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Installing Windows Vista for a New RAID Controller Perform the following steps to configure the driver when you add the RAID controller to a system that already has Windows Vista installed. 1 Insert the Windows Vista DVD and reboot the system. 2 Select location information, such as your country and language. 3 Enter the Windows key. 4 Select the drive you want to install Windows on by highlighting your choice. 5 Select Load Driver if needed. 42 Driver Installation NOTE: You do not need this for PERC or SAS installation as the driver is native on Windows Vista. The driver can be provided by CD, diskette, DVD, or USB flash driver. 6 Browse to the proper location and select the driver. 7 Select Next if selected unallocated space is the target location. 8 Select Advance to create a partition for the operating system. If a partition is manually created, it should at least be 10 GB. 9 Select Next. NOTE: See the Windows Vista user documentation to determine the partition size. The operating system installation starts on the highlighted choice (partition or unallocated volume) and the system will reboot several times. Do not press any keys to start from the CD/DVD. 10 Enter user and password information. 11 Enter the computer name. 12 Select the automatic Windows protection level. 13 Set the time, date, and time zone. 14 Click Start. Windows checks your system and prompts you for the login password after a few minutes.
Installing the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Driver Use the procedures in this section to install the driver for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (versions 3 and 4) and ES (versions 3 and 4). The driver is updated frequently. To ensure that you have the current version of the driver, download the updated Red Hat Enterprise Linux driver from the Dell Support website at support.dell.com. Creating a Driver Diskette Before beginning the installation, copy the drivers from the Service and Diagnostic Utilities CD or download the driver appropriate for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (versions 3 and 4) from the Dell Support website at support.dell.com to your temporary directory. This file includes two Red Hat Package Managers (RPMs) and driver update disk files. The package also contains the Dynamic Kernel Module Support (DKMS) Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) file. The package is a gzipped tar file. After downloading the package to a Linux system, perform the following steps. 1 Execute gunzip on the package. 2 Execute tar xvf on the package. Note that the package contains DKMS RPM, the driver RPM (dkms enabled) and the Driver Update Diskette (DUD) image(s). 3 Use the dd command to create a driver update disk. Use the appropriate image for the purpose. dd if= of=/dev/fd0 4 Use the diskette for operating system installation as described later in this section. File and Directories Needed to Create the Driver Update Diskette (DUD) The following files are needed before you create the DUD. NOTE: The megaraid_sas driver package installs these files. You do not need to do anything at this point. 1 There is a directory /usr/src/megaraid_sas-, which contains the driver source code, dkms.conf, and specifications file for the driver. 2 In this directory, there is a subdirectory called redhat_driver_disk which contains the files needed to create the DUD. The files needed are disk_info, modinfo, modules.dep, and pcitable. 3 To create the DUD image for pre-Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, the kernel source package must be installed to compile the driver. For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 distribution, the kernel source is not needed. Driver Installation 43
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Page 4 and 5: Notes, Notices, and Cautions NOTE:
Page 6 and 7: 4 Contents Battery Management. . .
Page 8 and 9: 6 Contents BIOS Configuration Utili
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Page 12 and 13: In addition, take note of these saf
Page 14 and 15: PCI Architecture PERC 5 controllers
Page 16 and 17: Disk mirroring provides 100 percent
Page 18 and 19: Table 2-1. PERC 5 Controller Compar
Page 20 and 21: Disk Roaming The PERC 5 controllers
Page 22 and 23: Conditions Under Which Write-Back i
Page 24 and 25: Physical Disk Hot Swapping Hot swap
Page 26 and 27: 24 PERC 5 Features
Page 28 and 29: Figure 3-1. Installing a PERC 5/E A
Page 30 and 31: Figure 3-3. Installing a TBBU memor
Page 32 and 33: Transferring a TBBU Between Control
Page 34 and 35: Figure 3-6. PERC 5/E Adapter Dirty
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Page 40 and 41: Disconnecting the BBU from a PERC 5
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Page 48 and 49: DUD Creation Procedure Perform the
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Page 78 and 79: Table 6-5. BIOS Errors and Warnings
Page 80 and 81: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Operating
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MIC Notice (Republic of Korea Only)
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