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SDMS™ SCSI Tools for Windows 95/98 and Windows NT 

This document provides the installation instructions for this utility and includes these topics:

Note for Windows NT users only

If your system already has an NT ASPI Manager installed, go to the installation instructions for SCSI Tools for Windows NT. Otherwise, the NT ASPI utility must be installed first before installing this SCSI Tools package. See the instructions below for installing NT ASPI. Please also refer to the documentation for NT ASPI.

Features

The SCSI Tools software supports these features:

  • Allows examination of SCSI device parameters
  • Power management
  • Disk cache management

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Description

SDMS SCSI Tools software is a support utility that provides a mechanism for examining host adapters and SCSI devices within the Windows 95/98 and Windows NT environments.

Installing SCSI Tools

Note: This utility requires ASPI support.

Although Windows 95/98 provides ASPI support, you will need to install ASPI support for Windows NT. Click here for instructions on how to install ASPI support for Windows NT.

The Software Device Drivers and Utilities CD-ROM contains the InstallShield setup program. Install the SCSI Tools software by executing this setup program in one of two ways:

If you are not using Internet Explorer:

  • Execute the program SETUP.EXE from the following directory. For example, if your CD-ROM is mapped to drive D:, the setup utility is located at:

    D:\UTILITY\WINDOWS\SYMTOOLS\I386\SETUP.EXE

If you are using Internet Explorer:

  • Click here to install SCSI Tools.
  • The software is safe. If you are asked whether you wish to download the file or run it from its current location, choose the latter. If you get a security warning stating that the object is unknown to the trust provider, simply click Yes to proceed.
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The setup program installs the SCSI Tools files into the proper directories as well as making the appropriate registry entries. After installing the software, you must reboot the computer.

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Installing NT ASPI for Win32

Note: To install ASPI support under Windows NT, you must have Windows NT Administrator capabilities.

The Software Device Drivers and Utilities CD-ROM contains the InstallShield setup program. Install NT ASPI by executing this InstallShield setup program in one of two ways:

If you are not using Internet Explorer:

  • Execute the program SETUP.EXE from the following directory.

    • For example, if your CD-ROM is mapped to drive D:, the setup utility is located at:

    D:\UTILITY\WINDOWS\NTASPI\I386\SETUP.EXE

If you are using Internet Explorer:

  • Click here to install ASPI support for Windows NT.
  • The software is safe. If you are asked whether you wish to download the file or run it from its current location, choose the latter. If you get a security warning stating that the object is unknown to the trust provider, simply click Yes to proceed.

The setup program installs the NT ASPI files into the proper directories as well as making the appropriate registry entries. After installing the software, you must reboot the computer.

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