Tekram Technology DC-820B manual Installing the Aspi Driver, Installing the DISKDRV.SYS Driver

EISA Fast SCSI Caching Adapter

2.1 Installing the ASPI Driver

With ASPI driver, ASPIBME.SYS, installed, you are able to run or install the following drivers and utilities:

nTFDISK.EXE: Disk partition utility in this diskette n DISKDRV.SYS: Disk driver in this diskette

n AFDISK.EXE: Disk partition utility from Adaptec

n ASPIDISK.SYS: Disk driver from Adaptec

n ASPICD.SYS: CD-ROM and CD-Changer driver

n SYTOS PLUS: Tape backup program from SYTRON CORP.

n SYTOS V3.x: Tape backup program from SYTRON CORP.

n ARCserve/Solo: Tape backup program from Cheyenne CORP.

Other utilities/drivers conforming to the ASPI standard may also be used.

Before installing, copy the drivers and utilities into a proper directory, e.g., C:\ASPI.

Install the DC-820B properly and add a line in CONFIG.SYS: device=c:\aspi\aspibme.sys

The DC-820B is able to coexist with other host adapter in the same system. When it co-exists with Adaptec’s adapter, you must set the I/O port address as 330H for Adaptec’s adapter to ensure proper operation. Of course, you should not set the I/O address as 330H for your DC-820B under this circum- stance.

2.2 Installing the DISKDRV.SYS Driver

DISKDRV.SYS is the driver for creating valid DOS partitions as logical drives with those disk drives not controlled by BIOS INT 13H. DISKDRV.SYS controls up to eight SCSI devices, such as fixed disk, removable cartridge, re-writable optical disk and Floptical.

Since DISKDRV.SYS scans the parameters from the master boot record of your drives automatically, it is possible to install drives previously used with other SCSI adapters without any inconsistency.

Using the /d option, you are able to reserve up to 9 logical drives for each SCSI device. Also, you have to keep the number of total partitions (logical

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