Installing and Configuring SCSI Drivers 3-33
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,
100-141, and
so forth
None Defines host adapter device location. If none is given, you
are prompted to specify one.
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.