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1 raid driver installation, 1 creating a raid driver disk – Asus KFN5-Q/SAS User Manual

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ASUS KFN5-Q 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 CD or from the Internet.

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

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2000/XP or Red Hat

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Enterprise AS3.0 update 7/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...

A) FreeDOS command prompt
B) Create NVIDIA nForce MCP55 RAID for Windows 2000 Driver Disk
C) Create NVIDIA nForce MCP55 RAID for Windows 2003 Driver Disk
D) Create NVIDIA nForce MCP55 RAID for Windows 2003 64 bit Driver Disk
E) Create NVIDIA nForce MCP55 SATA for RHEL AS4.0 UP2 64 bit Driver Disk
F) Create NVIDIA nForce MCP55 SATA for RHEL AS4.0 UP2 32 bit Driver Disk
G) Create NVIDIA nForce MCP55 SATA for RHEL AS3.0 UP6 64 bit Driver Disk
H) Create NVIDIA nForce MCP55 SATA for RHEL AS3.0 UP6 32 bit Driver Disk
I) Create LSI 1068 SAS for Win2K/Win2K3 32 bit Driver Disk
J) Create LSI 1068 SAS for Win2K3 64 bit Driver Disk
K) Create LSI 1068 SAS for RHEL AS4.0 UP2 64 bit Driver Disk
L) Create LSI 1068 SAS for RHEL AS4.0 UP2 32 bit Driver Disk
M) Create LSI 1068 SAS for RHEL AS3.0 UP2 64 bit Driver Disk
N) Create LSI 1068 SAS for RHEL AS3.0 UP2 32 bit Driver Disk
O) Broadcom ASF Firmware Update
P) Flash AMI BIOS for KFN5-Q/SAS MB
Please choose A to P: