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Deskstar ..... DALS-3540 540MB SCSI
COMPATIBILITY
Combinations of System BIOS, Interface SCSI Controller Cards
Adapters, Operating Systems, and Device The DALS-3540 drive has been operated
Drivers, can affect the ability of storage successfully when connected via the
devices to function correctly. following controllers:
To minimise potential problems of this kind Adaptec 1740 (EISA)
IBM has verified connection and successful Adaptec 2740AT (EISA)
operation of this product with a range of Adaptec 2742AT (EISA)
Systems, Adapters and Operating Systems. Adaptec 2842VL (VLB)
Adaptec 2940 (PCI)
SYSTEMS Buslogic BT-445S (VLB)
The DALS-3540 drive has been operated Buslogic BT-747C (EISA)
successfully in the following platforms: Buslogic BT-757S (EISA)
ACER Power/e 486 Buslogic BT-946 (PCI)
ALR Evolution V-Q (note 2) DTC 3292 (EISA) (note 3)
Apple Macintosh Quadra 800 Future Domain TMC-7000 (EISA)
Apple Macintosh Power PC 8100/80 NexStor NXT-93 (PCI)
AST Premium 4/66d (note 3) QLogic FAST! SCSI ISA (note 7)
Compaq DeskPro 4/66i QLogic FAST! SCSI VESA (notes 2&7)
Compaq DeskPro XL566 QLogic FAST! SCSI IQ (PCI) (note 7)
Compaq SystemPro 486 XL (note 4) UltraStor U34F (VLB)
DECpc XL560
DECpc 560 ST OPERATING SYSTEMS
DELL Dimension XPS P60 The DALS-3540 drive has been operated
DELL 450 DE successfully under the following Operating
Gateway 2000 4DX2-66V Systems:
Gateway 2000 P5-60 Apple System 7.1 (note 1)
Gateway 2000 P5-90 Apple System 7.5 (note 1)
HP Netserver 4/66 LC MS DOS 6.2
HP Vectra 486/66st (note 5) PC DOS 6.3
NEC Powermate DX2/66e PC DOS 7.0
Novell Netware v3.12
SYSTEM BIOS Novell Netware v4.02
The DALS-3540 drive has been operated OS/2 v2.11 (note 7)
through the following BIOS variants: OS/2 v3.0 (WARP)
ACER - 1.2R1.2 SCO UNIX v3.2.4.2 (note 3)
AMI - 1.00.08.AF2 Windows v3.1
AMI - A02 Windows NT v3.5
COMPAQ - 386E4 Windows for Work Groups 3.11
COMPAQ - 486W (note 6)
HP - R.04.02
PHOENIX - 1.00.35B
PHOENIX - 4.02.23
PHOENIX - ISA v1.03 All trademarks are acknowledged. This information is
provided for the use of OEM Manufacturers attaching
PHOENIX - 1.0 A07 IBM disk drives and is believed to be accurate, but is
PHOENIX - 0.10 GLB05
supplied without guarantee.
PHOENIX - E486 v1.00.40
IBM OEM Storage Products Technical Marketing Support Group 1 of 2
Deskstar ..... DALS-3540 540MB SCSI
Identified Limitations:
Note 7
Note 1 It may not be possible to install the Device
For APPLE Platforms a Device Driver is driver shipped with QLogic Adapter using
required. the OS/2 device driver installation
The following drivers have been successfully procedures. In this case a file
used with this storage product: QL40OS2.ADD should be obtained from
Spot-On v2.3.1 - Macpeak QLogic BBS and added to the C:\OS2
HDTool Kit v1.5.1 - FWB Software Inc directory.
Formatter 1 Pro - Software Architects Inc In this situation the following changes will
be required to the CONFIG.SYS file:
Notes 2 The line BASEDEV=IBMINT13.I13 must
The QLogic FAST! SCSI VESA controller be REMarked out, and a new line
may not function correctly in the ALR BASEDEV=QL40OS2.ADD added.
Evolution V-Q System.
(ALR and QLogic Technical Support are
investigating.)
Note 3
Using the DTC 3292 EISA controller in the
AST Research Premium system and DELL
450DE System may require Parity to be
disabled for SCO UNIX installations.
(This may also be the case with other vendor
drives)
Note 4
Compaq EISA configuration program may
not function with a SCSI device connected.
In this case it is necessary to complete
configuration of the Adapter and then attach
the storage device.
Note 6
HP Vectra Systems may not run Windows
for Work Groups through a BusLogic
controller in 32 Bit File Access Mode.
(This may also be the case with other vendor
drives)
All trademarks are acknowledged. This information is
provided for the use of OEM Manufacturers attaching
IBM disk drives and is believed to be accurate, but is
supplied without guarantee.
IBM OEM Storage Products Technical Marketing Support Group 2 of 2
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