SOFTPAQ NUMBER: N/A

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FILE NAME: aacraid-driverdisk-1.1.5-2391-sles9-ia32.img

TITLE: Driver Diskette for HP 6-Port SATA RAID Controller (x86) for SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 (x86) 

VERSION: 1.1.5-2391

LANGUAGE: English

CATEGORY: Driver Diskettes

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OPERATING SYSTEM: SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 (x86)

PREREQUISITES: N/A

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 23, 2005

ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION ALLOWED: Yes

SOFTPAQ UTILITY VERSION: N/A

SUPERSEDES: N/A

SUPPORTED Systems/Devices
  ProLiant ML110 G2
  ProLiant ML150 G2
  ProLiant ML310 G2
  ProLiant ML350 G4p

  HP 6-Port SATA RAID Controller

DESCRIPTION:

This driver diskette image provides the AMD64 & EM64T binary driver modules pre-built 
for SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 (x86) to enable the HP 6-Port SATA RAID 
Controller.

Using a driver diskette at SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 (x86) installation time allows the most up-to-date driver version included in the diskette to be used, rather 
than the default driver version contained in the Linux SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 (x86) installation CD.


FIXES
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KNOWN ISSUES:
   - None

ENHANCEMENTS
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1) Initial Release



CREATING A DRIVER DISKETTE

There are two methods to create the Installation Diskette:

MAKING A DISKETTE UNDER MS-DOS:

1) Save the "aacraid-driverdisk-1.1.5-2391-sles9-ia32.img" file into a temporary directory. 

2) Use the "rawrite" utility which is included on the SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 (x86) CD.

3) Label a blank, formatted 3.5-inch diskette as "HP SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 (x86) Driver Diskette". 
Next, insert the diskette in the diskette drive. Then, use the following commands 
(assuming your Disk Image is at the location c: and your CD-ROM is drive d:)

	C:\> d:\dosutils\rawrite 

Enter disk image source file name: aacraid-driverdisk-1.1.5-2391-sles9-ia32.img
Enter target diskette drive: a: 
Please insert a formatted diskette into drive A: and press --ENTER-- : Enter


MAKING A DISKETTE UNDER A LINUX-LIKE OS:

1)  Save the "aacraid-driverdisk-1.1.5-2391-sles9-ia32.img" file into a temporary directory. 

2)  To make a diskette under Linux (or any other Linux-like operating system), you must have permission to write to the device representing a 3.5-inch diskette drive (known as /dev/fd0 under Linux)

3)  First, label a blank, formatted diskette appropriately (HP Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (x64) Driver Diskette). Insert the diskette into the floppy drive, but DO NOT issue the mount command:

	# dd if=aacraid-driverdisk-1.1.5-2391-sles9-ia32.img  of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k

4)  This command creates a diskette containing the image of the input file (if=aacraid-driverdisk-1.1.5-2391-athlon-RHEL3.img) to an output file (of=/dev/fd0) using the diskette size of 1440k (1.44MB).  To make another diskette label that diskette, and run "dd" again, specifying the correct input file.


INSTALLATION

To install Linux using this "ProLiant United Linux 1.0" Driver Diskette, boot your Linux
machine with your United Linux 1.0 CD1 in your CD-ROM Drive.

The installation workflow performs the following steps: 

 1) syslinux boots 

 2) the user presses "ALT" (optional, if medium change is necessary) 

 3) syslinux prompts the user for an "update medium" (e.g. floppy or CD-ROM) 

 4) the user inserts the medium and presses "Enter" 

 5) syslinux boots into the "update" mode of linuxrc 

 6) linuxrc mounts the medium 

 7) linuxrc copies all files from /linux/UnitedLinux/i386-ul1/install into a 
    directory "install" in a RAM disk mounted below /update (max. 8MB), all 
    files will be flagged as "executable" 

 8) linuxrc loads all driver modules below /linux/UnitedLinux/i386-ul1/modules 
    by first unloading all modules with the same name and loading the new 
    modules from this directory (in the order the modules have been installed 
    on the medium!  Take care of this if your driver modules depend on other 
    modules being loaded first) 

 9) linuxrc unmounts the update medium 

10) now linuxrc kicks back and starts YaST1 or YaST2 to do the installation


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