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 the instructions on how to install the RAID controller drivers during OS installation.
6.1.1Creating 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.
To create a RAID driver disk in Windows® environment
1.Start Windows®.
2.Place the motherboard support DVD into the optical drive.
3.Go to the Make disk menu, and then select the type of RAID driver disk you want to create.
4.Insert a floppy disk into the USB floppy disk drive.
5.Follow succeeding screen instructions to complete the process.
To create a RAID driver disk in Red Hat® Enterprise Linux server environment
1.Insert a blank formatted
2.Type dd if=XXX.img of=/dev/fd0 to decompress the file into the floppy disk from the following path in the support DVD:
For LSI MegaRAID Driver
\Drivers\C610 LSI RAID\Driver\makedisk\Linux
3.Eject the floppy disk.
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