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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.
A floppy disk with the RAID driver is required when installing Windows
®
2000 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).
Boot from CD-ROM (DOS)
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.
For PA4 Model
Loading FreeDOS FAT KERNEL GO!
Press any key to boot from CDROM...
A) FreeDOS command prompt
B) Create Intel Matrix Storage Manager for Windows 32 bit Driver Disk
C) Create Intel Matrix Storage Manager for Windows 64 bit Driver Disk
D) Create LSI MegaRAID for Windows 32/64 bit Driver Disk
E) Create LSI MegaRAID for RHEL4 UP2 32/64 bit Driver Disk
F) Create LSI MegaRAID for RHEL3 UP6 32/64 bit Driver Disk
G) Broadcom ASF Firmware Update
H) Flash AMI BIOS for TS300-E4/PA4
I) Write TS300-Ez4/PA4 FRU
Please choose A TO I:
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