Novell NetWare Ready 386 Ver. 4.0 Driver (NLM) Installation
This subdirectory contains one software driver (NLM). This
driver is for use with the IN-2000 High Performance 16 bit SCSI
Host Adapter and Novell NetWare 386 versions 4.0. The IN-2000 NLM
may also be found in the Novell Corporation shipped NetWare software.
Use the software with the more recent file date.
This subdirectory contains the (NLM) ALWAYS.DSK.
INTRODUCTION
This driver has been certified for use with NetWare versions 4.0
by Novell. The driver and adapter will support up to seven (7)
drives (each up to 2.4 GB in capacity) on each IN-2000 SCSI Host
Adapter. A maximum of three adapters may be installed in a
system. The driver supports all System Fault Tolerant (SFT)
environments including duplexing and mirroring. The IN-2000
driver may be used in both dedicated and non-dedicated modes.
If any non NetWare Ready drives are detected, they will be
installed without the special NetWare Ready processing. However,
once the installation has been completed, both NetWare
Ready and non NetWare Ready drives may be active on the same
server, at the same time.
NEW INSTALLATIONS- Preliminary Steps
One or more IN-2000 SCSI Host Adapters must be installed in the
386 or 486 server prior to installation of NetWare and the Always
driver. Please refer to the IN-2000 Installation Guide for instructions on installing the IN-2000(s) and hard drive(s).
In particular, pay close attention to the switch settings. Only
one floppy disk controller may be enabled in the system, including
one, if present, on the motherboard.
When using multiple adapters each adapter must have a different
setting for I/O Port Address and Interrupt Channel.
Multiple disk drives may be daisy chained from one IN-2000 SCSI Host
Adapter. Each drive must have a different SCSI ID address setting.
These addresses must be consecutive beginning at SCSI ID0. Check
Section 3 of the IN-2000 Installation Guide for instructions on
changing SCSI ID's. The ID addresses are automatically scanned from
low to high. Netware 4.0 does not need to be reconfigured if a
drive is moved or it's address changed. Note that address
restrictions may apply to a drive with DOS partitions.
If necessary, before beginning Netware the installation, drives may
be low level formatted as described in the Installation Guide.
NEW INSTALLATION Final Steps
The 386 NLM Sub-Directory contains ALWAYS.DSK and ALWAYS.DD$,
which should be copied to the directory from which the Netware
server is loaded. This may be a DOS directory or a floppy. The
driver is in 'NLM' format and is activated by a LOAD command
from the server console. Normally after the initial
installation of Netware, disk driver LOAD commands are stored in
the STARTUP.NCF file to be automatically executed when the
server is loaded.
Port values must be specified which match the switch settings as
described in the Preliminary Steps above. If no values are
specified the defaults are:
I/O Port Address: 200 Hex
Interrupt: 15 (0F Hex)
Sample load Command is LOAD \NOVEL386\ALWAYS PORT=200 INT=F
The IN-2000 SCSI Host Adapter does not use a DMA channel. Therefore
no value should be specified.
The ALWAYS.DSK driver must be loaded for each IN-2000 adapter.
Since it is reentrant, the subsequent load's do not cause the
driver to be physically loaded a second time.
UPDATE EXISTING SERVERS
STEPS:
1) "Down" the server.
2) Boot under DOS.
3) Go to the NOVELL sub-directory for the hard drive,
where the *.DSK file is located.
4) Copy ALWAYS.DSK from floppy to ALWAYS.DSK on the
hard drive.
5) Reboot the server.
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