Installing The Driver On An Existing Operating System; Before You Begin; Creating A Driver Disk; Installing On Windows - Adaptec ASR-6805Q User Manual

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Installing the Driver on an Existing Operating System

This chapter explains how to install your Adaptec RAID controller driver on an existing operating system.
Note: To install the driver while you're installing an operating system, see
the Driver and an Operating System

Before You Begin

Before you begin, install and connect your Adaptec RAID controller and internal disk drives (see
the Controller and Disk Drives
You must also create a driver disk before you begin installing the controller driver.
Note: For up-to-date operating system version support, visit the Adaptec Web Site
at www.adaptec.com. From the main menu select Support>Knowledgebase>Find
Answers. Select your controller type and OS support to generate a list of supported
operating systems and to download the latest drivers.

Creating a Driver Disk

This section describes how to create a driver disk for operating systems that require one. You will need
a USB flash drive to complete this task.
• Windows operating systems do not require a driver disk; see
• For Debian Linux, the driver is loaded directly from the OS installation DVD; see
Linux on page 60.
• For FreeBSD and VMware, you must copy the driver from the installation DVD and install it from the
local system; see
• For all other OSs, create the driver disk using the Create Diskette menu on the Adaptec Installation
DVD.
To create a driver disk using the Create Diskette menu:
1. Set your system BIOS so that your computer boots from the DVD drive.
2. Turn on your computer, then insert the Adaptec Installation DVD.
3. Click Create Diskette, then select your operating system and version.
4. When prompted, insert a USB flash drive, then click OK.
The system creates the driver disk on the USB drive.
5. Remove and label the driver disk.
6. Continue with the instructions for your operating system:
• For Red Hat, Cent OS, SuSE, or Fedora Linux, see
Linux
• For Ubuntu Linux, see
• For Solaris, see

Installing on Windows

Note: The following instructions apply to all supported Windows operating systems.
To install the driver on Windows:
1. Start or restart Windows.
The Found New Hardware Wizard opens and searches for the driver.
2. Insert the driver disk, then select Locate and Install Driver Software.... and Don't Search Online.
3. Click Next, then click Close.
4. When the installation is complete, remove the driver disk and restart your computer.
5. Continue with
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on page 36).
Installing on FreeBSD
on page 60.
Installing on Ubuntu Linux
Installing on Solaris
Managing Your Storage Space
Serial Attached SCSI RAID Controllers Installation and User's Guide
on page 48.
Installing on Windows
on page 61 and Installing on VMware
Installing on Red Hat, Cent OS, SuSE, or Fedora
on page 60.
on page 61.
on page 64.
Installing
Installing
on page 59.
Installing on Debian
on page 62.
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