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- Page 2 PCI motherboards carry out a hard reset of the PCI bus. As a consequence, all expan- sion cards and devices that are connected to the PCI bus, including the ICP Controller, are reset. During the installation procedure of Windows NT this anomaly can cause the con- tents of the GDT cache RAM to be deleted before the data can be written to the disk(s).
- Page 3 In some cases Windows NT checks the virtual geometric parameters (heads, sectors) of the ICP Controller BIOS Host Drives during the installation process. This can cause Win- dows NT to calculate wrong parameters. In this case, the first part of the installation proce- dure (text mode) seems to work fine, but after the first warm boot the installation terminates irregularly because the Windows NT boot loader is no longer available.
- Page 4 First of all, make sure that you have verified or carried out all steps described in section J.3. The following instructions 1.) to 12.) assume that the ICP Controller is the only controller in the system and that the operating system is booted from its first Host Drive.
- Page 5 GDTSETUP program or the GDTMON program. If you wish to use the ICP Controller as a secondary controller in your Windows NT system (e.g. Windows NT is installed on an IDE hard disk), follow the instructions a.) to h.) below: a) Double click the icon.
- Page 6 The removable hard disk is treated like a normal hard disk. The data passes through the cache of the ICP Controller and the media needs to be initialized with GDTSETUP. The removable hard disk is handled as a Raw Device. This means that the removable device is directly controlled by Windows NT without any further interaction of the control- ler.
- Page 7 (This string causes the SCSI device connected with ICP Controller 0, SCSI channel 0, SCSI ID 4, LUN 0 to be reserved as a Raw Device. ICP Controller 0 is the ICP Controller which is detected and configured first after switching on your computer system).
- Page 8 Now insert the floppy disks with the Windows NT driver for the ICP Controller. If the whole process described above has been carried out correctly, a win- dow is displayed in the middle of the screen with the message 'GDT Disk Array Controller'.