User`s guide

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Using SCSISelect
The SCSI
Select
utility enables you to change host adapter and SCSI
configuration settings directly from your computer’s desktop.
SCSI
Select
also contains utilities that allow you to low-level format
or verify the disk media of your SCSI hard disk drives.
You can use SCSI
Select
directly from the P1275 User Interface.
Selecting a Single-Chip Host Adapter with the
P1275 User Interface
To select a single-chip host adapter with the P1275 User Interface:
1
Enter the system’s Forth evaluator.
2
To display a list of attached devices, type the following
command at the
ok
prompt (also known as the
Forth prompt
,
Forth evaluator
, or
ROM monitor
):
show-devs
3
From the
ok
prompt, select the Adaptec single-chip host
adapter to be configured. The word
select
is used to establish a
device instance for the adapter. For example, to select a single-
chip host adapter, type the following command:
select /pci/pci@2/scsi@4
Some systems may allow abbreviated forms of the device path
name for selection, for example:
select /pci/@2/@4