Adaptec AHA-1510A, AHA-1520A, AHA-1522A, AHA-1530P, AHA-1532P HBAs

Preconfiguration Information

The AHA-1522A and AHA-1532P provide diskette drive support in addition to being bus interfaces.

Supported Settings

• AHA-1520A and AHA-1522A devices only:

  • The BIOS base address can be any available value. The default is DC000.

  • For booting, the I/O address can be set to 0x140 only if a special BIOS is obtained from Adaptec.

Known Problems and Limitations

The Adaptec AHA-1510A adapter cannot be a primary (boot) disk controller since it has no BIOS. Boot from a disk attached to another controller.

Configuration Procedure

• If necessary, enable support for disks greater than 1 Gbyte.

  • On the AHA-1530P and AHA-1532P, use the on-board utility (press Ctrl-A at boot time) to select this option from the Advanced Features menu.

  • On the AHA-1522A and AHA-1520A, set this option by adding a jumper to pin 0 (the rightmost pin) of jumper block J5.

• If necessary, make the following termination changes:

  • On the AHA-1510A, AHA-1520A, and AHA-1522A, remove the three terminating resistors from the controller.

  • On the AHA-1530P and AHA-1532P, set termination using the on-board utility.