User`s guide

logical drive is >2TB, it is segmented into two partitions
without warning, one up to 2TB, the other with the remaining
disk space. Linux displays a pop-up message that the disk
needs to be partitioned.
o Before attempting to install an operating system in uEFI mode,
you must delete all MBR partitions from the disk or reformat the
disk with GPT. The installation may fail if you try to install
on a disk with a MBR partitioning scheme. See also Section 4.11.
3.5 DKMS Driver Setup for Red Hat 6/CentOS 6
Installation instructions for the pre-compiled DKMS drivers for
Red Hat 6/CentOS 6 with Dynamic Kernel Module Support (DKMS)
are provided in the RAID Controllers Installation and User's Guide.
DKMS ensures that the driver remains installed across OS updates.
You can download the pre-compiled DKMS drivers for Red Hat 6
and CentOS 6 at:
http://ask.adaptec.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/17202
NOTE: For DKMS driver instructions for other linux OSs, contact
Adaptec Support or check the Adaptec Support Knowledgebase (ASK)
at ask.adaptec.com.
3.6 Windows Setup
o To successfully install Windows on a 4K sector drive in uEFI
mode, you must Refresh the screen after the driver is installed,
then delete two extra partitions (created erroneously) before
continuing: the 'Recovery' partition and the 'System' partition.
Additionally, you cannot remove the USB driver disk until the
installation completes. (If you remove the USB drive early,
Windows displays a message saying that it could not continue
to the next phase of the installation.)
o When installing the driver on a Windows 2012 R2 system with
two controllers installed (Adaptec Series 7 or Series 8) and
at least one logical drive on each controller, the OS fails
to detect the logical drives during installation. (The issue
is not seen with only one controller.)
WORKAROUND: Use the Windows inbox driver for installation,
then update with the Adaptec driver after the installation
completes.
o 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.
3.7 Solaris 11 Express Setup
Installing Solaris 11/11.1 on a bootable array is not supported
in this release.
3.8 SLES 11 Setup
3.8.1 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:
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