User`s guide

3.5 Windows SBS 2011 Setup
When installing the driver on Windows SBS 2011 Essential, the
installer times out before listing all discovered drives. The
number of listed drives varies, depending on the drive type (eg,
SAS vs SATA). This is a limitation in the Windows SBS installer;
the Adaptec device driver detects all attached drives.
3.6 Solaris 11 Express Setup
Installing Solaris 11/11.1 on a bootable array is not supported
in this release.
3.7 SLES 11 Setup
3.7.1 SLES 11 SP3 Inbox Driver Issues
With SLES 11 SP3 (32-bit/64-bit), the inbox driver takes
precedence over third-party drivers. As a result, the OS
loads the inbox driver rather than installing from
the Adaptec driver disk.
WORKAROUND: To avoid loading the inbox driver (assuming you
created a driver disk):
1. Boot from the SuSE installation DVD.
2. Add 'brokenmodules=aacraid dud=1' to the boot menu.
3. Press the F6 key to update the driver during installation.
4. Insert the USB driver disk.
5. On the 'Welcome screen', press CTRL+ALT+F2 to switch to the console,
then type the following commands:
# insmod ./update/000/modules/aacraid.ko
# rm -rf /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist /etc/modprobe.d/noload
6. Press CTRL+ALT+F7 to return to the installation screen and
continue the installation.
7. When the installation is 60-90% complete, press CTRL+ALT+F2 to
switch back to the console, then type:
# cp -a /update/install /mnt/tmp
8. Press CTRL+ALT+F7 to return to the installation screen and
complete the installation.
3.7.2 SLES 11 SP3 with 4KB/Sector Drives
4KB/sector hard disk drives are not supported as a boot device
with legacy (Ctrl-A) BIOS on SLES 11 SP3 (32-bit/64-bit).
WORKAROUND: Install the driver in uEFI mode. Follow these steps
(assuming you created a driver disk):
1. Boot from the SuSE installation DVD.
2. Add 'brokenmodules=aacraid dud=1' to the boot menu:
o Change from: linuxefi /boot/x86_64/loader/linux
o Change to: linuxefi /boot/x86_64/loader/linux brokenmodules=aacraid dud=1
3. Press F10 to boot.
4. Insert the USB driver disk.
5. Complete Steps 5-8 in Section 3.7.1 (above) to complete the installation.
3.8 Fedora Linux Setup
To avoid a known PCIe Active State Power Management issue under
Fedora Linux 14, you must add the OS option `pcie_aspm=off` in
the GRUB bootloader file "menu.lst". Follow these steps:
1. When the first Fedora installation screen appears, press
the 'Tab' key.
2. Before pressing the first 'reboot' button, edit grub/menu.lst:
o Press Alt+F2
o cd /mnt/sysimage/boot/grub/
o Open the menu.lst file
3. Add 'pcie_aspm=off' just after 'rhgb quiet'. The new line
should look like this:
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686.PAE... rhgb quiet pcie_aspm=off
3.9 Debian Linux Setup
After installing the Debian Linux driver, you must replace the
SCSI Device Partition Name in Debian’s GRUB bootloader with
a UUID. Failure to update the partition name may cause the
system to hang when the OS is rebooted. In the GRUB bootloader
file "menu.lst", replace the SCSI device partition name
4