Users Guide
Installing and Configuring SCSI Drivers 3-13
Installation for Novell NetWare 4.11
This section provides the following information about installing the Dell SCSI drivers
for NetWare 4.11:
• Installing the EZ-SCSI utility
• Installing the Novell NetWare 4.11 operating system
• Installing and updating the Dell SCSI driver for NetWare 4.11
• Automatic driver loading using startup.ncf and autoexec.ncf
• Booting a NetWare server from a SCSI drive, formatting media, and using remov-
able media
• Troubleshooting error messages generated during initialization
Installation Overview
This subsection provides the information needed to install and use the Dell SCSI driv-
ers for Novell NetWare 4.11. The Dell SCSI drivers for NetWare support the optional
Adaptec AHA-2940U2W and all Adaptec 78xx series SCSI controllers.
Before you begin installation of the SCSI drivers for NetWare, you must create a dis-
kette of drivers for NetWare 4.11 and a diskette that contains the Adaptec EZ-SCSI
utility. Chapter 2, “Using the Dell Server Assistant CD,” provides instructions for creat-
ing these diskettes.
The Dell SCSI drivers for NetWare are fully tested and approved for NetWare. The
NetWare scsi subdirectory on the NetWare 4.11 drivers diskette you create contains
files to be used with NetWare 4.11. The following files appear in the scsi subdirectory
on the NetWare driver diskette:
• readme.txt — An American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII)
text file describing Adaptec’s drivers for NetWare
• aic78u2.ham — NetWare driver for Adaptec’s 7890 and AHA-2940U2W Ultra2
SCSI series host adapters
• aha2940.ham — NetWare driver for Adaptec’s 7860 and AHA-2940UW SCSI
host adapters
• nwaspi.cdm — Adaptec’s device driver for a CD-ROM drive
• nbi.nlm — File required by the NetWare bus interface
• nwpa.nlm — File required by the NetWare bus interface
• nwpaload.nlm — File required by the NetWare bus interface
• cdrom.nlm — File required by the NetWare bus interface