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3 creating a raid driver disk – Asus M2N-X PLUS User Manual

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3.3

Creating a RAID driver disk

A floppy disk with the RAID driver is required when installing Windows

®

2000 /

32-bit XP / 64-bit XP / 32-bit Vista / 64-bit Vista OS on a hard disk drive that is

included in a RAID set.
To create a RAID driver disk:
1. Place the motherboard support CD into the CD-ROM drive.
2. Select Make Disk tab.
3. From the Make Disk menu, select the RAID driver disk you want to create or

browse the contents of the support CD to locate the driver disk utility.

4. Insert floppy disk to floppy disk drive.
5. Follow the succeeding screen information to complete the process.
6. Write-protect the floppy disk to avoid computer virus infection.

To install the RAID driver:
1. During the OS installation, the system prompts you to press the F6 key to

install third-party SCSI or RAID driver.

2. Press then insert the floppy disk with RAID driver into the floppy disk

drive.

3. Follow the succeeding screen instructions to complete the installation.

Due to chipset limitation, the Serial ATA ports supported by the NVIDIA chipset

does not support Serial Optical Disk Drives (Serial ODD) under DOS.

For detailed descriptions on the NVIDIA

®

RAID configuration, refer to the

“NVIDIA

®

MediaShield RAID User’s Manual” found in your motherboard support

CD .