BC4000 Series RAID Controllers
User Manual
02/13/06
B ro ad c om C o r p or at i on
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BC4000-UM100-R
Preparing Disks and Arrays for New OS Installs
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Initializing Disks from the BIOS ............................................................................................................. 19
Creating Arrays from the BIOS.............................................................................................................. 20
Windows: Installing Drivers and Applications
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Transferring Drivers to Floppy Disk (Windows) .....................................................................................22
Installing the BC4000 Series Drivers (Windows) ................................................................................... 22
New Installation of Windows 2000, XP, or 2003 ........................................................................... 23
Existing Installation of Windows 2000, XP, or 2003 .......................................................................24
Installing the Management Suite ........................................................................................................... 27
Linux: Installing Drivers and Applications
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Transferring Drivers to Floppy Disk (Linux) ........................................................................................... 28
Installing the BC4000 Series Drivers (Linux)......................................................................................... 29
New Install of Red Hat and Fedora Core 1 Linux........................................................................... 29
New Install of Fedora Core 2, 3, and 4 Linux ................................................................................. 30
New Install of SuSE Linux .............................................................................................................. 30
Existing Install of Red Hat or Fedora Core 1, 2, 3, or 4 Linux ........................................................ 31
Existing Install of SuSE Linux......................................................................................................... 32
Installing the bcadm Application ............................................................................................................ 33
Installing the Online Help....................................................................................................................... 33
Installing the bc_winraid Application...................................................................................................... 34
Booting from a Legacy Disk
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Section 5: Updating the Drivers, Firmware, and Applications
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Updating Components for the BC4000 Series
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Updating the BC4000 Series Components for Windows .......................................................................37
Updating the BC4000 Series Driver for Linux........................................................................................ 39
Updating the BC4000 Series BIOS Image (Linux) ................................................................................ 40
Updating the BC4000 Driver for a Linux Errata Kernel.......................................................................... 41
Creating a Bootable Floppy Disk
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