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Driver Installation 17
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Driver Installation
The Dell PowerEdge 6 Gbps SAS HBA and Internal Tape Adapter cards
require software drivers to operate with Microsoft Windows, Red Hat
Enterprise Linux, and SUSE Linux operating systems.
This section contains procedures for installing drivers for the following
operating systems:
• Microsoft Windows Server
2003 Server family
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Server family
• Windows Server 2008 R2
• Red Hat Linux version 5 Update 7
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server version 10 Service Pack 4 (64-bit only), and
version 11 Service Pack 2 (64-bit only).
A driver can be installed in the following three ways:
• During operating system installation
• After adding a new 6 Gbps SAS HBA
or Internal Tape Adapter controller
on an existing operating system
• Updating existing drivers.
NOTE: To ensure you have the latest version of any driver mentioned in this
section, check the Dell Support website at support.dell.com. If a newer version
exists, you can download the driver to your system.