691 South Milpitas Boulevard Milpitas, CA 95035 © 1998, Adaptec, Inc. All rights reserved. Adaptec and the Adaptec logo are trademarks of Adaptec, Inc. which may be registered in some jurisdictions. Printed in Singapore STOCK NO.: 511607-00, Rev. B BKB 12/97 t t t t SlimSCSI 1450 Adapter User’s Guide R t t t t Contents Introduction 1 Contents of Kit 1 System Requirements 1 Installing the SlimSCSI 1450 2 Updating the Windows 95 Miniport Driver 5 Using the SlimSCSI 1450 6 Hot Plugging 6 Formatting

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The on-board floppy controller is shipped with a jumper installed at J6, position 6, floppy enabled. If the floppy controller on the AHA-1742A is not used, this jumper should be removed. Only one floppy controller per EISA system can be enabled. The AHA-1740A/1742A/1744 has a jumper that can be changed. This is the jumper block labeled J4, near the external connector. This determines whether or not the AHA-1740A/1742A/1744 will provide termination power to the SCSI bus. By default, the jumper is

1-1 1-1 General ...................................................................................................................... 1-1 1-2 Elements of a Fast Track 2+2/386 2000 Series Timer ............................ 1-1 1-3 Features .................................................................................................................... 1-3 1-4 Using The Fast Track 2+2/386 2000 Series Timer.................................... 1-4 1-5 Using this Manual ..........................

The ability to respond to multiple data requests provides not only an increase in throughput, but also a decrease in response time. The combination of parallel transfers and simultaneous responses to multiple requests enables disk arrays to provide a high level of performance in network environments. Understanding Drive Segments A drive segment is a disk drive or portion of a disk drive that is used to create an array. A disk drive can include both RAID segments (segments that are part of an arr

Creating an Array with the ACU The ACU is menu-based and instructions for completing tasks display on-screen. Menus can be navigated using the arrows, Enter, Esc, and other keys on your keyboard. Before creating arrays, make sure the disks for the array are connected and installed in your system. Disks with no usable space are shown in gray and cannot be used. See Physical Devices View on page 46. To create an array: 1 Turn on your computer and press Ctrl+A when prompted to access the ARC utilit

2 Restart your computer. 3 When the Red Hat Welcome screen displays, type linux dd at the Boot: prompt. 4 When prompted, insert the driver disk, then select OK. 5 Follow the prompts to set up the environment you want. 6 If you are installing other third-party devices, install them now. Otherwise, select Done. 7 Complete the Red Hat Linux installation, following the instructions included with your operating system. 8 Continue with Managing Your Storage Space on page 41. Installing with SuSE Linux

8 If you selected options 1 or 3 in the previous step, go to step 9. If you selected option 2, type the LES ATM address at the ADPT> prompt. A series of messages appears, advising you that the following files will be or have been modified: PROTOCOL.INI CONFIG.SYS 9 If C:\WINDOWS is the name of your Windows directory, press Enter at the ADPT>C:\WINDOWS prompt. If Windows is located in a different place, type the correct drive:\directory name, and press Enter. The installation utility advises you

Then install the Array1000™ Windows NT Workstation driver and CI/O Workstation Array Management software during Windows NT Workstation setup. It’s that easy. Array management Adaptec CI/O Workstation Array Management software takes the complexity out of array management. Built- in performance profiler, cache performance optimization, and performance monitoring tools allow you to tune your PC workstation array’s performance settings for your particular application’s requirements. Tuning performan