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DRIVER INSTALLATION

4.4 Driver Installation for FreeBSD

This chapter describes how to install the SATA RAID controller

driver to FreeBSD. Before installing the SATA RAID driver to Free-

BSD, complete following actions:

1. Install and congure 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 conguration utility. Use the McBIOS RAID manager

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

ter 3, McBIOS RAID Manager.

The supplied software CD that came with the SATA RAID control-

ler includes compiled and tested drivers for FreeBSD 4.x (4.2 and

onwards) and 5.x (5.2 and onwards). To check if a more current

version driver is available, please see the Areca web site at http://

www.areca.com.tw.

Please refer to the “readme.txt” le on the SATA RAID controller

software CD or website to make driver diskette and to install driver

to the system.

4.5 Driver Installation for Solaris 10

Please refer to the “readme.txt” le on the software CD or a

manual from website: http://www.areca.com.tw

4.6 Driver Installation for Mac 10.x

After hardware installation, the SATA disk drives connected to the

SATA RAID Adapter must be congured and the volume set units

initialized by the controller before they are ready to use by the

system.

You must have administrative level permissions to install Areca Mac

driver & software. You can install driver& software on your Power

Mac G5 or Mac Pro as below:

1. Insert the Areca Mac driver & software CD that came with

your Areca SATA RAID Adapter.