Installing On Vmware; Installing On Freebsd - Adaptec 3405 Installation And User Manual

Start the driver installer:
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./install.sh -i
Reboot your computer, then 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 RAID Controller
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Installation CD:
mount –r /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
Install the module RPM:
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rpm -i --force VMware-3.5-64607-esx-drivers-scsi-aacraid-1.1.5-2457.i586.rpm
Note:
The rpm version string may differ for your VMware distribution.
Follow the on-screen instructions to save the boot image and run the vmware-mkinitrd
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command manually.
Reboot your computer and remove the driver disk.
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Note:
Currently, the Adaptec Storage Manager GUI is not supported on VMware. To create and
manage arrays, you must connect to the VMware machine from a remote GUI or use the
ARCCONF
utility. See

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
Reboot your computer, then remove the driver disk.
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Chapter 8: Installing the Driver on an Existing Operating System
Managing Your Storage Space on page
page 69 for more information.
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