Installing Drivers And Making The Arrays Available For Use - AMCC 3ware Installation Manual

Installing Drivers and Making the Arrays Available For Use

If the OS is already installed on a unit connected to the
system, be sure that device precedes the 3ware RAID controller
in the boot sequence. If you have other disks installed on the
motherboard, the 3ware RAID controller should precede them
in boot order.
If you will install your OS on a disk or array attached to the
3ware RAID controller, specify the controller as the boot
device. (Note that if you configured more than one unit, the
drive(s) specified as Unit 0 will be treated as the boot disk.)
Installing Drivers and Making the
Arrays Available For Use
The final steps in setting up your RAID arrays are to load the 3ware
drivers and make the arrays available to your operating system.
Will the unit you have created be your system's boot device?
If so, you will install the driver for the controller as you install
the operating system.
Is the OS already installed on a unit connected to another
controller or to the motherboard?
If so, you will start the OS and then install the driver.
Details for both situations are described in the next sections of this
guide, under Windows Installation (see page 53), Linux Installation
(see page 65), and FreeBSD Installation (see page 87).
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