Using NetWare to Install or Update the Driver

Using NetWare to Install or Update the Driver

This section describes how to update or install the aic7870.dsk driver if NetWare 3.12 or 4.x is already installed. If you are installing NetWare 3.12 or 4.x for the first time, see “Installing NetWare and the Driver” found earlier in this section.

The instructions for updating or installing the driver are similar for both NetWare 3.12 and 4.x. Procedures that are specific to a particular NetWare version are noted.

1.Make a backup copy of the old driver (if it exists) before installing the new driver.

2.Copy the aic7870.dsk driver and aspitran.dsk mod- ule from the NetWare 3.12 or 4.x driver diskette you created into the server’s start-up directory (usually, c:\nwserver) on your hard-disk drive.

Doing so overwrites any existing version of the drivers in the directory.

NOTE: For both NetWare 3.12 and 4.x, the aic7870.dsk and aspitran.dsk files are located in the scsi subdirectory on the diskette.

3.If necessary, modify the load command line in the startup.ncf file so that the proper path to the driver and the correct slot number are specified. See “Using startup.ncf and autoexec.ncf” found later in this section.

The correct syntax to load the Adaptec 78xx driver follows:

:load [pathname] aic7870.dsk [options] slot=x

Command line options are not case sensitive. Placing commas between command line options is optional. See the next section, “Using the load Command Line Options,” for optional values. To calculate the slot number for each host adapter, see “Calculating the Slot Number” found earlier in this section.

4.Load the driver for the first installed host adapter. If you have additional host adapters, you must load the driver separately for each host adapter.

Using the load Command Line Options

You can specify several command line options when the

Table 3-2. load Command Line Options

Option	Values	Default	Description

slot=	10-41,	None	Defines host adapter device location. If none is given, you
	100-141, and		are prompted to specify one.
	so forth

verbose=	y	n	Causes driver to display host adapter configuration
			information at load time.

removable=	on, off	on	Enables support for removable media. By default,
			removable media is supported. You may want to disable
			removable disk support in order to load an ASPI
			removable disk module.

fixed_disk=	on, off	on	Enables support for hard-disk drives. By default, hard-
			disk drives are supported. You may want to disable fixed
			disk support in order to load an ASPI fixed disk module.

*On the AIC-7880 and optional AHA-2940UW, these values become FFFF.

NOTE: For the full name of an abbreviation or acronym used in this table, see the Glossary.

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