User Guide

ASUS PCI-SC875 User's Manual
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CONTENTS
I. INTRODUCTION............................................................................ 1
How this manual is organized .......................................................... 1
Item Checklist .................................................................................. 1
Current Operating System Support ............................................ 1
II. FEATURES ..................................................................................... 2
Features of the ASUS SCSI Card .................................................... 2
Parts of the ASUS SCSI Card .......................................................... 2
III. INSTALLATION .......................................................................... 3
Inserting the Host Adapter in a PCI Slot.......................................... 3
Connecting SCSI Cables and Devices ............................................. 4
Choosing SCSI Cables ............................................................... 4
Maximum Cable Lengths ........................................................... 5
Connecting Internal SCSI Devices .................................................. 5
Connecting External SCSI Devices ........................................... 6
Connecting External 8-bit and 16-bit Devices ........................... 8
Terminating the SCSI Bus .......................................................... 8
SCSI IDs .......................................................................................... 9
SCSI ID Priority ......................................................................... 9
Setting SCSI IDs ........................................................................ 9
SCSI Bus Activity LED Connector ............................................ 10
Completing Installation .............................................................. 10
IV. CONFIGURATION....................................................................... 11
Configuring Your Host Adapter ....................................................... 11
The Symbios Logic SCSI Configuration Utility.............................. 11
Main Menu....................................................................................... 12
Adapter Utilities Menu............................................................... 13
Adapter Setup Menu .................................................................. 13
Device Selections Menu............................................................. 13
Device Setup Menu .................................................................... 14
Quitting the SCSI Configuration Utility .................................... 14
V. DOS/WINDOWS DRIVERS ........................................................ 15
Introduction...................................................................................... 15
When You Need to Load Drivers ............................................... 15
Automatic Installation of SDMS for DOS....................................... 15
ASPI8XX.SYS Driver Features ................................................. 16
Description ................................................................................. 16
Installing Your ASPI8XX.SYS Driver ....................................... 17
Command Line Options ............................................................. 17
Troubleshooting ............................................................................... 21
SYMDISK.SYS Driver Features ..................................................... 22