Asus P5N-E SLI Motherboard Installation Guide - Page 118

Creating a RAID driver disk - chipset drivers

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8. Click the Enable SLI multi-GPU check box. 9. Click OK when done. 3.4 Creating a RAID driver disk A floppy disk with the RAID driver is required when installing Windows® 2000/XP operating system on a hard disk drive that is included in a RAID set. To create a RAID driver disk: 1. Place the motherboard support CD into the CD-ROM drive. 2. Select Make Disk tab. 3. From the Make Disk menu, select the RAID driver disk you want to create or browse the contents of the support CD to locate the driver disk utility. For detailed descriptions on the NVIDIA® RAID configuration, refer to the "NVIDIA® MediaShield RAID User's Manual" found in your motherboard support CD . 4. Insert floppy disk to floppy disk drive. 5. Follow succeeding screen information to complete process. 6. Write-protect the floppy disk to avoid computer virus infection. To install the RAID driver: 1. During the OS installation, the system prompts you to press the F6 key to install third-party SCSI or RAID driver. 2. Press then insert the floppy disk with RAID driver into the floppy disk drive. 3. Follow the succeeding screen instructions to complete the installation. Due to chipset limitation, the Serial ATA ports supported by the NVIDIA chipset doesn't support Serial Optical Disk Drives (Serial ODD) under DOS. 3-16 Chapter 3: Software support

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Chapter 3: Software support
8.
Click the
Enable SLI multi-GPU check box.
9.
Click
OK when done.
3.4
Creating a RAID driver disk
A floppy disk with the RAID driver is required when installing Windows
®
2000/XP operating system on a hard disk drive that is included in a RAID
set.
To create a RAID driver disk:
1.
Place the motherboard support CD into the CD-ROM drive.
2. Select
Make Disk tab.
3.
From the Make Disk menu, select the
RAID driver disk you want to
create or browse the contents of the support CD to locate the driver
disk utility.
For detailed descriptions on the NVIDIA
®
RAID configuration, refer to the
“NVIDIA
®
MediaShield RAID User’s Manual” found in your motherboard
support CD .
4.
Insert floppy disk to floppy disk drive.
5.
Follow succeeding screen information to complete process.
6.
Write-protect the floppy disk to avoid computer virus infection.
To install the RAID driver:
1.
During the OS installation, the system prompts you to press the
F6
key to install third-party SCSI or RAID driver.
2.
Press <
F6
> then insert the floppy disk with RAID driver into the floppy
disk drive.
3.
Follow the succeeding screen instructions to complete the installation.
Due to chipset limitation, the Serial ATA ports supported by the NVIDIA
chipset doesn’t support Serial Optical Disk Drives (Serial ODD) under
DOS.