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AHA-3980/3980W/3985/3985W User’s Guide

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Preparing a Boot Device and

Installing Drivers

This chapter explains how to prepare a boot device connected to

your AHA-398x adapter and how to install the DOS and NetWare

drivers you will need to load software and to use arrays.

The boot device can be an array or a stand-alone disk drive. We rec-

ommend that you boot your computer from an array, because you

can take advantage of the data redundancy provided by most levels

of RAID. (See Chapter 2,

Array Basics

, to learn about the features of

different RAID levels.) If you boot from a stand-alone disk drive,

you can use a SCSI drive connected to the AHA-398x adapter or a

non-SCSI drive (usually an IDE or EIDE drive).

If a non-SCSI drive is installed in your computer, the computer will

always attempt to boot from that drive and will never boot from a

SCSI drive or array.

Getting Ready to Prepare a Boot Device

Follow these steps, regardless of whether you plan to boot from an

array or from a stand-alone disk drive. We assume here that

MS-DOS and NetWare are

not

already installed on the computer

with the AHA-398x adapter. You will need to have access to a sec-

ond computer.

Complete the hardware installation steps in Chapter 5.

Be sure the intended boot drive—or at least one drive that will

be in the boot array—is connected to Channel A of the

AHA-398x.

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