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Section Three
Software Installation
3 .1
INTRODUCTION
The following procedure will guide you through the preparation of a single hard
disk using DOS. At the end of this procedure, a 32 MB RLL drive and a Seagate
ST-277R 65 MB drive with two 32 megabyte volumes will be formatted.
This software installation process allows an entire RLL drive to be used under
DOS 3.0, 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3. These all have a 32 MB limitation for one logical
drive. Under DOS 3.3, DOS FDISK permits using drives greater than 32 MB by
creating an Extended Partition that is divided into logical drives. Under DOS 3.0,
3.1and3.2, the Adaptec Volume Partitioning Program plus the Adaptec Device
Driver allows using drives greater than 32 MB by dividing the drive into
volumes of capacities up to 32 MB. The drive can also be formatted by the
controller to be used by non-DOS operating systems and device drivers.
CAUTION: IF YOU ENCOUNTER ANY PROBLEMS WHILE ATTEMPTING TO
PERFORM THIS INSTALLATION, REFER TO CHAPTER 4, TROUBLESHOOTING.
Note: There is no software installation required for the floppy drive( s) other than
for matting floppies under DOS.
3.2 ADAPTEC ACB-237X SOFTWARE INSTALLATION
FLOWCHART
The software installation process is best described by the following flowchart.
Note that four possible paths may be taken. All paths follow the same first 7
steps.
Path 1 through 7 and 8 through 12 is used for drives that format to be less than
32 MB. This applies to any version of DOS 3.x.
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adaptec
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