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6.1 RAID driver installation After creating the RAID sets for your server system, you are now ready to install an operating system to the independent hard disk drive or bootable array. This part provides instructions on how to install the RAID controller drivers during OS installation. 6.1.1 Creating a RAID driver disk You may have to use another system to create the RAID driver disk from the system/motherboard support CD or from the Internet. A floppy disk with the RAID driver is required when installing Windows® 2000/2003 or Red Hat® Enterprise ver. 3.0/SuSE operating system on a hard disk drive that is included in a RAID set. You can create a RAID driver disk in DOS (using the Makedisk application in the support CD). To create a RAID driver disk in DOS environment: 1. Place the motherboard support CD in the optical drive. 2. Restart the computer, then enter the BIOS Setup. 3. Select the optical drive as the first boot priority to boot from the support CD. Save your changes, then exit the BIOS Setup. 4. Restart the computer. 5. Press any key when prompted to boot from CD. Loading FreeDOS FAT KERNEL GO! Press any key to boot from CDROM... The Makedisk menu appears. A) FreeDOS command prompt B) Create nVIDIA nForce MCP55 RAID for Windows XP 32 bit Driver Disk C) Create nVIDIA nForce MCP55 RAID for Windows XP 64 bit Driver Disk D) Create LSI 1068 SAS for RHEL WS4.0 UP2 64 bit Driver Disk E) Create LSI 1068 SAS for RHEL WS4.0 UP2 32 bit Driver Disk F) Create LSI 1068 SAS for RHEL WS3.0 UP6 64 bit Driver Disk G) Create LSI 1068 SAS for RHEL WS3.0 UP6 32 bit Driver Disk H) Flash AMI BIOS for KFN32-D SLI Please choose A to H: ASUS KFN32-D SLI Series 6-

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ASUS KFN32-D SLI Series
6-1
6.1
RAID driver installation
After creating the RAID sets for your server system, you are now ready to
install an operating system to the independent hard disk drive or bootable
array. This part provides instructions on how to install the RAID controller
drivers during OS installation.
6.1.1
Creating a RAID driver disk
You may have to use another system to create the RAID driver disk from
the system/motherboard support CD or from the Internet.
A floppy disk with the RAID driver is required when installing Windows
®
2000/2003 or Red Hat
®
Enterprise ver. 3.0/SuSE operating system on a
hard disk drive that is included in a RAID set. You can create a RAID driver
disk in DOS (using the Makedisk application in the support CD).
To create a RAID driver disk in DOS environment:
1.
Place the motherboard support CD in the optical drive.
2.
Restart the computer, then enter the BIOS Setup.
3.
Select the optical drive as the first boot priority to boot from the
support CD. Save your changes, then exit the BIOS Setup.
4.
Restart the computer.
5.
Press any key when prompted to boot from CD.
The Makedisk menu appears.
Loading FreeDOS FAT KERNEL GO!
Press any key to boot from CDROM...
A) FreeDOS command prompt
B) Create nVIDIA nForce MCP55 RAID for Windows XP 32 bit Driver Disk
C) Create nVIDIA nForce MCP55 RAID for Windows XP 64 bit Driver Disk
D) Create LSI 1068 SAS for RHEL WS4.0 UP2 64 bit Driver Disk
E) Create LSI 1068 SAS for RHEL WS4.0 UP2 32 bit Driver Disk
F) Create LSI 1068 SAS for RHEL WS3.0 UP6 64 bit Driver Disk
G) Create LSI 1068 SAS for RHEL WS3.0 UP6 32 bit Driver Disk
H) Flash AMI BIOS for KFN32-D SLI
Please choose A to H: