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7. Restart the server.
Installing device drivers for Red Hat Linux 6.2 (or later)
Use the following instructions when you do one the following:
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Creating Red Hat diskettes
Use the following instructions to create the Updated Red Hat Installation diskette and
the IBM ServeRAID Device Driver for Red Hat Linux diskette.
Creating the Updated Red Hat Installation diskette
To create the Updated Red Hat Installation diskette on Windows 95, Windows 98,
Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Linux, or OS/2, do the following:
1. Download the following file from the Red Hat Web site:
2. If you are creating the diskette on Linux, continue to step 3.. Otherwise, insert the
3. Insert a formatted diskette into the diskette drive.
4. Do one of the following:
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ServeRAID™-4x Ultra160 SCSI Controller Device Driver Installation Instructions
startup (boot) device appears first in the CONFIG.SYS file before the
BASEDEV statements for other ServeRAID or SCSI adapters.
b.After you install any service packs, check the path for the IPSRAID.ADD device
driver and verify that the correct device driver is installed.
Note: When booting OS/2 after installing the new ServeRAID device driver, you
might receive the following messages:
* Initializing Raid SCSI Subsystem.
* Unable to allocate IRQ resources.
* RMCreate Device Adapter failure.
* RMCreate Device (disk) failure.
* RMCreate Device (disk) failure.
* RMCreate Device (disk) failure.
* RMCreate Device (disk) failure.
If you receive these messages, install an updated RESOURCE.SYS file
that is available from the OS/2 Device Driver Pak On-Line Web site at the
following address:
http://service.software.ibm.com/os2ddpak/index.htm
At this Web site, follow these steps to obtain the updated
RESOURCE.SYS file:
a. Scroll down to the bottom and click Yes, I agree. Show the Device
Category list.
b. Scroll down and click OS/2 Component Updates from the list.
c. Click OS/2 Base Device Driver Updates.
d. Click RESOURCE.SYS update; pre-requisite for updated IBM
RAID Driver.
e. Follow the instructions at the Web site for installing the
RESOURCE.SYS update after you have installed OS/2.
Install device drivers while installing Red Hat Linux
Install or update device drivers after installing Red Hat Linux
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/support/enterprise/ibm/netfinity/updrh62.img
IBM ServeRAID Support CD into the CD-ROM drive.
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