Asus PR-DL Manual PDF file for PR-DLS533 - Page 122

Performance Tuning for Windows XP

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13. Click STOP Installation to cancel the installation if a nonsigned driver is not desired. - or - Click Continue Anyway to continue the installation. The system will load the driver from the Windows XP driver diskette. A message box may display indicating that the target (existing) driver is newer than the source (upgrade) driver. 14. Click No to cancel the driver upgrade at this point. - or - Click Yes to continue the installation. The system copies the driver to the system disk. For any adapter other than the boot adapter, the updated driver will become active immediately. For the boot adapter, a message box displays indicating that you must reboot your system for the new driver to take effect. 15. Click on the Finish button to complete the driver upgrade. D. Performance Tuning for Windows XP Windows XP has registry entries that can be used to tune the performance of SCSI I/O for certain configurations. The tunable parameters are large transfer block size support and a guaranteed number of concurrent I/Os for a particular SCSI bus. 5-28 Chapter 5: Driver installation

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Chapter 5: Driver installation
13.
Click STOP Installation to cancel the installation if a nonsigned driver
is not desired.
- or -
Click Continue Anyway to continue the installation.
The system will load the driver from the Windows XP driver diskette.
A message box may display indicating that the target (existing) driver
is newer than the source (upgrade) driver.
14.
Click No to cancel the driver upgrade at this point.
- or -
Click Yes to continue the installation.
The system copies the driver to the system disk. For any adapter
other than the boot adapter, the updated driver will become active
immediately.
For the boot adapter, a message box displays indicating that you
must reboot your system for the new driver to take effect.
15.
Click on the Finish button to complete the driver upgrade.
D.
Performance Tuning for Windows XP
Windows XP has registry entries that can be used to tune the performance
of SCSI I/O for certain configurations. The tunable parameters are large
transfer block size support and a guaranteed number of concurrent I/Os
for a particular SCSI bus.