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1 raid driver installation, 1 creating a raid driver disk – Asus KFN5-D SLI User Manual

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ASUS KFN5-D SLI

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A) FreeDOS command prompt
B) Create Silicon Image 3132 Serial ATA miniport for Win32 driver disk
C) Create Silicon Image 3132 Serial ATA miniport for Win64 driver disk
D) Create Silicon Image 3132 SATA SoftRAID 5 miniport Win32 driver disk
E) Create Silicon Image 3132 SATA SoftRAID 5 miniport Win64 driver disk
F) Create NVIDIA nForce(TM) MCP55 RAID WinXP 32 bit driver disk
G) Create NVIDIA nForce(TM) MCP55 RAID WinXP 64 bit driver disk
Please choose A To G:

6.1

RAID driver installation

After creating the RAID sets for your workstation 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

®

XP

or Red Hat

®

Enterprise ver. 4.0/SuSE 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).
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.

The Makedisk menu appears.

Loading FreeDOS FAT KERNEL GO!

Press any key to boot from CDROM...

6. Place a blank, high-density floppy disk to the floppy disk drive, then

select the type of RAID driver disk you want to create by typing the

number before the option.