The following information is available in this README file:
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OVERVIEW OF APPLICATIONS
If you are a Windows 95 or Windows NT user, the following applications
will be installed to your system:
SCSI Explorer
This application gives you three powerful functions:
- SCSI Power Management
- SCSI Interrogator
- SCSI Cache Management
Adaptec Backup (Windows 95 only)
This backup application allows you to backup your system to a hard drive,
removable drive, or a SCSI tape drive. A list of supported SCSI tape
drives is listed later in this README
NOTE: Adaptec Backup is only shipped with the full version of Adaptec
EZ-SCSI. This does not include the 'L' license version (e.g.
4.00L)
Audio CD Player
This innovative Audio CD Player gives you four different modes to listen
to CDs:
- Jukebox CD-Player (optimized for 256 colors)
- Standard CD-Player
- Mini CD-Player
- Micro CD-Player (requires Windows 95 Desktop)
In addition to supporting its own audio database, the Adaptec CD Player
automatically supports the Microsoft CD Player database. If you have
already typed in your music database, there is no need to re-enter it
twice.
Photo CD Viewer
Convert your favorite photos to the Photo CD format to view and edit
them on your PC. Use this application to view the 80+ professional
quality Photo CD images included with Adaptec EZ-SCSI (CD-ROM version
only).
CD Copier
Do you use a CD Recordable drive to distribute custom CDs? Do you ever
find the need to make a quick, and easy, duplicate of your CD? If the
answer is yes, then the Adaptec CD Copier is for you. Simply place your
source CD in a CD-ROM drive and a blank CD-R in your CD Recordable drive.
Then run our CD Copier and simply click the "Copy" button. Nothing could
be easier.
CD Writer
Have a need to move files from your hard drive to your CD Recordable
drive? If so, Adaptec's CD Writer will do exactly that. Ideal for
backups, software distribution, multimedia publishing, or whatever else
you can think of.
NOTE: CD Writer is only shipped with the full version of Adaptec EZ-SCSI.
This does not include the 'L' license version (e.g. 4.00L).
QuickScan
So you have a TWAIN compliant SCSI scanner hooked up to your system and
a printer. You have some documentation that you need a quick copy of.
Adaptec's QuickScan converts your scanner and printer combination into
a photo copy machine.
SCSIBench
SCSIBench allows you to determine the performance capabilities of your
peripherals.
Drive Light
Drive Light gives you a visual representation of your SCSI activity. In
addition, it also keeps I/O statistics so you can see just how much I/O
is occurring to your SCSI devices. View just how much percent of your
I/O is reads vs. writes.
Adaptec SCSITutor
Want to learn more about SCSI and its capabilities? This is the source
for any questions you have about SCSI.
EZ-SCSI Registration
Please use our on-line registration application so that we can notify you
of upgrade opportunities or other promotional opportunities.
EZ-SCSI Uninstaller
If for some reason, you decide you would like to remove Adaptec EZ-SCSI
from your system, we've provided such a utility.
Device Driver Reference
With Adaptec EZ-SCSI, we've moved much of the DOS device driver reference
into this easy-to-use Windows help file.
16-Bit Applications
If you are a Windows 3.1/3.11 user, many similar 16-bit applications are
also available. Please refer to the on-line help available with each
application after you install Adaptec EZ-SCSI under Windows 3.1/3.11.
Additional information on running with Windows 3.1/3.11 is also provided
later in this README.
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SCSI MINIPORTS
What is a SCSI miniport? A SCSI miniport is a device driver that controls
your SCSI host adapter. For example, if you are running Windows 95 with
an Adaptec AHA-2940, the miniport driver you are using is named
aic78xx.mpd. Windows 95 and NT come with embedded drivers for most of
Adaptecs host adapters. For those host adapter drivers not yet embedded or
that have changed, we've included them on the "Adaptec EZ-SCSI Setup and
Drivers Installation Disk" CD-ROM version of EZ-SCSI only).
For other SCSI host adapters not included on our floppy,
additional miniport drivers can be found at one of the following
locations:
Windows 95
- Windows 95 CD (in \DRIVERS\STORAGE directory)
- Microsoft Network:
Categories\Computers\ and Software\Software\Microsoft\Windows 95
- Internet World Wide Web:
http://www.microsoft.com/Windows
- Internet File Server:
ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Products/Windows/Windows95
- Microsoft Download Service (MSDL): call 206-936-6735
- Compuserve: GO MSL
- GEnie: Go to Microsoft Roundtable
- Call Microsoft Product Support Services
- If you have an Adaptec SCSI Host Adapter, you can download the latest
Windows 95 miniports from one of our on-line services. See "CONTACTING
ADAPTEC"below for additional information.
NOTE: See on-line help in \Drivers directory on the Windows 95 CD for details
Windows NT
If you have an Adaptec SCSI Host Adapter, you can download the latest
Windows NT miniports from one of our on-line services. See "CONTACTING
ADAPTEC"below for additional information. For other host adapters, contact your
host adapter vendor
Additional Information for the AHA-2920 miniports
The following non-standard command line options are available for AHA-2920
miniports in Windows 95 (FD16_700.MPD) and Windows NT versions 3.51
and up (FD16_700.SYS):
AdapterScansUp
This option forces the miniport to scan the SCSI devices in an ascending
(SCSI ID) order. This is used for compatibility with previous AHA-2920
installations in which SCSI devices were scanned in an ascending order
to prevent drive-letter reversal.
DisableSynchronousTransfers=d+
Where "d+" represents one or more decimal digits, each indicating a single
SCSI target ID. This option disables synchronous transfers
(SDTR negotiation) on the indicated SCSI target IDs.
For example:
DisableSynchronousTransfers=245
turns off Synchronous Data Transfer Negotiations (and thus synchronous
transfers) on SCSI target IDs 2, 4, and 5.
Adding options to Windows NT
- Start the registry editor by typing REGEDT32 at the MS-DOS command prompt
(or from the Program Manager's "File"-->"Run" command).
Open \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services
- Open the name of the particular miniport ("Fd16_700")
- Create a key named "Parameters" using the "Edit"-->"Add Key" command.
- Open "Parameters" and create a key named "Device"
- Open "Device"
A).To disable synchronous transfers, perform the "Edit"-->"Add Value"
command with the following information:
Value Name: DisableSynchronousTransfers
Data Type: REG_DWORD
Value: non-zero value to disable synchronous transfer
B).To disable disconnects, perform the "Edit"-->"Add Value" command with the
following information:
Value Name: DisableDisconnects
Data Type: REG_DWORD
Value: non-zero value to disable disconnects
C).To set the maximum LUN to be scanned, perform the "Edit"-->"Add Value"
command with the following information:
Value Name: MaximumLogicalUnit
Data Type: REG_DWORD
Value: maximum LUN to scan up to (if one is entered,
only LUN 0 will be scanned)
D). To use the DisableSynchronousTransfers on a device-specific basis, or
to use the AdapterScansUp parameter, perform the "Edit"-->"Add Value"
command with the following information:
Value Name: DriverParameter
Data Type: REG_SZ
Value: parameters as described separated by semicolons(;)
- Exit the registry Editor and reboot the system
Adding options to Windows 95
- To add these options to the Windows 95 miniport driver, click the right
mouse button once on the "My Computer" icon and select "Properties".
This will bring up the System Properties dialog box.
- Select the "Device Manager" tab.
- Open the "SCSI Controllers" sub-tree, and select the
"Future Domain PCI SCSI Host Adapter" branch.
- Click on the "Properties" button.
- Select the "Settings" tab.
- Type the desired options in the "Adapter Settings" edit box,
separating each option with a semi-colon (;).
You can also set other settings such as Disconnect Disable through the
Settings Tab of the particular device whose properties you wish to alter.
To disable the option, un-check the appropriate box in the Options group.
To enable the option, check the appropriate box in the Options group.
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HARD DISK SUPPORT
Windows 95 includes built-in support for SCSI hard drives. If you attach
a new, unformatted, drive to your SCSI host adapter, you will need to
partition and format the media before you can use it. You can follow
these steps:
Windows 95
- Run Device Manager. You can do this by moving the mouse pointer
over "My Computer," clicking the right mouse button, and selecting
the "Properties" menu option.
- Select the "Device Manager" option.
- Expand the "Disk drives" tree to view your SCSI hard drives.
- Double-click on your newly added hard drive.
- Select the "Settings" option.
- If the "Int 13 unit" option is not turned on, then turn it on
and select OK. Reboot your system.
- Open up a DOS session (MS-DOS prompt).
- Run FDISK to partition your new drive as you desire.
- Reboot your operating system.
- When Windows 95 comes back up, double-click on "My Computer."
- Move the mouse pointer over your new drive letter(s), click the right
mouse button, and then select the "Format..." option.
Follow the instructions to format your media.
NOTE:Under many configurations, steps 1-6 are not required as Windows
95 may have already marked your new disk drive as an "Int 13
unit." We still recommend that you take these steps to ensure
that your system is properly configured.
Windows NT
Windows NT includes built-in support for SCSI hard drives. If you attach
a new, unformatted, drive to your SCSI host adapter, you will need to
partition and format the media before you can use it. You can format
your new drive, under NT, by running the "Disk Administrator" utility
that ships with the operating system.
Windows 3.1/3.11 and DOS
DOS and Windows 3.1x include built-in support for SCSI hard drives if your
new drive is under BIOS control (e.g. you booted from it). Please refer
to your host adapter documentation to learn more about whether or not
your SCSI host adapter includes an on-board ROM BIOS. In this case, you
can follow these steps:
- Boot to DOS.
- Run FDISK to partition your new drive as you desire.
- Reboot your operating system.
- Run FORMAT on your newly created drive letter(s)
If your new SCSI hard drive is not under BIOS control, you can follow these steps:
- If running Windows 3.1x, install Adaptec EZ-SCSI for Windows 3.1x.
Insert the Adaptec EZ-SCSI Setup Disk and run SETUP.EXE
- If running DOS, install Adaptec EZ-SCSI for DOS. Insert the Adaptec EZ-SCSI Setup Disk.
Run INSTALL.BAT
- After installing either Adaptec EZ-SCSI for DOS/Windows, reboot your system.
- If you are running DOS, run AFDISK.EXE which is located in your
Adaptec EZ-SCSI subdirectory (e.g. C:\SCSI). If you are running
Windows, you can use WINPART.EXE which is a Windows 3.1x partitioning utility.
- Partition your new media as you desire.
- Reboot your operating system.
- At this point, your new drive is under ASPIDISK.SYS control(Adaptec's disk driver for DOS).
- Although optional, we recommend that you run DOS FORMAT on your
new drive letter(s) so that the drive can be scanned for defects.
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REMOVABLE MEDIA SUPPORT
Windows 95
There are a number of ways to prepare your removable media for use under
Windows 95.Windows 95, by default, will allocate one drive letter for your removable
media device. You can see the icon by double-clicking on "My Computer"
and seeing the "Removable Disk" text just below the drive's icon. If
you wish to treat your removable media as one large floppy, simply
insert the media into the drive and double-click on the icon. Windows
95 will automatically detect that the media is unformatted and ask you
if you would like to format the media.
Windows 95 also allows you to use partitioned removable media. For
example, if you have a 1 GByte removable cartridge, you might want to
partition the media into two 512 MByte partitions. To create a
partitioned removable media, you can follow these steps.
- Run Device Manager. You can do this by moving the mouse pointer
over "My Computer," clicking the right mouse button, and selecting
the "Properties" menu option.
- Select the "Device Manager" option.
- Expand the "Disk drives" tree to view your SCSI removable hard drive.
- Double-click on your newly added removable hard drive.
- Select the "Settings" option.
- If the "Int 13 unit" option is not turned on, then turn it on
and select OK. The "Removable" option should also be set. Reboot
your system.
- Open up a DOS session (MS-DOS prompt).
- Run FDISK to partition your removable media as you desire.
- Reboot your operating system.
- If you want to reserve multiple drive letters for your removable
media drive (e.g. multiple partitions), follow the next steps,
otherwise, skip to step #17
- Run Device Manager. You can do this by moving the mouse pointer
over "My Computer," clicking the right mouse button, and selecting
the "Properties" menu option.
- Select the "Device Manager" option.
- Expand the "Disk drives" tree to view your SCSI removable hard drive.
- Double-click on your newly added removable hard drive.
- Select the "Settings" option.
- In the "Reserved Drive Letters" area, you can select the starting
and ending drive letters for your removable media device. Save
settings and reboot your system.
- When Windows 95 comes back up, double-click on "My Computer."
- Move the mouse pointer over your new drive, click the right mouse
button, and then select the "Format..." option.
- Follow the instructions to format your media.
NOTE: Under many configurations, steps 1-6 are not required as Windows
95 may have already marked your new disk drive as an "Int 13
unit." We still recommend that you take these steps to ensure
that your system is properly configured.
Below is additional information you may find useful:
We recommend that you boot Windows 95 without a DOS removable media
device driver (e.g. ASPIDISK.SYS). You can comment out such entries
from your CONFIG.SYS and then reboot. We have seen Windows 95
incorrectly create two drive letters for the same device when a
DOS removable media driver is resident. In addition, we have seen
some configurations where Windows 95 wouldn't allow us to set the
starting and ending drive letters when a DOS removable media device
driver is resident.
Windows NT
Please consult your Windows NT documentation on using removable media with Windows NT.
Windows 3.1/3.11 and DOS
To prepare your removable media for use under Windows 3.1/3.11 and DOS,
you can follow these steps.
- If running Windows 3.1x, install Adaptec EZ-SCSI for Windows 3.1x.
Insert the Adaptec EZ-SCSI Setup Disk. Run SETUP.EXE
- If running DOS, install Adaptec EZ-SCSI for DOS. Insert the Adaptec EZ-SCSI Setup Disk.
Run INSTALL.BAT
- After installing either Adaptec EZ-SCSI for DOS/Windows, reboot your system.
- If you are running DOS, run AFDISK.EXE which is located in your
Adaptec EZ-SCSI subdirectory (e.g. C:\SCSI). If you are running
Windows, you can use WINPART.EXE which is a Windows 3.1x partitioning utility.
- Partition your new media as you desire.
- Reboot your operating system.
- At this point, your new drive is under ASPIDISK.SYS control (Adaptec's disk driver for DOS).
- Although optional, we recommend that you run DOS FORMAT on your
new drive letter(s) so that the drive can be scanned for defects.
Below is additional information you may find useful:
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CD-ROM SUPPORT
Windows 95
Windows 95 includes built-in support for SCSI-2 CD-ROM drives and some
SCSI-1 devices. If your host adapter already has its miniport loaded,
95 will automatically detect and support your SCSI CD-ROM drive.
We recommend that you boot Windows 95 without a DOS CD-ROM device
driver (e.g. ASPICD.SYS). You can comment out such entries from your
CONFIG.SYS and then reboot. We have seen Windows 95 incorrectly create
two drive letters for the same device when a DOS CD-ROM driver is
resident.
Windows NT
Please consult your Windows NT documentation on using CD-ROM drives with Windows NT.
Windows 3.1/3.11 and DOS
Adaptec's CD-ROM driver for DOS/Windows, ASPICD.SYS, has been written to
support any SCSI-2 CD-ROM drive and most SCSI-1 CD-ROM drives. Simply
run Adaptec EZ-SCSI and the correct additions will be made to your
CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT.
Adaptec EZ-SCSI has been tested with CD-ROM drives from the following vendors:
AIWA | Compaq | Chinon | Denon | Goldstar |
Hitachi | IBM | LMS | Matsushita | NEC |
Panasonic | Nakamichi | Philips | Pioneer | Plasmon Data |
Plextor | Ricoh | Sanyo | Sony | TEAC |
Texel | Toshiba | Yamaha |
Below is additional information you may find useful:
The following drives do not directly support Photo CD:
Chinon | CDS 431 |
Denon | DRD 235 |
LMS (Phillips) | CM 214 |
NEC | CDR 72 |
NEC* | CDR 74 |
NEC* | CDR 84 |
*NOTE: 74-1 and 84-1 do support single-session Photo CD
By adding /XAEMUL to the ASPICD.SYS command line, in your CONFIG.SYS,
we will emulate support for single-session Photo CD on these drives.
The following drives do not support parity:
NEC CDR 38 |
NEC CDR 55 |
NEC CDR 72 |
NEC CDR 73 |
NEC CDR 74 | (NOTE: 74-1 and 84-1 do support SCSI parity) |
NEC CDR 84 |
NEC CDR 210 | (NOTE: 210P does support parity) |
Please consult your host adapter documentation on how to disable parity support
on your SCSI host adapter.
The following jukebox CD-ROM drives are fully supported:
Nakamichi | MBR-7 |
Pioneer | DRM 600 |
Pioneer | DRM 604X |
Pioneer | DRM 624X |
A drive letter will be assigned for each CD.
Some older SCSI CD-ROM drives do not support synchronous negotiation
properly. If you encounter problems using your CD-ROM drive, try
disabling synchronous negotiation. Please refer to your host adapter
documentation on how to do this.
In rare circumstances, you may encounter problems with Windows 3.x and
DOS reading your CD-ROM drive.For example, you change the contents of the CD-ROM drive,
but when you run DIR, the contents of the previous CD is displayed instead of the new CD's.
One solution is to add the /NOLUN switch to the aspicd.sys line in config.sys.
We have only seen this problem with the Sony 55s - an older double speed
CD-ROM drive. By adding the /NOLUN switch, you will however loose support
for any CD Changers or PD drives that you also have connected to your PC.
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TAPE DRIVE SUPPORT
Windows 95
NOTE: Adaptec Backup is only shipped with the full version of Adaptec
EZ-SCSI. This does not include the 'L' license version (e.g. 4.00L).
Adaptec EZ-SCSI includes a full-featured Backup application designed
for Windows 95. Adaptec Backup can backup to a SCSI tape drive, and if
you do not have a SCSI tape drive attached, it can also backup to your hard
drive or to a removable hard drive. Adaptec EZ-SCSI has
been tested for compatibility with the following SCSI tape drives:
Manufacturer | Model Number | Notes |
Archive | 2150S | (1) |
Archive | 2525S | (1) |
Archive | Python DAT Drive (4320 NT) |
Archive | Python DAT Drive (4324) |
Archive | Python DAT Drive (4352XP) |
Colorado Memory Systems | Power DAT |
Conner | CTM3200 | (2) |
Conner | CTD4000 |
Conner | CTD8000 |
Conner | CTD8000E |
Exabyte | EXB-2501 | (1)(2)(3) |
Exabyte | EXB-4200C |
Exabyte | EXB-8205 |
Exabyte | EXB-8500 |
Exabyte | EXB-8505 |
Exabyte | EXB-8700 |
Hewlett-Packard | 35470 |
Hewlett-Packard | 35480 |
Hewlett-Packard | C1533A |
Hewlett-Packard | C1534A |
Hewlett-Packard | C1536A |
Hewlett-Packard | T4000 |
Hewlett-Packard | 1534 |
Hewlett-Packard | SureStore 2000 C1534A |
Hewlett-Packard | SureStore 5000 C1536A |
Hewlett-Packard | SureStore 6000 C1533A |
Sony | SDT-4000 |
Sony | SDT-5000 |
Sony | SDT-5200 |
Sony | SDT-7000 |
Tandberg | TDC 3500 |
Tandberg | TDC 3700 |
Tandberg | TDC 3800 |
Tandberg | TDC 3820 |
Tandberg | TDC 4100 |
Tandberg | TDC 4120 |
Tandberg | TDC 4200 |
Tandberg | TDC 4222 |
Unisys | 2525E | (1)(2) |
WangDAT | 3100 |
WangDAT | 3200 |
WangDAT | 3300 |
WangDAT | 3400DX |
Wangtek | 5525S | (1)(2) |
Wangtek | 5100HT | (1)(2) |
(1) Adaptec Backup does not support tape linking on these SCSI tape
drives. Tape linking allows you to continue a backup across two or
more tapes.
(2) On this tape drive, restores and compares will be slow to start.
This does not affect backups.
(3) On this tape drive, only a single Backup set is supported.
Please note the following:
- Unerase and Rename Tape are not supported by SCSI tape drives so these
menu options will be grayed out when running Adaptec Backup.
- Doing a Secure Erase on a DAT drive will usually take several hours
to complete. During this process, you will not be able to exit the
application until the Secure Erase is complete.
- If you are using a DAT tape that was previously formatted by a
different tape backup application, Adaptec Backup may take up to 5 minutes
before it can initialize the tape. You should format the tape with Adaptec
Backup once the initialization is complete.
- If you are encountering problems backing up to a hard disk, network drive,or
removable media drive - make sure that there is no SCSI tape drive attached to
your system. Backup to a hard disk, network drive, or removable media drive
is only supported when there is no SCSI tape drive attached.
- Adaptec backup does not support backing up a floppy to a tapedrive.
Windows NT
Adaptec EZ-SCSI does not include a tape backup package for Windows NT. Please consult
your Windows NT documentation for additional informationon the SCSI tape backup application
that ships with the operating system. In addition, if you have the CD-ROM version of
Adaptec EZ-SCSI, you can view Adaptec's 3rd party directory for a list of companies who
provide SCSI tape backup support. Simply double click on the file 96dir.hlp in the \ACAP
directory of your Adaptec EZ-SCSI CD-ROM.
Windows 3.1/3.11 and DOS
Adaptec EZ-SCSI does not include a tape backup package for DOS or Windows 3.1x. If you
have the CD-ROM version of Adaptec EZ-SCSI, you can view Adaptec's 3rd party catalog for
a list of companies who provide SCSI tape backup support. Simply double click on the file
96dir.hlp in the \ACAP directory of your Adaptec EZ-SCSI CD-ROM.
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CD RECORDABLE SUPPORT
Windows 95
NOTE: CD Writer is only shipped with the full version of Adaptec EZ-SCSI. This does not
include the 'L' license version (e.g. 4.00L).
When using a CD Recordable drive, you need an application to write to the CD. It is also
desirable to have a device driver that assigns a drive letter to the CD Recordable so that
you can also read files from the drive in the standard way. If your CD Recordable supports
audio, this would also allow you to play audio CDs.
Most CD Recordable devices today report themselves as a Write Once Read Many (WORM) device.
Some of the newer CD Recordable devices report themselves as a standard CD-ROM drive. If your
device is of the latter type, Windows 95 should automatically assign a drive letter to your
drive. If your device reports itself as a WORM device, then you will need to load our real
mode CD-ROM driver and Microsoft's CD-ROM extensions (MSCDEX.EXE). The simplest way to load
the real mode drivers is to exit Windows 95 back to DOS and run Adaptec EZ-SCSI for DOS
discussed earlier). Once these changes are made, you can reboot back into Windows 95 and
have a drive letter assigned to your CD Recordable drive. Windows 95 will mark your CD
Recordable device as "Unknown." This is normal.
In addition to reading from a device, you will need the ability to create a CD-ROM.
Adaptec EZ-SCSI includes two applications that allow you to fully utilize your CD Recordable
drive:
CD Writer Allows you to copy files from your hard drive to your CD Recordable drive.
CD Copier Allows you to backup CDs from your source SCSI-2
CD-ROM drive to one of the destination CD Recordable devices listed below. You can backup
audio CDs and data mode 1 CDs (most CDs), but not photo CDs or CD-i CDs.
The list of CD Recordable drives that Adaptec CD Writer supports are:
Manufacturer | Model Number |
Creative Labs | CDR 2000 |
Grundig | IPW100 |
HP | C4324/C4325 |
JVC | XR-W2001 |
JVC | XRW2010 |
Kodak | PCD 200 |
Kodak | PCD 225 |
Kodak | PCD 600 |
Mitsumi | CR-2200CS |
Olympus | CDS615E |
Optima | CD-R 650 |
Philips | CDD 521 |
Philips | CDD 522 |
Philips | CDD 2000 |
Pinnacle | RCD-1000 |
Pinnacle | RCD-5020 |
Pinnacle | RCD-5040 |
Pioneer | DW-S114X |
Plasmon | 4100/2 |
Plasmon | CDR4220 |
Ricoh | RS1060C |
Ricoh | RO1060C |
Ricoh | 1420 |
Smart and Friendly | CD-R 2000 |
Sony | 920S |
Sony | 924S |
Yamaha | CDR 100 |
Yamaha | CDR 102 |
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The list of CD Recordable drives that Adaptec CD Copier supports are:
Manufacturer | Model Number | Audio Write | Notes |
Grundig | IPW100 | Yes |
HP | C4324/C4325 | Yes | (2) |
Philips | CDD 521 | No |
Philips | CDD 522 | Yes |
Philips | CDD 2000 | Yes | (2) |
Plasmon | 4100/2 | Yes |
Ricoh | 1060C | Yes | (1) |
Ricoh | 1420 | Yes | (3) |
Sony | 920S | Yes |
Yamaha | CDR 100 | Yes |
Yamaha | CDR 102 | Yes |
(1) Audio copy only works on this CD Recorder if the source CD can read audio at 2x
or greater such as a Sony 561.
(2) With the HP C4324/C4325 (4020i) and the Philips CDD2000, you will need v1.20 or later of
their firmware. You can use the SCSI Explorer to determine the revision level of your unit.
(3) "After a successful simulated copy do a real copy" does not work on this drive. You should do
a simulated copy by leaving the "Simulate Only" checkbox checked. If this is successful, uncheck
the "Simulate Only" checkbox and run copy again.
WARNING: If your CD-Recordable drive is one of the ones that report themselves as a standard CD-ROM
drive, you will need to turn off Auto Insert Notification for it while recording discs. To do this:
- Run Device Manager. You can do this by moving the mouse pointer over "My Computer," clicking
the right mouse button, and selecting the "Properties" menu option.
- Select the "Device Manager" option.
- Expand the "CDROM" tree to view your CDROM drives.
- Double-click on your CD-Recorder.
- Select the "Settings" option.
- Remove the check box from the "Auto insert notification" field.
- Reboot your system.
Because CD-ROM drives vary in how well they support the SCSI specification, we have created
a table below which contains a list of the CD-ROM players that we have successfully made
copies of CDs from, and notes on any problems we encountered. If your drive is not on this
List, but is a derivative of one of these drives, or is fully SCSI-2 compliant, you should
be able to use it as a source to backup data CDs from. We also note in this table those
drives which you can use as a source to backup an audio CD. Reading of audio tracks is not
a SCSI-2 defined function, and is implemented differently by those newer drives that actually
support this feature.
Supported source CD-ROM drives:
Manufacturer | Model Number | Audio Read | Notes |
Compaq | CDU561-31 | Yes |
Compaq | CDU661-31 | No |
Compaq | CR-503 | Yes |
Chinon | CDS 535 | No |
Hitachi | CDR 6750 | No |
IBM | Internal CD-ROM | No |
IBM | Enhanced CD-ROM II | Yes |
IBM | CDRM00103 | Yes |
NEC | CDR 38 | No |
NEC | CDR 74-1 | No |
NEC | CDR 84-1 | No |
NEC | CDR 400 and later | -- | (1) |
Panasonic | CR 532 | No |
Panasonic | CR 503 | Yes |
Panasonic | CR 504 and later | Yes |
Plextor/Texel | DM 3024 | No |
Plextor/Texel | DM 3028 | No |
Plextor/Texel | PX-4xCH | Yes |
Plextor/Texel | PX-6xCH | Yes |
Sanyo | CDR 250S | No | (2) |
Sanyo | CDR 254S | No | (2) |
Sony | CDU 541 | No |
Sony | CDU 561 | Yes | (3) |
TEAC | CD-50 | No |
TEAC | CD-56S | Yes |
Toshiba | 3401 | No |
Toshiba | 3501 | Yes | (4) |
Toshiba | 3601 and later | Yes |
(1) To date, the NEC drives we have tested read audio too slow to make a successful copy.
(2) This drive sometimes has problems reading the last blocks of a CD made by a CD Recorder
(e.g. a copy of a copy), and has resulted in CDs being ruined. If a SCSI command takes too
Long, Windows 95 and Windows NT will reset the SCSI bus and SCSI devices, thereby halting the
writing process on the CD Recorder resulting in a ruined disc.
(3) In our testing of this device, there is a background hiss when copying audio CDs.
(4) We have seen some read positioning errors on this device causing audio copying to sometimes fail.
Additional information on CD-ROM readers:
- We do not support copying CDs from a Pioneer DRM-604X CD-ROM drive.
- The Adaptec CD Copier runs best if you do not have a dirty or scratched source CD as
timeouts can occur given this condition.
If you are familiar with CD-Recorder technology, you already know that once you start writing
a track, you cannot stop until that track has been completely written. The write process must
be uninterrupted otherwise theblank CD will be ruined.
To reduce the need for a large amount of free space on your hard disk, Adaptec CD Copier does
on the fly recording (i.e. it reads and writes directly to and from the CD player and
recorder without hard disk buffering). It is therefore very important that we can read data
from your CD player at least as fast as we can write to your CD-Recorder. By default, we
determine the speed of your CD player, and then set the CD Recorder speed to be slower than
this. You can view the speed that we set the CD-Recorder to in the text shown in the status
window "Now copying CD at 2x ...". If you feel the speed we choose for the CD-Recorder is
too conservative, you can set it to a higher one using the Advanced tab. Before you choose a
faster speed, please make sure that the speed you pick is not faster than the speed of the
CD player. To check for this with data CDs, place a data CD like your Adaptec EZ-SCSI CD
into your CD player, and run Adaptec SCSIBench. Choose your player and start a 64K sequential
read benchmark on it. To set your recorder to 2x (i.e. double speed) the transfer rate as
displayed by Adaptec SCSIBench on the right hand side should be at least 300 KB/sec. We do not
provide you with a method to test the speed when reading an audio CD. Most of the drives
that we have tested, except for Sony, read audio at 1x. Therefore you will not be able to
make an audio backup with any CD Recorder that cannot be set to 1x.
Most users will place their CD-ROM drive and CD-Recorder on the same host adapter. That is
how we test it here at Adaptec. In order to achieve the performance that we desire, it is
important that your CD-ROM drive NOT have excessive SCSI bus utilization. Fortunately, most
SCSI CD-ROM drives get on and off the bus very quickly and support SCSI disconnect. Unfortunately,
a few do not and this can cause buffer underrun conditions.
How do you test for this? First off, make sure that you have SCSI disconnection enabled at
all times. Windows 95 allows you to enable or disable it from the Device Manager. Please
leave it enabled. Also, many SCSI host adapters allow you to change the settings via their
configuration software (e.g. SCSISelect). These will ship with disconnection enabled by
default. If you disabled disconnection, please turn disconnect back on before trying this
software. If you have a SCSI disk drive also hooked up to the same host adapter as the CD-ROM
drive and CD-Recorder drive, you're ready to run our test. Run Adaptec SCSIBench and do a
64K sequential read benchmark of your disk drive only. You'll see a number appear, typically
between 1 MByte/sec and 7 Mbytes/sec. Now, insert a data CD into your CD-ROM drive. Add it
to your benchmark by clicking on its device name. At this point, both devices are part of
the benchmark. If you have a 3x CD-ROM drive, you will see that your CD-ROM drive is sustaining
about 450 Kbytes/sec. If you see that your disk drive's throughput has dropped dramatically
down to about the same value (e.g. 450), then you probably have a CD-ROM drive that has
excessive bus utilization. If you encounter this, you may need to set our CD Copier software for
single speed copies (e.g. 1x). We do not see this with many CD-ROM drives.
Windows NT
Most CD Recordable devices today report themselves as a Write Once Read Many (WORM) device.
Some of the newer CD Recordable devices report themselves as a standard CD-ROM drive. If your
device is of the latter type, Windows NT should automatically assign a drive letter to your
drive. If your device reports itself as a WORM device, then you will not be able to have a
drive letter assigned to your drive.
Adaptec CD Writer and Adaptec CD Copier are both supported under NT.See the discussion
under Windows 95 above for additional details.
Windows 3.1/3.11 and DOS
Adaptec EZ-SCSI for Windows 3.1/3.11 and DOS does not include software to allow you to write
your own CDs. Adaptec's CD-ROM driver, ASPICD.SYS, does allow you to assign a drive letter
to your CD Recordable drive. Third party applications, such as Incat's Easy CD Pro, allow you
to master CDs under Windows 3.1/3.11.
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SCSI SCANNER SUPPORT
Windows 95
Hewlett-Packard Scanner Support
If you need to obtain scanner drivers from HP for Windows 95, contact one of the following services:
- HP Bulletin Board Service at (208) 344-1691
- CompuServe: GO HPPER
- America Online: HP
- Internet HP anonymous FTP at 192.6.71.2 or ftp-boi.external.hp.com
- World-Wide Web at URL http://www.hp.com
- Order by mail by calling (970) 339-7009
To install the HP ScanJet scanner drivers refer to the README.TXT filethat is included with
the scanner drivers from HP for Windows 95.
Other Scanners
Contact your scanner company for information on Windows 95 support.
Windows NT
Contact your scanner company for information on Windows NT support.
Windows 3.1/3.11 and DOS
Hewlett-Packard Scanner Support
Hewlett-Packard's driver for HP ScanJet II scanners is included with Adaptec EZ-SCSI.
This driver is named SJIIX.SYS and is designed to function with Adaptec's ASPI managers.
Installation of the driver is easy. Simply run Adaptec EZ-SCSI. Adaptec EZ-SCSI automatically
detects your HP scanner and installs SJIIX.SYS into the appropriate section of your CONFIG.SYS
file. You can then install HP's DESKSCAN software if it is not already installed.
Epson Scanner Support
To connect your PC system with the SCSI interface on an Epson scanner, first install an Adaptec
SCSI Host Adapter interface board and EZ-SCSI software onto your PC system before loading the
Epson Scanner Utility and TWAIN driver. The Epson scanner TWAIN driver should be included
with your Epson scanner.
Other Scanners
Most scanners support the ASPI interface. Contact your scanner vendor to determine if their
scanner and software support ASPI.
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WINDOWS 95/NT GENERAL TROUBLESHOOTING
ASPI Layer
There is a known problem with the Service Pack 4 release of Windows NT 3.51 which prevents
Adaptec EZ-SCSI from automatically updating the ASPI layer. The new versions of the ASPI
files will be copied to your system during EZ-SCSI installation, but they will have
incorrect filenames. If you are running under Windows NT 3.51 Service Pack 4 while
installing Adaptec EZ-SCSI and want to update your system to use the new ASPI layer, you
must rename these files to their correct filenames as listed below:
Incorrect Filename | Correct Filename | Location on System |
WINASPI.ADP | WINASPI.DLL | C:\WINNT\SYSTEM\ |
WOWPOST.ADP | WOWPOST.EXE | C:\WINNT\SYSTEM\ |
WNASPI32.ADP | WNASPI32.DLL | C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\ |
ASPI32.ADP | ASPI32.SYS | C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ |
Once you have completed renaming these files reboot your system in order for the new
ASPI layer to take effect.
Adaptec EZ-SCSI for Windows 95 requires that your miniport drivers (discussed earlier)
are properly installed. You can do this by moving the mouse pointer over "My Computer,"
clicking the right mouse button, and selecting the "Properties" menu option. Find your SCSI
host adapter(s), double-click on it, and then you can determine whether or not your miniport
driver is properly installed.
The Adaptec EZ-SCSI application, SCSI Explorer, displays a tree-view list of your SCSI host
adapter(s) and all devices connected to it. The order which SCSI Explorer displays your SCSI
host adapters may not be in the order you think it should be in.
For example:
You may have an Adaptec AHA-2940 PCI SCSI host adapter and an AHA-1542CP ISA SCSI host adapter
in your system, and you are booting from the AHA-2940. The AHA-2940 is considered to be host
adapter #0 while the AHA-1542CP is considered to be host adapter #1. The SCSI Explorer may
display the AHA-1542CP first in the tree-view list followed by the AHA-2940. This ordering issue
is the result of the manner in which the Adaptec miniports scan for SCSI host adapters. Adaptec
SCSI Explorer will continue to work just fine.
The Adaptec SCSI Interrogator, part of the SCSI Explorer, allows you to lock, unlock, or eject
media from a removable media device. Some SCSI devices do not support these commands.
Under Windows NT, Adaptec SCSI Power Management and Drive Light do not support striped hard drives.
Windows NT, Adaptec Drive Light does not monitor ASPI calls. For example, the icons in Drive
Light will not flash when running Adaptec SCSIBench. This is not a limitation if running under
Windows 95.
Under Windows NT, SCSI tape drives will not appear under Drive Light unless you first load the
SCSI tape driver that ships with Windows NT. There are two steps you must do:
- Install the tape driver. To install the tape driver, go to Windows NT Setup and choose
"Options," choose "Add/Remove Tape Devices," choose "Add," select the appropriate tape drive
model, and choose "Install."
- Reboot your system.
When running Drive Light under Windows 95, you may notice that we flash your CD-ROM drive every few seconds,
even though your CD-ROM drive's LED isn't flashing. This is correct behavior. Although the CD-ROM
drive's LED doesn't flash, Windows 95 is checking the drive every few seconds to see if a media change has occurred.
Adaptec EZ-SCSI applications (e.g. SCSI Explorer) do not support multiple LUNs. If you have a
multi-LUN device, you will only see LUN #0.
If you are playing an Audio CD, and you try to access the CD-ROM drive through an ASPI application
(e.g. SCSI Explorer), the audio may stop playing in order to service your I/O request. This is
normal behavior.
Adaptec SCSIBench does not support benchmarking the Pioneer DR-124X CD-ROM drive.
If you are running Adaptec SCSIBench under Windows 95, and it does not work with 64K transfers,
but works with any other transfer size, you'll need to upgrade your miniport driver. See the
README.TXT file on the Adaptec EZ-SCSI Setup Disk (CD-ROM version only) for information on newer
SCSI miniport drivers.
We have seen one system running Windows 95, with a number of 16-bit Windows applications resident,
generate a DDE error when the Adaptec EZ-SCSI installation attempts to add icons to your "Start"
menu. If you encounter this, please close all resident applications before installing Adaptec EZ-SCSI.
When using ASPI under Windows 95, the ASPI layer will report your SCSI host adapter as SCSI
ID #7, even if you've relocated it to a different ID. We recommend that you leave your SCSI host
adapter at the factory default setting of SCSI ID #7.
We have found that the Philips CDD-521 and CDD-522 CD Recordable drives not properly handle
synchronous negotiation. This can cause the device to not get recognized, or get incorrectly
recognized, by the operating system. If you are experiencing this problem, how you solve it
depends on the SCSI host adapter you are using and whether you're running Windows 95 or
Windows NT.
For Windows 95, Adaptec EZ-SCSI will automatically disable synchronous negotiation for these
devices on all of the host adapters except 2920. Please see the 2920 section under Miniports
on how to disable synchronous negotiation. If problems still persist, and if your host adapter
allows you to disable synchronous negotiation (e.g.SCSISelect), use your host adapter application
to disable synchronous negotiation.
For Windows NT, it's a little more involved. If you have a 2920 please see the 2920 section under
Miniports on how to disable synchronous negotiation. If the operating system does not correctly
detect the device, and if your host adapter allows you to disable synchronous negotiation
(e.g. SCSISelect), use your host adapter application to disable synchronous negotiation. If you
have a 2920 please see the 2920 section under Miniports on how to disable synchronous negotiation.
If your host adapter doesn't have such an application, you can follow these steps to disable synchronous
mode for your entire host adapter. There is no per device control. Run REGEDT32.EXE and:
- Open \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services
- Open the name of the particular miniport
- Create a key named Parameters
- Open Parameters and create a key named Device
- Open Device
- Add Value with the following information:
Value Name: DisableSynchronousTransfers
Data Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 1
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DOS / WINDOWS 3.1/3.11 ADAPTER SUPPORT
For Windows 95 and Windows NT, Adaptec EZ-SCSI supports any SCSI host adapter that includes
a miniport driver (discussed earlier). When installing Adaptec EZ-SCSI under DOS or Windows
3.1/3.11, the following SCSI host adapters are supported:
Parallel Port
Trantor MiniSCSI Plus (T348)
Trantor MiniSCSI EPP (T358)
Adaptec MiniSCSI Plus (APA-348)
Adaptec MiniSCSI EPP (APA-358)
Adaptec MiniSCSI EPP (APA-358A)
PCMCIA
Adaptec SlimSCSI (APA-460 & APA-1425/50/50A/60/60A)
ISA Bus
Trantor T160
Adaptec AVA-1502P,1502AP
Adaptec AVA-1505
Adaptec AVA-1515
Adaptec AHA-1510/1520/1522
Adaptec AHA-1510A/1520A/1522A
Adaptec AHA-1510B/1520B/1522B
Adaptec AHA-1530P/1532P
Adaptec AIC-6260/6360/6370 based SCSI host adapters
Adaptec AHA-1540B/1542B
Adaptec AHA-1540C/1542C
Adaptec AHA-1540CF/1542CF
Adaptec AHA-1540CP/1542CP
Microchannel Bus
Trantor T260
Adaptec AHA-1640
EISA Bus
Adaptec AHA-1740/1742/1744
Adaptec AHA-1740A/1742A
Adaptec AHA-2740/2742/2740T/2742T
Adaptec AHA-2740A/2742A/2740AT/2742AT
Adaptec AHA-2740W/2742W
Adaptec AIC-7770 based SCSI host adapters
VL Bus
Adaptec AVA-2825
Adaptec AHA-2840VL/2842VL
Adaptec AHA-2840A/2842A
PCI Bus
Adaptec AHA-2910
Adaptec AHA-2920
Adaptec AHA-2930
Adaptec AHA-2940
Adaptec AHA-2940AU
Adaptec AHA-2940W
Adaptec AHA-2940U
Adaptec AHA-2940UW
Adaptec AHA-3940
Adaptec AHA-3940W
Adaptec AIC-7850/7855/7860/7870/7880 based SCSI host adapters
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32-BIT SUPPORT FOR WINDOWS 3.1/3.11
Adaptec EZ-SCSI includes 32-Bit Disk Access support for Windows 3.1, Windows 3.11, and
Windows for Workgroups 3.11. To enable this support, simply run the "32-Bit Disk Access"
utility (FASTSCSI.EXE), and follow the instructions. Please note the following:
Our 32-Bit Disk Access device drivers only support Adaptec's busmastering line of SCSI host
adapters and Adaptec's AIC-6360/6370 based SCSI host adapters. These host adapters use the
following ASPI managers:
ASPI2DOS.SYS
ASPI4DOS.SYS
ASPI7DOS.SYS
ASPI8DOS.SYS
ASPIEDOS.SYS
If your host adapter does not use one of these ASPI managers, our 32-Bit Disk Access utility
will still allow you to enable or disable SCSI write caching.
If you are running Windows for Workgroups 3.11, and you are not able to get 32-Bit File
Access to work properly, the following comes from Microsoft's Windows for Workgroups resource
kit:
"32-bit File Access will not enable on a drive on which there are
open files during the initialization process of 32-bit File Access.
Because of this, 32-bit file access cannot be enabled through the
Control Panel Virtual Memory dialog when using a temporary swap file.
The temporary swap file is opened before 32-bit File Access
initializes and 32-bit File Access will not be able to enable on the
drive where the temporary swap file is located. There normally should
not be any open files at the time when 32-bit File Access is
initializing. If there are open files, they are probably the result
of some real mode TSR or a 3rd-party VxD."
When 32-Bit Disk Access is enabled, you need to have the latest WINASPI.DLL file in your
Windows' SYSTEM subdirectory. If an older revision is being used, you will experience
protection faults when running "ASPI for Windows" applications. EZ-SCSI 3.11 (and later)
will automatically install the correct WINASPI.DLL file. There are, however, a few older
packages that install the older WINASPI.DLL file. If you are experiencing protection faults,
while running "ASPI for Windows" applications, you should check the date of WINASPI.DLL in
your Windows' SYSTEM subdirectory. If it is dated 1995 or later, you have the correct file.
32-Bit Disk Access, in general, does not significantly improve performance under Windows 3.1
or Windows 3.11. To get optimal disk performance, you should use Windows for Workgroups 3.11
which, in addition to 32-Bit Disk Access, includes support for 32-Bit File Access. We are
seeing the larger performance gains by enabling 32-Bit Disk Access, 32-Bit File Access, and
SCSI write caching.
Our 32-Bit Disk Access driver cannot be used if you are also using our SCSI Power Management
driver. If you attempt to load both drivers, an appropriate error message will appear when
you run Windows. If you encounter this message, and if you prefer 32-Bit Disk Access over
SCSI Power Management, simply run Adaptec's 32-Bit Disk Access utility and select the
"Install" option. It will detect the conflict and remove the SCSI power management device
driver.
32-Bit Disk Access only supports drives under BIOS control (INT 13h drives). This does NOT
include drives under the control of ASPIDISK.SYS. Most of our SCSI host adapters allow you
to have up to 8 SCSI drives under BIOS control.
There is a known problem in Windows 3.1 and Windows 3.11 (does not affect Windows for Workgroups
3.11) in that its 32-Bit Disk Access solution only supports up to two hard drives. For example,
if you have three hard drives under BIOS control, only the first two would be under 32-Bit Disk Access.
If you encounter this situation, you can upgrade to Windows for Workgroups 3.11 which does not exhibit
this limitation.
Adaptec's 32-Bit Disk Access utility provides an uninstall option that will remove our 32-Bit
device drivers. If you would like to manually remove the drivers, remove the following entries
from the [386Enh] section of your SYSTEM.INI file:
device=fastscsi.386
device=aha1540.386
device=aha1740.386
device=aic7770.386
device=aic7870.386
device=aic6x60.386
(NOTE: Not all of these drivers will be present in your SYSTEM.INI file. Depends on what
type of host adapter you have.)
Enabling SCSI write caching can improve the overall performance of your system. Many SCSI
hard drives ship factory default with SCSI write caching disabled. Our 32-Bit Disk Access
utility will allow you to enable or disable SCSI write caching on a per device basis. We have
found a few older drives causing system hangs, under intense disk I/O, when write caching is
enabled. In the unlikely event that you encounter this situation, you can disable SCSI write
caching at any time by running our 32-Bit Disk Access utility.
On some systems, when you enable 32-Bit Disk Access, Windows' Control Panel incorrectly loads
the IDE 32-Bit Disk Access driver even if you only have SCSI disk drives. This will typically
result in an error message, while loading Windows, similar to the following:
"The Microsoft Windows 32-bit disk driver (WDCTRL) cannot be loaded on this computer because
of interrupt conflicts."
If you encounter this, simply remove the line "device=*wdctrl" from the [386Enh] section of
your SYSTEM.INI file. Another option is to run our 32-Bit Disk Access utility. It will
detect that your configuration is incorrectly loading the IDE device driver and ask if you
would like us to remove it.
For the technical user: If you select to turn on SCSI write caching, we will also turn
on the AWRE (Automatic Write Reallocation Enabled) bit in the Read/Write Error Recovery Page.
If you select to turn off SCSI write caching, the AWRE bit is set back to the factory default
setting (some drives ship factory default with AWRE set).
If you have an AVA-2825 or AHA-1520A/1522A, with BIOS support for
floptical drives enabled, and you have a floptical drive connected
to your system, 32-Bit Disk Access is not supported under Windows
3.1/3.11.
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DOS ASPI MANAGERS
Adaptec EZ-SCSI includes a number of ASPI managers for Adaptec's family of SCSI host adapters.
Below is additional information on some of Adaptec's ASPI managers.
ASPI2DOS.SYS
ASPI2DOS.SYS is the Adaptec ASPI manager for AIC-6260/6360/6370 based SCSI host adapters.
Adaptec EZ-SCSI automatically detects which host adapter you have installed, which ASPI
manager needs to be loaded, and what the correct command line switches are.
If you are using an Adaptec APA-1425/50/50A/60/60A SlimSCSI, make sure you have PCMCIA Card
and Socket Services installed BEFORE running Adaptec EZ-SCSI.
If you have an IBM ThinkPad 360Cs or an IBM ThinkPad 755, and are the Adaptec
APA-1425/50/50A/60/60A SlimSCSI, you need to move the following line to the last line
inside your CONFIG.SYS file:
DEVICE=C:\EZPLY\$ICPMDOS.SYS
Note: If the directory for EZ-Play is different than the default, use that directory instead.
The above line uses the standard directory as an example.
If you have an APA-1425/50/50A/60/60A (SlimSCSI) in your system and are installing ASPI2DOS.SYS
manually, you will need to add the following command line switch to ASPI2DOS.SYS in your
CONFIG.SYS file:
DEVICE = C:\SCSI\ASPI2DOS.SYS /D /PCMCIA /Z
If you cannot suspend/resume properly on an AcerNote 735c, with an APA-1425/50/50A/60/60A
(SlimSCSI), you're probably experiencing an I/O conflict between the APA-1425/50/50A/60/60A
and your laptop. The AcerNote uses port 35F for video control. You'll need to manually
exclude this I/O port. With SystemSoft Card and Socket Services, you can do this by editing
the CSALLOC.INI file and adding the line:
ioexclude=35F
If you are using the Gateway 2000 Colorbook laptop with an Adaptec APA-1425/50/50A/60/60A
(SlimSCSI), ASPI2DOS.SYS may fail during driver installation. If you encounter this problem,
you will need to run the CMOS setup utility and disable the "FastBoot" option.
The following note only applies to users with SCAM capable SCSI devices. Please ignore it if
you do not have such a device. SCAM stands for "SCSI Configured AutoMagically." With SCAM
Support, a host adapter can determine which SCSI IDs are not in use, and assign a free ID to
a SCAM capable SCSI device. Normally SCAM is not enabled, and you need to set switches on the
back of all of your SCSI peripherals to assign them unique SCSI IDs. You can enable SCAM support
by adding /SCAM+ to your ASPI2DOS.SYS command line.
For example:
DEVICE = C:\SCSI\ASPI2DOS.SYS /D /SCAM+
This will work with any AIC-6260/6360/6370 based SCSI host adapter
that does not have a BIOS enabled on the host adapter. If the host
adapter has a BIOS, and it is enabled, the command line switch is
ignored. If you have a SCAM capable BIOS (e.g. AHA-1530P), then you
can enable or disable SCAM support by running SCSISelect.
ASPI8DOS.SYS
ASPI8DOS.SYS is Adaptec's ASPI manager for AIC-7850/7855/7870 based
PCI SCSI host adapters. Running Adaptec EZ-SCSI will automatically
detect which host adapter you have installed, which ASPI manager needs
to be loaded, and what the correct command line switches are.
If you have an Adaptec PCI SCSI host adapter installed in your system,
and you have EMM386.EXE loaded from MS-DOS versions up to 6.2, your
system might hang if loading the ASPI manager after EMM386.EXE. This
has been fixed in the EMM386.EXE that ships with MS-DOS 6.22 and
later. If you experience this problem, you will either need to load
ASPI8DOS.SYS before EMM386.EXE, or upgrade to MS-DOS 6.22 or later.
If the ASPI manager detects a conflict, a message will be shown
explaining how to work around the problem. Other ASPI modules
(e.g. ASPICD.SYS) can continue to be loaded high.
There are several techniques for a driver to determine if its PCI SCSI
host adapter is installed in your system. ASPI8DOS.SYS will determine
which is the best method, and has been written to work around the
EMM386.EXE problems discussed above. There are three command line
switches you can use to force the ASPI manager to use a specific
method. These are:
/MB - This command line switch will force the driver to use the
PCI BIOS calls (INT 1Ah) to scan for PCI SCSI host
adapters.
/M1 - This command line switch will force the driver to use the
"Mechanism 1" method for scanning for PCI SCSI host adapters.
/M2 - This command line switch will force the driver to use the
"Mechanism 2" method for scanning for PCI SCSI host adapters.
For example, if you want to force the ASPI manager to find your PCI
SCSI host adapter using PCI motherboard BIOS calls, your CONFIG.SYS
would be:
DEVICE=C:\SCSI\ASPI8DOS.SYS /D /MB
NOTE: Most PCI systems do not support all three methods for scanning
for PCI cards. It is recommended that you let the ASPI manager
determine which method is suitable.
If you would like ASPI8DOS.SYS NOT to reset the SCSI bus, during
driver initialization, you can use the /NORST command line switch.
For example:
DEVICE=C:\SCSI\ASPI8DOS.SYS /D /NORST
If you would like ASPI8DOS.SYS to always reset the SCSI bus, during
driver initialization, you can use the /RESET command line switch.
For example:
If you would like ASPI8DOS.SYS to always reset the SCSI bus, during
driver initialization, you can use the /RESET command line switch.
For example:
DEVICE=C:\SCSI\ASPI8DOS.SYS /D /RESET
MCAM18XX.SYS
MCAM18XX.SYS is Adaptec's ASPI manager for its AHA-2920 PCI SCSI Host
Adapters. Running Adaptec EZ-SCSI will automatically detect which host
adapter you have installed, which ASPI manager needs to be loaded, and
what the correct command line switches are.
The command line switches for MCAM18XX.SYS are currently not documented
in our on-line "Device Driver Reference" Windows help file. The
following command line switches are supported:
/u- - Force Asynchronous Data Transfers on a Host Adapter.
/norst - Disables Hard Reset during initialization.
/y - Disables parity checking.
/m1 - Force PCI bus scanning using the "Mechanism 1" method.
/m2 - Force PCI bus scanning using the "Mechanism 2" method.
/mb - Force PCI bus scanning using INT 1A.
/l - Enable multiple LUN support
If installing the AHA-2920 under Windows 3.1/3.11, Adaptec EZ-SCSI
will automatically install the AHA2920.386 and AXPT.386 device drivers.
The following options are supported by AHA2920.386. To enable an
option, add the following to the [386Enh] section of your SYSTEM.INI
file:
AHA2920 = [/l-] [/u-] [/y]
/l- - Disables multiple LUN support.
/u- - Force Asynchronous Data Transfers on a Host Adapter.
/y - Disables parity checking.
The following options are supported by AXPT.386. To enable an option,
add the following to the [386Enh] section of your SYSTEM.INI file:
EZSCSI_OPTIONS = [/d]
/d - Displays version, adapter, and device information.
MA358.SYS
MA358.SYS is Adaptec's ASPI manager for its APA-358/358A parallel port
SCSI host adapters. Running Adaptec EZ-SCSI will automatically detect
which host adapter you have installed, which ASPI manager needs to be
loaded, and what the correct command line switches are.
MA358.SYS, by default, will automatically detect the type of parallel
port you are using. You can use the /Mnm switch to force a specific
mode, and to set the amount of time that the MiniSCSI "Fast" read and
write cycles are delayed (parallel ports on some computers require
delays). You must specify values for both 'n' and 'm'.
The 'n' specifies the amount of delay. Allowable values for 'n' are 0
through 7, with each number representing a 125-nanosecond (ns)
increment. A value of 7, for example, adds an 875 ns (7x125) delay to
the cycles. The default of 0 specifies no delays.
The 'm' parameter determines the mode. The allowable values are shown
in the following table:
Value of 'm' | Meaning |
0 | Auto-detect mode (the default). Automatically detects
the type of port and configures the APA-358/358A for
EPP if that port is detected to support EPP mode,
otherwise the port is set up as a standard parallel
port. |
2 | Forces unidirectional mode. |
4 | Forces bidirectional mode. |
8 | Assumes EPP 8-bit bidirectional mode. For this to
work, the parallel port must be set for EPP mode in
the CMOS setup program or by configuring jumper
settings on your EPP I/O card. For instructions on
using the CMOS setup program, see your motherboard
documentation. For instructions on configuring
jumpers on your EPP I/O card, see your EPP I/O card
documentation. |
For example, if your parallel port is configured for EPP mode, and you
would like the default read/write delay, your CONFIG.SYS would contain
the following:
DEVICE=C:\SCSI\MA358.SYS /m08
If you change the MA358.SYS options in the config.sys file, turn the
computer OFF and then ON again to have the changes take effect. (Do
not simply reboot the computer using Ctrl-Alt-Del.)
If you have an original NEC Ultralite Versa laptop, and MA358.SYS is
unable to detect the APA-358/358A SCSI host adapter, you should use
the /m20 command line switch. For example:
DEVICE=C:\SCSI\MA358.SYS /m20
If you are using the APA-358 with an NEC Versa E or Versa V system,
which uses the Western Digital Super I/O chip for FPP Parallel Ports
(Chip #WD76C30), you should use the MA358NEC.SYS ASPI Manager in your
CONFIG.SYS file instead of the standard MA358.SYS ASPI Manager.
If you are using an IBM ThinkPad 720 series computer, you should use
the MA358IBM.SYS ASPI manager in your CONFIG.SYS file instead of the
standard MA358.SYS ASPI manager.
When using the APA-358/358A, you should not configure your parallel
port for ECP mode. Instead, you should configure the port for EPP
mode.
MA358.SYS only supports one APA-358/358A in a system.
If you are using the APA-358/358A, and you are backing up from a SCSI
disk drive to a SCSI tape drive, and you are using SMARTDRV, we
recommend that you disable SMARTDRV write caching. Leaving write
caching enabled can cause the backup to fail.
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WINDOWS 3.1x/DOS GENERAL TROUBLESHOOTING
The ordering in which the Adaptec EZ-SCSI installer displays SCSI host
adapters detected is dependent on a number of factors. If you have
multiple SCSI host adapters, and the ordering displayed is not as
you would expect, do not be alarmed. Adaptec EZ-SCSI will still
properly edit your configuration files.
SMARTDRV 5.0 (in MS-DOS 6.2, Windows for Workgroups 3.11) now includes
caching for CD-ROM drives. There is a problem with SMARTDRV in its
support for XA formatted Compact Discs. If you experience "Not Ready"
errors, using SMARTDRV 5.0, add /E:2048 to your SMARTDRV command line.
For example:
C:\DOS\SMARTDRV /X /E:2048
You should install Adaptec EZ-SCSI to a drive letter that exists at
boot time. This would NOT include RAM drives, network drives,
removable drives, etc.
We have seen at least one case where an unstable video driver would
cause EZ-SCSI for Windows to hang during installation. If you are
experiencing similar problems, try using the standard VGA driver that
comes with Windows. If EZ-SCSI for Windows then installs properly,
you may want to contact your video card company for updated drivers.
In the unlikely event that you encounter a time-out failure when
EZ-SCSI for Windows scans the SCSI bus, you should run EZ-SCSI for
DOS first. Let it modify your CONFIG.SYS to load the appropriate
ASPI managers; reboot your system. You should then be able to run
EZ-SCSI for Windows.
If you have an AHA-2740W/2742W or AHA-2940W (Wide SCSI Host
Adapter), the SCSI Interrogator for Windows (SHOWSCSI.EXE) will only
show icons for SCSI IDs 0-7. You will not see IDs 8-15.
The SCSI Power Management Utility requires that the following line
be present in your SYSTEM.INI file under the [386Enh] section:
device=VSCSIPWR.386
The first time you run SCSI Power Management you will be prompted to
install the above driver. If you wish to disable the SCSI Power
Management functions, you can remove this line from your SYSTEM.INI
file in your WINDOWS subdirectory.
An issue with EMM386.EXE from DOS 6.2, and earlier, can cause problems
with PCI systems. The HIGHSCAN option can overwrite the PCI BIOS area
on some PCI systems, making the PCI BIOS detection useless. If your
Adaptec PCI SCSI host adapter is not detected, be sure to remove the
HIGHSCAN option from EMM386.EXE in your CONFIG.SYS file.
If you have a Trantor T160/T260 SCSI host adapter, EZ-SCSI will no
longer scan for this adapter if you select the default installation
option. In this case, you will need to select the custom installation
option, and manually select the adapter, to properly install Adaptec
EZ-SCSI.
The SCSI Power Management Utility is not compatible with the Trantor
T160 and T260 SCSI Host Adapters.
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CONTACTING ADAPTEC
Customer Service:
U.S. and Canada: (800) 959-7274
International: (408) 945-2550
Technical Support:
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