Tekram Technology DC-820B - Manual (Page 7)

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EISA Fast SCSI Caching Adapter
All versions of MS-DOS support two hard disk drives without adding device
drivers. If MS-DOS 5.0 is used, the DC-820B BIOS can handle up to eight
devices, including fixed disk and removable media, by enabling the DOS 5
Support enable/disable option during the ECU (EISA Configuration Utility)
setup process.
The driver diskettes shipped along with your DC-820B include ASPI (Ad-
vanced SCSI Programming Interface) drivers for DOS, NetWare drivers,
and UNIX LOCK/UNLOCK utility for removable media devices. Also, the
DC-820B comes with a utility program (TOOLBME.EXE) which provides
low-level format, mirroring initialization, and disk image copy/compare
functions. By implementing the ASPI drivers for DOS, the DC-820B recog-
nizes devices formatted by other adapters, such as Adaptec and Mylex, or
formats devices that will be recognized by other makers’ host adapters.
A software program, INSTALL.EXE, is included in the driver diskette to
ease the DOS driver installation. Further details can be found in the next
section.
0.1 Easy DOS Driver Installation Software (INSTALL.EXE)
The DOS driver diskette provides an INSTALL.EXE file to ease the driver
installation for your SCSI devices. The driver installation will be neces-
sary if: 1. more than two HDDs installed and without DOS 5 Support
enabled (sec.1.6.2) or 2. SCSI device(s) other than HDD installed. This
software program provides you the information about the adapter and your
SCSI devices. After choosing the device(s) which you want to install with the
driver(s), this program will update the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT
files. Further information about drivers and step-by-step installation proce-
dures can be found in the Chapter 2 ASPI DRIVER FOR DOS.
The following screens display the procedures of this software:
1). Firstly, this screen shows the information about adapter number (HA#0),
I/O port address (Base 330H), DMA channel (DMA 5), interrupt level (IRQ
11), and SCSI ID (ID 7). In this case, there is only one adapter available. If