Overview Of The Afu; System Requirements - Adaptec RAID 21610SA Installation And User Manual

The process of updating a controller's flash must be done carefully
to avoid rendering the controller inoperable. AFU is designed to be
easy to use with all the necessary safeguards to prevent a user from
accidentally damaging the controller's flash contents.

Overview of the AFU

The AFU performs the following primary functions:
Update—Updates all the flash components on a controller with
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the flash image data from a UFI file.
Save—Reads the contents of a controller's flash components
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and saves the data to a UFI file. This enables you to later restore
a controller's flash to its previous contents should the need
arise.
Verify—Reads the contents of a controller's flash components
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and compares it to the contents of the specified flash image file.
Version—Displays version information about a controller's
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flash components.
List—Lists all the supported controllers detected in your
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system.
See Running the AFU on page B-4

System Requirements

The requirements for AFU are as follows:
AFU runs under MS–DOS version 5.0 or later. It cannot run
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from a DOS command prompt window under any version of
Windows.
You must shut down your operating system and reboot to DOS
to use the AFU. To start MS–DOS, boot from a bootable MS-DOS
floppy disk or from a DOS partition on a bootable drive.
AFU requires at least 8 MB of extended memory.
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AFU does not run with any DOS extenders installed in memory,
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such as EMM386.SYS and DOS4GW.
AFU does support HIMEM.SYS and is compatible with other
DOS drivers running under HIMEM.SYS (for example,
SMARTDRV.SYS and SETVER.SYS).
for command details.
DOS Utilities
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