WESTERN DIGITAL "PLUS"-FAMILY LAN ADAPTER BOARD DRIVERS FOR USE WITH NOVELL ADVANCED NETWARE v2.0a INSTALLATION GUIDE This directory provides a single driver for the entire "PLUS" (WD8003) family of Western Digital LAN adapter boards for XT/AT and Micro Channel bus systems: StarLAN: StarCard PLUS (WD8003S) StarLink PLUS (WD8003SH) StarCard PLUS/A (WD8003ST/A) Ethernet: EtherCard PLUS (WD8003E, WD8003EBT, WD8003EB) EtherCard PLUS/A (WD8003ET/A, WD8003E/A) Ethernet Twisted Pair: EtherCard PLUS/TP (WD8003WT) Included on this directory are the following files: INSTALL.DOC ; This document RELEASE.DOC ; Notes about this release INSTALL.BAT ; Installation batch file ASK.COM ; Program used by INSTALL.BAT ACOMDRV.OBJ ; \ BCOMDRV.OBJ ; \ CCOMDRV.OBJ ; > WD8003 Server drivers DCOMDRV.OBJ ; / SHELLDRV.OBJ ; WD8003 Shell driver The INSTALL batch file automates the installation of the Western Digital LAN drivers on the Novell GENOS-1 and GENSH-1 diskettes. Once the drivers are installed, the GENOS and GENSH procedures can be run exactly as described in the Advanced NetWare v2.0a Installation Manuals. The actions performed by the INSTALL batch file are described in detail in Appendix B of the NetWare 286 Installation-Part 1 Manual and Chapter 2 of the NetWare 86 Installation Manual. The GENOS-1 and GENSH diskettes each contain a number of subdirectories. Each subdirectory contains the driver for a specific LAN adapter board. The INSTALL batch file will add a subdirectory and the appropriate drivers to both Novell diskettes. This procedure is described in Step 2 below. The GENOS-1 diskette supplied by Novell does not have sufficient free space to install any more drivers. Prior to running the INSTALL batch file, you must therefore delete from GENOS-1 the drivers and subdirectory for one or more LAN adapter types that are not needed, taking care not to erase the NULL subdirectory. This procedure is described in Step 1 below. Be sure that you make working copies of the NetWare diskettes as instructed by Chapter 1 of the NetWare Installation Manuals. This will preserve your original NetWare diskettes. STEP 1 -- MAKING ROOM ON THE GENOS-1 DISKETTE Performing a DIR of the GENOS-1 diskette will reveal that it contains a number of subdirectories, each containing the drivers for a different LAN adapter. The number of these subdirectories will vary with different versions of NetWare. There is no room on the diskette to add any more drivers. To add the Western Digital "PLUS"-family LAN drivers, select one subdirectory on the GENOS-1 diskette corresponding to a LAN adapter that you never plan to use. Delete the driver files in the selected subdirectory first, and then remove the subdirectory itself. The subdirectory names correspond to LAN adapter boards as follows: ASYNC IBM ASYNC Remote Dial-In Line CLUSTER IBM PC Cluster CPRONET Proteon ProNET With Checksum ETHERNET 3COM EtherLink GENBIOS Generic NETBIOS (Interrupt 5Ch) GNET Gateway G/NET ISTAR Novell Star Intelligent NIC NESTAR Nestar PLAN 2000 NETHER 3COM 3C505 EtherLink Plus OMNINET Corvus Omninet PCN IBM PC Network PCNET Orchid/Santa Clara/AST PCnet SMC SMC/Pure Data ARCNET STARLAN AT&T StarLAN TRN IBM Token Ring VISTA Allen-Bradley VistaLAN/PC For example, to delete the GNET (Gateway G/NET) driver files and subdirectory, use the following DOS commands: cd \gnet erase *.* cd \ rmdir gnet IMPORTANT Do NOT erase the NULL subdirectory from the GENOS-1 diskette. This subdirectory is used by the GENOS procedure. STEP 2 -- RUNNING INSTALL Place this driver diskette in drive A: and type cd NETWAR20 INSTALL The batch file will lead you through the steps necessary to add the "PLUS" (WD8003) family drivers to both the GENOS-1 and GENSH-1 diskettes in a new subdirectory named WD8003. STEP 3 -- RUNNING GENOS AND GENSH Now that the Western Digital LAN drivers have been added to the GENOS-1 and GENSH-1 diskettes, you are ready to run the GENOS and GENSH utilities as described in the NetWare Installation Manuals. At the point where you are directed to select the LAN driver, the WD8003 drivers will appear in the list of choices as follows: DRIVER MENU CHOICE WD8003 WD Star/EtherCard PLUS SERVER DRIVER CONFIGURATION (GENOS) For XT and AT bus boards, there are various configurations of the drivers that you can select. Some are designated for adapter boards with 8 Kbyte RAM buffers, and some for boards with 32 Kbyte RAM buffers. The drivers configured for 32 Kbyte RAM buffers can be used with any size RAM buffers. This is becuase they will automatically revert to using 8 Kbyte RAM if they find that the adapter board only contains 8 Kbyte RAM or is configured to only use 8 Kbyte RAM. For XT/AT bus servers, choose one of the first 16 configuration selections that has an appropriate interrupt, I/O Base, and RAM address. For Micro Channel bus servers, a Micro Channel configuration must be selected; these are all described as "Micro Channel Adapter Auto Configuration". The usual configuration parameters such as interrupt, I/O base address and RAM base address have already been established by the system hardware configuration procedure when you installed the adapter board in your system. NOTE If your NetWare server contains more than one Micro Channel LAN adapter board, be sure that you manually selected a different Interrupt Request (IRQ) channel for each adapter before running the Novell GENOS procedure. To do this, you must use the manual configuration option of the Set Configuration program on your PC system Reference Diskette when you install the boards. SHELL DRIVER CONFIGURATION (GENSH) This Western Digital shell driver automatically adapts to either Micro Channel or XT/AT bus boards based on the type of adapter board that is actually installed in each workstation. For Micro Channel bus workstations, the shell driver automatically uses the interrupt, I/O Base and RAM address established by the system hardware configuration procedure when you installed the adapter board in the computer. For XT/AT bus workstations, the shell driver uses interrupt IRQ3, I/O base 280 (hex), and RAM buffer address D000. All RAM buffer sizes up to 32 Kbytes are supported. If an XT/AT bus workstation requires some other interrupt, I/O Base or RAM address, you can use the NWPATCH program to create a different configuration. This patch utility is available from Western Digital.