CMD Ultra DMA IDE Windows NT Drivers Installation Instruction --------------------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents ----------------- I) Windows NT 4.0 Fresh Installation Instructions. II) Boot from the NT4 CD. III) Installing CMD driver for existing Windows NT 4.0 system. Notes: 1. Install the CMD driver before switching IDE controller for Section II) and III). 2. Power off the system and connect hard drives and CD-ROM drives to the CMD IDE controller. Install it to the PCI slot that supports bus master. Enter system CMOS setup and clear the hard drives configuration to "NONE" or "AUTO." SAVE and EXIT CMOS. I) Windows NT 4.0 Fresh Installation Instructions. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Follow these instructions in this section if you are installing Windows NT 4.0. You may install Windows NT from floppies or CD. 1. Insert CMD IDE controller. Refer to Note 2 on this document. 2. If you choose to install Windows NT from floppies, locate the Windows NT Disk1 for the floppy installation. If you are installing from CD, locate the Windows NT Setup Disk1 for the CD-ROM installation. 3. Put the diskette into drive A and turn on your computer system. When prompted, insert Windows NT Disk2. 4. From the Welcome to setup screen, press Enter to setup Windows NT. 5. When prompted, select the option S to skip mass storage device detection. This allows you to manually select the drivers for your controller card. 6. Since the mass storage device detection was skipped in the previous step, Windows NT setup displays none in the list of recognized devices. Press S to specify an additional device. 7. Hit 'enter' for other (Requires disk provided by a hardware manufacturer). 8. Put the CMD driver diskette into drive A: and press the 'enter' key. 9. The screen displays the adapter driver support on the diskette. The "CMD CSA-64xx IDE Driver" is highlighted by default; press enter. 10. If you want to add additional host adapters, do so at this time by repeating step 5 for each host adapter and insert the manufacturer's driver diskette. 11. Press enter to continue with the Windows NT operating system installation. For those who want to get maximal performance, proceed to Step 10 of Section (IV). II) Booting from the NT4 CD ---------------------------- 1. Enter the system bios and setup the device bootable priority. For more information, please refer to your motherboard manual. 2. Save the system configuration. 3. Insert the NT4 CD into the CD-ROM drive and reboot. 4. When you see this message, "Setup is inspecting your computer's hardware configuration......", press F6 function key. 5. When prompted, select the option S to specify additional device. 6. Highlight other and hits enter. 7. For the remainder of the installation, follow the instruction display on the screen. For those who want to get maximal performance, proceed to Step 10 of Section (IV). III) Installing CMD driver for existing Windows NT 4.0 system. ------------------------------------------------------------------ ****************************************************************** The CMD driver MUST be installed before switching to CMD IDE controller for existing Windows NT 4.0 system. ****************************************************************** 1. Goto to the Control Panel and select the "Scsi Adapters" icon. 2. Select the "Drivers" tab and click on the "Add" button. 3. Click on the "Have Disk" button, insert the driver diskette provided by CMD. 4. Select the "Browse" button, look into the A:\WINNT directory, click "Open" for the OEMSETUP.INF file, and click ok. 5. Highlight the "CMD 64xx 32-bit IDE Adapter" and click ok. 6. When prompted for the location of the device driver, type a:\winnt and press enter if the driver diskette is in drive A:. 7. When prompted to reboot, you must reboot for the new changes to take effect. 8. Shut down the system and switch to CMD IDE controller. Refer to Notes 2 on this document. 9. Turn on your system and CMD IDE controller will work properly. (If the system fails with a blue screen with the third line from top say "Inaccessible_boot_device," then CMD driver is not loaded properly in previous steps. Go back to step 1 and follow the procedure again.) The following steps are optional, for those who are interested in getting maximum performance. 10. Run the CMDcfgnt.exe program by selecting the start button and select run. 11. In the general tab, you are allowed to change the PCI Bus speed and to enable DMA. To Change the "PCI Bus Speed" to match the PCI speed of your computer. If you have a 66MHz, 100MHz, 133MHz,166MHz, or 200MHz system, the bus speed is likely to be 33MHz. If you have a 60MHz, 90MHz, 120MHz, or 150MHz, then the bus speed is likely to be 30MHz. If you have a 75MHz system,then the bus speed is likely to be 25MHz. And, if you wish to enable the DMA capabilities of the controller, then check the "Enable DMA" box. This will configure the controller to use DMA on drives that support it. 12. The controller # (e.g. # = 0, 1,and so on) allows you to selectively tune each drive in a channel. For example, let's tune secondary channel slave drive to do ultra mode 1. In the secondary channel override, put a check for the slave box. Next, click on the UDMA button. Then, pull down the dialog and select mode 1. Click OK and reboot the system.