AMCC 9000 manual Driver Installation Under Windows

Working with the 3ware BIOS Manager (3BM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Starting 3BM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Exiting 3BM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Working in the 3BM Screens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Specifying the Unit Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Basic Steps for Creating a Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Specifying a Hot Spare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Enabling Auto-Carving for Units Larger Than 2 TB . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Leaving Individual Drives as JBODs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Initializing Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 RAID 0 Units. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 For RAID 5 and RAID 50 Units. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 For RAID 1 and RAID 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Checking the Motherboard Boot Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Installing Drivers and Making the Units Available For Use . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Driver Installation Under Windows 53

Materials Required . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Creating a 3ware Driver Diskette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Installing the 3ware Driver and Windows on a New Unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Installing the Driver on a System that Boots from a Different Device . . . 56 Making Units Managed by a 3ware Controller Available to Windows . . . 63 Finishing Up. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Driver Installation Under Linux 65

Obtaining 3ware Linux Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Be Sure to Use the Correct Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Determining the Current Version of your 3ware Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Driver Installation Under Red Hat Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Materials Required . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Creating a Red Hat Linux Driver Diskette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Installing the 3ware Driver and Red Hat Linux on a New Unit . . . . . 69

Installing the 3ware Driver on a Red Hat

Linux System that Boots From a Different Device . . . . . . . . . . 70 Compiling a 3ware Driver for Red Hat Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Driver Installation Under SuSE Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Creating a SuSE Linux Driver Diskette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Installing the 3ware Driver and SuSE

Linux with YaST2 on a New Unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Installing the 3ware Driver on a SuSE Linux

System that Boots from a Different Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Compiling a 3ware Driver for SuSE Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

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