Driver Installation; Creating The Driver Diskettes - Areca ARC-1880 Series User Manual

DRIVER INSTALLATION

4. Driver Installation
This chapter describes how to install the 6Gb/s SAS RAID controller
driver to your operating system. The installation procedures use the
following terminology:
Installing operating system on 6Gb/s SAS controller's volume
If you have a new drive configuration without an operating system
and want to install operating system on a disk drive managed by the
6Gb/s SAS RAID controller. The driver installation is a part of the
operating system installation.
Installing 6Gb/s SAS RAID controller into an existing operat-
ing system
The computer has an existing operating system installed and the
6Gb/s SAS RAID controller is being installed as a secondary control-
ler.
Have all required system hardware and software components on
hand before proceeding with the setup and installation.
Materials required:
• Microsoft Windows 7/2008/Vista/XP/2003, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris
and Mac installation CD
• 6Gb/s SAS RAID controller software CD
• 6Gb/s SAS RAID controller

4.1 Creating the Driver Diskettes

The software CD disc shipped with the ARC-1880 series 6Gb/s RAID
controller is a self-booting CD. In order to created driver diskettes
for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and Mac installation drivers,
your system is required to support booting from the CD-ROM.
If you do not have the software CD disc with the package, contact
your local dealers or you can also download the latest version
drivers for Windows 7/2008/Vista/2003/XP, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris
and Mac from the Areca web site at http://www.areca.com.tw
These driver diskettes are intended for use with new operating
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