Installing On Unixware; Installing On Vmware; Installing On Freebsd; Managing Your Storage Space - Adaptec SAS/SATA/SCSI RAID Controllers Installation And User Manual

Installing on UnixWare

To install the driver on UnixWare:
Start your computer, then insert the driver disk.
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Begin the driver package installer:
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pkgadd -d diskette1
At the installer prompt, type
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Select 1 for the aacraid package.
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When the installation is complete, select q to quit the installer.
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Reboot your computer and remove the driver disk.
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Continue with
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Installing on VMWare

Note:
The embedded driver provided by VMWare should be suitable for most applications. If an
updated driver is needed, use the following procedure.
To install the driver on VMWare:
Start your computer, then insert the driver disk.
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At the console screen of the VMware server, mount the Adaptec CD:
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mount –r /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom.
Install the module RPM:
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rpm –ivh /mnt/cdrom/xxx/yyy.rpm
where
xxx
Reboot your computer and remove the driver disk.
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Note:
Currently, Adaptec Storage Manager is not supported on VMWare. To create and manage
arrays, use the

Installing on FreeBSD

To install the driver on FreeBSD:
Start your computer.
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Insert and mount the driver disk:
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mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt
Copy the driver package to the /tmp directory:
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cp /mnt/aac-02.00.00-x.tgz /tmp
Install the driver package:
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pkg_add /tmp/aac-02.00.00-x.tgz
Chapter 8: Installing the Driver on an Existing Operating System
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Managing Your Storage Space on page
is the driver path, and
yyy.rpm
ARC
utility. See page 57 for more information.
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is the rpm file.
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