Installing The Driver In An Existing Windows System; Installing Red Hat Or Suse Linux - Adaptec 1420SA Quick Installation Manual

Installing the Driver in an Existing
Windows System
To install the driver in an existing operating system:
1 Install and configure the controller and disk drives as described in
Installing the Controller and Drives on page
2 Create a driver disk as shown on
remove the driver disk.
3 Start Windows. Windows launches the Found New Hardware
Wizard, which searches for the controller driver.
4 Insert the driver disk you created in
disk drive as the source, then click Next.
5 If necessary, select the appropriate driver for your operating
system.
6 Click Next as needed to complete the controller installation.
7 Remove the driver disk.
8 If creating an array, see
installing a simple volume, your installation is complete. If
prompted, restart the computer.

Installing Red Hat or SuSE Linux

Installing the Red Hat Driver in a New Linux System
To install the driver in a new Red Hat operating system:
1 Install and configure the controller and disk drives as described in
Installing the Controller and Drives on page
2 Create a driver disk as shown on
remove the driver disk.
3 If creating an array, see
installing a simple volume, skip to
4 Insert the Red Hat CD Disk 1 in the CD drive and restart the
computer.
5 When the Red Hat Welcome screen appears, type expertor
linux dd at the boot prompt.
6 When prompted, insert the driver disk you created and select
OK.

Installing the Driver in an Existing Windows System

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Creating a RAID Array on page
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Creating a RAID Array on page
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1-9. When finished,
2, select the floppy
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1-9. When finished,
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