Areca ARC-1130, ARC-1110, ARC-1231ML/1261ML/1280ML Making Volume Sets Available to Windows System

DRIVER INSTALLATION

4.Press F6 as soon as the Windows screen shows ”Setup is inspecting your Computer’s hardware Configuration”. A message stating “Press F6 to specify thrid-party RAID con- troller” will display during this time. This must be done or else the Windows installer will not prompt for the driver for from the SATA RAID controller and the driver diskette will not be recog- nized.

5.The next screen will show: “Setup could not determine the type of one or more mass storage device installed in your system. ”Selected “specify additional SCSI adapter” by pressing S.

6.Window will prompt to place the “Manufacturer-supplied hardware support disk” into floppy drive A: Insert the SATA RAID series driver diskette in drive “A:” and press Enter.

7.Window will check the floppy; select the correct card and CPU type for your hardware from the listing and press Enter to install it.

8.After Windows scans the hardware and finds the controller, it will display:

“Setup will load support for the following Mass Storage devices:”

“Windows 2K, XP,2K3 (ARC1XX0) SATA PCI-X (or PCI- Express) RAID Controller”. Press Enter to continue and copy the driver files. From this point on, simply follow the Microsoft Windows installation procedure. Follow the on-screen instruc- tions, responding as needed, to complete the installation.

9.After the installation is completed, reboot the system to load the new drivers / operating system.

10.See Chapter 5 in this manual to customize your RAID vol- ume sets using Storage manager.

4.2.2.2Making Volume Sets Available to Windows

System

When you reboot the system, log in as a system administrator.

105