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Installing and Configuring SCSI Drivers

Dell™ PowerEdge™ 1500SC Systems User's Guide

This section describes how to install and configure the Dell SCSI device drivers included with your system. These device drivers are designed to work with the
Adaptec AIC-7899 Ultra 160/m SCSI-3 controller on the system board. Each channel of the AIC-7899 supports up to eight internal SCSI hard drives via SCSI
backplane boards.

If you are using an optional RAID Controller, see your RAID controller documentation for information on installing your SCSI device drivers.

For instructions on installing SCSI hardware devices such as hard drives, tape drives, or CD drives, see "Installing a Drive in the Peripheral Bay" in the
Installation and Troubleshooting Guide. After the SCSI devices are installed, install and configure any SCSI device drivers to enable them to communicate with
your operating system.

See "

Using the Dell OpenManage Server Assistant CD

" for instructions on creating a diskette of drivers for your operating system. For instructions on

configuring the SCSI device drivers, see the documentation that came with your operating system. You may also need to use the SCSISelect utility, discussed
in this section.

The SCSISelect Utility

The BIOS for the integrated Adaptec AIC-7899 SCSI controller includes the menu-driven SCSISelect configuration utility, which allows you to change SCSI
controller settings without opening the system. SCSISelect also contains SCSI disk utilities that let you low-level format or verify the disk media of your SCSI
hard drives.

Starting the SCSISelect Utility

You can start the SCSISelect utility by pressing when the following prompt appears briefly during start-up:

Press for SCSISelect™ Utility!

The first menu displays the Configure/View Host Adapter Settings and SCSI Disk Utilities options.

Using SCSISelect Menus

SCSISelect uses menus to list options that you can select. To select an option, press the up- and down-arrow keys to move the cursor to the option; then
press .

In some cases, selecting an option displays another menu. You can return to the previous menu at any time by pressing . To restore the original
SCSISelect default values, press .

SCSISelect Default Settings

Default settings for the integrated AIC-7899 SCSI controller are shown in

Table C

-1

. These default settings are appropriate for most PCI systems. Run

SCSISelect only if you need to change any of the default settings.

For situations in which you might want or need to change the settings, see the description of each setting in the following subsections. To change any of the
default settings or to format or verify a disk, see "

Using the SCSI Disk Utilities

NOTE:

To change the configuration settings, you must run the SCSISelect utility.

NOTE:

If the host adapter does not control the bootable hard drive, you may want to disable its BIOS.

Table C-1. AIC-7899 SCSI Controller Settings

Setting

Default

SCSI Bus Interface Definitions:

Host Adapter SCSI ID

SCSI Parity Checking

Enabled

Host Adapter SCSI Termination

Enabled or Automatic

Boot Device Options:

Boot Channel

A First

Boot SCSI ID

Boot LUN Number

SCSI Device/Configuration:

Sync Transfer Rate MB/Sec

160

Initiate Wide Negotiation

Yes (Enabled)