11 ATTO Technology ExpressPCI Ultra/WIDE SCSI Host Adapters Installation and Operation Manual
3.2 Installing and Updating Device Drivers
After installing the ATTO ExpressPCI host adapter, you must configure your system to recognize and use
it by installing drivers for your operating system. If you already have one or more ExpressPCI adapters
installed and you are installing additional adapter(s), you do NOT need to perform any of these
procedures unless you are updating a previously installed driver.
Windows Server 2003 & Windows 2000/XP
To install or upgrade the ExpressPCI driver
1
Log on to Windows as the system
administrator.
2
Insert your ExpressPCI Installation Disk
3
Run Setup.exe
4
Click Install
5
Follow the instructions to complete the
installation.
To add drivers to an existing Windows
installation if you are NOT replacing the
adapter to which the boot disk drive is
attached.
NOTE
Complete this installation procedure before
attaching any devices to the adapter. If another driver has
been loaded before the ExpressPCI driver is loaded and
you are using ATTO striping, you may experience data
corruption.
1
Log on to Windows as the system
administrator.
2
Insert your ExpressPCI Installation Disk
3
Run
Setup.exe
4
Click
Install
5
Follow the instructions to complete the
installation.
6
Shut down Windows when the Setup window
prompts you to do so.
7
Install your ExpressPCI adapter into an
available PCI expansion slot.
8
Restart Windows. Windows should detect your
ExpressPCI adapter.
9
Windows Server 2003/XP:
Insert the
ExpressPCI Installation disk when
prompted
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Windows 2000:
The
Found New Hardware
Wizard
will appear: proceed through the wizard
defaults and insert the ExpressPCI Installation
disk when prompted.
10
When adapter installation is complete, the
Found New Hardware Wizard
will appear
showing an
ATTO Phantom Device
for each
channel. Proceed through the wizard with the
default settings to complete the installation.
To add support to an existing Windows
installation if you ARE replacing the adapter
to which the boot disk drive is attached
1
Log on to Windows as the system
administrator.
2
Insert your ExpressPCI Installation Disk
3
Run
Setup.exe
4
Click
Install
5
Follow the instructions to complete the
installation
6
Leaving the existing adapter in the system with
the devices attached, shut down Windows
7
Attach the desired devices from your previous
adapter to the ExpressPCI adapter and, if
desired, remove the previous adapter.
8
Restart Windows.
To install a new copy of Windows onto a SCSI
disk attached to the ExpressPCI adapter.
1
Start Windows text mode setup as per the
instructions provided with Windows.
2
When the first blue window,
Windows Setup,
appears, press
F6.
The setup program will
display a prompt in the status window on the
bottom left of the monitor. Setup will continue to
load files
3
At the new window with instructions to specify
additional mass storage devices, press
S
.
4
Insert the ExpressPCI installation disk in drive
A: and press
Enter
.
5
At the screen from which you would normally
select a driver, a list of ExpressPCI adapters
should appear. Select your adapter and press
Enter
.
6
Windows Setup will load the files from the disk.
7
ATTO ExpressPCI device should now be listed
as detected in the screen which appears.
8
Repeat steps 3-7 for any other vendor-supplied
driver installation disks.
