Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller 5i - Manual (Page 7)

Contents
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4 Driver Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Creating a Driver Diskette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Installing the Driver During a Microsoft Operating
System Installation
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Installing a Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 2000,
or XP Driver for a New RAID Controller
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Updating an Existing Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003,
Windows XP, or Windows Vista Driver
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Installing Windows Vista for a New RAID Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Installing the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Creating a Driver Diskette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Installing the Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Installing the Driver Using an Update RPM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Installing the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (Version 9 or 10) Driver . . . . . . 45
Installing the Driver Using an Update RPM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Installing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Using
the Driver Update Diskette
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
5 RAID Configuration and Management
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Dell OpenManage Storage Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
SAS RAID Storage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
BIOS Configuration Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Entering the BIOS Configuration Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Starting the BIOS Configuration Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Exiting the Configuration Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Menu Navigation Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
RAID Configuration Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
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