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6.1
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
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.
A floppy disk with the RAID driver is required when installing Windows
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 the computer, and then enter the BIOS Setup.
3.
Select the optical drive as the first boot priority to boot from the support DVD.
Save your changes, and then exit the BIOS Setup.
4.
Restart the computer. The Makedisk menu appears.
Create Driver Diskette Menu
Marvell 88SE6121 SATA RAID Driver
FreeDOS command prompt
5.
Use the arrow keys to select the Marvell RAID driver disk and press <Enter>
to enter the sub-menu.
Marvell 88SE6121 SATA RAID Driver
Windows 32 bit
Windows 64 bit
RHEL 5 UP4 32 bit
RHEL 5 UP4 64 bit
SLES 11 32 bit
SLES 11 64 bit
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