ITE RAIDExpress 133 TurboLinux 8.0 Server Installation Guide and Release Note Setepber 9, 2003 Mark Lu April 6, 2004 Donald Huang (C) Copyright 2002-2004 ITE, Inc. 1. Component Name(s) and Version #: =================================== Components : For TurboLinux 8.0 Server version Kernels Tested : 2.4.18-5 Driver Version : v1.44 Release Date : April 6, 2004 2. Prepare the driver disk ============================== 2.1 Copy all the files under turbo80 directory to a new dos formatted disk. 3. Installation Guide ===================== 3.1. **** Installing IT8212 Linux Driver into an EXISTING SYSTEM **** 01. Insert driver disk to floppy, issuing command to setup IT8212 driver. # mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy # cd /mnt/floppy # sh install # cd / # umount /dev/fd0 02. Reboot Turbo linux system. 3.2. **** Installing RedHat Linux on IT8212 Controller **** 01. Prepare your hardware for installation After you attach your hard disks to IT8212 controller, you can use IT8212 BIOS to configure your hard disks as RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0/1 or JBOD arrays, or just use them as single disks. Remember to set the BOOT disk when you in the IT8212 BIOS config menu. Before installation, you must remove all the disk drives, which are not physcially attached to IT8212 controller, from your system. 02. Check system BIOS setting In your system bios setup menu, change Boot Sequence in such a way that the system will first boot from CDROM, and then from SCSI. Refer to your BIOS manual to see how to set boot sequence. 03. Install TurboLinux 8.0 Server version (1) Start Turbo Linux Installation with CD-ROM booting. (2) Type "dd" when "boot:" prompted. (3) Then you will be asked "Do you have a driver disk?". Insert your driver disk and select "Yes". (4) The IT8212 driver will be loaded and continue the installation as normal. 3. Setup up device node for RAID Management Software. ===================================================== 01. Check the /proc/devices when iteraid.o is loaded, you will see like this: Character devices: 1 mem .. .. 254 itedev ==> created by our driver, maybe the major number will different from your system. Block deices: .. .. The 254 is a major number for itedev, then use the mknod command to create the device node in /dev directory. # mknod /dev/itedev c 254 0 # chmod 664 /dev/itedev 4. The note for using ATAPI CD-ROM =================================== 01. If you want reading the data CD, just insert the disk into CD-ROM, then mount as iso9660 file type: # mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom/ Then you can access the disk data via /mnt/cdrom/. Remember to umount the /mnt/cdrom/ if you want to access another one. # umount /mnt/cdrom/ 02. If you want listening the music CD, insert the disk into CD-ROM, then you do not need to mount like the data disk. Just open the CD Player(like KsCD in KDE..), then you can start listening the music.Download Driver Pack
After your driver has been downloaded, follow these simple steps to install it.
Expand the archive file (if the download file is in zip or rar format).
If the expanded file has an .exe extension, double click it and follow the installation instructions.
Otherwise, open Device Manager by right-clicking the Start menu and selecting Device Manager.
Find the device and model you want to update in the device list.
Double-click on it to open the Properties dialog box.
From the Properties dialog box, select the Driver tab.
Click the Update Driver button, then follow the instructions.
Very important: You must reboot your system to ensure that any driver updates have taken effect.
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