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Chapter 6. Post-installation activities
During installation, Windows 2000 had detected and installed drivers for Ethernet
and token-ring network cards, SCSI and/or ServeRAID adapters, tape drives, and
video adapters.
It is appropriate that you now update those drivers to the latest version, as well as
installing drives for other devices that Windows 2000 didn’t install. These include:
• ServeRAID — driver and management tools
• Advanced Systems Management Adapter
• Fibre Channel adapters
• Drivers for other hardware components not installed by Windows 2000
This chapter describes these post-installation activities.
Note for ServerGuide users: Although ServerGuide installed drivers for many of
the Netfinity options you have installed on your server, they may not necessarily
be the latest versions available, depending on the date of your ServerGuide CDs.
You should consider following these instructions to ensure you are using the
latest versions.
6.1 ServeRAID update and management tool
The Windows 2000 installation program has automatically detected and installed
drivers for all ServeRAID controllers present in the server. The ServeRAID device
driver version that’s included on the Windows 2000 Server installation CD is
Version 3.0.0.1.
It is very important that the ServeRAID driver, firmware, and ServeRAID
tools on your server are at the same level.
For this reason, you should now upgrade the driver, especially if you have used a
later version of the ServeRAID Configuration and Management CD in 5.2,
“ServeRAID-attached disks” on page 70. You should also install the ServeRAID
Manager tool, which allows you to manage and monitor ServeRAID controllers
while the operating system is up and running.
The driver that is included on the Windows 2000 installation CD supports all RAID
levels, including RAID-5E. It also supports clustering, Flash Copy, hot add and
hot remove of ServeRAID adapters in hot-plug PCI slots but does not support hot
replace or failover. The driver on the Windows setup CD is a basic driver used to
make the installation process go smoothly. To take full advantage of all
capabilities of the ServeRAID adapter, you should update the driver as described
in 6.1.1, “Updating the ServeRAID device driver” on page 86.
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