Microsemi Adaptec ASR-8405E - About ARC BIOS Utility

The ARC utility is included in your controller's BIOS. For more information, see Using the Microsemi Adaptec
RAID Conguration Utility.
Note: The ARC utility is primarily intended for pre-operating system installation
conguration.
10.4 About the Adaptec Flash Utility
The Adaptec Flash Utility (AFU) is a text-based DOS utility that you can use to update, save, or verify your
RAID controller's rmware.
Caution: Although the AFU contains safeguards to prevent you from accidentally damaging
your RAID controller's ash contents, it is still important to use the AFU carefully and
correctly to avoid rendering your RAID controller inoperable. We recommend that only
advanced users familiar with working in DOS use the AFU. You can also use maxView
Storage Manager to update the controller rmware. See the maxView Storage Manager
User’s Guide for more information.
10.5 Which Utility Should I Use?
To create a bootable array, we recommend that you use the BIOS-based ARC utility (See Using the Microsemi
Adaptec RAID Conguration Utility).
For subsequent storage management tasks on most supported operating systems, including VMware Guest
OSs, we recommend that you install and use maxView Storage Manager (see About maxView Storage
Managerconcept). As a full-featured software application with a graphical user interface, it is the easiest
to use and offers the widest range of management functions. For operating systems that do not support
the maxView Storage Manager GUI, such as FreeBSD, use the ARCCONF command line utility to congure
and manage arrays.
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