+===========================================================================+ DC5030 Readme File Revision 1.0 Drivers Description For Driver Version. 1.0 Drivers Installation Description Coexistence Description Trademarks Acknowledgments +===========================================================================+ Thank you for purchasing the DC5030 Disk Accelerator. Your DC5030 should include one diskette. The diskette contains this Readme file, DOS drivers, Windows drivers, OS/2 drivers, Netware drivers, NT drivers, and several DOS utilities. These drivers enable your system to take advantage of the high speed 32-bit PCI-Bus for the different operating systems. +------------------------+ | | | DRIVERS DESCRIPTION | | DOS | | Windows | | OS/2 | | NetWare | | | +------------------------+ **********DOS DRIVER EXPLANATION********** You will need this driver in the following situations: 1. You have more than two IDE drives attached to the DC5030 controller 2. You have the DC5030 acting as a secondary disk controller Please refer to the DC5030 Users Manual for this driver installation. If your DC5030 will be installed as the SECONDARY disk controller or is going to be ONE of TWO DC5030 controllers in the same system, refer to the "COEXISTENCE EXPLANATION" in this file for more details. The DOS driver is needed to work in conjunction with the Windows drivers. Refer to "WINDOWS DRIVERS" in this file for more details about these drivers. **********WINDOWS DRIVER EXPLANATION********* You will need this driver in the following situations: 1. To provide support for the DC5030 as the PRIMARY controller with more than two hard drives attached 2. To provide support for the DC5030 as a SECONDARY disk controller To install these drivers, the DOS drivers must be installed first. Refer to "WINDOWS DRIVERS" in this file for more details about these drivers. **********OS/2 DRIVER EXPLANATION********** You will need this driver in the following situations: 1. To provide 32-bit access and block mode transfer under OS/2 2.0 and 2.1 2. To provide support for the DC5030 as the PRIMARY controller with more than two hard drives attached 3. To provide support for the DC5030 as the SECONDARY controller To install these drivers, refer to "OS/2 DRIVERS" for more details. **********NETWARE DRIVER EXPLANATION********** You will need this driver in the following situations: 1. To provide 32-bit access and block mode transfer under Netware 3.1X 2. To provide support for the DC5030 as the PRIMARY controller with more than two hard drives attached 3. To provide support for the DC5030 as a SECONDARY disk controller To install these drivers, refer to "Netware Drivers" for more details. +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ DRIVER INSTALLATION PROCEDURE +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +------------------------+ | | | WINDOWS DRIVERS | | | +------------------------+ BEFORE INSTALLING ANY DRIVERS OR MAKING ANY CHANGES; TURN OFF THE CACHE ON THE DC5030. FAILURE TO DO SO CAN RESULT IN INCOMPLETE INSTALLATION The files PCICTRL.386 and PCI13.386 are disk drivers for Microsoft Windows 3.10 and 3.11 for the DC5030 Disk Accelerator. Use of these two files are optional. Your DC5030 is fully plug-in compatible with Windows 32 bit Disk and File Access. These drivers provide the following functions: 1. support for the DC5030 as the PRIMARY controller with more than two hard drives attached 2. support for the DC5030 as the SECONDARY disk controller 3. support for the DC5030 under Windows in the event you encounter difficulties using 32-bit disk or 32-bit file access with the default Microsoft drivers Please follow the steps below to install the driver for the DC5030. Step 1 and 2 are not needed when only ONE Promise controller is installed as the PRIMARY disk controller with one (drive 0) or two (drive 0,1) IDE drive(s) attached. All these operations can be performed under DOS. 1. Install the DOS driver Copy PCIDRV.SYS to your system with the appropriate path. Add Device = [drive:][\path\] PCIDRV.SYS in the CONFIG.SYS file. Note: This statement must precede any other statement which would access the physical drive(s) supported by this driver. 2. Reboot the system. 3. Copy the drivers PCICTRL.386 and PCI13.386 to your system in the appropriate path. It is recommended that the drivers PCICTRL.386 and PCI13.386 be copied to the Windows SYSTEM directory. 4. Go to the SYSTEM.ini file found in your Windows directory. Check if the following line exist in the [386Enh] section of your SYSTEM.ini file: [386Enh] 32BitDiskAccess=ON If the statement does not exist, add it into the [386Enh] section. If the statement exists, but 32BitDiskAccess is set to "OFF", you need to change it to "ON". The SYSTEM.ini file can be edited by using a txt editor or by using SYSEDIT.EXE utility in Windows. 5. Delete the command lines "device=*wdctrl" and "device=*int13" from the [386Enh] section of your SYSTEM.INI file, if they exist. 6. Install the virtual devices "PCICTRL.386" and "PCI13.386". Add the following command lines in the [386Enh] section of the SYSTEM.INI file: device=[drive:][\path\]PCICTRL.386 device=[drive:][\path\]PCI13.386 The [drive:] and [\path\] point to the directory that contains PCICTRL.386 file and PCI13.386. Note that the setting must specify the full path of the device drivers. Start Windows to activate the drivers. +-----------------------+ | | | OS/2 DRIVERS | | | +-----------------------+ BEFORE INSTALLING THE DRIVERS OR MAKING ANY CHANGES; TURN OFF THE CACHE ON THE DC5030. FAILURE TO DO SO CAN RESULT IN INCOMPLETE INSTALLATION. BEFORE LEAVING OS/2 EACH TIME BACK UP THE FOLLOWING 3 FILES: 1: CONFIG.SYS 2: OS2.INI 3: ON2SYSY.INI The drivers for OS/2 2.1 and 2.1 can be found on this disk under PTI1S506.ADD. You will need this driver to provide the following: 1. 32-bit access and block transfer mode 2. support for the DC5030 as the PRIMARY controller with more than two hard drives attached 3. support for the DC5030 as the SECONDARY controller RECOMMENDED PARTITION SETUP PRIMARY partitions should be created on ONLY THE FIRST TWO HARD DRIVES. These recommendations are made to avoid changing the original OS/2 assigned drive order. The error message "Can Not Find COUNTRY.SYS" is a symptom of this setup problem. If your DC5030 is installed as the PRIMARY controller, hard drives D2 and D3(the third and fourth hard drives) attached to the second connector should be partitioned as LOGICAL UNITS. If your DC5030 is installed as the SECONDARY controller, ALL hard drive partitions on the controller should be created as LOGICAL UNITS. Following are the steps to recreate PRIMARY partitions as LOGICAL UNITS. 1. Back up all necessary data stored on D2 and D3 2. Delete the selected PRIMARY partition(s) (You can use the SIFDISK.EXE utility on this diskette to accomplish this) WARNING: DELETING PARTITIONS WILL DESTROY DATA. BE CAREFUL TO SELECT THE CORRECT DRIVE PARTITION(S) YOU WISH TO DELETE. 3. Install the PTI1S506.ADD driver in OS/2 (follow the steps under "DRIVER INSTALLATION" below) 4. Create the partitions as LOGICAL UNIT(S) Open the "Drives" folder in the OS/2 desktop and run the FIXED DISK UTILITY. Partition the drive(s) as LOGICAL. 5. Format the partitions 6. Restore the data DRIVER INSTALLATION Please follow the steps below in installing the drives for the DC5030. 1. Copy PTI1S506.ADD to the OS/2 directory of your system 2. Add BASEDEV=PTI1S506.ADD to your Config.SYS file using a text editor (this statement must not have either a drive or a path specified) 3. Delete the line "BASEDEV=IBM1S506.ADD" from the Config.SYS 4. Save the setting and REBOOT the system To install the DC5030 as a SECONDARY disk controller, refer to the Users Manual that came with the DC5030 under SECONDARY CONTROLLER INSTALLATION first. If you have already loaded the OS/2 drivers for the DC5030 and made the changes in the CSU then the DC5030 is ready to act as a SECONDARY controller. The following switches are available on this driver and may apply to your system: /V :Verbose - display driver information at bootup /A :Adapter Index - the ordering of adapters /I :Ignore Adapter - driver will not initialize the adapter indicated /R :Reset Adapter - enable or disable reset /DM :DASD Manager Support - enable or disable IBM-supplied DASD device manager /U :Unit Number - the fixed disk drive number /T :Drive Timeout - the total allowable error recover time +-----------------------+ | | | NetWare Drivers | | | +-----------------------+ BEFORE INSTALLING THE DRIVERS OR MAKING ANY CHANGES; TURN OFF THE CACHE ON THE DC5030. FAILURE TO DO SO CAN RESULT IN INCOMPLETE INSTALLATION. The drivers for NetWare 3.1X and 4.0X can be found on this diskette. There are two NetWare drivers in this diskette: PCIC31X.DSK for NetWare 3.10, 3.11 and 3.12 PCIC40X.DSK for NetWare 4.00 and 4.01 These drivers provide the following functions: 1. 32-bit access and block mode transfer under NetWare 2. Support for the DC5030 as the PRIMARY controller with more than two hard drives attached 3. Support for the DC5030 as a SECONDARY disk controller Please follow the steps below to install the drivers for NetWare 3.1X. Remember that PCIC31X.DSK is for NetWare 3.1X and that PCIC40X.DSK is for NetWare 4.0X. The driver, ISADISK.DSK, provided by NetWare should be substituted with our drivers in the NetWare installation. After installing the DC5030 as a PRIMARY disk controller: 1. Bring up the NetWare server until the ":" prompt appears on the screen 2. Type the following command after the prompt load PCIC31X port=1f0 int=e Remember that PCIC31X.DSK is for NetWare 3.1X and PCIC40X.DSK is for NetWare 4.0X. To install the DC5030 as a SECONDARY disk controller, refer to the Users Manual that came with the DC5030 under SECONDARY CONTROLLER INSTALLATION first. 1. Bring up the NetWare server until the ":" prompt appears 2. Type the following command after the prompt if your DC5030 is at IRQ12 load PCIC31X port=170 int=f Remember that PCIC31X.DSK is for NetWare 3.1X and PCIC40X.DSK is for NetWare 4.0X. +==========================================================================+ COEXISTENCE EXPLANATION +==========================================================================+ This section of the Readme file is designed for those that are going to be installing two DC5030 controllers in the same system. The following steps are written for this explicit purpose. If you want to install the DC5030 as a SECONDARY controller, please see the User Manual that came with your DC5030. Be certain that the PRIMARY DC5030 is set at "Dual Controller[Primary]". This needs to be done in the CSU setup. We recommend that you install the primary card first and change the settings so that they do not interfere with the default settings of the SECONDARY. Be certain the SECONDARY DC5030 is set at "Dual Controller[Secondary]". This needs to be done in the CSU setup. These changes should be made before going to the following steps. BEFORE MAKING ANY CHANGES TO YOUR SYSTEM TURN OFF THE CACHE ON THE DC5030. FAILURE TO DO SO CAN RESULT IN INCOMPLETE INSTALLATION. 1. Install both your PRIMARY and SECONDARY controllers in your PC 2. Connect all the cables and drives 3. Power on the system and press F2 when the CSU prompt of the PRIMARY controller is displayed: Copyright 1994 Promise Technologies, Inc. All Rights Reserved Primary Controller: Firmware V1.0, BIOS V1.0 Disk Accelerator DC5030:Cache Memory Test(Hit A Key To Abort).....K Press F2 to Enter Cache Setup Utility If you did not enter the Cache Setup Utility of the PRIMARY controller by pressing F2, the CSU prompt message of the SECONDARY controller will be displayed on the screen: Copyright 1994 Promise Technologies, Inc. All Rights Reserved Secondary Controller: Firmware V1.0, BIOS V1.0 Disk Accelerator DC5030:Cache Memory Test(Hit A Key To Abort).....K Press F2 to Enter Cache Setup Utility +------------------------------------------------+ | The CSU prompt of the SECONDARY controller | | might appear on the screen before that of | | the PRIMARY. The sequence depends on the | | BIOS address of each controller. | +------------------------------------------------+ Be certain that the IRQ's or BIOS addresses do not interfere with any other cards in your system. If in the event they do you may have trouble at bootup. +==========================================================================+ TRADEMARK ACKNOWLEDGMENTS +==========================================================================+ MS-DOS and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. PC, PC-AT, and OS/2 are registered trademarks of IBM Corporation. UNIX is registered trademark of ATT Corp. NetWare is a registered trademark of Novell Corporation.