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Appendix B. Driver and Software Installation

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3ware SATA+SAS RAID Controller Card Software User Guide, Version 10.2

Driver Installation Under Red Hat or Fedora Core

Linux

Materials required

LSI 3ware CD

Floppy diskette or USB drive, if you need to create a driver install disk.

Fedora or Red Hat installation disk (Not required if Linux is already
installed on another drive.)

Creating a Red Hat Linux Driver Disk

If you are installing Linux on the new drive or unit managed by the 3ware
RAID controller, you must create a 3ware driver install disk on a diskette or a
USB drive. If Linux is already installed on another device, you may install the
3ware kernel driver module from the 3ware CD.

To create a Red Hat Linux driver install floppy diskette

1

Insert the 3ware CD into your Linux system. A GUI such as X windows is
required to load the 3ware menu.

To manually mount the CD, type:

mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt

To start autorun, type:

/mnt/autorun

When it starts, you will be asked to agree to the LSI software license. To
continue, click

Agree

.

2

When the 3ware Menu appears, click the Driver Disk Images button.

3

In the 3ware Driver Disk Images menu, click the button for the driver disk
you want to create.

A confirmation window opens.

4

Insert a blank diskette into a drive and click the Yes button to begin
creating the driver floppy diskette.

Note:

If you need to create a Linux driver diskette for a Linux distribution other that

what is available on the menu, search the LSI KnowledgeBase for keyword 14546
at

http://kb.lsi.com

.