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=                 Serial ATA RAID controller Set v3.00	           =
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=                            README for                            =
=                       Red Hat* Linux 9.0 Pro                     =
=                  Red Hat* Linux Advanced Server 2.1              =
=                  SuSE* Linux Enterprise Server 8.0               =
=                          SuSE* Linux 8.2                         =
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The following information is available in this file:

  1. Installation Instructions
  2. Additional Notes
  3. Diskette Structure



1. Installation Instructions

   1.1. Installing Red Hat* Linux 9.0, AS2.1

        1) Install the Serial ATA hard drives and configure RAID in BIOS.
        2) Boot from the operating system CDROM.
        3) At the boot menu, type 'linux dd' and press ENTER.
        4) Follow the on-screens prompts to insert the driver disk.
        5) Procede with the normal Red Hat installation steps.
        6) At the re-boot add noacpi noapic into the boot option
	

   1.2. Installing SuSE* 8.2 Linux, SLES8.0,

        1) Install the Sata hard drives and configure RAID in bios.
        2) Boot from the SuSE CDROM.
        3) At the boot menu, press the ALT key to stop the boot.
        4) Press 'Enter' and follow the onscreen prompts to insert
           the Adaptec SuSE driver disk.
        5) Proceed with the normal SuSE installation steps.

   1.3. Installing the Driver when OS is already 
        Installed

        1) Fetch the Adaptec driver RPM file appropriate to your version
           of OS.
        2) Type: rpm -ivh <RPM file> ( or rpm -Uvh--force <RPM file> )
        3) Make sure to reboot the system by issuing the command
           "shutdown -h now". After the system reboots, the 
           procedure is then done.
 
   1.4. Removing the Driver

        1) Make sure Serail ATA drive(s) are not the boot drive
	2) vi etc/Modules.conf
		delete the line of aarich
	3) type:
		uname -a
		write down the kernel_version, it looks like
		2.4.20-6smp
	4) cd /lib/modules/<kernel_version>/kernel/drivers/scsi
	5) rm aarich.o -f
	6) cd /boot
	7) For Red Hat only:
		rm -f initrd-<kernel_version>.img, for example: 
			rm -f initrd-2.4.20-8smp.img
		mkinitrd initrd-<kernel_version>.img <kernel_version>, example:
		mkinitrd initrd-2.4.20-8smp.img 2.4.20-8smp
		reboot



2. Additional Notes

   2.1. Known/Unresolved or FYI Issues

	1) All Red Hat:
		apply noapic noacpi into the boot up option, otherwise SATA driver 
		will have interrupt problem and ended up with I/O error resulting 
		in boot failure.


3. Diskette Structure

   Red Hat 9, AS2.1:
   /mnt/floppy/modules.cgz
   /mnt/floppy/modules.dep
   /mnt/floppy/pcitable
   /mnt/floppy/readme.txt
   /mnt/floppy/rhdd-6.1

   SuSE 8.2, SLES8.0:
   /mnt/floppy/readme.txt
   /mnt/floppy/linux/suse/install/update.pre
   /mnt/floppy/linux/suse/install/update.tgz
   /mnt/floppy/linux/suse/modules/aarich.o
   /mnt/floppy/linux/suse/Y2update/modules/Vendor.ycp


