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1 raid driver installation, 1 creating a raid driver disk – Asus Z8PH-D12/IFB User Manual

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ASUS Z8NH-D12 Series

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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

You may have to use another system to create the RAID driver disk from the
system/motherboard support DVD or from the Internet.

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 the computer, then enter the BIOS Setup.

3.

Select the optical drive as the first boot priority to boot from the support DVD.
Save your changes, then exit the BIOS Setup.

4.

Restart the computer.

The Makedisk menu appears.

5.

Use the arrow keys to select the type of RAID driver disk you want to ceate
and press to enter the sub-menu.

Create Driver Diskette Menu
ICH10R INTEL RAID Driver

ICH10R LSI RAID Driver
ITE IT8213F Linux Driver
Write DMI
FreeDOS command prompt

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