Tiger i7320 S5350

Chapter 4: SATA/RAID Setup (for SATA RAID model)

 

 

 

4.6.2 Installation Using F6 Method

When you start the installation of Windows* XP, you most likely will be presented with a message stating, ‘Setup could not determine the type of one or more mass storage devices installed in your system’. If this occurs, the instructions below document how to install the RAID driver. To install the Intel Application Accelerator RAID Edition driver using the F6 installation method, complete the following steps:

Note

After completing these steps and the operating system has been successfully installed, you will still need to install the Intel Application Accelerator RAID Edition by running the typical Setup.exe process.

1.Press F6 when prompted in the status line with the ‘Press F6 if you need to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver’ message at the beginning of Windows XP setup (during textmode phase). Note: After pressing F6, setup will temporarily continue loading drivers and then you will be prompted with a screen to load support for mass storage device(s).

2.Press the ‘S’ key to ‘Specify Additional Device’

3.You will be prompted to ‘Please insert the disk labeled Manufacturer-supplied hardware support disk into Drive A:’ Once prompted, insert the floppy disk containing the following four files: IASTOR.INF, IASTOR.SYS, IASTOR.CAT, and TXTSETUP.OEM and press

ENTER.

Note

See Section 4.6.1 titled ‘Instructions on Creating F6 Floppy Diskette’ for instructions on how to extract these four files from the Intel Application Accelerator RAID Edition Setup.exe file.

4.After pressing ENTER, you should be presented with a list of available SCSI Adapters; it should list ‘Intel(R) 6300ESB Serial RAID Controller’. Select this entry and press ENTER.

5.The next screen should confirm that you have selected the Intel(R) RAID controller. Press ENTER again to continue.

6.At this point, you have successfully F6’ed in the Intel Application Accelerator RAID Edition driver and Windows XP setup should continue. Leave the floppy disk in the floppy drive until the system reboots itself. Windows* setup will need to copy the files from the floppy again to the Windows installation folders. Once Windows setup has copied these four files again, you should then remove the floppy diskette so that Windows setup can reboot as needed.

4.7 Intel RAID Option ROM

4.7.1 Description

The Intel RAID Option ROM is a PnP option ROM that provides a pre-operating system user interface for the Intel RAID implementation and provides BIOS and DOS disk services (Int13h).

4.7.2 Confirming Version of Intel RAID Option ROM Installed

There is only one way to determine which version of the Intel RAID Option ROM has been integrated into the system BIOS:

Press the CTRL + i keys when you see the ‘Intel(R) RAID for Serial ATA’ status screen appear (should appear early in system boot-up, during the Power-On Self Test (POST))

Located in the top right corner you should see a version number in the following format: V3.6.0.xxxx

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S5350, I7320 specifications

The Tyan Computer I7320 S5350 is a high-performance server motherboard designed for enterprise-level applications. Ideal for data centers and demanding computing environments, the I7320 S5350 delivers a blend of reliability, scalability, and advanced technology that caters to intensive processing needs.

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