Step 14 Install Operating System Driver, Continued

CD-ROM Driver A device driver is provided with MegaRAID for CD-ROM drives operating under DOS, Windows 3.x, and Windows 95. The driver filename is AMICDROM.SYS.

The MEGASPI.SYS ASPI manager must be added to the CONFIG.SYS file before you can install the CD-ROM device driver. See the instructions on the previous page for adding the MEGASPI.SYS driver. Copy AMICDROM.SYS to the root directory of the C: drive. Add the following line to CONFIG.SYS, making sure it is preceded by the line for MEGASPI.SYS:

DEVICE=C:\AMICDROM.SYS

Add the following to AUTOEXEC.BAT. Make sure it precedes the SMARTDRV.EXE line.

MSCDEX /D:MSCD001

MSCDEX is the CD-ROM drive extension file that is supplied with MS-DOS® and PC-DOS® Version 5.0 or later. See your DOS manual for the command line parameters for MSCDEX.

Summary

This chapter discussed hardware installation. See the MegaRAID Configuration Software Guide for information about the MegaRAID software utilities. You configure the RAID system via software configuration utilities. The utility programs for configuring MegaRAID are:

 

Configuration Utility

Operating System

 

 

MegaRAID Configuration

independent of the operating system

 

 

Utility

 

 

 

MegaRAID Manager

DOS

 

 

 

SCO UNIX SVR3.2

 

 

 

Novell NetWare 3.x, 4.x

 

 

 

UnixWare

 

 

Power Console

Microsoft Windows NT

 

 

 

 

 

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