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.
6.1.1 Creati
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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).
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)Broadcom ASF Firmware Update
C)Create 7901/7902 HostRAID for RHEL3UP6 Driver Disk
D)Create 7901/7902 HostRAID for Windows Driver Disk
E)Create 7901/7902 SCSI for Windows Driver Disk
F)Create LSI ICH7R MegaRAID IDE Driver for Windows 32/64 bit Driver Disk
G)Create LSI ICH7R MegaRAID IDE Driver for RHEL3UP6 driver
H)Create ICH7R Intel Matrix Storage for Windows 32 bit driver disk
I)Create ICH7R Intel Matrix Storage for Windows 64 bit driver disk Please choose A To I:
6.Place a blank,
7.Press <Enter>.
8.Follow screen instructions to create the driver disk.
For systems with Red Hat® Enterprise versions that are not listed in the Makedisk menu, explore the support CD and copy the RAID driver disk from the following path: \Drivers\ICH7R\LSI\Linux.
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