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3. Go to “Control Panel” and select “System”. Select the “Hard-
ware” tab and then click the “Device Manager” Button. In De-
vice Manager, expand the “SCSI and RAID Controllers” section.
Right click on the “ARECA SATA RAID Controller” and select
“Uninstall”.
4. Click Yes option to conrm removing the SATA RAID driver.
The prompt to restart the system will then be displayed.
4.3 Driver Installation for Linux
This chapter describes how to install the SATA RAID controller
driver to RedHat Linux, and SuSE Linux. Before installing the SATA
RAID driver to the Linux, complete the following actions:
1. Install and congure the controller and hard disk drives accord-
ing to the instructions in Chapter 2 Hardware Installation.
2. Start the system and then press Tab+F6 to enter the McBIOS
RAID manager utility. Use the McBIOS RAID manager utility to
create the RAID set and volume set. For details, see Chapter 3,
McBIOS RAID Manager.
If you are using a Linux distribution for which there is not a com-
piled driver available from Areca, you can copy the source from
the SATA software suite CD or download the source from the Areca
website and compile a new driver.
Compiled and tested drivers for Red Hat and SuSE Linux are in-
cluded on the shipped software suite CD. You can download up-
dated versions of compiled and tested drivers for Red Hat or SuSE
Linux from the Areca web site at http://www.areca.com.tw. In-
cluded in these downloads is the Linux driver source, which can be
used to compile the updated version driver for RedHat, SuSE and
other versions of Linux.
Please refer to the “readme.txt” le on the included Areca software
suite CD or website to make driver diskette and to install driver to
the system.
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