ATTO Technology Celerity FC-41EL Installation And Operation Manual page 17

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Creating a boot disk
Note
The procedure described below does not
apply to Windows Server 2003 for Itanium
systems because the Celerity FC driver does
not support boot functionality on Itanium
systems.
1
Start Windows text mode setup as found in the
instructions provided with Windows.
2
Press F6 when Windows Setup, displays. The
setup program displays a prompt in the status
window on the bottom left of the monitor. Setup
continues to load files after you press F6.
3
A new window displays instructions to specify
additional mass storage devices. Press S to
install the ATTO Celerity as a storage device.
4
Insert the Celerity FC installation diskette in
drive A and press Enter.
5
A screen displays a list of Celerity FC adapters.
Select your adapter and press Enter.
6
Windows Setup loads the files from the floppy
and then displays the screen described in
2. The ATTO Celerity FC device should now be
listed as detected.
7
Repeat steps
2
to
supplied driver installation disks.
8
After all other drivers have been processed,
press Enter and proceed with the rest of the
Windows installation procedure.
Note
When Windows begins copying files to your
hard disk, a display prompts you to insert the
Celerity FC installation disk and any other
vendor-supplied disks you used during
custom installation. This is normal. The first
time you inserted the disks, Windows loads
the drivers into memory; the second time you
insert the disk(s), Windows copies the driver
to your hard disk.
OS X
1
Power on your system.
2
Insert the Installation CD.
3
After it mounts, open the Celerity volume.
6
for any other vendor-
Creating an installation floppy
Note
You must have a floppy disk with the Celerity
FC driver software to install a fresh copy of
the Windows OS onto a disk attached to a
Celerity FC adapter.
1
Insert the Installation CD into a CD-ROM. The
installation starts automatically.
If the Celerity FC installation does not start,
navigate to the root of the CD and run
autorun.bat.
2
Select Windows Drivers from the items on the
left side of the screen.
3
Select the appropriate CPU-based operating
system from operating system choices.
4
Select Create Miniport Driver Diskette or
Create StorPort Driver Diskette for the
desired operating system.
5
Follow the instructions for creating the floppy
disk.
Step
Creating a floppy disk from a download
1
Download the latest driver software from the
ATTO website, www.attotech.com.
2
The download is a self-extracting executable
that expands the driver software package. Run
the self-extracting executable and select a
folder to place the expanded software package.
3
Navigate to the folder with the desired Celerity
FC driver.
Note
The expanded software package contains a
Miniport driver and may contain a StorPort
driver. The Celerity FC Windows Miniport
driver is in the base directory of the
expanded software package. The Celerity
FC Windows StorPort driver is in the
StorPort subdirectory.
4
Run makedisk.bat and follow the instructions
for creating the floppy disk.
4
Select the Drivers folder.
5
Launch the installer.
6
Follow the on-screen instructions.
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