User manual TYAN TIGER I7505

[. . . ] Tiger i7505 /// Revision 1. 00 S2668 Copyright © TYAN Computer Corporation, 2002 - 2003. No part of this manual may be reproduced or translated without prior written consent from TYAN Computer Corp. All registered and unregistered trademarks and company names contained in this manual are property of their respective owners including, but not limited to the following. Intel, Xeon, and combinations thereof are trademarks of Intel Corporation. [. . . ] Be sure to remove the diskette from drive A: Existing Windows 98/Me Installation 1. After configuring the PDC20378 controller and the attached hard drives, power up the system and boot Windows. The "Add New Hardware Wizard" will appear, informing you that it has found a "PCI RAID Controller. " Check the "Search for the best driver for your device" box and click the Next button. Click on "Next. " The Add New Hardware wizard will say it has found "Win98-ME Promise FastTrak 378 (or SATA150 TX Series) controller". Click on "Next, " and then on "Finish. " Choose "Yes" when asked if you want to restart your computer. Remove the diskette from drive A:. 38 http://www. TYAN. com New Windows NT 4. 0 Installation 1. Start the system installation by booting from the Windows NT disk: a) b) c) 2. Floppy install: boot the system with the Windows NT installation diskettes. On the reboot, press the "F6" key when the message "Setup is inspecting your computer's hardware configuration. . . " appears. CD-ROM disk install: boot from the CD-ROM disk and press the "F6" key when the message "Setup is inspecting your computer's hardware configuration. . . " appears. When the "Windows NT Setup" window is generated, press "S" to Specify an Additional Device(s). Press "O" to select "Other" and press the "Enter" key. Insert the Promise PDC20378 RAID (or Ultra ATA) driver diskette into drive A: and press "Enter" Choose "Win NT Promise FastTrak 378 (or SATA150 TX Series) Controller" from the list that appears on screen, then press "Enter" The Windows NT Setup screen will appear again saying "Setup will load support for the following mass storage devices:" The list will include "Win NT Promise FastTrak 378 (or SATA150 TX Series) controller". a) NOTE: If you need to specify any additional devices to be installed, do so at this time. Setup will now load all device files and then continue the Windows NT installation. After a successful installation, the "SCSI Adapter Setup" box will show that the "Win NT Promise FastTrak 378 (or SATA150 TX Series) Controller" driver has been installed. Existing Windows NT 4. 0 Installation 1. Double-click on the "SCSI Adapters" icon, which generates the "SCSI Adapters" dialog box. Choose "Drivers, " and then press "Add. " In the "Install Drivers" dialog box, press "Have Disk. . . " When the "Install From Disk" appears, insert the "PDC20378 Driver" diskette in drive A:. Type "A:\NT4" in the text box window, then choose "OK. " When the "Install Driver" dialog box appears, select "Win NT Promise FastTrak 378 (or SATA150 TX Series) Controller" and then press "OK. " When the "Select SCSI Adapter Option" dialog box appears, press "Install. " 10. After a successful installation, the "SCSI Adapter Setup" box will show that the "Win NT Promise FastTrak 378 (or SATA150 TX Series) Controller" has been installed. If you plan to move the boot drive to connect the PDC20378, now attach the hard drives otherwise reboot. 39 http://www. TYAN. com 4. 4 - Using FastBuildTM Configuration Utility The FastBuildTM Configuration Utility offers several menu choices to create and manage the drive array on the Promise PDC20378. For purposes of this manual, it is assumed you have already created an array in the previous chapter and now wish to make a change to the array or view other options. Viewing PDC20378 BIOS Screen When you boot your system with the PDC20378 and drives installed, the Promise onboard BIOS will detect the drives attached and show the following screen. [. . . ] BIOS ROM checksum Initialize cache before memory autosize 8254 timer initialization 8237 DMA controller initialization Reset Programmable Interrupt Controller 1-3-1-1. Test 8742 KBD Controller Set ES segment register to 4 GB Enable A20 line Autosize DRAM Initialize POST Memory Manager Clear 512 KB base RAM 1-3-4-1. RAM failure on data bits of low byte of memory bus Enable cache before system BIOS shadow 1-4-1-1. RAM failure on data bits of high byte of memory bus Test CPU bus-clock frequency Initialize Phoenix Dispatch Manager Warm start shut down Shadow system BIOS ROM Code 3Ah 3Ch 3Dh 42h 45h 46h 48h 49h 4Ah 4Bh 4Ch 4Eh 50h 51h 52h 54h 58h 59h 5Ah 5Bh 5Ch 60h 62h 64h 66h 67h 68h 69h 6Ah 6Bh 6Ch 6Eh 70h 72h 76h 7Ch Beeps / Description Autosize cache Advanced configuration of chipset registers Load alternate registers with CMOS values Initialize interrupt vectors POST device initialization 2-1-2-3. [. . . ]