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NABLE
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ULTIPATHING
I/O
FOR
W
INDOWS
V
ISTA
/
7
&
W
INDOWS
S
ERVER
2008 ................................................................... 155
6.4.1 Complete Volume Set configurations and hardware setup 155
6.4.2 Install Microsoft MPIO packages...................................... 156
6.4.3 Register Microsoft MPIO devices...................................... 159
6.4.4 Reboot the host server computer........................................ 161
6.5
E
NABLE
M
ULTIPATHING
I/O
FOR
L
INUX
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6.5.1 Complete Volume Set configurations and hardware setup 162
6.5.2 Install device-mapper-multipath option package............... 163
6.5.3 Edit the parameters of the storage subsystem.................... 163
6.5.4 Activate multipathd service and partition the multipath
devices......................................................................................... 164
6.6
E
NABLE
M
ULTIPATHING
I/O
FOR
MAC
OS
X............................. 169
6.6.1 Complete Volume Set configurations and hardware setup 169
6.6.2 Reboot the host server computer........................................ 169
6.7
E
NABLE
M
ULTIPATHING
I/O
FOR
S
OLARIS
.................................. 170
6.7.1 Complete Volume Set configurations and hardware setup 170
6.7.2 Enable MPxIO service and partition the multipath devices170
CHAPTER 7. DRIVER INSTALLATION (FOR PCI-E RAID
ONLY).................................................................................................... 173
6.1 Creating the Driver Diskettes ............................................... 173
The following steps are required to create the Driver diskettes: 173
6.2 Driver Installation for Windows ........................................... 174
6.2.1 New Storage Device Drivers in Windows 7
/2008/Vista/2003.......................................................................... 174
6.2.2 Install Windows 7/2008/Vista/2003 on a SAS/SATA RAID
Volume ........................................................................................ 174
6.2.3 Installing controller into an existing Windows
7/2008/Vista/2003 Installation.................................................... 176
6.2.4 Uninstall controller from Windows 7/2008/Vista/2003 ..... 178
6.3 Driver Installation for Linux................................................. 178
6.4 Driver Installation for FreeBSD........................................... 178
6.5 Driver Installation for Solaris .............................................. 179
6.6 Driver Installation for Mac OS X ......................................... 179
APPENDIX A. UPGRADING FIRMWARE...................................... 180
E
STABLISHING THE
C
ONNECTION FOR THE
RS-232
AND
E
THERNET
PORT
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