Booting From a SCSI Device

Follow these steps to set your system to boot from a SCSI device:

1.For an Adaptec 78xx host adapter, use the SCSISelect utility to configure your preferred boot device by setting the Boot Target ID option.

2.Use the MS-DOS fdisk utility to create a small

MS-DOS partition. (Follow Novell’s recommen- dation for size.) MS-DOS must be loaded on sector 0 (zero) of the boot drive.

3.Format the drive using the MS-DOS format com- mand (for example, format c: /s). Boot the system from this drive.

4.Copy the files shown in Table 3-3 to the root directory.

Table 3-3. Files Necessary to Set Up

Booting From a SCSI Device

Diskette

Directory

Files

 

 

 

NetWare System-1

Root

server.exe

diskette

 

install.nlm

NetWare 4.x driver

\scsi

readme.txt

diskette (created

 

aic7870.dsk

from CD)

 

aspitran.dsk

 

 

aic7870.ddi

NetWare 3.12

\scsi

readme.txt

driver diskette

 

aic7870.dsk

(created from CD)

 

aspitran.dsk

 

 

 

5.Reboot your server and execute the server.exe file.

NetWare should start-up at this point.

6.Enter your file server name and internal IPX number.

Formatting Media

NetWare’s install.nlm program lets you optionally for- mat a hard-disk drive for use with NetWare. If you are using SCSI drives, it allows you to low-level format several SCSI drives simultaneously. The NetWare format procedure is not the same as using fdisk or format under MS-DOS.

CAUTION: You should not use NetWare to format

ahard-disk drive that contains partitions for other operating systems, because that information may be destroyed.

NOTE: When you select a hard-disk drive to format, the Install program prompts you to enter an interleave value from 1 to 9. You may also enter an interleave value of 0 (zero). When formatting SCSI hard-disk drives or remov- able drives on the Adaptec 78xx host adapter SCSI bus, Dell recommends that you use an interleave value of 0. This 0 interleave value instructs the hard-disk drive to use its optimal interleave value. This option was unavail- able in NetWare 3.0.

Using Removable Media

The aic7870.dsk driver module fully supports remov- able-media disk drives, including magneto-optical drives. Removable media is treated as a standard SCSI hard-disk drive, with some exceptions:

The driver only recognizes and registers media with 512 bytes/sector.

NetWare allows you to mount or dismount the media and lock or unlock the media.

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