1-2AAA-130SA Series Installation and Hardware GuideSystem RequirementsThe minimum system requirements for the AAA-13xSA RAID cardaren PCI-based 90-MHz Pentium or equivalent motherboard withPCI-to-PCI bridge supportn An available half-length (for AAA-131SA) or full-length (forAAA-132SA/133SA), unobstructed PCI slot that supports BusMasteringn A minimum of one SCSI hard disk driven A standard 168-pin EDO 3.3v, 60ns or faster DIMM installed onthe adapter. (A DIMM is typically pre-installed.) See theAdaptec Web Site athttp://www.adaptec.com/raid for a list ofapproved DIMMs and vendors.n Five MBytes of free hard disk space for the AAA-13xSA RAIDcard software (five MBytes of free hard disk space on theWindows system disk are also required for the temporary filescreated during installation of the software)n Windows NT ™ 3.51 or 4.0 Server; or Novell NetWare 3.12 or4.11n A 3.5-inch 1.44-MByte primary (boot) floppy disk driven 64 MBytes system memory for NetWare; more than 64 MBytesmemory recommended for Windows NTn A CD-ROM drive for installation of Adaptec CI/O™Management SoftwareCaution: An Uninterruptable Power Supply (UPS) is a keyfeature for system fault tolerance. It is possible to lose datadue to power failure or power brown outs. In order to pre-vent errors or data loss due to power failure, Adaptecstrongly recommends that a UPS be installed to supportyour server system.
