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RAID driver installation, 7.1.1 Creating a RAID driver disk

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7.1 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 the instructions on how to install the RAID controller drivers during OS installation. 7.1.1 Creating a RAID driver disk The system does not include a floppy drive. You have to use a USB floppy drive when creating a SATA RAID driver disk. A floppy disk with the RAID driver is required when installing Windows® or Red Hat® Enterprise 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 DVD). To create a RAID driver disk in DOS environment: 1. Place the motherboard support DVD in the optical drive. 2. Restart the computer. a 3. Enter the BIOS Setup. 4. Select the optical drive as the first boot priority to boot from the support DVD. Save your changes. 5. Exit the BIOS Setup and restart the computer. The following Makedisk menu appears. 6. Select the C22x INTEL RAID Driver and press to go to the sub-menu. Create Driver Diskette Menu C22x INTEL RAID Driver LSI 2308 SAS2 Driver Write DMI FreeDOS command prompt 7. From the C22x Intel RAID Driver sub-menu, use the Up or Down arrow keys to select the driver and press to create the RAID driver disk. C22x INTEL RAID Driver Windows 32 bit(AHCI / AHCI RAID) Windows 64 bit (AHCI / AHCI RAID) Windows 8 32 bit (AHCI / AHCI RAID) Windows 8 64 bit (AHCI / AHCI RAID) Windows Server 2012 64 bit (AHCI / AHCI RAID) Back Exit 7-2 Chapter 7: Driver installation

Section	Page
Notices	7
REACH	7
Safety information	8
Australia statement notice	9
About this guide	10
Chapter 1: Product introduction	13
1.1 System package contents	14
1.2 Serial number label	15
1.3 System specifications	16
1.4 Front panel features	18
1.5 Rear panel features	19
1.6 Internal features	20
1.7 LED information	21
1.7.1 Front panel LEDs	21
1.7.2 LAN (RJ-45) LEDs	22
1.7.3 SFP+ status LEDs	22
1.7.4 SSD status LEDs	22
Chapter 2: Hardware setup	23
2.1 Chassis cover	24
2.2 Central Processing Unit (CPU)	25
2.2.1 Installing the CPU	25
2.2.2 Installing the CPU heatsink	28
2.3 System memory	30
2.3.1 Overview	30
2.3.2 Memory Configurations	30
2.3.3 Installing a DIMM	31
2.4 Hard disk drives (HDDs)	32
2.5 Installing SSDs	36
2.6 Expansion slot	38
2.6.1 Installing an expansion card to the riser card bracket	38
2.6.2 Configuring an expansion card	40
2.7 Cable connections	41
2.8 Removable/optional components	42
2.8.1 System fans	42
2.8.2 Installing ASMB7 series management board (optional)	44
Chapter 3: Installation options	45
3.1 Friction Rail Kit Installation Guide	46
3.1.1 Attaching the fixing latches to the server	46
Chapter 4: Motherboard Info	49
4.1 Motherboard layout	50
4.2 Jumpers	53
4.3 Internal connectors	58
4.4 Onboard LEDs	68
Chapter 5: BIOS setup	73
5.1 Managing and updating your BIOS	74
5.1.1 ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3 utility	74
5.1.2 ASUS EzFlash Utility\b	75
5.1.3 BUPDATER utility	76
5.2 BIOS setup program	78
5.2.1 BIOS menu screen	79
5.2.2 Menu bar	79
5.2.3 Menu items	80
5.2.4 Submenu items	80
5.2.5 Navigation keys	80
5.2.6 General help	80
5.2.7 Configuration fields	80
5.2.8 Pop-up window	80
5.2.9 Scroll bar	80
5.3 Main menu	81
5.3.1 System Date	81
5.3.2 System Time	81
5.4 Advanced menu	82
5.4.1 CPU Configuration	83
5.4.2 PCH-IO Configuration	86
5.4.3 SATA Configuration	87
5.4.4 System Agent (SA) Configuration	88
5.4.5 PCI Subsystem Settings	90
5.4.6 USB Configuration	92
5.4.7 TPM	93
5.4.8 ACPI Settings	93
5.4.9 WHEA Support	94
5.4.10 NCT6779D Super IO Configuration	94
5.4.11 Intel Server Platform Services	95
5.4.12 Onboard LAN Configuration	95
5.4.13 Serial Port Console Redirection	96
5.4.14 Runtime Error Logging Support	98
5.4.15 APM	98
5.4.16 Onboard LAN BCM57840S Configuration	99
5.4.17 Network Stack	99
5.4.18 Intel RC Drivers Version Detail	100
5.5 Event Logs menu	100
5.6 Boot menu	101
5.7 Monitor menu	104
5.8 Security	105
5.9 Tool menu	108
5.10 Exit menu	108
Chapter 6: RAID configuration	111
6.1 Setting up RAID	112
6.1.1 RAID definitions	112
6.1.2 Installing hard disk drives	113
6.1.3 Setting Jumpers	113
6.1.4 Setting the RAID mode in BIOS	113
6.1.5 RAID configuration utilities	113
6.2 Intel® Rapid Storage Technology enterprise SATA Option ROM Utility	114
6.2.1 Creating a RAID set	115
6.2.2 Deleting a RAID set	117
6.2.3 Resetting disks to Non-RAID	118
6.2.4 Exiting the Intel® Rapid Storage Technology enterprise SATA Option ROM utility	119
6.2.5 Rebuilding the RAID	119
6.2.6 Setting the Boot array in the BIOS Setup Utility	121
6.3 Intel® Rapid Storage Technology enterprise (Windows)	122
6.3.1 Creating a RAID set	123
6.3.2 Changing a Volume Type	125
6.3.3 Deleting a volume	126
6.3.4 Preferences	127
6.4 LSI Corporation MPT Setup Utility	128
6.4.1 RAID 1 volume	129
6.4.2 RAID 1E/10 volume	133
6.4.3 RAID 0 volume	135
6.4.4 Managing Arrays	137
6.4.5 Viewing SAS topology	144
6.4.6 Global Properties	145
Chapter 7: Driver installation	149
7.1 RAID driver installation	150
7.1.1 Creating a RAID driver disk	150
7.1.2 Creating the LSI 2308 SAS2 driver disk	152
7.1.3 Installing the RAID controller driver	154
7.2 Management applications and utilities installation	163
7.3 Running the Support DVD	163
7.4 Installing the LAN driver	171
7.5 Installing the VGA driver	176
7.6 Installing the Intel® C22x MEI NULL HECI driver	179
7.7 Installing the Intel® I210 Gigabit Adapter driver	181
7.8 Installing the Broadcom 10G driver	185