Driver Disk Installation Guide for ARC-11XX/ARC12XX/ARC16XX/18XX RAID Controller 
         on RHEL 7.0 or CentOS 7.0(kernel 3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64)
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Linux SCSI driver technical support 
mail address: support@areca.com.tw
Web site: www.areca.com.tw
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1. Contents
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readme.txt	- the installation guide of ARC-11XX/12XX/16XX/18XX driver
		  for RHEL 7 or CentOS 7
arcmsr-rhel7.iso	- Areca RAID driver for Linux system installation
kmod-arcmsr-1.30.0X.19_rhel7-1.x86_64.rpm    - arcmsr driver in rpm format
arcmsr-1.30.0X.19-20140919.zip  - arcmsr driver source code
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2. First installation
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	A. Before Installation 
	   Copy arcmsr-rhel7.iso to top(/) directory of an USB flash drive .
	   Give a label to USB flash drive, said ARECA.
	B. Installation
		a. Insert the USB flash drive to the target system.
		b. Booting from Installation DVD disc.
		c. When the Installation screen appears, move cursor UP to "Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0" for RHEL 7,
		   move cursor to "Install CentOS 7" for CentOS 7.

		   Press Tab to edit boot command line option.

		   At the end of command line, append " inst.dd"
		   (double quotation mark are not include).

		   Press Enter to start system installation.

		d. When following messages show up, type the line number that line with the LABEL of USB flash drive.
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		   Driver disk device selection 
		         DEVICE     TYPE            LABEL           UUID
		     1)  sr0        iso9660         RHEL-7L0 Server.x86_64 2014-05-07-03-58-46-00
		     2)  sda1       vfat            ARECA           60A4-83FC

		   In this example, type 2 and press Enter
		   
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		   Choose driver disk ISO file
		     1)  arcmsr-rhel7.iso
		     
		   In this example, type 1 and press Enter
		   
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		   Select drivers to install
		     1) [ ] /media/DD//rpms/x86_64/kmod-arcmsr-1.30.0X.19_el7-1.x86_64.rpm
		     
		   In this example, type 1 and press Enter
		   
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		   Select drivers to install
		     1) [x] /media/DD//rpms/x86_64/kmod-arcmsr-1.30.0X.19_el7-1.x86_64.rpm
		     
		   In this example, type c and press Enter
		   
		e. After driver installation and new HDD devices show up, type c and press Enter to continue the system installation. 

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3. Installing raid driver on an Existing System.
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	# rpm -ivh kmod-arcmsr-1.30.0X.19_rhel7-1.x86_64.rpm
	# reboot

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4. To compile raid driver on an Existing System.
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	Before you can compile a new driver, you have to install kernel-headers and kernel-devel.
	These two rpm packages are in RHEL 7 DVD installation disc /Packages.
	# rpm -ivh kernel-headers-$(uname -r).rpm
	# rpm -ivh kernel-devel-$(uname -r).rpm

	To compile arcmsr driver, extract driver source code to a new directory.
	# make
	# cp arcmsr.ko  /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/scsi/arcmsr/
	# depmod -a
	# reboot