Installation Instructions for AMI0OS2.ADD
Series 15/44/441/48/70 Adapter Driver for OS/2
This procedure is for installing the AMI0OS2.ADD driver on an existing OS/2
installation. When you install OS/2, your adapter should be in the Adaptec
mode. OS/2 will supply an Adaptec driver during its installation procedure.
To install the AMI0OS2.ADD driver, start up OS/2 and open a DOS full screen
session. Place the disk containing AMI0OS2.ADD in drive A: (or B:), and
type
A:\OS2\INSTALL (or B:\OS2\INSTALL)
and press Enter. INSTALL will do these three things:
1. Copy the AMI0OS2.ADD driver to your hard disk.
2. Disable the Adaptec driver that OS/2 supplied during its installation.
3. Allow you to customize AMI0OS2.ADD to meet your particular needs.
If you need help while you are running INSTALL, press the F1 key. If you
are installing AMI0OS2.ADD for the first time, INSTALL will display
There is an Adaptec (tm) 154x driver installed. Disable it?
Type Y or y, and INSTALL disable the Adaptec driver. (Note: You must
disable the Adaptec driver in order for the AMI0OS2 driver to work. INSTALL
will not delete the Adaptec driver, but will just "comment out" a line in
your CONFIG.SYS file.)
If you want a default installation of AMI0OS2.ADD, press F10. INSTALL will
copy the new driver to your hard disk, modify your CONFIG.SYS file so that
OS/2 can use the driver, and then exit. When it does, type
EXIT
to return to Presentation Manager, and then perform a Shut Down and restart
your computer. The AMI0OS2.ADD driver will not be used by the system until
you restart.
If you want to do a custom installation, type C while you are still in
INSTALL. An X will appear in the box beside "Custom Installation", and
the the information at "Adapter 0" will be highlighted on the screen. You
can now select from these custom parameters.
Type this: To select this:
V Verbose mode. An X will appear in the box beside "Verbose"
on the screen. With the verbose mode on, the driver will
display some adapter and target information on the screen
each time you start up OS/2.
E Embedded Target Mode. This mode enables LUN checking for
all targets of all adapters. An X will appear beside
"Embedded Targets" on the screen. You can also control
LUN checking for individual targets with the L parameter,
described later.
(arrow keys) If you have more than one adapter, you can use the arrow
keys to move the highlighted window around on the screen.
P The port for the selected adapter. When you type P, the
message "Press the space bar to select a port" will appear
near the top of the screen. Press the space bar until the
port your adapter is set for appears in the highlighted
window. The message to press the space bar will go away
when you press any other key. Note: If you select a non-
default port for any adapter (even if it is the same port
number as the default port), the driver will only check
that port. That means that if you have any other adapters,
you must specify non-default ("selected") ports for them
also (even if they are the same port numbers as the default.
This is to prevent the driver from scanning all of the ports
(to handle the case where you have a different kind of card
that uses one of the ports scanned by the driver).
In the default mode, the driver will scan ports 330, 130,
230, 334, 134, and 234 (hexadecimal) in that order.
L Toggle LUN checking for specific targets. The message
"Type 0-7 or A (All) to toggle LUN checking" will appear
on the screen. Type the number of the target on which
you want to enable LUN checking, or A to enable all of them.
The numbers you select will be highlighted in the adapter
window. If you type a number or A by mistake, type it again
to turn it off. You can select any number of targets.
D Toggle DASD manager support for specific targets. The message
"Type 0-7 or A (All) to toggle DASD manager support" will
appear on the screen. Type numbers or A as with LUN checking
above. DASD manager support is normally on for all targets.
S Toggle SCSI manager support for specific targets. The message
"Type 0-7 or A (All) to toggle SCSI manager support" will
appear on the screen. Type numbers or A as with LUN checking
above. SCSI manager support is normally on for all targets.
After you have set up the driver parameters the way you want them, press F10,
and INSTALL will copy the driver to your hard disk and modify your CONFIG.SYS
file so that the driver is loaded with the parameters you specified.
If you decide you want to revert to a default installation after you have
entered the Custom mode, type C. If any of the parameter are not in the
default state, INSTALL will display
"The current settings are not default. Set default conditions anyway?"
Type Y if you are sure you want to revert to the default state.
Modifying an Existing Installation
After you have installed AMI0OS2.ADD, you can use INSTALL to modify your
installation. If you copy INSTALL.COM from the AMI0OS2.ADD disk to your
hard disk, and run it from the hard disk, it will not attempt to copy
AMI0OS2.ADD from a floppy disk, but can still be used to modify CONFIG.SYS.
If your current installation is not default, INSTALL will come up with the
"Custom Installation" box checked, and with the highlighted window on the
screen. Follow the instructions above for setting parameters.
Attention Messages and Error Messages
While your are running INSTALL, you may see one of these messages
A newer AMI0OS2.ADD exists on drive C: than on A:. Install anyway?
(The drive letters may be different in this message.) This means that
you have already installed AMI0OS2.ADD, and the copy on your hard drive
is newer than the one on your installation disk. Check to make sure
you are using the latest version. Type Y if you want to do the installation
anyway.
Cannot backup your CONFIG.SYS file. Continue anyway?
INSTALL will attempt to back up your old CONFIG.SYS by copying it to a file
called CONFIG.000 (or CONFIG.001 if CONFIG.000 exists, etc.). If it cannot
do this, you will see the above message. Type Y if you want to continue
with the installation.
If you quit, the driver will not be installed. Quit anyway?
If you are using INSTALL to install a new driver, and you press Escape, you
will see this message. Type Y if you really want to quit.
If you quit, the driver will not be configured. Quit anyway?
If you are running INSTALL from your hard drive and you press Escape, you
will see this message. Type Y if you really want to quit.
ERROR -- Your boot drive must be the default.
If you make drive A: or B: the default before you run INSTALL, you will see
this message. Your hard drive (where AMI0OS2.ADD is to be installed) must
be the default drive. When you see this or any ERROR message, press Enter,
and INSTALL will exit.
ERROR -- There is no AMI0OS2.ADD driver on A:\.
ERROR -- Can't read new AMI0OS2.ADD.
(The drive will be B: if you are installing from B:.) This means that the
file AMI0OS2.ADD is not on your floppy disk, or the disk is corrupt. If you
are working from a copy of the installation disk, make sure it is complete.
ERROR -- Can't replace old AMI0OS2.ADD (read-only file?).
If you are installing a newer AMI0OS2.ADD to replace an old one, you will
see this message if the read-only attribute is set on the old file. Exit
from INSTALL and run ATTRIB to correct this.
ERROR -- Bad or missing CONFIG.SYS.
If your CONFIG.SYS file is corrupt or missing, you will see this message.
There is a backup CONFIG.SYS in your OS2 directory that you can use to
restore your system. See your OS2 documentation for more information.
ERROR -- Can't replace CONFIG.SYS (read-only file?).
If your CONFIG.SYS file has the read-only attribute set, you will see this
message. Run ATTRIB to correct the problem.
Custom Installation Example
Suppose you have a system containing two AMISCSI Series 48 controllers and
a network card connected to port 334h. Your Series 48 cards are set to
the default ports numbers for the first two controllers (330h and 130h).
If you do a default installation of AMI0OS2.ADD, it will scan all of the
ports that can be assigned to a Series 48 controller, including port 334h.
To prevent AMI0OS2.ADD from scanning port 334h, you should do a custom
installation. When you run INSTALL, type C to enter the custom mode.
The block of parameters for adapter 0 will be highlighted. Type P once,
and the port for adapter 0 will change to "Port 330 (selected)". You
will see the ports for the other adapters change to "Port not scanned".
Press the down arrow key once to move the adapter window to the adapter
1 block. Type P once, and the port for adapter 1 will change to
"Port 130 (selected)." (It will skip port 330, because that one is already
assigned.) Now press F10, and the driver will be installed with a parameter
telling it to check only ports 330 and 130, and your network card will not
be accessed by it.