Installation guide

Chapter 7. Driver Installation
179
1. Install and configure the controller and hard disk drives according to the
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 Chapter
5, McBIOS RAID Manager.
The supplied CD-ROM that came with the SAS RAID controller 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 Axus ftp site.
Please refer to the “readme.txt” file in the SAS RAID controller software
CD-ROM or website to make driver diskette and to install driver to the system.
6.5 Driver Installation for Solaris
Please refer to the “readme.txt” file in the software CD-ROM or ftp site.
6.6 Driver Installation for Mac OS X
You must have administrative level permissions to install Mac Driver & Software.
You can install Driver& Software on your Mac Pro as below:
1. Insert the Mac Driver & Software CD that came with your PCI-e SAS RAID
Systems.
2. Double-click on the following file that resides at
<CD-ROM>\packages\MacOS\DRIVER to add the installer on the Finder.
3. Launch the installer by extract the associated compressed file
install-mraid-20100812.zip
4. Reboot your Mac Pro system.