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.
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 your computer.
3.Enter the BIOS Setup.
4.Select the optical drive as the first boot priority to boot from the support DVD. Save your changes.
5.Exit the BIOS Setup and restart your computer. The following Makedisk menu appears.
6.Select the C22x INTEL RAID Driver and press <Enter> to go to the
Create Driver Diskette Menu
C22x INTEL RAID Driver
Write DMI
FreeDOS command prompt
7.From the C22x Intel RAID Driver
C22x INTEL RAID Driver
Windows 32 bit(AHCI / AHCI RAID)
Windows Server 2012 64 bit (AHCI / AHCI RAID)
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