About The Documentation; Booting From The Cd With No Operating System; Using The Adaptec Cd Autorun In Windows - Adaptec 1420SA Quick Installation Manual

Adaptec Serial ATA II RAID 1420SA Quick Installation Guide

About the Documentation

Documentation for your Adaptec RAID controller includes:
Quick Installation Guide (this book)
Readme file—Text file located in the root folder of the
installation CD. Contains technical information about device
compatibility, operating system support, and drivers.
Installation and User's Guide—PDF file on the installation CD.
Contains detailed procedures for installing the controller and
software, and creating, configuring, and managing arrays.
Online Help—Adaptec Storage Manager provides Help for
creating and managing RAIDs, including embedded displays.
Booting from the CD with No Operating
System
The Adaptec CD is bootable, which means you can use it to start a
computer that has no operating system and set up an array
(provided your computer is set up to recognize bootable CDs).
Note: Verify that your computer supports bootable CDs by
entering system Setup and checking the settings.
Insert the Adaptec installation CD into a computer with no
operating system to boot from the CD, and follow the options. For
more information on how to create an array, see
Array on page 8.
Using the Adaptec CD Autorun in
Windows
To use the Autorun executable,
insert the Adaptec installation CD. Your computer automatically
reads the CD if it is set up to do so.
Note: If your computer does not automatically read the CD, you
can prompt it to read the CD by clicking on
root directory.
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, start Windows and
autorun.exe
Creating a RAID
from the
autorun.exe