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...Chapter 6: Driver installation 6.1 RAID driver installation 6-3
6.1.1 Creating a RAID driver disk 6-3 6.1.2 Installing the RAID controller driver 6-5 6.2 ATI SM Bus controller driver installation 6-15 6.3 LAN driver installation 6-16 6.4 Display driver installation 6-20 6.5 Mellanox ConnectX QDR PCI Gen2 Channel Adapter driver installation (For KGMH-D16/QDR only 6-23 6.5.1 Windows operating...
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... This chapter describes the power up sequence and ways of shutting down the system. • Chapter 4: BIOS setup This chapter tells how to change system settings through the BIOS Setup menus. Detailed descriptions of the BIOS parameters are also provided. • Chapter 5: Driver installation This chapter provides instructions for installing the necessary drivers for different system components...
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... the power cord before adding or removing expansion cards. Failure to do so may cause you physical injury and damage motherboard components.
• ASUS KGN(M)H-D16 server board supports Half-Height, Half-Length expansion cards only.
• When installing the motherboard to a 1U/2U rackmount server system, first install the expansion card using an optional PCIe x16 riser card, then install the...
User Guide - Page 65
... can enable the security password feature or change the power management settings. This requires you to reconfigure your system using the BIOS Setup program so that the computer can recognize these changes and record them in the CMOS RAM of the firmware chip.
The firmware chip on the motherboard stores the Setup utility. When you start up the computer, the system provides you...
User Guide - Page 99
... large drive volume, making the small-sized disk drives more useful. The disk drives in this mode need not to be identical in size or speed.
If you want to boot the system from a hard disk drive included in a created RAID set, copy first the RAID driver from the support CD to a floppy disk before you install an operating system to the selected hard disk drive.
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User Guide - Page 115
... not include a floppy drive. You have to use a USB floppy drive when creating a SATA RAID driver disk.
When you use a SATA optical drive and PROMISE RAID, you cannot boot into FreeDOS using this support CD. Either reset SATA Port1-4 in BIOS to [IDE] and boot again or create the RAID driver in another computer.
A floppy disk with the RAID driver is required when installing Windows® or Red...
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... the type of RAID driver disk you want to create and press to enter the sub-menu.
Promise SW ROMB Controller Driver Windows Server 2003 32/64 bit Windows Server 2008 32 bit Windows Server 2008 64 bit Windows Server 2008 R2 ...65533;t�o�t�h�e� floppy disk drive.
7. Press . 8. Follow screen instructions to create the driver disk.
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...of one or more mass storage devices installed in your system, or you have chosen to manually specify an adapter. Currently, Setup will load support for the following mass storage devices(s):
* To specify additional SCSI adapters, DVD-ROM drives, or special disk controllers for use with Windows, including those for which you have a device support disk from a mass storage device manufacturer, press...
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...list, then press . 6. The Windows® Setup loads the RAID controller drivers from the RAID driver
disk. When prompted, press to continue installation. 7. Setup then proceeds with the OS installation. Follow screen instructions to
continue.
To an existing Windows® Server OS
To install the RAID controller driver on an existing Windows® Server OS
1. Restart the computer, and then log in...
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To verify the RAID controller driver installation:
1. Right-click the My Computer icon on the Windows® desktop, and then select Properties from the menu.
2. Click the Hardware tab, and then click the Device Manager button. 3. Click the "+" sign before the item SCSI and RAID controllers, and then the
Promise AHCI Compatible RAID Controller item should appear.
The screen differs based on the ...
User Guide - Page 120
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux OS 4.7/4.8 To install the RAID controller driver when installing�R��e�d�H��a�t® Enterprise OS: 1. Boot the system from the Red Hat® OS installation CD. 2. At the boot:, type linux dd. 3. Pr�e�s��s��.
- To install or upgrade in graphical mode, press the key...
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... when asked if you have the driver disk, then press .
Main Menu
Do you have a driver disk?
Yes
No
5. Insert the Red Hat® Enterprise RAID driver disk to the floppy disk drive, select OK, then press .
Insert Driver Disk
Insert your driver disk into /dev/fd0 and press "OK" to continue.
OK
Back
The drivers for the RAID card are installed to the system.
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SUSE Linux 11 OS To install the RAID controller driver when installing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server OS:
1. Boot the system from the SUSE OS installation CD. 2. Use the arrow keys to select Installation from the Boot Options menu.
Boot from Hard Disk Installation Repair Installed System Rescue System Check Installation Media Firmware Test Memory Test
Boot Options |
F1 Help F2 Language F3 Video ...
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... .
Boot from Hard Disk Installation Repair Installed System Rescue System Check Installation Media Firmware Test Memory Test
Boot Options acpi=off apic=bigsmp brokenmodules=ahci
F1 Help F2 Language F3 Video Mode F4 Source F5 Kernel F6 Driver
English(US) 1024 X768
DVD
Default Yes
5. When below screen appears, select the USB floppy disk drive (sda) as the driver update medium. Select...
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6. The drivers for the RAID controller are installed to the system as shown below.
Please choose the Driver Update medium.
sda: USB Floppy sr0: CD-ROM, ASUS DRW-1612BLT sdb: Disk, Promise 1X2 Morror/RAID1 sd3: Disk, Promise RAID Console other device
OK
Back
7. Select Back and follow the onscreen instructions to finish the installation.
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User Guide - Page 127
...the driver:
1. Restart the computer, then log on with Administrator privileges. 2. Insert the motherboard/system support DVD to the optical drive. The support
DVD automatically displays the Drivers menu if Autorun is enabled in your computer. 3. Click the item ATI SM Bus Controller Driver from the menu, and then follow the onscreen instructions to complete the installation.
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User Guide - Page 128
6.3 LAN driver installation
This section provides the instructions on how to install Intel® Gigabit LAN controller drivers.
To install the Intel® Gigabit LAN controller driver on a Windows® OS:
1. Restart the computer, and then log on with Administrator privileges. 2. Insert the motherboard/system support DVD to the optical drive. The DVD
automatically displays the Drivers menu if ...
User Guide - Page 132
... section provides instructions on how to install the ASPEED display driver. You need to manually install the ASPEED display driver on a Windows® operating system. To install the ASPEED display driver 1. Restart the computer, then log on with Administrator privileges. 2. Insert the motherboard/system support DVD to the optical drive. The support
DVD automatically displays the Drivers menu if...
User Guide - Page 135
...QDR PCI Gen2 Channel Adapter driver installation (For KGMH-D16/QDR only)
This section provides instructions on how to install the Mellanox driver.
6.5.1 Windows operating system
You need to manually install the Mellanox driver on a Windows® operating system. To install the Mellanox driver 1. Restart the computer, then log on with Administrator privileges. 2. Insert the MLNX_InfiniBand support...
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7. When the installation finishes, reboot your system to complete the installation.
If your system has the latest firmware, no firmware update will occur. To force firmware update, type --force-fw-update.
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