Adaptec 3940AUW Installation Guide - Page 10
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Boot Device Options, SCSI Device Configuration, and Advanced Configuration Options. Highlight an option and press Enter to see a list of possible values. Select SCSI Device Configuration to see a menu of the following options for each device on the SCSI bus: Initiate Sync Negotiation, Maximum Sync Transfer Rate, Enable Disconnection, Initiate Wide Negotiation(for 3940AUW only), Send Start Unit Command, BIOS Multiple LUN Support, and Include In BIOS Scan. These settings apply to individual SCSI devices. Select Advanced Configuration Options for a menu that includes these advanced options: Host Adapter BIOS (Configuration Utility Reserves BIOS Space), Support Removable Disks as Fixed Disks, and Extended BIOS Translation for DOS Drives > 1 GByte. SCSI Disk Utilities When you select SCSI Disk Utilities from the Options menu, a list of installed SCSI devices appears. When you select a device the Utilities menu appears, giving you the following two choices: s Format Disk-runs the Adaptec SCSI low-level format utility. Most SCSI devices are preformatted and do not need to be formatted again. s Verify Disk Media-scans the selected device's media for defects. If bad blocks are found, you are prompted to reassign them; if you select Yes, those blocks are no longer used. 8 Operating System Software Your AHA-340AU/AUW host adapters are supported by the following: DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows 95, Windows NT, Novell NetWare, OS/2, Unix, and UnixWare. Under MS-DOS 5.0 or later, you can install up to eight hard disk drives (SCSI or non-SCSI) in your computer without using additional software. Older versions of DOS support up to two hard disk drives. 9 AHA-3940AU/AUW Installation Guide Part Number: 511418-00, Rev. A Print Spec Number: 496346-00 Current Date: 3/12/97 ECN Date:3/10/97