Owner`s manual
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When done making changes press
ESC
. A message will appear at the bottom of the
screen asking if you wish to save any changes made. Enter "Y" to save the changes in
the CMOS RAM, or "N" to abandon any changes made. After entering your response,
the system will boot using whatever parameters have been saved in the CMOS setup.
Important Notes:
If you wish to boot from a physical disk device other than device I.D. 0, it is
NOTnecessary to create a corresponding disk driver for the selected drive I.D. and
MONGEN it into the monitor. If the monitor has been created with the generic
SCZRR.DVR, then the Roadrunner’s boot PROM will use the data stored in the CMOS
parameters to set the selected drive I.D. (unit number) within the monitor
after
the
monitor is loaded.
If you have more than one physical drive and wish to use the additional drive as a DSK
device also, the additional drive(s) must be identical to the boot drive, and must be
sequentially addressed
after
the selected boot drive I.D. (unit number). As your system
initialization file is processed, the next DSK drive defined in the file will be automatically
mapped to the next higher SCSI I.D. number.
For example:
Your system contains 3 hard disk drives. The first drive is a (6) logical Maxtor,
addressed at SCSI I.D. 0.The next two drives are identical (11) logical Quantum’s,
addressed at SCSI I.D. 1 and 2.You want to use the two Quantum drives as DSK
devices and the Maxtor as a SUB device.
In the CMOS configuration menu you must select the primary boot device type as SCSI
Disk, and the primary boot device unit # as 1. You must have previously loaded the
selected boot drive with a bootable version of the AMOS operating system software
containing the designated boot monitor and INI files. You must also create a subsystem
disk driver for the Maxtor drive using the FIXLOG program and the generic SCZRR disk
driver, and assign it to SCSI I.D. 0.
In your boot INI you must define the two Quantum drives as DSK1:-DSK10:, and
DSK11:-DSK21: as you normally would. You must also define the Maxtor drive as
SUB0:-SUB5: (or whatever device name you choose).
As the system begins the boot sequence, the CMOS configuration data is used to
determine the primary boot type (SCSI Disk) and the primary boot device unit # (SCSI
I.D. 1 -- the first Quantum drive). As the system initialization file is processed, the
second Quantum drive (DSK11:-DSK21:) will be automatically mapped to SCSI I.D. 2
(the next sequential I.D.).This is why additional DSK drives must
always
be
sequentially addressed after the primary boot device I.D.
The subsystem device (in this example the Maxtor drive) will be accessed via the SUB
driver which was created using the FIXLOG program and SCSI I.D. 0. In actuality, a
subsystem device can be assigned to any valid SCSI I.D. which is not already in use.
Simply use the FIXLOG program to create the corresponding driver.
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