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Supported SAS Controllers
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Intel(R) SAS Controller RS25GB008

Intel(R) SAS Controller RS25GB008 when inserted in below Intel(R) Server/Workstation Boards and Systems:
 - S5520HC / S5520HCV, S5520SC,S5520UR,S5500WB,S3420GPLC,S3420GPLX,S1200BTL,S5520SC

Please verify that this utility has been tested with the RAID/SAS card you have chosen to use by checking the drivers web page for your controller at http://support.intel.com.

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Package Information
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Driver Version = 08.00.00.00
OS supported = RHEL4(U6-U8), SLES9SP4 (both x86 & x64 versions for these OS versions)

This driver is intended for use with IT configurations 

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Attention!
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It is important to follow instructions provided below for successfully installing SLES9 or RHEL4 operating systems onto IT device.

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Known Restrictions
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N/A

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Contents in the package
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The following files are included in this package:

Driver package:
mpt2sasbtm-08.00.00.00-1-rhel4.i686.rpm
mpt2sasbtm-08.00.00.00-1-rhel4.x86_64.rpm
mpt2sasbtm-08.00.00.00-1-sles9.i586.rpm
mpt2sasbtm-08.00.00.00-1-sles9.x86_64.rpm

Diver RPM Source files: 
mpt2sasbtm-08.00.00.00-1.src.rpm
mpt2sasbtm-08.00.00.00-1.src.rpm

Floppy disk images for creating Installation disk(s):
mpt2sasbtm-08.00.00.00-1-rhel4.6.i686.dd.gz
mpt2sasbtm-08.00.00.00-1-rhel4.6.x86_64.dd.gz
mpt2sasbtm-08.00.00.00-1-rhel4.7.i686.dd.gz
mpt2sasbtm-08.00.00.00-1-rhel4.7.x86_64.dd.gz
mpt2sasbtm-08.00.00.00-1-rhel4.8.i686.dd.gz
mpt2sasbtm-08.00.00.00-1-rhel4.8.x86_64.dd.gz
mpt2sasbtm-08.00.00.00-1-sles9sp4.i586.dd.gz
mpt2sasbtm-08.00.00.00-1-sles9sp4.x86_64.dd.gz
							
The source files of this driver are also included in the package, which allows for compilation on many Linux distributions not pre-compiled and provided otherwise. However, this does not imply any level of support for the partial source files, the build process, nor for other Linux distributions. 
These files are zipped in mpt2sasbtm-08.00.00.00-src.tar.gz

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Driver Installation Instructions
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This updated driver can be applied using the normal OS installation options.

1 The purpose of this document is to provide clear instructions on how to install OS on drives attached to the Intel(R) IT controller or device.

2 Prepare Installation disk(s)
2.1 Driver files are available on the CD that shipped with the product or can be downloaded from http://support.intel.com. 
2.2 Create install disk(s)
The driver is provided as driver update disk (DUD) image (file extension is .img). To prepare the installation driver diskette, if user has a system with Microsoft Windows* operating system installed, a third party utility must be used to extract the DUD image to a floppy disk, for example, using rawrite utility; or users can use ĄźddĄŻ command under Linux or Sun Solaris* operating system to extract the DUD image to a floppy diskette. Below is the command format.

 dd if=<image_file_name> of= path-to-media 

On most systems, path-to-media is /dev/fd0, which is the floppy drive special file. User must identify the path-to-media if using USB floppy drive.

3 Installation methods
There are different types of installation possible with the installation package provided. Those are explained in different sections.

3.1 OS installation on IT

This mode of installation is selected when user needs to install the Operating system on a fresh IT configuration. For this kind of installation the driver update disc is used at the starting of the installation and the installer will update the system with driver images for the required kernels. Follow the procedure given below to install Intel(R) IT= Stack at the time of Installation.

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3.1.1 Installing RHEL4 on IT
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a) Insert floppy diskette created in step 2 into floppy drive
a) Boot to CD-ROM or DVD-ROM with OS Disk 1.
b) At the Linux installation prompt type: linux dd
c) Press <Enter> at the boot prompt on the Welcome screen.
d) Copy the Linux driver image from the Universal Driver Suite CD to diskette.
	Insert the diskette with driver image.
e) Select Yes. 
f) Scroll down to select the Intel SAS adapter driver. 
g) The utility locates and loads the driver for your device. 
h) Follow the Red Hat Linux installation procedure to complete the installation.
i) Reboot the system.

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3.1.2 Installing SLES9 on IT
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a) Boot to CD-ROM or DVD-ROM with OS Disk 1.
b) When first screen come up press F5 key for SLES 10 or F6 key for SLES 9 to load a driver, then select installation menu option 
c) Insert DUD when it is prompted 
d) Follow the installation procedure to continue the OS installation. 
   Tips: press ALT+CTRL+F4 to see whether the driver is loaded. 

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3.2 Updating RHEL or SLES SAS driver on already installed system
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This method is used to update IT driver in a system, which is already installed with an older (or OS embedded) driver version. Here this procedure explains the manual process of updating the driver.  Follow the steps given to update driver.

1) Boot the OS from primary controller/Disk.
2) Copy mptlinux rpm files to a temporary directory in the OS.
3) Query which version of the MPT driver is installed by running the command
	#rpm -qa | grep mpt2sasbtm
4) (If result of step#4 is null, then skip this step.)Remove the bundled version of the MPT driver by running the command
	#rpm -e mpt2sasbtm-<version>-<os>
5) Install the new version of the MPT driver by running the command
	#rpm -ivh mpt2sasbtm-<version>-<release>-<os>.<arch>.rpm
6) Run command line
	#lsmod
to check if mptsas has been loaded successfully.
7) Run command line
	#modinfo mptsas
to make sure that the mptsas driver version has been updated
8) Completed.

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Known Bugs
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N/A

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Fixes/Updates
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Version 08.00.00.00
1. Initial release for Intel(R) SAS Controller RS25GB008.

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