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Fusion-MPT Device Management User’s Guide

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Version 1.3

Copyright © 2001, 2002, 2007 by LSI Logic Corporation. All rights reserved.

Preface

This User’s Guide is the primary reference for installing, configuring, and
using the Fusion-MPT

(Message Processing Technology) firmware,

device drivers, and utilities. Much of the information about device drivers
and utility programs is derived from the readme files for those drivers and
utilities.

The Fusion-MPT product encompasses Fusion-MPT firmware
architecture, SCSI hardware architecture, Fibre Channel (FC) hardware
architecture, Serial Attached SCSI architecture, and the operating
system level device drivers that support these architectures.

Audience

This book assumes you have some familiarity with storage systems and
have had experience installing drivers in the Windows, NetWare, Linux,
and Unix operating systems. The people who benefit from this book are:

OEM customers

End users

Organization

This document has the following chapters:

Chapter 1, Fusion-MPT Device Management Product

, provides

general information about the Fusion-MPT device management
product.

Chapter 2, Windows Driver Installation

, provides instructions for

installing the Fusion-MPT device driver onto Window-based system.
It provides detailed instructions for Window XP, Windows
Server 2003, and Windows 2000.