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... AND SHOULD NOT BE CONSTRUED AS A COMMITMENT BY ASUS. ASUS ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY FOR ANY ERRORS OR INACCURACIES THAT MAY APPEAR IN THIS MANUAL, INCLUDING THE PRODUCTS AND SOFTWARE DESCRIBED IN IT.
Copyright © 1999 ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. All Rights Reserved.
Product Name: ASUS PCI-SC896
Manual Revision: 1.00 E438
Release Date:
September 1999
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... does not exceed the Class B limits for radio noise emissions from digital apparatus set out in the Radio Interference Regulations of the Canadian Department of Communications.
This Class B digital apparatus complies with Canadian ICES-003.
Cet appareil numérique de la classe B est conforme à la norme NMB-003 du Canada.
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... SCSI Interface 11 1.3.4 Wide Ultra2 SCSI 12
2. Installing the PCI-SC896 Host Adapter 13
2.1 Quick Installation Procedure 13
2.2 Detailed Installation Procedure 15 2.2.1 Before You Start 15 2.2.2 Inserting Your Host Adapter 16 2.2.3 Connecting Your SCSI Peripherals 17 2.2.4 Making Internal SCSI Bus Connections 17 2.2.5 Making External SCSI Bus Connections 18
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...Host Adapter, provides both quick and detailed installation instructions.
• Chapter 3, Configuring the PCI-SC896 HostAdapter, describes the SCSI BIOS Configuration Utility to configure adapter and device settings.
• Appendix, Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations, provides definitions of various terminology that is referenced throughout this user's guide.
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How to Get Updates
Software changes as products improve. The latest documentation and drivers are available for downloading from ASUS web site as listed in the ASUS Contact Information in the front of this manual.
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... Ultra2 SCSI devices. ASUS SCSI Device Management System (SDMS™) software operates the board, but the design of the board does not prevent other software to be used with it. BIOS support for this host adapter is incorporated on the board in a 128K Flash device. This guide and the PCI SCSI Device Management System SDMS 4.0 User's Guide contain product information and installation instructions...
User Manual - Page 11
... SCSI bus TERMPWR (termination power) through a blocking diode and self-resetting 1.5 A short circuit protection device. An on-board LED lights up when TERMPWR is shorted and turns off. A 40 MHz oscillator is installed on the PCI-SC896 board to provide the clock frequency to the PCI-SC896 that is necessary to support Wide Ultra2 SCSI transfers of up to 80 Mbytes/s.
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... defined in the original SCSI standards for this speed. If all devices on the bus support LVD, then 12-meter operation is possible at this speed. However, if any device on the bus is single-ended only, then the entire bus switches to single-ended mode, and the distances in the single-ended column apply.
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User Manual - Page 13
... and SCSI bus setup experience. If you prefer more detailed guidance in installing the PCI-SC896 host adapter, please follow the instructions in the section: Section 2.2, "Detailed Installation Procedure". For safe and proper installation, check the user's manual that was supplied with your computer and perform the following steps.
1. Ground yourself before removing this host adapter board. Remove...
User Manual - Page 14
... in the user's manual for your computer.
10.Make all external SCSI bus connections.
REMEMBER: The SCSI bus requires proper termination and no duplicate SCSI IDs.
11.Finally, refer to the PCI SCSI Device Management System SDMS 4.0 User's Guide (or the guide for the software that you will use) to load the driver software for your particular operating system.
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User Manual - Page 15
... adapter acts on your computer's behalf as the host to your suite of SCSI peripherals. Each chain of SCSI peripheral devices and their host adapter work together, and they are referred to as a SCSI bus. Each channel on your SCSI host adapter can act as host for up to 15 peripheral devices (depending on the SCSI bus speed), not including the adapter itself.
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User Manual - Page 16
... on other non-PCI adapter boards you have in your system. This is correct, and the board is keyed to go in only one way.
7. The bracket around the connector J2 should fit where you removed the blank panel. Secure it with the bracket screw before making the internal and external SCSI bus connections.
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User Manual - Page 17
... row right angle header for both channel A and channel B. Some LED cables have only two wires. In this case, place the connector on one end of J6. If the LED does not light during SCSI bus activity from this host adapter, you may have to rotate the LED cable 180° on J6.
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... if it is directly cabled to another SCSI device or host adapter using the same sensing method. The PCISC896 senses SCSI devices by detecting the ground signal on conductor 50 of a 68-conductor SCSI cable.
When connecting another host adapter to a connector, termination must be disabled on the board that is not at the end of the bus through software control.
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User Manual - Page 19
... on all other devices. Termination on your host adapter is automatically disabled in this case.
NOTE: If an internal connection to another PCI-SC896 host adapter has been made, or any connection to a device that uses the same sensing method for automatic termination as your PCI-SC896, you must override the termination for that channel through software control.
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User Manual - Page 20
... the SCSI bus, that drive should have SCSI ID 0, or the lowest SCSI ID on the bus. Chapter 3, Configuring the Host Adapter explains how to set your host adapter ID using the ASUS SCSI Configuration Utility. The peripheral device SCSI IDs are usually set with jumpers or with a switch on the peripheral. Refer to the peripheral manufacturer's instructions and to the user's manual for your computer to...
User Manual - Page 21
...configuration settings you can change. The global settings effect your host adapter and all SCSI devices which are connected to it. The device settings effect only individual SCSI devices.
Global Default Settings
Settings for the Host Adapter & All Devices SCAM Support Parity Checking Host Adapter SCSI ID Scan Order
Default Settings Off Enabled 7 Low to High (0-Max)
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... and data that exists. Be careful when using either the Format utility or the FDISK /MBR command that you target the correct disk. After clearing the partitions and data, it is necessary to reboot and clear memory or the old partitioning data will be reused, thus nullifying the previous operation.
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User Manual - Page 29
... or the software settings that allow the hardware components to communicate with each other.
CPU - Central Processing Unit. The "brain" of the computer that performs the actual computations. The term Micro Processor Unit (MPU) is also used.
DMA - Direct Memory Access. A method of moving data from a storage device directly to RAM, without using the CPU's resources.
4. Appendix
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... adapter to transfer information to and from devices attached to the SCSI bus.
Host Adapter - A circuit board or integrated circuit that provides a SCSI bus connection to the computer system.
Internal SCSI Device - A SCSI device installed inside the computer cabinet. These devices are connected in a continuous chain using an unshielded ribbon cable.
4. Appendix
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