Driver Installation; Creating A Driver Diskette - Dell 5 series User Manual

Driver Installation

The Dell™ PowerEdge™ Expandable RAID Controller (PERC) 5 family requires software drivers
to operate with the Microsoft
operating systems.
This chapter contains the procedures for installing the drivers for the following operating systems.
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• Microsoft Windows
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• Windows Server
• Windows Server 2003 DataCenter
• Windows XP
• Windows Vista™
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
NOTE:
See the Dell Support website at support.dell.com to check operating system compatibility.
The two methods for installing a driver that are discussed in this chapter are:
• During operating system installation. Use this method if you are performing a new installation of
the operating system and want to include the drivers.
• Updating existing drivers. Use this method if the operating system and PERC 5 controller are
already installed and you want to update to the latest drivers.

Creating a Driver Diskette

Perform the following steps to create a driver diskette.
1 Browse to the download section for the system from the Dell Support website at support.dell.com.
2 Locate and download the latest PERC 5 controller driver to the system. The driver should be
labeled as packaged for a diskette on the Dell Support website.
3 Follow the instructions on the Dell Support website for extracting the driver to the diskette.
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Windows , Red Hat
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2000 Server family
2003 (includes Standard, Enterprise, and Small Business Servers)
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Enterprise Linux , and SUSE
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Linux
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Driver Installation