3DM 2 Online Help

Downloading the Driver and Firmware
You can download the latest drivers and firmware from the 3ware website, at http://www.3ware.com/support.
Tip: If you only want to update the firmware, you can do so through 3DM, after downloading it. For more information, see Updating the Firmware Through 3DM 2.

| Note: Information in this section applies to updating drivers and firmware for the 9690SA and 9650SE controllers. The 3ware website also allows you to download drivers for other 3ware controller models and associated release notes.

For Windows, the firmware and driver can be installed from the Windows driver download, which contains 3wUpdate.exe. When you run the update utility, you can choose to update both the driver and the firmware, or only the driver.
For Linux or FreeBSD, updating the driver and updating the firmware are done separately. You can download them individually from the website.

| Note: For Linux, do not use the driver from the external Linux distribution as it is older than the currently supported driver. Instead, use the current driver from the 3ware CD or from the 3ware web site.

To download the driver or firmware

1 | On the 3ware website (www.3ware.com), navigate to Service and Support > Software Downloads.

2 | Click Download Released Software.

3 | Select your product from the dropdown and click Go.

4 | Locate the item you want to download and click the link to the file.

Depending on the item you selected, you may see either .zip (for Windows) or .tgz (for Linux or FreeBSD) files to download.

| Note: If using Winzip or another Windows utility to extract the Linux file, use the .zip version instead of the .tgz version. Otherwise the files will not be compatible with Linux.

5 | Read and agree to the license agreement that appears.

6 | In the dialog box that appears, click Save to save the file to disk.

7 | Uncompress the file to extract the driver or firmware files to a local directory. (Note that the firmware will not fit on a floppy diskette.)

(Make note of the absolute path to the local directory.)

8 | Turn to the driver section for your operating system:

Or, to update the firmware, turn to

| Updating the Firmware Through 3DM 2 (for any operating system with a Windowing user interface)

| Updating the Firmware Through DOS Using the 3ware Bootable CD

| Updating the 3ware Driver Under Windows

| Updating the 3ware Driver Under Red Hat or Fedora Core

| Updating the 3ware Driver Under SuSE

| Updating the 3ware Kernel Driver Module Under FreeBSD

For more information on updating the drivers under different operating systems, see 3ware SAS/SATA RAID Software User Guide, Version 9.5.1.

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  Determining the Current Version of Your 3ware Driver

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