1 raid driver installation, 1 creating a raid driver disk – Asus PIKE 9230 User Manual

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Chapter 2: Driver installation

2.1

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 or update the RAID card drivers.

2.1.1

Creating a RAID driver disk

You may have to use another system to create the RAID driver disk from the

support CD.

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

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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 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. The Make Disk menu appears. Select PIKE 9230 SATA card driver, and

press <Enter> to enter the sub-menu.

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