Raid Driver Installation; Creating A Raid Driver Disk - Asus KFSN4-DRE SAS User Manual

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RAID 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

Creating 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
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) or in Windows
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.
Create Driver Diskette Menu
nVIDIA nForce SATA RAID Driver
LSI 1064E SAS Driver
Broadcom ASF Firmware Update
FreeDOS command prompt
6. Use the arrow keys to select the type of RAID driver disk you want to ceate
and press <Enter> to enter the sub-menu.
ASUS KFSN4-DRE Series
® environment.
® 2000/XP
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