Appendix E: Using the Adaptec Flash Utility ●99

Creating the Firmware Floppy Disks

Note: You will need at least two bootable MS-DOS floppy disks to complete this task.
You can’t create a bootable floppy disk using Windows2000.
To create the firmware floppy disks:
1Create a bootable MS–DOS floppy disk and copy these files to it:
●AFU.exe
●Axxxx01.ufi
where xxx is the model number of your controller.
Note: Most controller model numbers have a suffix (for example Adaptec 4800SAS). Check
that the .ufi file is the correct file for your controller before copying.
2Create additional bootable MS–DOS floppy disks and copy each additional Axxxx0x.ufi
file to a separate floppy disk. (Some RAID controllers have two UFI files; some have four.
Each goes onto its own floppy disk.)
3To use a menu-based AFU, see the following section.
To run the AFU from the command line, see page 100.
Running the Menu-based AFU
Note: You can also run the AFU from the command line (see page 100).
To run the menu-based AFU:
1Shut down your operating system and reboot to DOS from a bootable MS-DOS floppy
disk or from a DOS partition on a bootable drive. (You can use a disk drive connected to
the controller you are updating.)
2At the DOS command prompt, type
AFU
with no arguments.
The AFU’s main menu is displayed.
3Select Select Controllers, then select the Adaptec RAID controller(s) to be flashed.
To update multiple RAID controllers in the same system, update the boot controller’s flash
first, restart the computer, then update the flash for the remaining controllers.
4Select Select an Operation.
5Choose the operation you want, then follow the on-screen instructions to complete the
task:
●Update—Updates all the flash components on a RAID controller with the flash image
data from the UFI file.
●Save—Reads the contents of a RAID controller’s flash components and saves the data
to a UFI file, which you can use to restore a RAID controller’s flash if required.
●Ver if y —Read s the contents of a RAID con troller’s flash components and compares it
to the contents of the specified UFI file.
●Vers ion —Displays version information about a RAID controller’s flash components.
●List—Lists all supported RAID controllers detected on your system.