+===========================================================================+ DC4030VL-2 Readme File Revision 2.1 Drivers Description For Driver Version. 3.5 Drivers Installation Description Coexistence Description Trademarks Acknowledgments +===========================================================================+ Thank you for purchasing the DC4030VL-2 Disk Accelerator. Your DC4030VL-2 should include one diskette. The diskette contains this Readme file, DOS drivers, Windows drivers, OS/2 drivers, Netware drivers, NT drivers, UNIX drivers and several DOS utilities. These drivers enable your system to take advantage of the high speed 32-bit VL-Bus for the different operating systems. +------------------------+ | | | DRIVERS DESCRIPTION | | DOS | | Windows | | OS/2 | | NetWare | | UNIX | | WINDOWS NT | | | +------------------------+ **********DOS DRIVER EXPLANATION********** You will need this driver in the following situations: 1. You have more than two IDE drives attached to the DC4030VL-2 controller 2. You have the DC4030VL-2 acting as a secondary disk controller Please refer to the DC4030VL-2 Users Manual for this driver installation. If your DC4030VL-2 will be installed as the SECONDARY disk controller or is going to be ONE of TWO DC4030VL-2 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 DC4030VL-2 as the PRIMARY controller with more than two hard drives attached 2. To provide support for the DC4030VL-2 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 DC4030VL-2 as the PRIMARY controller with more than two hard drives attached 3. To provide support for the DC4030VL-2 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 DC4030VL-2 as the PRIMARY controller with more than two hard drives attached 3. To provide support for the DC4030VL-2 as a SECONDARY disk controller To install these drivers, refer to "Netware Drivers" for more details. **********UNIX DRIVER EXPLANATION********** You will need this driver in the following situations: 1. To provide 32-bit access and block mode transfer under the UNIX operating system 2. To provide support for the DC4030VL-2 as the PRIMARY controller with more than two hard drives attached 3. To provide support for the DC4030VL-2 as the SECONDARY controller To install these drivers, refer to "UNIX Drivers" for more information. **********WINDOWS NT DRIVER EXPLANATION********* You will need this driver in the following situations: 1. To provide 32-bit access and block mode transfer under Windows NT 2. To provide support for the DC4030VL-2 as the PRIMARY controller with more than two hard drives attached 3. To provide support for the DC4030VL-2 as the SECONDARY controller To install these drivers, refer to "Windows NT Drivers" for more information. +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ DRIVER INSTALLATION PROCEDURE +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +------------------------+ | | | WINDOWS DRIVERS | | | +------------------------+ BEFORE INSTALLING ANY DRIVERS OR MAKING ANY CHANGES; TURN OFF THE CACHE ON THE DC4030VL-2. FAILURE TO DO SO CAN RESULT IN INCOMPLETE INSTALLATION The files PTICTRL.386 and PTI13.386 are disk drivers for Microsoft Windows 3.10 and 3.11 for the DC-4030VL Disk Accelerator. Use of these two files are optional. Your DC-4030VL-2 is fully plug-in compatible with Windows 32 bit Disk and File Access. These drivers provide the following functions: 1. support for the DC4030VL-2 as the PRIMARY controller with more than two hard drives attached 2. support for the DC-4030VL-2 as the SECONDARY disk controller 3. support for the DC4030VL-2 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 DC-4030VL-2. 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 DOSDRV.SYS to your system with the appropriate path. Add Device = [drive:][\path\] DOSDRV.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. If your mainboard CPU has a 16-bit external bus (for example, IBM 486 SLC2), add the /W parameter to the statement. 2. Reboot the system. 3. Copy the drivers PTICTRL.386 and PTI13.386 to your system in the appropriate path. It is recommended that the drivers PTICTRL.386 and PTI13.386 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 "PTICTRL.386" and "PTI13.386". Add the following command lines in the [386Enh] section of the SYSTEM.INI file: device=[drive:][\path\]PTICTRL.386 device=[drive:][\path\]PTI13.386 The [drive:] and [\path\] point to the directory that contains PTICTRL.386 file and PTI13.386. Note that the setting must specify the full path of the device drivers. 7. If your mainboard CPU has a 16-bit data access bus (for example, IBM 486 SLC2), add this additional statement: DisksAccessMode= /W Adding this additional statement configures the controller to work in 16-bit data access mode. Certain motherboard CPUs have a 16-bit external data bus and require this setting (for example, IBM 486 SLC2). If no parameter is specified, the controller will function under the default 32-bit data access mode. Start Windows to activate the drivers. +-----------------------+ | | | OS/2 DRIVERS | | | +-----------------------+ BEFORE INSTALLING THE DRIVERS OR MAKING ANY CHANGES; TURN OFF THE CACHE ON THE DC4030VL-2. 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: OS2SYS.INI The driver for OS/2 2.0 and 2.1 can be found on this disk under the subdirectory OS/2. There is one driver in this directory: PTI1S506.ADD You will need this driver to provide the following: 1. 32-bit access and block transfer mode 2. support for the DC4030VL-2 as the PRIMARY controller with more than two hard drives attached 3. support for the DC4030VL-2 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 DC4030VL-2 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 DC4030VL-2 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 DC4030VL-2. 1. Copy PTI1S506.ADD to the OS/2 directory of your system. For example, if the OS/2 is in drive C, copy the driver to C:\OS2. 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) If your motherboard CPU has a 16-bit external bus(for example the IBM 486 SLC2), change this statement to: BASEDEV=PTI1S506.ADD/W Certain motherboard CPUs have a 16-bit external bus and require this setting. If no parameter is specified, the controller will function under the default 32-bit data access mode. 3. Delete the line "BASEDEV=IBM1S506.ADD" from the Config.SYS 4. Save the setting and REBOOT the system To install the DC4030VL-2 as a SECONDARY disk controller, refer to the Users Manual that came with the DC4030VL-2 under SECONDARY CONTROLLER INSTALLATION first. If you have already loaded the OS/2 drivers for the DC4030VL-2 and made the changes in the CSU then the DC4030VL-2 is ready to act as a SECONDARY controller. Notice: Please don't use DC4030VL-2 with D0 and D2/D3 but no D1 for OS/2, because the PTI1S506.ADD does not support this condition. 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 /W :16-bit data transfer(for DC4030VL-2 only) +-----------------------+ | | | NetWare Drivers | | | +-----------------------+ BEFORE INSTALLING THE DRIVERS OR MAKING ANY CHANGES; TURN OFF THE CACHE ON THE DC4030VL-2. FAILURE TO DO SO CAN RESULT IN INCOMPLETE INSTALLATION. The drivers for NetWare 3.X can be found on this diskette under the subdirectory NetWare. There are two drivers in this directory: PTIA310.DSK for NetWare 3.10 PTIA311.DSK for NetWare 3.11 These drivers provide the following functions: 1. 32-bit access and block mode transfer under NetWare 3.1X 2. Support for the DC4030VL-2 as the PRIMARY controller with more than two hard drives attached 3. Support for the DC4030VL-2 as a SECONDARY disk controller Please follow the steps below to install the drivers for NetWare 3.1X. Remember that PTIA310.DSK is for NetWare 3.10 and that PTIA311.DSK is for NetWare 3.11. The driver, ISADISK.DSK, provided by NetWare should be substituted with our drivers in the NetWare installation. After installing the DC4030VL-2 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 PTIA310 port=1f0 int=e[/W] Remember that PTIA310.DSK is for NetWare 3.10 and PTIA311.DSK is for NetWare 3.11. Adding the /W parameters configures the controller to work in 16-bit data access mode. Certain motherboard CPUs have a 16-bit external data bus and require this setting(for example the IBM 486 SLC2). If no parameter is specified, the controller will function under the default 32-bit data access mode. To install the DC4030VL-2 as a SECONDARY disk controller, refer to the Users Manual that came with the DC4030VL-2 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 DC4030VL-2 is at IRQ12 load PTIA310 port=170 int=c[/W] 3. Type the following command after the prompt if your DC4030VL-2 is at IRQ15 load PTIA310 port=170 int=f[/W] Remember that PTIA310.DSK is for NetWare 3.10 and that PTIA311.DSK is for NetWare 3.11. Adding the /W parameter configures the controller to work in 16-bit data access mode. Certain motherboard CPUs have a 16-bit external data bus path and require this setting(for example the IBM 486 SLC2). If no parameter is specified, the controller will function under the default 32-bit data access mode. +-----------------------+ | | | Drivers for UNIX | | | +-----------------------+ BEFORE INSTALLING THE DRIVERS OR MAKING ANY CHANGES; TURN OFF THE CACHE ON THE DC4030VL-2. FAILURE TO DO SO CAN RESULT IN INCOMPLETE INSTALLATION. ******** Install UNIX Driver ******** This driver is for AT&T UNIX SVR 4.0 and SCO UNIX 3.2.X. package. Please follow the steps below to install the UNIX driver: 1. If you are running SCO UNIX, and 1.1 If your diskette is inserted in diskette drive A:, please type the following commands to copy the installation shell script from diskette to hard disk. # cd /tmp # doscp a:/unix/ptiinst . # sh ./ptiinst a: 1.2 If your diskette is inserted in diskette drive B:, please type the following commands to copy the installation shell script from diskette to hard disk. # cd /tmp # doscp b:/unix/ptiinst . # sh ./ptiinst b: 2. If you are running AT&T UNIX SVR 4.0, and 2.1 If your diskette is inserted in diskette drive A:, please type the following commands to copy the installation shell script from diskette to hard disk. # cd /tmp # doscp -m a:/unix/ptiinst . # sh ./ptiinst a: 2.2 If your diskette is inserted in diskette drive B:, please type the following commands to copy the installation shell script from diskette to hard disk. # cd /tmp # doscp -m b:/unix/ptiinst . # sh ./ptiinst b: 3. During installation, it will ask another blank diskette. Please insert that diskette as requested. 4. The system will ask you for the IRQ of the secondary hard disk controller by the following question: If you will install one Promise caching controller as the secondary hard disk controller, what is the IRQ of the secondary hard disk controller in this system (12 or 15)? (default=15) Please choose the appropriate one according to the jumper setting of that controller. 5. Done! if you are running AT&T UNIX SVR 4.0. 6. If you are running SCO UNIX, type the following commands after the driver is installed. # cd / # shutdown -y -g0 -i6 The commands will shutdown and reboot your system with the new kernel. NOTICE: 1.) Primary controller means the hard disk controller with IRQ 14, and secondary controller is the hard disk controller with IRQ 12 or 15. 2.) If you will install two Promise caching controller in the same system, please read the following: . After the machine has been powered on and the controller has checked its memory size, you can press the function key to enter the setup menu. Then, press to enter the Set-up Configuration submenu. Now you are ready to setup the BIOS starting address. . The BIOS starting address of each Promise controller must be different. For example, you can set one BIOS starting address to be dc000, and another to be c8000. ******** Add Secondary Hard Disks ******* If you have attached more than one hard disk to the cable, you must do the following things to make this hard disk "visible" to the system. 1. Please type the following command: # ptidiskadd 2. The command will ask you of the following three questions: Which controller will the hard disk be attached to? 1. the primary controller 2. the secondary controller Please choose answer(1 or 2)(default=1): Which cable (of this controller) will the hard disk be attached to? 1. the first cable 2. the second cable Please choose the answer(1 or 2)(default=1): Will the hard disk be the master(single) or slave drive on this cable? 1. the master or single hard disk 2. the slave hard disk Please choose the answer(1 or 2)(default=2): Please answer the questions according to your setting. 4. The other steps are very similar to the procedures about "Adding secondary hard disks" presented in the System Administor's Guide of SCO UNIX Operating System. Please refer to the System Administor's Guide for further reference. NOTICE: 1.) When using the ptidiskadd, you MUST set the Promise controller to "cache disabled". With "cache disabled", the system will be able to identify the bad sector of the hard disk. 2.) This utility will not work until you install the Promise driver and reboot with the new kernel. 3.) With both primary and secondary Promise controller installed, you can add up to 8 hard disks. ******** Remove the Driver ******** If you want to remove the driver and recover to the original hard disk device driver, please type the following command after the prompt #: # removepkg Certain installed package name(s) will be displayed on the screen. Please choose "Promise Caching Controller Driver" The remove procedure will continue. If you are running the SCO UNIX, please type the following commands to shutdown and reboot your system: # cd / # shutdown -y -g0 -i6 +-----------------------+ | | | Windows NT Driver | | | +-----------------------+ These drivers provide the following functions: 1. Support for the DC4030VL-2 as the PRIMARY controller with more than two hard drives attached 2. Support for the DC4030VL-2 as a SECONDARY disk controller ****** Install the Driver ****** Please follow the steps below to install the driver. 1. Boot with Windows NT 3.1. 2. Type the following command in the "Command Prompt" window: A:\NT\NTINS The driver will be installed automatically. ****** Removing the Driver ****** After installing the driver, if you want to remove the driver, please type the following command in the "Command Prompt" window: NTUNINS The driver will be removed automatically. +==========================================================================+ COEXISTENCE EXPLANATION +==========================================================================+ This section of the Readme file is designed for those that are going to be installing two DC4030VL-2 controllers in the same system. The following steps are written for this explicit purpose. If you want to install the DC4030VL-2 as a SECONDARY controller, please see the User Manual that came with your DC4030VL-2. Be certain that the PRIMARY DC4030VL-2 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 DC4030VL-2 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 DC4030VL-2. 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: Primary Controller: Firmware V3.0, BIOS V3.0 DriveCache DC4030VL-2: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: Secondary Controller: Firmware V3.0, BIOS V3.0 DriveCache DC4030VL-2: 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 +==========================================================================+ VESA and VL-BUS are registered trademark of the VIDEO ELECTRONICS STANDARDS ASSOCIATION. 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.