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Creating a Celerity FC installation floppy

Note

You must have a floppy disk with the Celerity FC driver software to install a fresh copy of the Windows OS onto a disk attached to a Celerity FC adapter.

1Insert the Installation CD into a CD-ROM. The installation starts automatically.

If the Celerity FC installation does not start, navigate to the root of the CD and run autorun.bat

2Select Windows Drivers from the items on the left side of the screen.

3Select the appropriate CPU-based operating system from operating system choices.

4Select Create Miniport Driver Diskette or Create StorPort Driver Diskette for the desired operating system.

5Follow the instructions for creating the floppy disk.

Creating a floppy disk from a download

1Download the latest driver software from the

ATTO website, www.attotech.com.

2The download is a self-extracting executable that expands the driver software package. Run the self-extracting executable and select a folder to place the expanded software package.

3Navigate to the folder with the desired Celerity FC driver.

Note

The expanded software package contains a Miniport driver and may contain a StorPort driver. The Celerity FC Windows Miniport driver is in the base directory of the expanded software package. The Celerity FC Windows StorPort driver is in the StorPort subdirectory.

4Run makedisk.bat and follow the instructions for creating the floppy disk.

Mac OS X driver installation, update

1Extract the latest version of the device driver file to your desktop.

2Double click the installer icon and follow the on screen prompts.

3Reboot your system for the changes to take effect.

Linux driver installation, update

Note

You must have kernel header files for the appropriate kernel installed.

You must be logged in as root.

1At the command prompt type rmmod celerityfc

2Download the appropriate version of the device driver from the ATTO website.

3At the command prompt, extract the file using the command tar -xfz <filename.tgz>

4Enter the directory created in the above step and type make install to overwrite any previously-installed driver.

5Start the driver by typing modprobe celerityfc

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