Installation guide

Software Operation Manual
144
The supplied CD-ROM that came with the SAS RAID controller includes compiled
and tested drivers for FreeBSD 7.x (7.2 and onwards), 8.x (8.0 and onwards) and
9.x (9.0 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 or
website to make driver diskette and to install driver to the system.
6
6
6
.
.
.
5
5
5
D
D
D
r
r
r
i
i
i
v
v
v
e
e
e
r
r
r
I
I
I
n
n
n
s
s
s
t
t
t
a
a
a
l
l
l
l
l
l
a
a
a
t
t
t
i
i
i
o
o
o
n
n
n
f
f
f
o
o
o
r
r
r
S
S
S
o
o
o
l
l
l
a
a
a
r
r
r
i
i
i
s
s
s
This chapter describes how to install the SAS RAID controller driver
to Solaris.
Before installing the SAS RAID driver to the Solaris, complete the following actions:
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 and Terminal
mode configuration.
If you are using a Linux distribution for which there is not a compiled driver
available, you can copy the source from the SAS software CD and compile a new
driver.
The supplied software CD that came with the SAS RAID controller includes
compiled and tested drivers for Solaris 10/ 11 x86/ x86_64.
Please refer to the “readme.txt” file in the included CD or ftp site to make driver
diskette and to install driver to the system.
6
6
6
.
.
.
6
6
6
D
D
D
r
r
r
i
i
i
v
v
v
e
e
e
r
r
r
I
I
I
n
n
n
s
s
s
t
t
t
a
a
a
l
l
l
l
l
l
a
a
a
t
t
t
i
i
i
o
o
o
n
n
n
f
f
f
o
o
o
r
r
r
M
M
M
a
a
a
c
c
c
O
O
O
S
S
S
X
X
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-xxxxxxxx.zip
4. Reboot your Mac Pro system.