Creating a celerity fc installation floppy, Creating a floppy disk from a download, Mac os x driver installation, update – ATTO Technology FC-44ES EN User Manual

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13 ATTO Technology Inc. Celerity FC Host Adapters Installation and Operation Manual

Creating a Celerity FC installation floppy

Note

You must have a floppy disk with the Celerity
FC driver software to install a fresh copy of
the Windows OS onto a disk attached to a
Celerity FC adapter.

1

Insert the Installation CD into a CD-ROM. The
installation starts automatically.
If the Celerity FC installation does not start,
navigate to the root of the CD and run
autorun.bat

2

Select Windows Drivers from the items on the
left side of the screen.

3

Select the appropriate CPU-based operating
system from operating system choices.

4

Select Create Miniport Driver Diskette or
Create StorPort Driver Diskette for the
desired operating system.

5

Follow the instructions for creating the floppy
disk.

Creating a floppy disk from a download

1

Download the latest driver software from the
ATTO website,

www.attotech.com

.

2

The download is a self-extracting executable
that expands the driver software package. Run
the self-extracting executable and select a
folder to place the expanded software package.

3

Navigate to the folder with the desired Celerity
FC driver.

Note

The expanded software package contains a
Miniport driver and may contain a StorPort
driver. The Celerity FC Windows Miniport
driver is in the base directory of the
expanded software package. The Celerity
FC Windows StorPort driver is in the
StorPort subdirectory.

4

Run makedisk.bat and follow the instructions
for creating the floppy disk.

Mac OS X driver installation, update

1

Extract the latest version of the device driver file
to your desktop.

2

Double click the installer icon and follow the on
screen prompts.

3

Reboot your system for the changes to take
effect.

Linux driver installation, update

Note

You must have kernel header files for the
appropriate kernel installed.

You must be logged in as root.

1

At the command prompt type rmmod
celerityfc

2

Download the appropriate version of the device
driver from the ATTO website.

3

At the command prompt, extract the file using
the command tar -xfz <filename.tgz>

4

Enter the directory created in the above step
and type make install to overwrite any
previously-installed driver.

5

Start the driver by typing modprobe celerityfc

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