Microsemi Adaptec ASR-81605Z, Installation And User Manual

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4.5 Basic Installation Steps
This section describes the installation process. Follow the steps for the installation option you’ve chosen.
4.5.1 Installing with an Operating System
1. Install and connect your controller and internal disk drives (see Installing the Controller and Disk Drives ).
If your controller has an external connector, you can connect external disk drives as well (or instead).
2. Set the boot controller (see Setting the Boot Controllerboot controllercontrollers setting boot controller ).
3. Create a bootable array (see Creating an Array ).
4. Install your operating system and the controller driver (see Installing the Driver and an Operating System
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5. Install maxView Storage Manager and begin to manage your data storage (see Managing Your Storage
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4.5.2 Installing on an Existing Operating System
1. Install and connect your controller and internal disk drives (see Installing the Controller and Disk Drives ).
If your controller has an external connector, you can connect external disk drives as well (or instead).
2. Install the controller driver (see Installing the Driver on an Existing Operating System installation
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3. Install maxView Storage Manager and begin to manage your data storage (see Managing Your Storage
Spacetopic ).
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