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Adaptec RAID Installation Guide I If the CD drive is on a SCSI controller other than an Adaptec RAID SCSI controller, refer to the CD drive guide. I If the CD drive is on an Adaptec SCSI RAID controller, create a driver disk for DOS in addition to creating a driver disk for Windows as described in Creating the Driver Disk on page 3-11. Use the DOS driver disk to execute setupcd.exe to establish CD-ROM support. Installing the Driver in a New Windows 98/Me System In this scenario, you doing a full installation on one disk drive or array group using an Adaptec RAID controller in a new system. To install the driver 1 Install and configure your Adaptec RAID controller and hard drives according to the instructions in Chapter 2. 2 Start up the system. During startup, press Ctrl+A to start SMOR. Use SMOR to create the RAID. For details, refer to Using SMOR on page 2-10. 3 Shut down the system and reboot from a bootable DOS disk. 4 Run fdisk and create a primary DOS partition of an appropriate size. 5 Mark the primary DOS partition Active. 6 Reboot the system from the DOS disk. 7 Perform a system format by typing format c: \s. 8 Remove the boot disk from the floppy disk drive and reboot the system from the C drive. 9 Insert the Windows installation CD in the drive and type d:\setup where d: is the letter assigned to your drive. 10 Follow the Windows installation prompts. 3-12

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Adaptec RAID Installation Guide
■
If the CD drive is on a SCSI controller other than an Adaptec
RAID SCSI controller, refer to the CD drive guide.
■
If the CD drive is on an Adaptec SCSI RAID controller, create a
driver disk for DOS in addition to creating a driver disk for
Windows as described in
Creating the Driver Disk
on page 3-11
.
Use the DOS driver disk to execute
setupcd.exe
to establish
CD-ROM support.
Installing the Driver in a New Windows 98/Me System
In this scenario, you doing a full installation on one disk drive or
array group using an Adaptec RAID controller in a new system. To
install the driver
1
Install and configure your Adaptec RAID controller and hard
drives according to the instructions in
Chapter 2
.
2
Start up the system. During startup, press
Ctrl+A
to start
SMOR. Use SMOR to create the RAID. For details, refer to
Using SMOR
on page 2-10
.
3
Shut down the system and reboot from a bootable DOS disk.
4
Run
fdisk
and create a primary DOS partition of an appropriate
size.
5
Mark the primary DOS partition
Active
.
6
Reboot the system from the DOS disk.
7
Perform a system format by typing
format
c:
\s
.
8
Remove the boot disk from the floppy disk drive and reboot
the system from the
C
drive.
9
Insert the Windows installation CD in the drive and type
d
:\setup
where
d
:
is the letter assigned to your drive.
10
Follow the Windows installation prompts.