Instruction Manual

ASUS Z8PE-D12 Series 6-3
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.
• When you use a SATA optical drive and LSI MegaRAID, you cannot boot
into FreeDOS using the support CD. Either reset
Congure SATA as
in
BIOS to [IDE] and boot again or create the RAID driver disk in another
computer.
A oppy disk with the RAID driver is required when installing Windows
®
2003
or Red Hat
®
Enterprise 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 rst 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. Use the arrow keys to select the type of RAID driver disk you want to ceate
and press <Enter> to enter the sub-menu.
Create Driver Diskette Menu
ICH10R INTEL RAID Driver
ICH10R LSI RAID Driver
ITE IT8213F Linux Driver
Write DMI
FreeDOS command prompt