Configuration Procedure

Using the EISA configuration utility:

• Enable the DSA 16-bit ROM BIOS. On some systems this may be called the Option ROM Address.

• Make sure the Enhanced Mode Address is 16-bit enabled.

• Enable Adaptec AHA-1540 emulation on the DSA controller in the lower- numbered EISA slot only, the one with the CD-ROM attached.

During the EISA configuration, if you need to manually edit the BIOS base address and there are two DSA controllers, assign the controller in the lower-numbered EISA slot an address that is lower than the second one. This forces the BIOS to spin up the disks on the secondary controller so they are accessible after a cold boot.

Dell Disk Manager Setup

If your disk did not come from Dell, you must use the Dell Disk Manager Setup to low-level format the hard disk before completing the following:

1. Set up one or more composite drives using the Dell DOS software array manager program.

2. Make one composite drive on controller 1 "Drive 0 - Composite Drive A."

   This will be the drive containing the bootable Solaris partition.

3. Select any RAID level supported by the controller.

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   Note -

   All disk drives used by the Solaris software (except the CD-ROM used during the initial installation) must be composite drives having one or more physical drives.

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4. Enable Adaptec AHA-1540 emulation on the CD-ROM drive:

   1. Set targets 0-5 to OFF.

   2. Set target 6 to emulate the CD-ROM drive, SCSI ID 6.

   3. Set target 7 to emulate the controller ID.

5. Save your configuration changes.