Areca 24/4 Internal/External Port Pcie 3.0 12 Gb/s SAS/SATA Raid Controller 2Gb Cache - Manual (Page 113)

DRIVER INSTALLATION
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2. Start the system and then press Tab or F6 to enter the McBIOS
RAID manager configuration utility. Using the McBIOS RAID
manager to create the RAID set and volume set. For details, see
Chapter 3, McBIOS RAID Manager.
If you are using a Linux distribution for which there is not a com -
piled driver available from Areca, you can copy the source from the
SAS software CD or download the source from the Areca website
and compile a new driver.
Compiled and tested drivers for Red Hat and SuSE Linux are includ -
ed on the shipped CD. You can download updated versions of com-
piled and tested drivers for RedHat or SuSE Linux from the Areca
web site at http://www.areca.com.tw. Included in these downloads
is the Linux driver source, which can be used to compile the updat -
ed version driver for RedHat, SuSE and other versions of Linux.
Please refer to the “readme.txt” file on the included SAS RAID con -
troller CD or website to make driver diskette and install driver to
the system.
4.4 Driver Installation for FreeBSD
This chapter describes how to install the SAS RAID controller driver
to FreeBSD. Before installing the SAS RAID driver to FreeBSD,
complete following actions:
1. Install and configure the controller and hard disk drives accord-
ing to the instructions in Chapter 2, Hardware Installation.
2. Start the system and then press Tab or F6 to enter the McBIOS
RAID Manager configuration utility. Use the McBIOS RAID man-
ager to create the RAID set and volume set. For details, see
Chapter 3, McBIOS RAID Manager.
The supplied software CD that came with the SAS RAID control-
ler includes compiled and tested drivers for FreeBSD 7.x (7.2 and
onwards), 8.x (8.0 and onwards) and 9.x (9.0 and onwards). To
check if a more current version driver is available, please see the
Areca web site at http://www.areca.com.tw.
Please refer to the “readme.txt” file on the SAS RAID controller