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4.4 Driver Installation for FreeBSD
This chapter describes how to install the SATA RAID controller
driver to FreeBSD. Before installing the SATA RAID driver to Free-
BSD, complete 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 cre-
ate the RAID set and volume set. For details, see Chapter 3, Mc-
BIOS RAID Manager.
The supplied software suite CD that came with the SATA RAID
controller includes compiled and tested drivers for FreeBSD 4.x
(4.2 and onwards) and 5.x (5.2 and onwards). To check if a more
current version driver is available, please see the Areca web site at
http://www.areca.com.tw.
Please refer to the “readme.txt” le on the SATA RAID controller
software software suite CD or website to make driver diskette and
to install driver to the system.
4.5 Driver Installation for Solaris 10
Please refer to the “readme.txt” le on the software CD or a
manual from website: http://www.areca.com.tw
4.6 Driver Installation for Mac 10.x
After hardware installation, the SATA disk drives connected to the
SATA RAID Adapter must be congured and the volume set units
initialized by the controller before they are ready to use by the
system.
You must have administrative level permissions to install Areca Mac
Driver & Software. You can install Driver& Software on your Power
Mac G5 or Mac Pro as below:
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