Adaptec 2093500 User Guide - Page 96
Creating the Firmware Floppy Disks, Running the Menu-based AFU
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Appendix E: Using the Adaptec Flash Utility ● 96 Creating the Firmware Floppy Disks Note: You will need at least two bootable MS-DOS floppy disks to complete this task. You can't create a bootable floppy disk using Windows 2000. To create the firmware floppy disks: 1 Create a bootable MS-DOS floppy disk and copy these files to it: ● AFU.exe ● AAxxx01.ufi where xxx is the model number of your controller. 2 Create additional bootable MS-DOS floppy disks and copy each additional AAxxx0x.ufi file to a separate floppy disk. (Some RAID controllers have two UFI files; some have four. Each goes onto its own floppy disk.) 3 To use a menu-based AFU, see the following section. To run the AFU from the command line, see page 97. Running the Menu-based AFU Note: You can also run the AFU from the command line (see page 97). To run the menu-based AFU: 1 Shut down your operating system and reboot to DOS from a bootable MS-DOS floppy disk or from a DOS partition on a bootable drive. (You can use a disk drive connected to the controller you are updating.) 2 At the DOS command prompt, type AFU with no arguments. The AFU's main menu is displayed. 3 Select Select Controllers, then select the Adaptec RAID controller(s) to be flashed. To update multiple RAID controllers in the same system, update the boot controller's flash first, restart the computer, then update the flash for the remaining controllers. 4 Select Select an Operation. 5 Choose the operation you want, then follow the on-screen instructions to complete the task: ● Update-Updates all the flash components on a RAID controller with the flash image data from the UFI file. ● Save-Reads the contents of a RAID controller's flash components and saves the data to a UFI file, which you can use to restore a RAID controller's flash if required. ● Verify-Reads the contents of a RAID controller's flash components and compares it to the contents of the specified UFI file. ● Version-Displays version information about a RAID controller's flash components. ● List-Lists all supported RAID controllers detected on your system. 6 Complete the flash operation and restart your computer before trying to use the RAID controller again. (You can not use your RAID controller while you are updating its flash.)