6.1RAID 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.

6.1.1Creating 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® XP/2000/2003 or Red Hat® Enterprise/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).

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.

Loading FreeDOS FAT KERNEL GO!

Press any key to boot from CDROM...

The Makedisk menu appears.

A)FreeDOS command prompt

B)Create INTEL 6321 MATRIX STORAGE MANAGER for Windows 32 bit Driver Disk. (Also support AHCI.)

C)Create INTEL 6321 MATRIX STORAGE MANAGER for Windows 64 bit Driver Disk. (Also support AHCI.)

D)Create LSI 1068 SAS for Win2k / Win2k3 32 bit Driver Disk

E)Create LSI 1068 SAS for Win2k3 64 bit Driver Disk

F)Create LSI 1068 SAS for RHEL3 UP6 32 bit Driver Disk

G)Create LSI 1068 SAS for RHEL3 UP6 64 bit Driver Disk

H)Create LSI 1068 SAS for RHEL4 UP2 32 bit Driver Disk

I)Create LSI 1068 SAS for RHEL4 UP2 64 bit Driver Disk

J)Create INTEL 6321 LSI MegaRAID for Windows 2000 Server Driver Disk

K)Create INTEL 6321 LSI MegaRAID for Windows Server 2003 32 bit Driver Disk

L)Create INTEL 6321 LSI MegaRAID for Windows Server 2003 64 bit Driver Disk

M)Create INTEL 6321 LSI MegaRAID for RHEL3 UP6 32/64 bit Driver Disk

N)Create INTEL 6321 LSI MegaRAID for RHEL4 UP4 32/64 bit Driver Disk

O)Create the DSBV-DX/SAS emergent BIOS Recovery diskette

P)Flash Phoenix BIOS for DSBV-DX/SAS MB

Q)Create the DSBV-DX/C emergent BIOS Recovery diskette

R)Flash Phoenix BIOS for DSBV-DX/C MB

S)Create the DSBV-DX emergent BIOS Recovery diskette

T)Flash Phoenix BIOS for DSBV-DX MB

U)ESB2 ASF Firmware update

Please choose A TO U:

6.Place a blank, high-density floppy disk to the floppy disk drive, then select the type of RAID driver disk you want to create by typing the number before the option

ASUS DSBV-DX Series

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