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3. Go to “Control Panel” and select “System”. Select the “Hard-
ware” tab and then click the “Device Manager” button. In “De-
vice Manager”, expand the “SCSI and RAID Controllers” section.
Right click on the “Areca SATA RAID Adapter” and select “unin-
stall”.
4. Click “Yes” to conrm removing the SATA RAID driver. The
prompt to restart the system will then be displayed.
4.3 Driver Installation for Linux
This chapter describes how to install the SATA RAID controller
driver to Red Hat Linux, and SuSE Linux. Before installing the SATA
RAID driver to the Linux, complete the 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 man-
ager utility to create the RAID set and volume set. For details, see
Chapter 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 shipped CD. You can download updated versions of com-
piled and tested drivers 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 can be used to compile the updat-
ed version driver for RedHat, SuSE and other versions of Linux.
Please refer to the “readme.txt” le on the included Areca software
CD or website to make driver diskette and to install driver to the
system.