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Section 7
Windows XP Driver Installation(QL2300.SYS)
7.1
Introduction
This section provides instructions for installing the WindowsXP driver under the
following operating system conditions:
■Initial installation of WindowsXP with the QLA23xx HBA as the boot device
■Initial installation of WindowsXP with the QLA23xx HBA as an add-on
■Installation of the WindowsXP driver in an already installed WindowsXP
operating system
■Installing an updated WindowsXP driver in an already installed WindowsXP
operating system that has an older version of the driver
7.2
Creating the Driver Disk
Follow these steps to create driver disk containing the files needed to install the
Windows XP driver:
1. Locate the driver you want on the QLogic web site (http://www.qlogic.com)
and click Link to driver.
2. If prompted What would you like to do with this file?, choose Save this
program to disk. Specify a temporary loc ation on the hard drive and
download the driver.
3. Insert a blank disk in drive A.
4. Run the self-extracting file you just downloaded, specifying A:\ for Unzip
To Folder.
7.3
Installing the Windows XP Driver
If you have not installed Windows XP, follow the instructions in section7.3 .1 if the
QLA23xx HBA is the boot device; follow the instructions in section7.3.2 if the
QLA23xx HBA is not the boot device (add-on).
If Windows XP is installed, follow the instructions in section7.3.3 if this is the first
time you are installing the Windows XP driver; follow the instructions in section7.3.4
to update an older version of the Windows XP driver.