IBM 32H3816 manual SSA RAID Adapter Installation and Users Guide, Installing an Operating System

SSA RAID Adapter Installation and User's Guide.

Installing an Operating System

2.4 Installing an Operating System

If an operating system is already loaded in your server, go to the next section, "Installing the Device Drivers and Utility Programs" in topic 2.5.

If you are installing an operating system on your new SSA RAID subsystem:

1.Boot DOS by:

a.Inserting the PC-DOS Configurator and Utilities diskette provided with the adapter

b.Turning power off and on again to the server.

When the 'CBIOS is currently disabled' message is displayed, press the tab key; this enables the CBIOS.

2.Run the configuration utility which is provided on the PC-DOS Configurator and Utilities diskette. (The details of this procedure are given in Chapter 3, "Configuring SSA Subsystems" in topic 3.0.) This defines the way that the adapter uses the disk drives that are attached to it.

Notes:

a.Systems cannot access SSA disk drives until you have used the configuration utility to attach the disk drives and arrays.

b.Installing an operating system on a single disk drive or RAID-1 array can give better performance.

3.Install the new operating system using the installation instructions provided with the operating system.

Note: Some operating systems have restrictions on partition size.

4.Install the device drivers and utility programs; how to do this is described in "Installing the Device Drivers and Utility Programs" in topic 2.5.

5.The SSA subsystem is now ready for use with your system.

_ Copyright IBM Corp. 1996

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