Asus Pedestal/5U Rackmount Server TS500-E4 Server - Manual (Page 178)

7-2 Chapter 7: Driver installation
7.1 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.
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 ®
2000/XP or Red Hat ® Enterprise ver. 3.0/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...
This chapter provides instructions for TS500-E4/PA4 model only. For
TS500-E4/PX4, refer to the SAS/RAID card user guide which may be
contained in its driver CD.
7.1.1 Create a RAID driver disk (PA4 model)
A) FreeDOS command prompt
B) Create INTEL 6321 MATRIX STORAGE MANAGER for Windows 32 bit Driver Disk.
(Also support AHCI.)
C) Create INTEL 6321 MATRIX STORAGE MANAGER for Windows 64 bit Driver Disk.
(Also support AHCI.)
D) Create INTEL 6321 LSI MegaRAID for Win2k Driver Disk
E) Create INTEL 6321 LSI MegaRAID for WinXP/Win2k3 32 bit Driver Disk
F) Create INTEL 6321 LSI MegaRAID for WinXP/Win2k3 64 bit Driver Disk
G) Create the emergent BIOS Recovery diskette
H) ESB2 ASF firmware update
Please choose A TO H:
For PA4 model