Areca ARC-1120 Driver Installation for Windows, New Storage Device Drivers in Windows Server

DRIVER INSTALLATION

The following steps are required to create the driver diskettes:

1.The computer system BIOS must be set to boot-up from the CD- ROM.

2.Insert the SATA Controller Driver CD disc into the CD-ROM drive.

3.The system will boot-up from CD-ROM Drive; to create the driv- er diskettes, select the “SATA RAID controller Driver Diskette Make Utility”, and a screen with several choices will be displayed.

4.Move the highlight bar to the “Create Driver Disk” entry and press Enter.

5.The screen queries the SATA RAID controller support driver database and displays a list of available drivers. Move the highlight bar to the correct driver entry and press Enter to select.

6.The next screen will show “Please insert a formatted dis- kette into drive A:!! Press any key to continue”. Insert the formatted diskette in drive “A” and press any key to continue.

7.The window will display the driver building message: ”Now is writing to Cylinder…” as it copies the image file from the CD- ROM to Driver Diskette.

8.The “Write Complete !!” message will display when the driver diskette ready.

The driver diskette is now made. Proceed to the following instruc- tion for installation procedures.

4.2 Driver Installation for Windows

The SATA RAID controller can be used with Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003. Windows 2003 64- bit for AMD Opteron is also supported. The SATA RAID controllers support SCSI Miniport and StorPort Drivers for Windows Server 2003.

4.2.1New Storage Device Drivers in Windows Server 2003

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