Formatting Media; Using Removable Media; Booting From A Scsi Device - Dell 2100 User Manual

Booting From a SCSI Device

Follow these steps to set your system to boot from a SCSI
device:
1. For an Adaptec 78xx host adapter, use the
SCSISelect utility to configure your preferred
boot device by setting the Boot Target ID option.
2. Use the MS-DOS fdisk utility to create a small
MS-DOS partition. (Follow Novell's recommen-
dation for size.) MS-DOS must be loaded on
sector 0 (zero) of the boot drive.
3. Format the drive using the MS-DOS format com-
mand (for example, format c: /s). Boot the
system from this drive.
4. Copy the files shown in Table 3-3 to the root
directory.
Table 3-3. Files Necessary to Set Up
Booting From a SCSI Device
Diskette
NetWare System-1
diskette
NetWare 4.x driver
diskette (created
from CD)
NetWare 3.12
driver diskette
(created from CD)
5. Reboot your server and execute the server.exe file.
NetWare should start-up at this point.
6. Enter your file server name and internal IPX
number.
3-36 Dell PowerEdge 2100/180 and 2100/200 Systems User's Guide
Directory Files
Root server.exe
install.nlm
\scsi readme.txt
aic7870.dsk
aspitran.dsk
aic7870.ddi
\scsi readme.txt
aic7870.dsk
aspitran.dsk

Formatting Media

NetWare's install.nlm program lets you optionally for-
mat a hard-disk drive for use with NetWare. If you are
using SCSI drives, it allows you to low-level format
several SCSI drives simultaneously. The NetWare format
procedure is not the same as using fdisk or format under
MS-DOS.
CAUTION: You should not use NetWare to format
a hard-disk drive that contains partitions for other
operating systems, because that information may
be destroyed.
NOTE: When you select a hard-disk drive to format, the
Install program prompts you to enter an interleave value
from 1 to 9. You may also enter an interleave value of 0
(zero). When formatting SCSI hard-disk drives or remov-
able drives on the Adaptec 78xx host adapter SCSI bus,
Dell recommends that you use an interleave value of 0.
This 0 interleave value instructs the hard-disk drive to
use its optimal interleave value. This option was unavail-
able in NetWare 3.0.

Using Removable Media

The aic7870.dsk driver module fully supports remov-
able-media disk drives, including magneto-optical drives.
Removable media is treated as a standard SCSI hard-disk
drive, with some exceptions:
•
The driver only recognizes and registers media with
512 bytes/sector.
•
NetWare allows you to mount or dismount the media
and lock or unlock the media.