AHA-1640
@0F1F.ADF
Adaptec Description File for AHA-1640
Drivers
AHA-1640
Features
Transfer Rates
RAID Support
W95 and DMA
No SCSI BIOS Installed
AHA-1640 in IML System
ADF 0F1F Sections
Drivers
DOSDRVR.EXE
DOS ASPI drivers 02/01/99
1640.EXE:
AHA-164x BIOS and Microcode, v1.08
AHA164X.EXE
OS/2 v2.x driver for AHA-164x
NW215.EXE:
Novell NetWare v2.15.
NW22.EXE:
NetWare v2.2.
NW30.EXE:
Novell NetWare 3.0.
NW310.EXE
Novell NetWare v3.10.
NW31X.EXE
Novell NetWare v3.1x.
NW4X.EXE
Novell NetWare v4.x.
Win95 and NT seemingly use the 1540 driver, which is for the ISA version of this card as far as I can tell.
AHA-1640
| U1 - Pads for PAL U9 - PAL 16R6B-2CN U11 - No Idea U14 - Chips P82C612 U6 - BIOS E100 U17 - Adaptec AIC-6250 Line Interface RN 1-9 (not 2 & 3) Allen Bradley 710A103 or BI 899-5 resistor networks J3, 4 Factory Use Only F1 - See Below |
U8 - PAL 16L8BCN U18 - PAL 16L8BCN U10 - National/Adaptec AIC-4600L U13 - Adaptec AIC-525L U5 - Microcode 1BE7 U16 - Adaptec AIC-580L U19 - No Idea RN2, RN3 Dale MDP1405 Termpacks ? DS1 - Activity LED |
RN BI resistor network 899-5, R220/330
F1 - From Peter- The fuses are Schurter
(Switzerland) microfuses of the MSF-125 series, order no. 0034.9875 - a
single package is 10 pieces at 125V / 1.6A, rated "quick acting F". Schurter
has an internet page with product catalogues in .PDF at www.schurter.ch
(Ed. A PTC resistor might work here
as well)
Connectors
J6 - Internal 50 pin SCSI cable connector
J7 - External 50 pin mini Centronics SCSI port
Transfer rates
Up to 8 MBytes/sec bus master
DMA on the Micro Channel bus
5 MB/s synchronous burst
or 2 MB/s asynchronous burst on the SCSI bus
RAID Support
The AHA-164x supports RAID Level 0, 1, and 5 with the help of third
party software. Ed. Whose software?
W95 and DMA Channels
It seems as if W95 has the choices of DMA Channels 5,
6, and 7 available. You may have to go into the System Programs (a.k.a.
Setup) and change the Arbitration Level to one that W95 is looking for.
No SCSI BIOS Installed
1. The AHA1640 says no SCSI BIOS installed. The chips are
there on the card.
The Bios is installed under following circumstances:
- no "drive C: " (Hex-80 device) previously installed
- drivesize is 1GB or below
- BIOS is enabled under the machine setup and on a valid adress
2. I can't get it to boot a HDD which boots fine form a Future Domain.
If the drive is over 1GB and / or low-level
formatted with a different
translation schem it will not be recognized anyway. The Adaptec Boot
BIOS is
"old fashioned" and has a 1GB-limit.
It is principially the same as used on the ISA AHA-1540B
(not -C or -CF) and has no CTRL-A support and uses the DOS-compatible HD
translation, which is a bit "register-width challenged".
You need to LL-Format the drive with Adaptecs SCSIFMT
... which requires a boot disk with the ASPI4DOS.SYS to have the drive
under ASPI-Manager control. The ASPI Manager is capable to handle drives
over 1GB - the Boot-Bios isn't.
Adapter BIOS
Memory location of the adapter's BIOS ROM. Note, if two
AHA-1640 host adapters reside in the system, one of them must have its
BIOS ROM disabled.
<DC000h>,
D8000h, D4000h, D0000h, CC000h, C8000h, BIOS disablednameditem
I/O Port Address
I/O Port of the adapter
<330h>,
334h, 234h, 134h, 230h, 130h"
Arbitration Level
Selectes the DMA channel used to transfer data.
<Level_5>,
Level_6, Level_7, Level_4, Level_3, Level_1, Level_0"
Interrupt Level
Interrupt channel used to report status.
<Int_15>,
Int_14, Int_12, Int_11, Int_10, Int_9
SCSI Address
SCSI address of the host adapter
<Addr_7>,
Addr_6, Addr_5, Addr_4, Addr_3, Addr_2, Addr_1, Addr_0
Sync Xfer Started by AHA-1640 Yes/No
Synchronous transfer on the SCSI bus will be started by
the adapter if 'Yes'.
<Yes>, No
SCSI Parity Checking On/Off
The host adapter will check SCSI Parity if
'On'
<On>, Off
Fairness On/Off
Bus Arbitrations Fairness. This controls whether the adapter
will release control of the bus when it has been using it exclusively.
<On>,Off