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7-2 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 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 oppy drive. You have to use a USB oppy drive
when creating a SATA RAID driver disk.
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
®
XP / Server
2003 or Linux 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 rst 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.
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Windows 32 bit (AHCI / AHCI RAID)
Windows 64 bit (AHCI / AHCI RAID)
Windows 32 bit (SCU RAID)
Windows 64 bit (SCU RAID)
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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.
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Create Driver Diskette Menu
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Write DMI
FreeDOS command prompt