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Netfinity7000 - Installing OS/2 with ServeRAID adapter
Applicable to: World-Wide
Installation Steps for OS/2
NOTE: If any logical drives have been set to write-back (WB) mode, they must be changed to write-through (WT) mode during the OS/2 installation. After the installation is completed, the logical drives can be changed to write-back (WB).
1. Follow instructions in the OS/2 Installation manual to install OS/2 into the hard disk drive.
To load the driver during installation, copy the driver IPSRAID.ADD from the OS2 subdirectory of the Device Driver/Administration and Monitor diskette to the copy of the OS/2 Diskette 1 and add the following:
BASEDEV=IPSRAID.ADD
SET COPYFROMFLOPPY=1
to the CONFIG.SYS file in OS/2 Diskette 1. If Diskette 1 does not have enough diskette space to copy the driver, delete device drivers from Diskette 1 that are not being used to make space for IPSRAID.ADD. (Make sure that you make a copy of Diskette 1 before deleting any files.)
To make space in Diskette 1, delete the following file(s) from the copy of OS/2 Diskette 1: AHA152X.ADD, AHA154X.ADD. You also need to remove corresponding BASEDEV statements from the CONFIG.SYS file. (Refer to OS/2 technical documentation for a detailed explanation of the BASEDEV statements in the CONFIG.SYS file ).
2. Once OS/2 is installed, put the IBM PC ServeRAID Adapter Device Driver/Administration and Monitor Diskette in drive A.
3. Type: DDINSTAL from any OS/2 command prompt.
4. Select "IBM PC ServeRAID Adapter ADD installation" from the menu.
DDINSTALL will insert "BASEDEV=IPSRAID.ADD" into the CONFIG.SYS file and will copy the following files to the OS2 subdirectory:
IPSRAID.ADD // device driver
IPSRADM.EXE // RAID Administration and Monitoring
The following file will be copied the \OS2\HELP directory:
IPSRADM.HLP // Help file for RAIDADM.EXE
5. Edit the CONFIG.SYS file and verify that only one "BASEDEV=IPSRAID.ADD" statement appears in this file.
NOTE: If you have more than one RAID or SCSI adapter in your system, make sure that the BASEDEV statement of the adapter that has the boot device appears before the BASEDEV statements of other RAID or SCSI adapters in the CONFIG.SYS file.
6. After restarting your system, IBM PC ServeRAID administration can be started by entering:
Type: IPSRADM ÿ/lf=d:\path\logfileÿ at the OS/2 subdirectory.
where d: is the drive where you want to create the logfile.
logfile is the filename where IPSRADM message will be logged.
NOTE: If you omit /lf, a default logfile IPSRADM.LOG is created in the OS2 subdirectory. When /lf switch is used, make sure that the d: drive and path \path exists. IPSRADM will not create a subdirectory if one does not exist.
You can define IPSRADM to OS/2 by dragging a Program icon from the Templates folder to the Desktop. In the Program - Settings notebook, on the Program page, enter the following:
Path and file name: c:\os2\ipsradm.exe
Parameters: /lf=d:\path\logfile
In the General page, enter ServeRAID as the title and remove the tick mark from Template.
NOTE: OS/2 CD-ROM INSTALLATION
Make a copy of the OS/2 Diskette 1 and use the copy of Diskette 1 to install OS/2. Copy IPSRAID.ADD from the OS2 subdirectory of the ServeRAID option diskette to copy of Diskette 1 and add:
BASEDEV=IPSRAID.ADD
SET COPYFROMFLOPPY=1
to the CONFIG.SYS file in Diskette 1. If diskette 1 does not have enough diskette space to copy the driver, delete device drivers from Diskette 1 that are not being used to make space for IBMRAID.ADD. Make sure that you make a copy of Diskette 1 before deleting any files). The CD-ROM can be connected to any channel and can have SCSI IDs 0 to 6 as long as it does not conflict with other SCSI device IDs or bays (equivalent SCSI ID) that are currently connected to the ServeRAID Adapter.
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Date Created |
21-04-98 | |
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22-04-98 | |
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21-04-99 | |
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IBM PC Server | |
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Netfinity 7000 | |
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8651 | |
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RH0; RM0; TH0; TM0 | |
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