Hardware Installation
User Manual
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Rev. 1, November 2011
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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.
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.
If you have created RAID sets with the LSI Software RAID configuration 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 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, and then enter the BIOS Setup.
3.
Select the optical drive as the first boot priority to boot from the support DVD. Save
your changes, and then exit the BIOS Setup.
4.
Restart the computer. The Makedisk menu appears.
Figure 45-Install RAID driver
5.
Use the arrow keys to select the type of RAID driver disk you want to create and press
<Enter> to enter the sub-menu.
C20x INTEL RAID Driver
Figure 46- Install RAID driver
