Step 12 Install Operating System Driver, Continued

CD-ROM Driver A device driver is provided with MegaRAID Express 500 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. Configure the RAID system via software configuration utilities. See the MegaRAID Configuration Software Guide for all information about MegaRAID Express 500 software utilities. The utility programs for configuring MegaRAID Express 500 are:

Configuration Utility

Operating System

 

MegaRAID BIOS Setup

independent of the operating system

 

MegaRAID Manager

DOS

 

 

Linux Red Hat 6.x

 

 

OS/2 2.x, OS/2 Warp

 

 

SCO UNIX SVR3.2

 

 

SCO UnixWare

 

 

Novell NetWare 3.x, 4.x

 

Power Console 500

Microsoft Windows NT

 

 

Windows 95

 

 

 

 

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