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Creating the Driver Disk
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Select between the different creation methods for RAID 0 or
RAID 1. (For more details about the creation methods, see the
Adaptec Serial ATA RAID 1420SA Installation and User’s Guide
.)
RAID 0
—
Select
No Init
(
default
), or
Migrate
RAID 1
—
Select
Build
(
default
),
Clear
, or
Quick Init
Caution:
Do not
interrupt the creation of a RAID 0 using the
Migrate option. If you do, there is no way to restart, and
no way to recover the data that was on the source drive.
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When the array is finished building, continue the driver
installation for your operating system:
– Windows
—
– Red Hat Linux
—
– SuSE Linux
—
.
Creating the Driver Disk
Before you install your driver, you will need to create a driver disk.
To create the driver disk:
1
Set your system BIOS so that your computer boots from the CD drive.
2
Insert the Adaptec CD and turn on the computer.
3
Follow instructions and respond to prompts as necessary to get
to the Adaptec Start Menu.
4
Click
Create Driver Disk
, then select the appropriate operating
system.
5
If you selected Linux
, you need to also select the architecture, one
of the following:
–
i586
—For Pentium I or II computers
–
i686
—For Pentium III, IV, or AMD K-6 computers
–
Athlon
—AMD Athlon computers
–
Athlon & Intel_x86_64
—AMD Opteron or AMD64 and Intel
EM64T computers
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