SOFTPAQ NUMBER: N/A PART NUMBER: N/A FILE NAME: aacraid-1.1.5.2432-1.rhel4.i686.dd.gz TITLE: Driver diskette for HP 6-Port SATA RAID Controller (x86/AMD32) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (x86) VERSION: 1.1.5.2432-1 LANGUAGE: English CATEGORY: Driver Diskettes DIVISION: N/A OPERATING SYSTEM: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 EFFECTIVE DATE: Aug 18,2006 ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION ALLOWED: Yes SOFTPAQ UTILITY VERSION: N/A SUPERSEDES: N/A DESCRIPTION: This driver diskette image provides the binary driver module pre-built for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 to enable the HP 6-Port SATA RAID Controller. Using this driver diskette at Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 installation CD. FIXES ENHANCEMENTS The kernels of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 supported by this driver diskette are: 2.6.9-5.EL - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (x86) 2.6.9-11.EL - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 1 (x86) 2.6.9-22.EL - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 2 (x86) 2.6.9-34.EL - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 3 (x86) 2.6.9-42.EL - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 4 (x86) INSTALLATION To install Linux using this "ProLiant Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4" Driver Diskette, boot your Linux machine with your Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 CD1 in your CD-ROM Drive. A menu will be displayed, prompting for your input. Type the following line of code to inform the operating system of the diskette: # linux dd Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 will prompt for the Updates Diskette and the ProLiant Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Driver Diskette during the installation procedure. NOTES CREATING A DRIVER DISKETTE There are two methods to create the Installation Diskette: MAKING A DISKETTE UNDER MS-DOS: 1) Save the "aacraid-1.1.5.2432-1.rhel4.i686.dd.gz" file into a temporary directory. Use WINZIP to extract "aacraid-1.1.5.2432-1.rhel4.i686.dd" from this file into the same directory. Please ensure that "aacraid-1.1.5.2432-1.rhel4.i686.dd" is a DOS 8.3 name. 2) Use the "rawrite" utility which is included on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 CD in the "dosutil" directory. 3) Label a blank, formatted 3.5-inch diskette as "ProLiant Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Driver Diskette". Next, insert the diskette in the diskette drive. Then, use the following commands (assuming your ProLiant 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-1.1.5.2432-1.rhel4.i686.dd 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-1.1.5.2432-1.rhel4.i686.dd.gz" file into a temporary directory. Use GUNZIP to extract "aacraid-1.1.5.2432-1.rhel4.i686.dd" from this file into the same 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 (ProLiant Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Driver Diskette). Insert the diskette into the floppy drive, but DO NOT issue the mount command: # dd if=aacraid-1.1.5.2432-1.rhel4.i686.dd of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k 4) This command creates a diskette containing the image of the input file (if=aacraid-1.1.5.2432-1.rhel4.i686.dd) 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. MD5SUM: 1e353be9beee3d53832ff2344b03aed2 Customer Service ---------------- For support, please send email to contact.hp@hp.com. Copyright 2002-2006 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. Product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies.