Downloading The Driver And Firmware - 3Ware 9550SXU-12 User Manual

Downloading the Driver and Firmware

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• Windows users can also update the driver through Windows Device
Manager. For details, see "Updating the 3ware Driver Under Windows"
on page 189.
• Linux or FreeBSD users can update the driver at the command line. For
details see:
• Updating the 3ware Driver Under Red Hat or Fedora Core
• Updating the 3ware Driver Under SuSE
• Updating 3ware Drivers under FreeBSD
• VMware 3.x must be updated at the command line, as it doesn't have a
GUI in it's default installation. For details, "Updating 3ware Drivers
under VMware" on page 202.
You can download the latest drivers and firmware from the 3ware website, at
http://www.3ware.com/support.
Note:
Information in this section applies to updating drivers and firmware for the
9690SA and 9650SE
controllers. The 3ware website also allows you to download
drivers for other 3ware controller models and associated release notes.
For Windows, the firmware and driver can be installed from the Windows
driver download, which contains 3wUpdate.exe. When you run the update
utility, you can choose to update both the driver and the firmware, or only the
driver.
For Linux or FreeBSD, updating the driver and updating the firmware are
done separately. You can download them individually from the website.
Note:
For Linux, do not use the driver from the external Linux distribution as it is
older than the currently supported driver. Instead, use the current driver from the
3ware CD or from the 3ware web site.
To download the driver or firmware
1 On the 3ware website (www.3ware.com), navigate to Service and
Support > Software Downloads.
2 Click Download Released Software
3 Select your product series and then the model of your controller.
4 Select Driver or Firmware as the item to download.
5 Select the Operating System you are using.
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