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DRIVER INSTALLATION

4.3 Driver Installation for Linux

This chapter describes how to install the SATA RAID controller drive

to your Red Hat Linux, and SuSE Linux.

Before installing the SATA RAID driver to the Linux, you must have

done the following action:

1. Install and conﬁgure 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 conﬁguration utility. Use the BIOS conﬁguration

utility to create the raid set and volume set. For details, see Chap-

ter 3 McBIOS RAID Manager.

If you are using a Linux distribution for which there is not a com-

piled driver available from ARECA, you can copy the source from

the SATA software CD or download the source from the ARECA

website and compile a new driver.

Compiled and tested drivers for Red Hat and SuSE Linux are includ-

ed on the ship CD. You can download the updated version compiled

and tested driver for Red Hat or SuSE Linux from the ARECA web

site at http://www.areca.com.tw. Included in these downloads is

the Linux driver source, which you can use to compile the updated

version driver for RedHat, SuSE, and other versions of Linux.

Please refer to the “readme.txt” ﬁle on the ARECA ship CD-ROM

or website to make driver diskette and to install driver to the sys-

tem.

4.4 Driver Installation for FreeBSD

This chapter describes how to install the SATA RAID controller drive

to your FreeBSD.

Before installing the SATA RAID driver to the FreeBSD, you must do

the following action:

1. Install and conﬁgure 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 conﬁguration utility. Use the BIOS conﬁguration

utility to create the raid set and volume set. For details, see Chap-