HP Vectra VL5 5 Supplementary Manual
Scsi administrator’s guide
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Summary of Contents for HP Vectra VL5 5
- Page 1 HP Vectra PCs SCSI Administrator’s Guide SCSI Administrator’s HP Kayak PC Guide Workstations...
- Page 2 Notice The information contained in this document is subject to change without notice. Hewlett-Packard makes no warranty of any kind with regard to this material, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. Hewlett-Packard shall not be liable for errors contained herein or for incidental or consequential damages in connection with the furnishing, performance, or use of this material.
- Page 3 SCSI Administrator’s Guide...
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Page 4: Important Safety Information
To avoid electric shock, do not open the power supply. There are no user-serviceable parts inside. This HP PC is a class 1 laser product. Do not attempt to make any adjustment to the laser units. English... -
Page 5: Configuring The Scsi Bus
Configuring the SCSI Bus You can configure your PC’s SCSI bus using the SCSISelect utility. This utility is for use with Internal Wide 16-bit SCSI devices. Using SCSI Select The SCSISelect ATTENTION Note that the SCSISelect option displayed on your screen may be different to the one described here. - Page 6 Configuring the SCSI Bus Configure/View It is recommended that you do not change these settings. Interface Settings Menu SCSI Channel Interface Definitions: • Host Adapter SCSI ID Changes the adapter SCSI ID from its default value of 7. • SCSI Parity Checking Enable or disable host adapter SCSI parity checking.
- Page 7 More advanced SCSI devices can have several logical units. This option indicates the logical unit (or Lun) on which to boot for the drive chosen in the Use the HP Setup program to select the boot device. You enter Setup by pressing to display the Boot Device Configuration menu, to display the SCSI Device Configuration menu.
- Page 8 Configuring the SCSI Bus SCSI Device This menu lets you configure parameters for each SCSI device on the SCSI bus. To configure a specific SCSI device, you need to know which Configuration Menu SCSI ID it uses. To know the SCSI ID of a specific SCSI device, you can run the SCSI Disk Utilities (refer to page 7).
- Page 9 It is strongly recommended that you switch the Maximum Sync Transfer Rate to 20 MB per second when connecting an external SCSI device. • Enable Disconnection To optimize SCSI bus performance, Enable Disconnection should be set to • Initiate Wide Negotiation This option determines whether the SCSI channel attempts 16-bit data transfer instead of 8-bit data transfer.
- Page 10 Configuring the SCSI Bus Advanced Configuration It is recommended that these settings are not changed. Options Menu Plug and Play Scam Support ...Disabled Extended BIOS Translation for DOS Drives > 1 GByte ... Enabled Reset SCSI Bus at IC Initialization... Enabled Host Adapter BIOS (Configuration Utility Reserves BIOS Space)..
- Page 11 • Display <Ctrl><A> Message During BIOS Initialization When enabled, this option displays the message for SCSISelect(TM) Utility! disabled, this message is not displayed, although you can still press option is enabled by default. • BIOS Support for Bootable CD-ROM When enabled, this option provides BIOS support to boot your PC from a CD-ROM device connected to the SCSI host adapter.
- Page 12 How to Install Accessories Inside Your PC (summary information only) Upgrade & Maintenance Guide, downloadable from: http://www.hp.com/go/vectrasupport This guide, downloadable from: http://www.hp.com/go/vectrasupport Troubleshooting and Support HP User’s Guide HP Support and Information Services Part Number D6946-SAG-ABA Created in France - 09/98...