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User Guide - Page 6
... 5-51 5.4.7 Selecting the boot drive from a RAID set 5-52 5.4.8 Enabling WriteCache 5-53
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 6-6 6.2 Intel® chipset device installation 6-19 6.3 LAN driver installation 6-21 6.4 VGA driver installation 6-23 6.4.1 Windows® Server 2003 6-23...
User Guide - Page 9
... provides instructions for installing the necessary drivers for different system components.
• Appendix: Reference information This appendix includes additional information that you may refer to when configuring the motherboard.
Where to find more information
Refer to the following sources for additional information and for product and software updates.
1. ASUS websites The ASUS website...
User Guide - Page 11
... link) SATA Controller Intel® 3420:
6* SATA2 300MB/s ports -
Intel Matrix Storage utility supports software RAID 0, 1,
10 & 5(Windows)
LSI MegaRAID driver supports software RAID 0, 1&
10(Windows & Linux) (P7F-C/4L only)
SAS Controller LSI 1068E 8-port SAS - controller:
LSI® Integrated RAID 0, 1,
Networking
LAN
Graphic
VGA
1E support 2 * Marvell® 8056 PCI-E GbE LAN XGI®...
User Guide - Page 35
... BIOS setup.
2. Assign an IRQ to the card. Refer to the tables on the next page. 3. Install the software drivers for the expansion card.
When using PCI cards on shared slots, ensure that the drivers support "Share IRQ" or that the cards do not need IRQ assignments. Otherwise, conflicts will arise between the two PCI groups, making the system unstable and the card inoperable.
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User Guide - Page 63
... 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
...RAID
The motherboard supports the following SATA RAID solutions:
• Intel Matrix Storage Manager with RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10, and RAID 5 support (for Windows OS only).
• LSI1068E PCI-E SAS controller (P7F-C/SAS model only) supports SAS disk drives and RAID0, RAID1, and RAID1E configuration.
• LSI MegaRAID software RAID Configuration Utility (P7F-C/4L model only) with RAID 0, RAID...
User Guide - Page 130
... the SATA hard disk drives.
2. During POST, the LSI MegaRAID software RAID configuration utility automatically detects the installed SATA hard disk drives and displays any existing RAID set(s). Press + to enter the utility.
LSI MegaRAID Software RAID BIOS Version A.09 04300936R
LSI SATA RAID Found at PCI Bus No: Dev No:1F
Device present at Port 0
ST3160812AS
152114MB
Device present at Port...
User Guide - Page 152
Chapter summary
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6.1 RAID driver installation 6-3 6.2 Intel chipset device software installation 6-19 6.3 LAN driver installation 6-21 6.4 VGA driver installation 6-23 6.5 Management application and utilities installation 6-25
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User Guide - Page 153
...provides instructions on how to install the RAID controller drivers during OS installation.
6.1.1 Creating a RAID driver disk
The system does not include a floppy drive. You have to use a USB floppy drive when creating a SATA RAID driver disk.
If you have created RAID sets with the LSI Software RAID configuration utility, the boot priority of the SATA optical disk drive has to be manually adjusted...
User Guide - Page 154
PCH LSI RAID Driver
PCH LSI RAID Driver Windows XP 32 bit Windows XP 64 bit Windows Server 2003 32 bit Windows Server 2003 64 bit Windows Vista 32 bit Windows Vista 64 bit Windows Server 2008 32 bit Windows Server 2008 64 bit RHEL AS4 UP5 32/64 bit RHEL AS4 UP6 32/64 bit RHEL ... 4 UP2 32 bit RHEL 4 UP2 64 bit RHEL 4 UP3 32 bit RHEL 4 UP3 64 bit RHEL 4 UP4 32 bit
6-4
Chapter 6: Driver installation
User Guide - Page 156
...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...
User Guide - Page 157
.... 7. The Upgrade Device Driver Wizard window appears. Click Next. 8. Insert the RAID driver disk you created earlier to the floppy disk drive.
9. Select the option Install the software automatically (Recommended), and then click Next.
10. The wizard searches the RAID controller drivers. When found, click Next to install the drivers.
11. Click Finish after the driver installation is done.
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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
Intel(R) ICH8R/ICH9R/ICH10R/DO/PCH SATA RAID Controller item should appear.
The screen differs...
User Guide - Page 159
... using the key when asked if you have the driver disk, then press .
Main Menu
Do you have a driver disk?
Yes
No
5. Press to continue.
Insert Driver Disk
Insert your driver disk into /dev/sda and press "OK" to continue.
OK
Cancel
6. Select No and press to continue.
More Driver Disks?
Do you wish to load any more driver disks?
Yes
No
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...a driver disk, press F2.
LSI Logic Fusion MPT SPI Driver (mptspi) LSI MegaRAID Controllers (megaraid_mbox) LSI MegaRAID Controllers (megaraid_sas) LSI megasr Driver ver 13.10.0708.2009 (megasr) Marvell SATA controllers (sata_mv) Mylex DAC960 RAID Controller (DAC960)
[] Specify optional module arguments
OK
Back
The driver version may vary with time and model. Select LSI Mega Software RAID driver...
User Guide - Page 164
... 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 noprobe=ata[n]. The number of ata varies with
the hard disk drive number you have when building a RAID set. For example, if you want to build a RAID set with 6 hard disk drives...
User Guide - Page 168
... Options and press Enter to continue. 5. When below screen appears, select the floppy disk drive (fd0) as the driver update medium. Select OK, then press .
Please choose the Driver Update medium.
fd0: Floppy sr0: CD-ROM, TEAC DV-516E sda: Disk, SEAGATE ST336754SS sdb: Disk, SEAGATE ST336754SS Other device
OK
Back
The drivers for the RAID controller are installed to the system.
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Chapter...
User Guide - Page 169
... 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 Intel Chipset Device Software from the menu.
4. The Intel(R) Chipset Device Software window appears. Click Next to start installation.
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User Guide - Page 171
... Yukon Ethernet driver on a Windows® Server OS. To install the LAN controller drivers
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 Autorun is enabled in your computer.
• Windows® automatically detects the LAN controllers and displays a New...
User Guide - Page 173
.... To install the XGI Volari Z9s VGA driver:
1. Restart the computer, then log on with Administrator privileges. 2. Insert the motherboard/system support CD to the optical drive. The support
CD automatically displays the Drivers menu if Autorun is enabled in your computer. The Drivers menu if Autorun is enabled in your computer.
3. The XGI VGA Package window appears, preparing the setup.
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