Installing Trantor drivers for Windows NT

September, 1992

This NT driver release has been tested with the Developer's Release
Disc.  It should also work with later releases of Windows NT.

T13B.SYS        Driver for the Trantor T130 SCSI adapter
T128.SYS        Driver for the Trantor T128 and T228 SCSI adapters
T348.SYS        Driver for the Trantor T348 MiniSCSI Plus adapter

Currently, these are the only Trantor SCSI host adapters that are
supported under Windows NT.  There are no plans to support the older
T100 adapter or the T338 MiniSCSI at this time.

NOTE: The Trantor driver interfaces the Trantor SCSI adapter to the NT
system, it does NOT support SCSI devices directly!  Support for SCSI
devices is supplied by Microsoft as part of Windows NT.



Installation as a Secondary adapter

With this driver release it is assumed that you will be using the
Trantor SCSI adapter as a secondary adapter in your system.  In other
words, the hard drive you boot from will not be connected to a Trantor
SCSI card.

If you are installing a T128/T228 or a T130 SCSI adapter, make sure you
have it jumpered for INTERRUPT 5 (IRQ 5) for the installation... this is
the WINNT software driver default.  You can also select IRQ 7 or 3 after
installation if you like. The T348 MiniSCSI Plus reserves IRQ 15 by
default.

Sample INI files for different IRQ settings are on this distribution
disk.  They must be installed in a "DEVICE" subdirectory under
\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\ as explained in
the NT documentation if you want to change the default IRQ for the card.

Install the NT files manually as described in the NT documentation under
Section 2.2 Alternate Installation - DOS2NT.  Copy your Trantor NT
driver into the \WINNT\SYSTEM\DRIVERS directory.
Once the system is running, run the REGEDIT program and add the
appropriate Trantor Txxx.SYS file to the Registry.  The name in the
Registry MUST match the name of the driver.  Restart your system with
the Trantor SCSI adapter installed and the SCSI device connected.

Hard Disk Drives
Once the driver is installed in the Registry, and you have restarted
your system, you will be able to run Disk Manager and get an icon for
the SCSI drive.  You can format it for NT using the FORMAT command with
the /FS (File System) option you desire.

CD-ROM Drives
The Trantor driver supports the Trantor SCSI adapter only.  Drivers for
CD-ROM are supplied by Microsoft.  Only the CD-ROM drives supported by
Microsoft will be accessable, even using the Trantor driver.  Windows NT
should be able to recognize any supported CD-ROM drive when the system
is restarted.


Troubleshooting
If you are having trouble recognizing a SCSI device, make sure that you
can recognize that same device on the same computer running MS-DOS.  If
you don't recognize it under DOS, you won't recognize it under NT
either.

If all else fails, you can post a message on the WINNT Forum on
Compuserve (someone from Trantor will check there regularly), or leave a
message on the Trantor BBS at 510-656-5159.  Or you can FAX a question
to Trantor's technical support department at 510-770-9910.