Asus PCI-DA2100 User Manual - Page 172

Appendix A 7.2 Making Floppy Diskettes for SlackWare 3.2 Installation 1. Prepare two formatted floppy diskettes. 2. Copy the files of Disk 1 and Disk 3 to a UNIX machine with floppy drive. 3. Place the formatted disk into the floppy drive and use the UNIX "dd" command to make the driver floppy diskettes. For example: # dd if=iabl11f1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k # dd if=iabl11f3 of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k 4. Label each disk according to the above description. 7.3 Installing Red Hat Linux IMPORTANT: • ALWAYS CHANGE THE CACHE TO WRITE-BACK DISABLED BEFORE INSTALLING OPERATING SYSTEMS AND PARTITIONING. • The ASUS PCI-DA2100/-DA2200 is a high-performance PCI RAID controller with Write-Back cache enabled. During the installation of some operating systems, the installation program might reset the computer automatically while the cache still contains data not yet written to the drives. It might cause the installation or partitioning failure. To avoid the failure, always switch the cache mode to WriteBack DISABLED (Write-Through mode) before changing the drive partition (e.g., using MS-DOS FDISK) and before installing any operating systems. 1. Follow these steps to change the cache mode to Write-back Disabled: a) Using BIOS Text RAID Manager (PC platform only) to disable the Write-Back Cache. Power on the computer, press when the information appears. 172 ASUS PCI-DA2100/PCI-DA2200 User's Manual