Novell NetWare Ready 386 Driver (NLM) Installation This subdirectory contains one software driver (NLM). This driver is for use with the IN-2000 High Performance 16 bit SCSI Host Adapter and Novell NetWare 386 versions 3.1X. This subdirectory contains the (NLM) ALWAYS.DSK. INTRODUCTION This driver has been certified for use with NetWare versions 3.1 and 3.11 by Novell. The driver and adapter will support up to seven (7) drives (each up to 2.4 GB in capacity) on each IN-2000 SCSI Host Adapter. A maximum of three adapters may be installed in a system. The driver supports all System Fault Tolerant (SFT) environments including duplexing and mirroring. The IN-2000 driver may be used in both dedicated and non-dedicated modes. If any non NetWare Ready drives are detected, they will be installed without the special NetWare Ready processing. However, once the installation has been completed, both NetWare Ready and non NetWare Ready drives may be active on the same server, at the same time. NEW INSTALLATIONS- Preliminary Steps One or more IN-2000 SCSI Host Adapters must be installed in the 386 or 486 server prior to installation of NetWare and the Always driver. Please refer to the IN-2000 Installation Guide Section 2, "SCSI Host Adapter Installation" and Section 3,"SCSI Hard Disk Installation". In particular, pay close attention to the switch settings. Only one floppy disk controller may be enabled in the system, including one, if present, on the motherboard. When using multiple adapters each adapter must have a different setting for I/O Port Address and Interrupt Channel. Section 2.3 details the default and optional switch settings. Multiple disk drives may be daisy chained from one IN-2000 SCSI Host Adapter. Each drive must have a different SCSI ID address setting. These addresses must be consecutive beginning at SCSI ID0. Check Section 3 of the IN-2000 Installation Guide for instructions on changing SCSI ID's. The ID addresses are automatically scanned from low to high. Netware 3.1x does not need to be reconfigured if a drive is moved or it's address changed. Note that address restrictions may apply to a drive with DOS partitions. If necessary, before beginning Netware the installation, drives may be low level formatted as described in Section 3.6 of the Installation Guide. NEW INSTALLATION Final Steps The 386 NLM Sub-Directory contains ALWAYS.DSK, which should be copied to the directory from which the Netware server is loaded. This may be a DOS directory or a floppy. The driver is in 'NLM' format and is activated by a LOAD command from the server console. Normally after the initial installation of Netware, disk driver LOAD commands are stored in the STARTUP.NCF file to be automatically executed when the server is loaded. Port values must be specified which match the switch settings as described in the Preliminary Steps above. If no values are specified the defaults are: I/O Port Address: 200 Hex Interrupt: 15 (0F Hex) Sample load Command is LOAD \NOVEL386\ALWAYS PORT=200 INT=F The IN-2000 SCSI Host Adapter does not use a DMA channel. Therefore no value should be specified. The ALWAYS.DSK driver must be loaded for each IN-2000 adapter. Since it is reentrant, the subsequent load's do not cause the driver to be physically loaded a second time. UPDATE EXISTING SERVERS STEPS: 1) "Down" the server. 2) Boot under DOS. 3) Go to the NOVELL sub-directory for the hard drive, where the *.DSK file is located. 4) Copy ALWAYS.DSK from floppy to ALWAYS.DSK on the hard drive. 5) Reboot the server. *** Complete ***