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7. The summary screen appears; click on the "close" button. Restart the computer to load the new
drivers.
See Chapter 5 in this manual for information on customizing your RAID volumes using McRAID storage
manager.
After you finish creating additional volume, the following steps show how to make any new volumes or
independent disks accessible to Windows.
1. Click "Start" = => right-click "Computer" and select "Manage".
2. Click "Disk Management" in the left pane.
3. Scroll down to the bottom of the middle pane. Windows will display a list of new drives
attached to your
4. Right-click on the drive you want to partition and then again to format it
5. Once it's formatted, Windows automatically assigns the next available drive letter to it and then
it will appear in Windows Explorer.
4.1.3. Uninstall controller from Windows
To remove the SAS RAID controller driver from the Windows system, follow the instructions below.
1. Ensure that you have closed all applications and are logged in with administrative rights.
2. Open "Control Panel" and start the "Add/Remove Program" icon and uninstall and software for
the SAS RAID controller.
3. Go to "Control Panel" and select "System". Select the "Hardware" tab and then click the "Device
Manager" button. In device manager, expand the "SCSI and RAID Controllers" section. Right
click on the SAS RAID controller and select "Uninstall".
4. Click Yes to confirm removing the SAS RAID driver. The prompt to restart the system will then be
displayed.
4.2. Driver Installation for Linux
This chapter describes how to install the SAS RAID controller driver to Red Hat Linux, SuSE and other versions of
Linux. Before installing the SAS RAID driver to the Linux, complete the following actions:
1. Install and configure the controller and hard disk drives according to the instructions in Chapter 2 Hardware
Installation.
2. Start the system and then press Tab or F6 to enter the McBIOS RAID manager configuration utility. Using the
McBIOS RAID manager to create the RAID set and volume set. For details, see Chapter 3, McBIOS RAID
Manager.
If you are using a Linux distribution for which there is not a compiled driver available from Sans Digital, you can copy
the source from the SAS software CD or download the source from the Sans Digital website and compile a new
driver.
system with a label such as "Disk 1" or "Disk 2", etc.
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