Toshiba Magnia 560S - Manual (Page 93)

Installation Steps
Hardware Installation
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Parameters
Table 6.12 describes the MEGASPI.SYS parameters.
Table 6.12 MEGASPI.SYS Parameters
Parameter Description
/h INT 13h support is not provided.
/v Verbose mode. All message are displayed on the screen.
/a Physical drive access mode. Permits access to physical drives.
/q Quiet mode. All message except error message are suppressed.
CD Driver
A device driver is provided with RAID Controller Kit-G for CD drives operating under
DOS, and Windows. The driver filename is MEGACDR.SYS.
The MEGASPI.SYS ASPI manager must be added to the CONFIG.SYS file before you
can install the CD device driver. See the instructions on the previous page for adding the
MEGASPI.SYS driver. Copy MEGACDR.SYS to the root directory of the C: drive.
Add the following line to CONFIG.SYS; make sure it is preceded by the line for
MEGASPI.SYS:
DEVICE=C:\MEGACDR.SYS
Add the following to AUTOEXEC.BAT. Make sure it precedes the SMARTDRV.EXE
line.
MSCDEX /D:MSCD001
MSCDEX is the CD drive extension file that is supplied with MS-DOS and PC-DOS
Version 5.0 or later. See your DOS manual for the command line parameters for
MSCDEX.
Summary
This chapter discussed hardware installation. Configure the RAID system using the
software configuration utilities. See the MegaRAID Configuration Software Guide for
all information about RAID Controller Kit-G software utilities. Table 6.13 shows the
utility programs for configuring RAID Controller Kit-G.
Table 6.13 Configuration Utilities and Operating Systems
Configuration Utility Operating System
MegaRAID BIOS
Configuration Utility Independent of the operating system
Power Console Plus Windows 2000
Windows XP
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