Driver Installation For Freebsd; Driver Installation For Solaris; Driver Installation For Mac X - Areca ARC-1880 Series User Manual

DRIVER INSTALLATION
is the Linux driver source, which can be used to compile the updat-
ed version driver for RedHat, SuSE and other versions of Linux.
Please refer to the "readme.txt" file on the included Areca CD or
website to make driver diskette and to install driver to the system.

4.4 Driver Installation for FreeBSD

This chapter describes how to install the 6Gb/s SAS RAID controller
driver to FreeBSD. Before installing the 6Gb/s SAS RAID driver to
FreeBSD, complete following actions:
1. Install and configure the controller and hard disk drives accord-
ing to the instructions in Chapter 2, Hardware Installation.
2. Start the system and then press Tab+F6 to enter the McBIOS
RAID Manager configuration utility. Use the McBIOS RAID manager
to create the RAID set and volume set. For details, see Chapter 3,
McBIOS RAID Manager.
The supplied software CD that came with the 6Gb/s SAS RAID
controller includes compiled and tested drivers for FreeBSD 7.x
(7.2 and onwards) and 8.x (8.0 and onwards). To check if a more
current version driver is available, please see the Areca web site at
http://www.areca.com.tw.
Please refer to the "readme.txt" file on the 6Gb/s SAS RAID con-
troller software CD or website to make driver diskette and to install
driver to the system.

4.5 Driver Installation for Solaris

Please refer to the "readme.txt" file on the software CD or website:
http:/www.areca.com.tw.

4.6 Driver Installation for Mac X

After hardware installation, the SAS/SATA disk drives connected to
the 6Gb/s SAS RAID controller must be configured and the volume
set units initialized by the controller before they are ready to use
by the system.
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