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2. Installation and Setup
2.1 Installation Instructions
The Adaptec SAS RAID Controllers Installation and User's Guide
contains complete installation information for the controllers
and drivers, as well as complete instructions for all
utilities. The Adaptec RAID Controllers Command Line Utility
User's Guide contains complete installation information for
ARCCONF, Remote ARCCONF, and the Adaptec CIM Provider.
The Adaptec Storage Manager User's Guide contains complete
installation information for the Adaptec Storage Manager software.
2.2 Windows Setup on Adaptec Series 6 Controllers
On Windows 2008 R2 64-bit systems, the Setup program tries to load
Inbox storage drivers first, by default. As a result, you must load
the driver for Adaptec Series 6/6Q/6E/6T controllers TWICE.
The first time you load the driver, the OS displays the message
"No drives were found'. Select 'Load Driver' again, uncheck "Hide
drivers that are not compatible...', then select the Series 6
controller driver. On the second attempt, the driver will load
successfully.
2.3 Solaris 11 Express Setup
Installing Solaris 11 Express on a bootable array is not
supported in this release.
2.4 Fedora Linux Setup
o To avoid a known PCIe Active State Power Management issue under
Fedora Linux 13 and 14, you must add the OS option 'pcie_aspm=off'
in GRUB bootloader file "menu.lst". Follow these steps:
1. When the first Fedora installation screen appears, press
the 'Tab' key.
2. Before pressing the first 'reboot' button, edit grub/menu.lst:
o Press Alt+F2
o cd /mnt/sysimage/boot/grub/
o Open the menu.lst file
3. Add 'pcie_aspm=off' just after 'rhgb quiet'. The new line
should look like this (wrapped for clarity):
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686.PAE ro root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup-
lv_root
rd_LVM_LV=VolGroup/lv_root rd_LVM_LV=VolGroup/lv_swap rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD
rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet pcie_aspm=off
2.5 SCSI Device Setup on Debian and Ubuntu Linux
o After installing the Debian Linux driver, you must replace the
SCSI Device Partition Name in Debian’s GRUB bootloader with
a UUID. Failure to update the partition name may cause the
system to hang when the OS is rebooted. In the GRUB bootloader
file "menu.lst", replace the SCSI device partition name
(for instance, /dev/sda1), with UUID=<string>.
o After installing the Ubuntu Linux driver, you must increase
the SCSI command timeout value from 30 seconds (the default
value) to 90 seconds. Failure to increase the timeout may
cause the system to hang with a EXT4 error when a good drive
is removed from a rebuilding array. Use these commands to
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