Altos R5250 Installation Configuration Guide
Drivers Required
For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 Installation, the following device drivers are
required.
Device
SAS Daughter
Board
Onboard NVIDIA
NFP3600 Chipset
Onboard NVIDIA
nForce Networking
Controller
Onboard XGI Z9s
ATI FireGL V5200
Software Required
The management utility for SAS daughter board can be found in the EasyBUILD
8.0 build 100 (or later).
Software
MegaRAID Storage
Manager
Configuring SAS Daughter Board
Please refer to the Appendix B. for the SAS Daughter Board Configuration.
Installation Tips
1.
Since Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 cannot recognize the SAS daughter
board, you need to make a driver diskette from the EasyBUILD 8.0 build
100 (or later) first before the installation.
2.
Type linux dd when the prompt boot: appears at the start.
3.
Please select the sda as the Driver Disk Source.
4.
Follow the instruction to load the driver for SAS daughter board from the
driver diskette.
5.
When installing MSM (MegaRAID Storage Manager) for SAS daughter
board after installation complted OR if you have installed the ATI FireGL
V5200 in the system, you are required to manually to select/install
additional package at the Package Installation Defaults.
6.
At the Package Installation Defaults, select Customize software packages
to be installed and click Next.
7.
At the Package Group Selection step, hold the shift key to select all the
listed packages in the right pane under Development, and right click on
all the items you just selected and then click "Select all optional
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Version
Directory on EasyBUILD
4.00.13.04-1
\EB8\Disk\r5250\sas\sas1068\rhel5\
N/A
OS built-in
0.62
\Disk\R5250\nic\Nvidia\rhel5\
1.12.03
\Disk\R5250\onboard\xgiz9s\rhel5\
8.35.5
\Disk\R5250\graphic\V5200\rhel5\
Version
Directory on EasyBUILD
2.30
\app\R5250\sas\lsi1068\Linux\