1 raid driver installation, Creating a raid driver disk – Asus RS161-E4/PA2 User Manual

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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.

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.

The Makedisk menu appears.

Loading FreeDOS FAT KERNEL GO!

Press any key to boot from CDROM...

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

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2000/XP 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) or in Windows

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environment.

To create a RAID driver disk in DOS:
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. When prompted, press any key to boot from the support CD.

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

A) FreeDOS command prompt
B) Create NVIDIA nForce SATA RAID for Windows 2000 Driver Disk
C) Create NVIDIA nForce SATA RAID for Windows 2003 Driver Disk
D) Create NVIDIA nForce SATA RAID for Windows 2003 64 bit Driver Disk
E) Flash AMI BIOS for RS161-E4/PA2
F) Write RS161-E4/PA2 FRU
G) Broadcom ASF Firmware Update
Please choose A TO G:

When you insert a floppy disk with data, the utility erases all the data

before copying the RAID drivers.

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