Manual
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Chapter 7: Driver installation
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 instructions on how to install the RAID controller drivers during OS
installation.
7.1.1 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.
If you have created RAID sets with the LSI Software RAID conguration utility,
the boot priority of the SATA optical disk drive has to be manually adjusted.
Otherwise, the system will not boot from the connected SATA ODD.
A oppy disk with the RAID driver is required when installing Windows
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or Red Hat
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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 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 rst 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...
Create Driver Diskette Menu
ICH9R INTEL RAID Driver
ICH9R LSI RAID Driver
Broadcom ASF Firmware Update
FreeDOS command prompt
6. Use the arrow keys to select the type of RAID driver disk you want to ceate
and press <Enter> to enter the sub-menu.