4 Rerun -y option to verify the changes Rebuild a New Kernel.
  • Page 37 APPENDIX E Assume X is the number of cylinders for the drive, Y is the number of heads, Z is the number of sectors per track. Enter the following number accordingly. Disk Parameters If no sector mapping If 63 sector mapping 1.
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  • Page 39 Breaking the 528MB OS/2 Limitation and Duplexing Under OS/2 Lan Manager This application note describes the procedure for installing the ULTRA 12F24 & 12C ESDI disk controllers and device driver under OS/2 to eliminate the 528 Mbyte hard disk partition limitation and to provide disk mirroring under LAN Manager release 2.0.
  • Page 40 1. "IMPORTANT !!!". Back up the original OS/2 "Install" diskette and use the backup copy of the "Install" diskette for the following steps. 2. Copy OS2_1.1\DISK01.sys from UltraStor’s OS/2 ISA disk device driver diskette to the OS/2 "install" diskette. 3. Boot up the system with the modified "Installation" diskette in drive A.
  • Page 41 3. Delete all *.RC@ and FDISK.COM from the "Installation" diskette to make space for the UltraStor device driver DISK01.SYS. 4. Copy OS2_1.2\DISK01.sys from UltraStor’s OS/2 ISA disk device driver diskette to the OS/2 "inst all" diskette. 5. Boot up the system with the modified "Installation" diskette in drive A.
  • Page 42 APPENDIX F 2. In "Select the File System" menu, choose the "High Performance File System" option (follow disk duplexing function) and proceed with the OS/2 Installation. LAN Manager Installation 1. After the OS/2 system is installed successfully, reboot the system. 2.
  • Page 43 Other Application Notes Available from Ultrastor Installation Procedure for Novell NetWare 286 (AN001) Head and Cylinder Skew Calculation (AN004) Automatic Drive Preparation Utility – UFORMAT Command (AN006) ESDI Drives for Use with UltraStor Controllers (AN012) Dual Channels Under Interactive UNIX (AN015) Reference Manual Page G-1...
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  • Page 45 APPENDIX REFERENCE I Below are the steps to perform to prepare the drive(s) for Novell, UNIX, or OS/2 installation: 1. Set both primary and secondary controllers according to Appendix Reference II. 2. Follow Sections 3.1 and 3.3, Pages 5-8, to set up and connect ESDI drives to both primary and secondary controllers.
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  • Page 47 BIOS address can be at D400:0 or DC00:0. Make sure that the primary card BIOS address is lower then the secondary card BIOS address. Please refer to UltraStor ULTRA 12F/12F24 or 12C Installation Guide for additional BIOS addresses. ** Note: JP20 for 12F24, JP21 for 12C.
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  • Page 49 NOTES...
  • Page 50 RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE STATEMENT CAUTION: Changes or modifications to the ULTRA 22F24 not expressly approved by UltraStor Corporation could void the user's authority to operate this equipment. NOTE: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules.
  • Page 51 Information furnished by ULTRASTOR Corporation is believed to be accurate and reliable. However, no responsibility is assumed by ULTRASTOR Corporation for its use; nor for any infringements of patents or other rights of third parties which may result from its use. No license is granted by implication or otherwise under any patent or patent rights of ULTRASTOR Corporation.
  • Page 52 ULTRASTOR CORPORATION...

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