Chapter 7. Maintaining Your Controller

Updating the Driver and Firmware

You can download the latest drivers and firmware from the 3ware website, at http://www.3ware.com/support.

To download the driver or firmware

1On the 3ware website (www.3ware.com), navigate to Service and Support > Software Downloads.

2Click Download Released Software.

3Select the product and release desired.

4Select Driver or Firmware (as appropriate) as the item to download.

5Select the Operating System you are using.

6Click Next.

7When details about the download you requested appear, click the link for the item you want to download.

8Read and agree to the license agreement that appears.

9Click Save to save the file to disk.

10Uncompress the file to extract the driver or firmware files to a local directory.

(Make note of the absolute path to the local directory.)

To update the driver and firmware under Mac OS X

1Open a Terminal window.

2Type sudo tw_update and press Enter.

3When prompted, enter your administrator password. The usage for the tw_update command displays.

4Type:

./tw_update fw=[absolute path to the firmware image]

And press Enter.

After the “fw=”, be sure to enter the absolute path to the location of the firmware image. Do not type the brackets shown in the example above.

5 After the update has completed, restart your computer.

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