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Installing the Windows Driver

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

  Installing a Driver During Operating System Installation

  Installing a Driver for a New RAID Controller

  Updating an Existing Driver

This chapter contains the procedures for installing the drivers for the Windows® 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003 operating systems.

The Windows driver file is available on the Dell™ OpenManage Server Assistant CD or the Microsoft operating system CD.

There are three methods for installing the driver:

• During operating system installation
  
  

Use this method if you are performing a new installation of the operating system and want to include the drivers.

• After adding a new RAID controller
  
  

Use this method if the operating system is already installed, you have installed a RAID controller, and you want to add the device drivers.

• Updating existing drivers
  
  

Use this method if the operating system and RAID controller are already installed, and you want to update to the latest drivers.

Installing a Driver During Operating System Installation

Perform the following steps to install the driver while you are installing the operating system.

1. Power down the system.
   
   
2. Boot the server.
   
   

During bootup, the BIOS banner should display. If it does not, power down and read the "Troubleshooting" section in the other documentation for your RAID controller.

NOTE: For the procedures needed to configure logical drives, refer to your RAID controller documentation.

3. Configure the logical drive.
   
   

NOTE: If this controller is not your primary controller, you can skip to Step 5 and configure the logical drives using Dell OpenManage™ Array Manager.

4. Insert the Dell OpenManage Server Assistant CD in the CD drive and restart the server.
   
   
5. Select the language that you want to use.
   
   
6. Read and accept the software license agreement to continue.
   
   
7. Select Click here for Server Setup on the Server Assistant main page.
   
   
8. Follow the instructions on the screen to complete setting up the operating system.
   
   

Server Assistant detects the devices on your system and then automatically installs drivers for all of those devices, including your RAID controller.

9. When prompted, insert the operating system CD and follow the instructions on the screen to complete the installation.
   
   

Refer to the operating system documentation for more information.

Installing a Driver for a New RAID Controller

Perform the following steps to configure the driver when you add the RAID controller to a system that already has Windows installed.

1. When the controller is added to a server and the operating system detects the controller, click Cancel on All Detected Devices and reboot.
   
   
2. Install the drivers for the new hardware.
   
   

The Found New Hardware Wizard screen displays the detected hardware device.

3. Click Next.
   
   

The screen used to locate the device driver for the hardware device displays.

4. Select Search for a suitable driver for my device and click Next.
   
   

The Locate Driver Files screen displays.

5. Insert the diskette with the appropriate driver.
   
   
6. Select Floppy disk drives and click Next.
   
   

The Wizard detects the device driver on the diskette, and the Completing the upgrade device driver wizard displays the name of the controller.

7. Click Finish to complete the installation.
   
   

Updating an Existing Driver

Creating a Driver Diskette

1. Depending on how you obtain your driver, do one of the following:
   
   
   1. To obtain the driver from the Dell OpenManage Server Assistant CD, insert the Server Assistant CD into the CD drive, and insert a diskette into the diskette drive.
      
      
   2. To obtain the drivers from Dell Support, go to http://support.dell.com and download the latest drivers for your controller to a diskette. Then skip to step 7.
      
      
2. Click Update Drivers/Utilities.
   
   
3. Select a server from the Select Server drop-down menu, and then select the operating system under Select Drivers/Utilities Set.
   
   
4. Click Continue.
   
   
5. On the Utilities and Drivers page, scroll to the box for the operating system on the server and click the driver for your type of RAID controller.
   
   
6. Follow the instructions on the screen and unzip the file to the diskette.
   
   
7. Insert the diskette into the diskette drive of the system for which you want to update drivers.
   
   

Updating the Driver

1. Press Start—> Settings—> Control Panel—> System.
   
   

The System Properties screen displays.

2. Click the Hardware tab.
   
   
3. Click the Device Manager.
   
   

The Device Manager screen displays.

4. Click SCSI and RAID Controllers.
   
   
5. Double-click the RAID controller for which you want to update the driver.
   
   
6. Click the Driver tab and click Update Driver.
   
   

The screen for the Upgrade Device Driver Wizard displays. The Wizard helps you update the driver for the hardware device.

7. Follow the steps in the Wizard to search the diskette for the driver.
   
   
8. Select the INF file from the diskette.
   
   
9. Click Next and continue the installation steps in the Wizard.
   
   

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