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- Page 2 After having explained the installation of the ICP Controller and the host-drives in chapters B and C, we now explain how to install the operating system MS-DOS. By using some ex- amples, we shall demonstrate how to partition a host-drive, transfer MS-DOS to the host- drive, install Windows 3.x and use a CD-ROM drive (standing for any other Not Direct Access...
- Page 3 Note: GDTSETUP.EXE as well as GDTX000.EXE are on the System Disk - DOS. (C) Now, in the program GDTSETUP, select the menu Configure Host Drives. Pressing <ENTER> leads you to the following sub-menu. In our example, the Host Drive list contains two Host Drives.
- Page 4 We select this Host Drive (by moving the selection line with the cursor keys and ) and confirm our choice with <ENTER>. Then the following screen comes up: We now select Partition Drive and then View Partitions. The following screen appears. In our example, there is no entry yet.
- Page 5 In the upcoming window, select Primary Partition and confirm with <ENTER>. Now you can determine the size of the primary partition. In our example, we choose to use 1000MB of the disk capacity for the primary partition and therefore enter 1000 and simply confirm with <ENTER>.
- Page 6 When loaded, GDTX000.EXE replaces the BIOS EPROM (the so-called INT13H interface) of the ICP Controller, and also offers a VDS (Virtual DMA Services) interface. This is of particu- lar importance for Windows 3.x. When using GDTX000.EXE please observe the following: GDTX000.EXE must be loaded from the first line following the HIMEM.SYS device com-...
- Page 7 This area is the GDT Dual Ported Memory address space (sized 16KB ). If the ICP Controller is not run with the GDTX000.EXE driver (that is, the driver has not been loaded from the CONFIG.SYS file), the address space of the GDT BIOS must also be excluded (the size of the GDT BIOS is 8KB).
- Page 8 (C) If you change to the directory WINDOWS after the reset and type in WIN<ENTER>, Win- dows will be loaded. Although thanks to its high computing power, the ICP Controller is just right for disk intensive operating systems such as Windows, it will not show its full capacity yet.
- Page 9 ASW software. Regardless of which software you choose to use, the ASPI manager of the ICP Controller (located on the GDT System Disk - DOS) has to be loaded from the CONFIG.SYS file. The objective of both...
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CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT mentioned below are, to a large extent, made automatically. Under corelSCSI the SCSI/FAST-SCSI channels of the ICP Controller are available as independent host adapters. The important lines in both files are printed bold. - Page 11 SCSI bus only). Important note regarding ICP Controllers with more than one SCSI channel: Sytos Plus supports DATs, tapes, WORM drives etc. only when connected to SCSI channel A of the ICP Controller. To install Sytos Plus, proceed as follows: (A) Include the GDT driver GDTX000.EXE and the GDT ASPI Manager in the CONFIG.SYS file...
- Page 12 The following notes refer to the installation and the use of ARCsolo in connection with ICP Controllers. ARCsolo accesses tape back-up devices (tapes, DAT) through the ASPI inter- face. Consequently, the GDT ASPI Manager has to be included in the CONFIG.SYS file and the system has to be rebooted before you can install ARCsolo.
- Page 13 SCSI channels). In order to ex- clude that a Direct Access Device is run directly from the ICP Controller, it has to be reserved for the ASPI interface control. To do so, certain parameters have to be specified when the GDT ASPI manager is loaded: DEVICE=GDTASPI.EXE /R:Hx1Iy1[:Hx2Iy2:Hx3Iy3 ...]...
- Page 14 D.6 of this chapter. The CONFIG.SYS file must at least include the entries for GDTX000.EXE, GDTASPI.EXE and the ASPI module (e.g., ASPICD). Step 1 Disable the Delayed Write Cache of the ICP Controller. To do so use the GDTSETUP pro- gram, or the GDTMON program.
- Page 15 . Otherwise, the system might freeze. 18. Remove the GDT Windows 95 driver disk. 19. Restart the computer. Step 4 Enable the Delayed Write Cache of the ICP Controller. To do so use the GDTSETUP pro- gram, or the GDTMON program.
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