Owner manual
DRIVER INSTALLATION
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ed version driver for RedHat, SuSE and other versions of Linux.
Please refer to the “readme.txt” le on the included Areca CD or
website to make driver diskette and to install driver to the system.
4.4 Driver Installation for FreeBSD
This chapter describes how to install the SAS RAID controller driver
to FreeBSD. Before installing the SAS RAID driver to FreeBSD,
complete following actions:
1. Install and congure the controller and hard disk drives accord-
ing to the instructions in Chapter 2, Hardware Installation.
2. Start the system and then press Tab+F6 to enter the McBIOS
RAID Manager conguration utility. Use the McBIOS RAID manager
to create the RAID set and volume set. For details, see Chapter 3,
McBIOS RAID Manager.
The supplied software CD that came with the SAS RAID control-
ler includes compiled and tested drivers for FreeBSD 4.x (4.2 and
onwards) and 5.x (5.2 and onwards). To check if a more current
version driver is available, please see the Areca web site at http://
www.areca.com.tw.
Please refer to the “readme.txt” le on the SAS RAID controller
software CD or website to make driver diskette and to install driver
to the system.
4.5 Driver Installation for Solaris
Please refer to the “readme.txt” le on the software CD or website:
http:/www.areca.com.tw
4.6 Driver Installation for Mac X
After hardware installation, the SATA disk drives connected to the
SATA RAID Adapter must be congured and the volume set units
initialized by the controller before they are ready to use by the
system.