Dell 6300 Laptop User Manual


 
Installing and Configuring SCSI Drivers 3-3
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The readme.txt files that are included with your SCSI device drivers (in the device
driver \pe6300\scsi subdirectory on the CD) provide updates to the information in this
chapter.
Use the editor included with your operating system to view or print the readme.txt
file or any other readme file.
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The BIOS for the built-in dual Adaptec AIC-7890 and AIC-7860 SCSI controllers
includes the menu-driven SCSI
Select
configuration utility, which allows you to change
SCSI controller settings without opening the computer. SCSI
Select
also contains SCSI
disk utilities that let you low-level format or verify the disk media of your SCSI hard-
disk drives.
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The defaults for the optional Adaptec AHA-2940U2W SCSI controller and the built-in
AIC-7890 and AIC-7860 SCSI controllers are shown in Table 3-1. These defaults are
appropriate for most Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) systems. Run
SCSI
Select
only if you need to change any of the defaults.
NOTES: The SCSI
Select
Utility must be run for both the AIC-7890 SCSI controllers
and the AIC-7860 SCSI controller if you need to change the configuration settings.
The term
host adapter
is used throughout this chapter to refer to the built-in
AIC-7890 and AIC-7860 SCSI controllers or the optional AHA-2940U2W SCSI
controller card.
To change the settings, see the descriptions of each setting in the following subsec-
tions. To change any of the defaults or to format or verify a disk, see “Starting the
SCSI
Select
Utility” found later in this chapter.