************************************************************************* * Infortrend PCI RAID Controller Series * * Drivers and Utilities for Solaris 2.5.x and 2.6 (x86 platform) * ************************************************************************* Version: V1.1F Dear Infortrend customer, In this directory: IABSIIIF.Z - Disk image file for Solaris 2.5.x/2.6 on x86 platform * Limitation * 1. The logical drive created on IFT-2101U/2101U2 RAID controller cannot be used as the Solaris boot drive. How to Make the Installation Diskette from the Disk Image File -------------------------------------------------------------- You may find some of the files in this directory have the same filename but with different filename extension. They are the same disk image but one of them is compressed for easy file transferring: 1) With no filename extension: This is the disk image made of unix "dd" command. To restore this disk image onto a floppy diskette, use "dd" command: (in the example of using Solaris 2.6) Insert a new diskette into the floppy drive. # volcheck # dd if=filename of=/vol/dev/aliases/floppy0 bs=1440k # eject floppy # volcheck (where "filename" is the filename of the uncompressed disk image, "/vol/dev/aliases/floppy0" refers to the device name of the floppy drive.) 2) With filename extension ".Z": This is the disk image made of unix "dd" command, then compressed by unix "compress" command. To uncompress the compressed file, use the unix "uncompress" command: # uncompress filename.Z (where "filename.Z" is the filename of the compressed disk image. After the file has been uncompressed, the filename extension will be removed. The "filename.Z" will become "filename".) The compressed file - "filename.Z" will become uncompressed - "filename". To restore this disk image onto a floppy diskette, use "dd" command: (in the example of using Solaris 2.6) Insert a new diskette into the floppy drive. # volcheck # dd if=filename of=/vol/dev/aliases/floppy0 bs=1440k # eject floppy # volcheck (where "filename" is the filename of the uncompressed disk image, "/vol/dev/aliases/floppy0" refers to the device name of the floppy drive.) The disk image files require a floppy drive equipped unix system to restore to a floppy diskette. Some unix systems might not have the CD-ROM drive, we provide both compressed and uncompressed disk image files for easy file transfer between two systems. Label the Installation Diskette(s) ---------------------------------- 1. Please refer to "How to Make the Installation Diskette from the Disk Image File" section above to create the floppy diskettes for installation. 2. Please label the diskette made of "IABS111F" as: +-------------------------------------------------+ | Infortrend IFT-2101U/2101U2 PCI RAID Controller | | | | Drivers and Utilities | | | | for SUN Solaris 2.5.x/2.6 on x86 platform | | | | Version 1.11F | | (Code: IABS111F) | +-------------------------------------------------+ Install IFT-2101U/2101U2 Driver and Text RAID Manager for SUN Solaris 2.5/2.6 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- A. Installing from the driver diskette created from image file A1. To install the driver from the driver diskette, type: # pkgadd -d /floppy/floppy0 where "/floppy/floppy0" is the mounted driver diskette. Use Solaris Volume Manager and "volcheck" to mount the driver diskette, or mount it manually. A2. A list of selections will show as below, choose "3" to install the driver for IFT-2101U/2101U2. The following packages are available: 1 dascx86 RAID In-band SCSI Driver for Solaris 2.5,2.6 (i386) 1.11a 2 mgrx86 Text RAID Management for Solaris 2.5,2.6 (i386) 1.51b 3 rhbax86 PCI-SCSI RAID Host Adapter Driver (i386) 1.11d 4 snmpx86 RAID SNMP SUBAGENT for Solaris 2.5,2.6 (i386) 1.15b Select package(s) you will to process (or 'all' to process all packages). (default: all) [?,??,q]: 3 A3. After the driver installed, the same selections appear again. Choose "2" this time to install the Text RAID Manager for Solaris. A4. After the driver installed, the same selections appear again. Choose "4" this time to install the RAID SNMP sub-agent for Solaris. This step can be ignored if SNMP remote administration is not going to be used. If TCP/IP protocol and SNMP service have not yet installed on this system, it can be installed later after the system TCP/IP and SNMP installed. The RAID SNMP sub-agent is not a must to be installed. Install it only when needed. A5. Choose "q" to quit when the same list of selections appear again. A6. Reboot the system. # init 6 A7. After the system reboot, type "b -r" in the boot screen to let the Solaris knows to look for new device drivers and incorporate them as part of the boot process. Using Text RAID Manager to Configure RAID ----------------------------------------- 1. Change the current directory to where the Text RAID Manager is located. # cd /usr/lib/raidsnmp 2. Execute the Text RAID Manager under command prompt: # ./raidman Please follow the Instruction manual of IFT-2101U/2101U2 for the detail operation of the Text RAID Manager. ******************* Product/Update Information ******************* For more information about Infortrend and our RAID controller products, please visit our web site: http://www.infortrend.com.tw or http://www.infortrend.com To download the latest firmware and drivers/utilities, please visit our ftp site: ftp://ftp.infortrend.com.tw or ftp://ftp.infortrend.com ******************** Support Information ************************ If you have any technical questions regarding to your RAID system, please contact your RAID system supplier first, they will provide the latest information and sincere support. ******************** Suggestions? Comments? ********************* Suggestions and comments to Infortrend RAID controller products, please send e-mail to: support@infortrend.com.tw Thank you!! 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