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Disabling HostRAID Support

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Migrating from HostRAID to Adaptec Ultra320 SCSI 14 Click Next again. You may be prompted with this warning message: "The software you are about to install does not contain a Microsoft Digital Signature..." Ignore the warning and click Yes to continue. 15 When the driver is copied on the hard disk drive, click Finish. 16 You will be prompted to restart the computer. Select Yes. The new Adaptec Ultra320 SCSI driver will be displayed under SCSI and RAID controllers in the Device Manager. Disabling HostRAID Support After installing the Adaptec Ultra320 SCSI driver, you must disable HostRAID support before you can use the SCSI features. Warning: Before you disable HostRAID, for RAID 1, you must break a RAID 1 array. See the following steps for instructions. For RAID 0, you will loose all your data if you try to disable HostRAID. To disable HostRAID, follow these steps: 1 Press Ctrl+A keys simultaneously when the Adaptec BIOS appears. 2 When your Adaptec Ultra320 SCSI Card appears, press Enter. If you are using a dual channel card, select Channel A, then press Enter. 3 On any channel containing an array, scroll down and select Configure/View HostRAID Settings. 4 Select the array by scrolling to it and pressing Enter. This will display the members of that array. 5 Press the D key to delete the selected array. When prompted to confirm deletion of the array, select Yes. 6 At the Deleting Information window, select None and press Enter. 7 When prompted, select Yes to continue. F-3

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Migrating from HostRAID to Adaptec Ultra320 SCSI
14
Click
Next
again. You may be prompted with this warning
message:
“The software you are about to install does not contain a Microsoft
Digital Signature...”
Ignore the warning and click
Yes
to continue.
15
When the driver is copied on the hard disk drive, click
Finish
.
16
You will be prompted to restart the computer. Select
Yes
.
The new Adaptec Ultra320 SCSI driver will be displayed under
SCSI and RAID controllers in the Device Manager.
Disabling HostRAID Support
After installing the Adaptec Ultra320 SCSI driver, you must disable
HostRAID support before you can use the SCSI features.
Warning:
Before you disable HostRAID, for RAID 1, you must
break a RAID 1 array. See the following steps for instructions.
For RAID 0, you will loose all your data if you try to disable
HostRAID.
To disable HostRAID, follow these steps:
1
Press
Ctrl+A
keys simultaneously when the Adaptec BIOS
appears.
2
When your Adaptec Ultra320 SCSI Card appears, press
Enter
.
If you are using a dual channel card, select
Channel A
, then
press
Enter
.
3
On any channel containing an array, scroll down and select
Configure/View HostRAID
Settings
.
4
Select the array by scrolling to it and pressing
Enter
. This will
display the members of that array.
5
Press the
D
key to delete the selected array. When prompted to
confirm deletion of the array, select
Yes
.
6
At the Deleting Information window, select
None
and press
Enter
.
7
When prompted, select
Yes
to continue.