Creating The Firmware Floppy Disks; Running The Menu-Based Afu - Adaptec 4000SAS Installation And User Manual

Creating the Firmware Floppy Disks

Note: You will need at least two bootable MS-DOS floppy disks to
complete this task.
You can't create a bootable floppy disk using Windows 2000.
To create the firmware floppy disks:
Create a bootable MS–DOS floppy disk and copy these files to it:
1
.exe
AFU
AAxxx01.ufi
where is the model number of your controller.
xxxx
Create additional bootable MS–DOS floppy disks and copy each
2
additional
AA
xxx
controllers have two UFI files; some have four. Each goes onto its
own floppy disk.)
To use a menu-based AFU, see below.
3
To run the AFU from the command line, see

Running the Menu-based AFU

Note: You can also run the AFU from the command line (see
To run the menu-based AFU:
Shut down your operating system and reboot to DOS from a
1
bootable MS-DOS floppy disk or from a DOS partition on a
bootable drive. (You can use a disk drive connected to the controller
you are updating.)
At the DOS command prompt, type
2
The AFU's main menu is displayed.
Select Select Controllers, then select the Adaptec RAID controller(s)
3
to be flashed.
To update multiple RAID controllers in the same system, update the
boot controller's flash first, restart the computer, then update the
flash for the remaining controllers.
Appendix E: Using the Adaptec Flash Utility
file to a separate floppy disk. (Some RAID
0x.ufi
page 119.
with no arguments.
AFU
117
page 119).