Installing and Configuring SCSI Drivers 3-13
Using NetWare to Install or Update the
Driver
This section describes how to update or install the
aic7870.dsk driver if NetWare 4.x is already installed. If
you are installing NetWare 4.x for the first time, see
“Installing NetWare and the Driver” earlier in this
section.
1. Make a backup copy of the old driver (if it exists)
before installing the new driver.
2. Copy the aic7870.dsk driver and aspitran.dsk mod-
ule from the NetWare 4.x driver diskette you
created into the server’s start-up directory (usu-
ally, c:\nwserver) on your hard-disk drive. Doing
so overwrites any existing version of the drivers
in the directory.
NOTE: The aic7870.dsk and aspitran.dsk files are
located in the
\
scsi subdirectory on the diskette.
3. If necessary, modify the load command line in the
startup.ncf file so that the proper path to the
driver and the correct slot number are specified.
See “Using startup.ncf and autoexec.ncf” later in
this section.
The correct syntax to load the Adaptec 78xx driver
follows:
load [pathname] aic7870.dsk [options] slot=x
Command line options are not case sensitive. Plac-
ing commas between command line options is
optional. See the next subsection, “Using the load
Command Line Options,” for optional values. To
calculate the slot number for each host adapter, see
“Calculating the Slot Number” earlier in this section.
4. Load the driver for the first installed host
adapter. If you have additional host adapters, you
must load the driver separately for each host
adapter.
Using the
load
Command Line Options
You can specify several command line options when the
driver is loaded. These are described in Table 3-2.
Table 3-2.
load
Command Line Options
Option Values Default Description
slot= 10-41,
100-141, etc.
None Defines host adapter device location. If none is given, you
are prompted to specify one.
verbose= Y N Causes driver to display host adapter configuration infor-
mation at load time.
removable= On, Off On Enables support for removable media. By default,
removable media is supported. You may want to disable
removable disk support in order to load an ASPI remov-
able disk module.
fixed_disk= On, Off On Enables support for hard-disk drives. By default, hard-
disk drives are supported. You may want to disable fixed
disk support in order to load an ASPI fixed disk module.
dev_enable=
00-FFFF
*
FFFF Allows you to enable the driver’s registration of SCSI
devices on a per-target basis. This enable bit mask is
entered in hexadecimal format. (See the following sub-
section, “Bit Mask Options.”)
* On the AIC-7880 and optional AHA-2940W, these values become FFFF.
NOTE: For the full name of an abbreviation or acronym used in this table, see the Glossary.
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