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Updating the Firmware and Driver

| Important: Updating the firmware can render the device driver and/or management tools incompatible. Before you update the firmware on your controller, please follow these recommendations: 1) Back up your data. 2) Make sure you have a copy of the current firmware image so that you can roll back to it, if necessary. 3) Close all applications.

This chapter details several ways to update the firmware and driver for the 3ware RAID controller, depending upon operating system.
Before starting the update of either driver or firmware, you will want to make sure you have the latest files. For details, see Downloading the Driver and Firmware.
To update the firmware

| The 3ware CD contains a bootable DOS firmware update program that will work for most PC-based systems. See Updating the Firmware Through DOS Using the 3ware Bootable CD.

You can download the latest version of the CD from:
http://3ware.com/support/download.asp

| All supported operating systems can update the firmware through 3DM. For details, see Updating the Firmware Through 3DM 2.

| All supported operating systems can update the firmware through CLI. For details, see 3ware SAS/SATA RAID Controller CLI Guide.

| Windows users can update the firmware along with the driver by using the 3ware Update Utility. For more information, see Updating the 3ware Driver and Firmware Under Windows.

To update the driver

| Windows users can update the driver along with the firmware by using the 3ware Update Utility. For more information, see Updating the 3ware Driver and Firmware Under Windows.

| Windows users can also update the driver through Windows Device Manager. For details, see Updating the 3ware Driver Under Windows.

| Linux or FreeBSD users can update the driver at the command line. For details see:

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

| Updating the 3ware Driver Under SuSE

| Updating 3ware Drivers under FreeBSD

| VMware 3.x must be updated at the command line, as it doesn’t have a GUI in it’s default installation. For details, Updating 3ware Drivers under VMware.

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