Cisco Systems UCSRAID9266CV C-15, Preparing Installation Disks With a Linux Operating System

Appendix C RAID Controller Considerations

Embedded MegaRAID Controller

Step 4 If necessary, use this command to change the file name of the driver update disk to a name with fewer than eight characters: copy dud-[driver version].img dud.img

Step 5 Open the DOS Command Prompt and navigate to the directory where raw write.exe is located. Step 6 Type the following command to create the installation diskette: raw write

Step 7 Press Enter.

You are prompted to enter the name of the boot image file.

Step 8 Type the following: dud.img

Step 9 Press Enter.

You are prompted for the target diskette.

Step 10 Insert a floppy diskette into the floppy drive and type: A:

Step 11 Press Enter.

Step 12 Press Enter again to start copying the file to the diskette.

Step 13 After the command prompt returns and the floppy disk drive LED goes out, remove the diskette. Step 14 Label the diskette with the image name.

Preparing Installation Disks With a Linux Operating System:

Under Red Hat Linux and SuSE Linux, you can use a driver diskette utility to create disk images from image files. Perform the following steps to create the driver update disk:

Step 1 Download the Cisco UCS C-Series drivers ISO, as described in Downloading the LSI MegaSR Drivers, page C-12and save it to your Linux system that has a diskette drive.

Step 2 Extract the dud.img file:

a.Burn the ISO image to a disc.

b.Browse the contents of the drivers folders to the location of the embedded MegaRAID drivers:

/<OS>/Storage/Intel/C600/

c.Expand the Zip file, which contains the folder with the driver files.

Step 3 Copy the driver update disk image dud-[driver version].img to your Linux system. Step 4 Insert a blank floppy diskette into the floppy drive.

Step 5 Confirm that the files are in the selected directory.

Step 6 Create the driver update diskette using the following command:

dd if=dud-[driver version].img of=/dev/fd0

Step 7 After the command prompt returns and the floppy disk drive LED goes out, remove the diskette. Step 8 Label the diskette with the image name.

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