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Overview

Dell™ CERC and PERC RAID Controllers Operating System Driver Installation Guide

  Obtaining Drivers

The Dell Cost Effective RAID Controller (CERC) or the Dell PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controller (PERC) require software drivers to operate with the following operating systems:

• Microsoft® Windows®
  
  
• Red Hat Linux
  
  
• Novell® NetWare®
  
  

NOTE: Be sure to use the latest updates provided by the operating system manufacturer.

The drivers support:

• Eight logical drives per RAID controller
  
  
• The ability to detect newly configured logical drives in Disk Administrator without rebooting the system
  
  
• The ability to delete the last logical drive created using the configuration utilities (See the RAID controller's User's Guide for more information).
  
  
• The ability to use the remaining capacity of an array using Dell OpenManageTM Array Manager
  
  

NOTE: Your RAID controller may or may not support all of the operating systems covered in this document.

Obtaining Drivers

NOTE: See the readme file that comes with the driver for any updated information.

You can create a driver diskette for each supported operating system from the Dell Server Assistant CD. However, to make sure you have the latest version of the drivers, download the updated drivers from the Dell Support web site at http://support.dell.com.

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