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In the upcoming window, select 

Primary Partition

 and confirm with <ENTER>.

Now you can determine the size of the primary partition. In our example, we choose to use
1000MB of the disk capacity for the primary partition and therefore enter 1000 and simply
confirm with <ENTER>. Now select 

View Partitions

 again. You can see that the primary parti-

tion has been successfully installed and has the active state (A), which is necessary to boot
MS-DOS from this partition.

Summary of Contents for ICP Controller

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Page 2: ...re is not yet a boot disk in the computer system Therefore the following steps aim at installing a primary DOS partition on the host drive pre viously installed with GDTSETUP see chapter C activating this partition and transferring MS DOS to this partition Our objective is to be able to boot MS DOS directly from this par tition at the end of the installation First of all we would like to draw your...

Page 3: ...EXE are on the System Disk DOS C Now in the program GDTSETUP select the menu Configure Host Drives Pressing ENTER leads you to the following sub menu In our example the Host Drive list contains two Host Drives The first drive in the list is not relevant for our example ...

Page 4: ...line with the cursor keys n and p and confirm our choice with ENTER Then the following screen comes up We now select Partition Drive and then View Partitions The following screen appears In our example there is no entry yet Press ESC select Create Partition and press ENTER ...

Page 5: ...imary partition In our example we choose to use 1000MB of the disk capacity for the primary partition and therefore enter 1000 and simply confirm with ENTER Now select View Partitions again You can see that the primary parti tion has been successfully installed and has the active state A which is necessary to boot MS DOS from this partition ...

Page 6: ...nterface of the ICP Controller and also offers a VDS Virtual DMA Services interface This is of particu lar importance for Windows 3 x When using GDTX000 EXE please observe the following GDTX000 EXE must be loaded from the first line following the HIMEM SYS device com mand in the CONFIG SYS file If HIMEM SYS is not loaded it must be loaded from the very first line of the CONFIG SYS file GDTX000 EXE...

Page 7: ...al PCI device e g the ICP Controller with its BIOS and Dual Ported Memory to a suitable location during a warm or cold boot If the system configuration does not change no new PCI expansion cards are being added etc the PCI System BIOS will always map these two spaces to the same addresses To help you find out where these addresses have been mapped to the GDT BIOS indicates the physical address loc...

Page 8: ...y Windows SMARTDRV driver D The steps in this section aim at removing SMARTDRV from the CONFIG SYS and AUTO EXEC BAT files and at adding a few entries to the Windows initialization file SYSTEM INI Now delete those lines from the CONFIG SYS and AUTOEXEC BAT files which contain SMARTDRV EXE one line in each file using an editor such as EDIT for instance which is part of MS DOS 5 and 6 or deactivate ...

Page 9: ... the ICP Controller under MS DOS and Windows The installation differs slightly de pending on whether you use the corelSCSI software or the ASW software Regardless of which software you choose to use the ASPI manager of the ICP Controller located on the GDT System Disk DOS has to be loaded from the CONFIG SYS file The objective of both installations is to make the CD ROM drive accessible as a drive...

Page 10: ...t for version 6 The para meter D CD ROM set here has to be identical to the parameter set after the ASPICD mod ule in the CONFIG SYS file After a warm reboot which serves to activate the changes made in the CONFIG SYS and AUTOEXEC BAT files the CD ROM drive can be accessed as drive E in our example there are two SCSI hard disks in the PCI computer and under MS DOS they are accessed as C and D Driv...

Page 11: ...rofessional backup manager used in many system installations for backup purposes Similarly to our last example Sytos Plus accesses Not Direct Access Devices through the GDT ASPI Manager In our example we use a Wangtek 1 3GB drive We presume that the DAT drive has been properly connected to the ICP Controller This includes that the SCSI ID and the SCSI bus terminators have been set in accordance wi...

Page 12: ...ice gdt gdtaspi exe Step 2 Use ARCsolo s installation program INSTALL to transfer the ARCsolo files to the hard disk Step 3 Change to the directory to which you have transferred the ARCsolo files default C ARCSOLO and load ARCSOLO C ARCSOLO ARCSOLO ENTER Step 4 The main menu with the heading Available subjects appears Choose the item Ad ministration and then Configure Options Available Subjects p ...

Page 13: ...ctly from the ICP Controller it has to be reserved for the ASPI interface control To do so certain parameters have to be specified when the GDT ASPI manager is loaded DEVICE GDTASPI EXE R Hx1Iy1 Hx2Iy2 Hx3Iy3 H host adapter number I SCSI ID of the SCSI device to be reserved x1 y1 host adapter number SCSI ID of the first SCSI device to be reserved in decimal form x2 y2 host adapter number SCSI ID o...

Page 14: ...S will be similar to the file below the relevant entries are printed bold The parameters following the corelSCSI driver refer to a particular configuration they have automatically been added by the corelSCSI INSTALL program device gdtx000 exe files 30 buffers 30 stacks 9 256 shell COMMAND COM E 512 P device gdt gdtxdos exe device gdt gdtaspi exe R H1I4 device coreldrv UNI_ASP SYS C 4 ID 4 1 VOL 1 ...

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