User manual
HARDWARE INSTALLATION
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Step 13. Determining the Boot Sequences
For PC system:
• The SATA RAID controller is a bootable controller. If your system
already contains a bootable device with an installed operating sys-
tem, you can set up your system to boot a second operating sys-
tem from the new controller. To add a second bootable controller,
you may need to enter setup of M/B BIOS and change the device
boot sequence so that the SATA RAID controller heads the list. If
the system BIOS setup does not allow this change, your system
may not be congurable to allow the SATA RAID controller to act as
a second boot device.
For Mac Pro system:
•The currently Mac OS X 10.4.7 or 10.5 Leopard can not directly
boot up from Areca controller’s volume (We do not support the
Open Firmware) on the Power Mac G5 machine and can only use
as a secondary storage. All Intel based Mac Pro machines use EFI
to boot (not Open Firmware, which was used for PPC Macs) the
system. Areca has supported the EFI BIOS on its PCIe SATA RAID
adapter. You have other alternatively to add Areca volume set on
the Mac Pro bootable device listing. You can follow the following
procedures to add Areca PCIe SATA RAID controller on the Mac Pro
bootable device listing.
(1). Upgrade the EFI BIOS from shipping <CD-ROM>\Firmware\
Mac\ directory or from the www.areca.com.tw, if the adapters
default ship with a legacy BIOS for the PC. Please follow the Ap-
pendix A Upgrading Flash ROM Update Process to update the lega-
cy BIOS to EFI BIOS for Mac Pro to boot up from Areca controller’s
volume.
(2).Ghost (such as Carbon Copy Cloner ghost utility) the Mac OS
X 10.4.X or 10.5 system disk on the Mac Pro to the Areca External
PCIe SATA RAID controller volume set. Carbon Copy Cloner is an
archival type of back up software. You can take your whole Mac OS
X system and make a carbon copy or clone to Areca volume set
like an other hard drive. You can also directly install the Mac OS X
10.5 Leopard to Areca Intel IOP Based volume set without using
the Ghost utility.
(3). Power up the Mac Pro machine, it will take about 30 seconds
for controller rmware ready. This periodic will let the boot up
screen blank before Areca volume in the bootable device list.