Updating the Driver and Firmware

You can download the latest drivers and firmware from the 3ware website, at www.3ware.com.

Note: Information in this section applies to updating drivers and firmware for the 9550SX and 9590SE 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 same download. When you run the utility, you can choose to update both the driver and the firmware, or only the driver.

For Linux and FreeBSD, updating the driver and updating the firmware are done separately. You can download them individually from the website.

To download the driver or firmware

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

Select the product and release desired.

Select Driver or Firmware (as appropriate) as the item to download.

Select the Operating System you are using.

Click Next.

When details about the download you requested appear, click the link for the item you want to download.

Depending on the item you selected, you may see either .zip (for Windows) or .tgz (for Linux/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.

Read and agree to the license agreement that appears.

Click Save to save the file to disk.

Uncompress the file to extract the driver or firmware files to a diskette or to a local directory.

For more information on updating the drivers under different operating systems, see 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide.

To make a driver diskette

If you want to create a driver diskette, extract the driver files to a floppy in step 9 above. Refer to the user manual for your operating system for more details.