3Ware 7000-2 - Escalade RAID Controller User Manual page 6

3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide
Boot the system from the Windows 98/ME diskette . . . . . . 85
Partition the boot device using fdisk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Restart the machine and format the boot device . . . . . . . . . . 86
Continue the standard Windows 98/ME installation . . . . . . 86
Partition and format other devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
RAID array initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Install the 3DM Disk Management Utility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Installing the ATA RAID controller on systems that boot
from a different device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Create disk arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Install the 3ware driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Partition and format units on ATA RAID controller . . . . . . 90
RAID array initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Install the 3DM disk management utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Replacing an existing ATA RAID controller with a new version
of the controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Upgrade the 3ware driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Install/Upgrade the 3ware driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Remove the existing Escalade ATA RAID Controller and
install the new Escalade ATA RAID Controller . . . . . . . 98
Reboot the machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Windows® 2000 or Windows XP Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Installing a drive to an existing ATA RAID controller . . . . . 101
Boot the machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Installing the ATA RAID controller while installing
Windows 2000 or Windows XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Create disk arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Installing with the Initial Operating System Build . . . . . . . 102
Continue with Windows 2000 or XP installation . . . . . . . . 102
Reboot the machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
RAID array initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Install the 3DM disk management utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Installing the ATA RAID controller on systems that boot
from a different device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Create disk arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
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