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... Card (optional).......... 2-24
Chapter 3: Installation options 3.1 Installing friction rail kit items 3-2
3.1.1 Attaching the fixing latches to the server 3-2 3.1.2 Mounting the server to the rack 3-5
Chapter 4: Motherboard information 4.1 Motherboard layouts 4-2 4.2 Jumpers 4-4 4.3 Internal connectors 4-8
Chapter 5: BIOS setup 5.1 Managing and updating your BIOS 5-2
5.1.1 ASUS EZ Flash...
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... Creating a RAID set (RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10, RAID 5, SPAN
or JBOD 6-5 6.2.2 Deleting a RAID set 6-11 6.2.3 Viewing the Drive Assignment 6-13 6.2.4 Viewing the Controller Configuration 6-14
Chapter 7: Driver installation 7.1 RAID driver installation 7-2
7.1.1 Creating a RAID driver disk 7-2 7.1.2 Installing the RAID controller driver 7-4 7.2 Intel® Network Connection Software 7-17
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Contents
7.3 LAN driver installation 7-21 7.4 Display driver installation 7-25 7.5 Mellanox ConnectX QDR PCI Gen2 7-28
7.5.1 Windows operating system 7-28 7.5.2 Red Hat® Enterprise Linux OS 7-32 7.6 Management applications and utilities installation 7-35 7.6.1 Running the support DVD 7-35 7.6.2 Drivers menu 7-35 7.6.3 Utilities menu 7-36 7.6.4 Make disk menu 7-36 7.6.5 Contact ...
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... BIOS settings, if any. See Chapter 5 for information on 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.
Standard Interrupt assignments
IRQ
Priority Standard function
0
1
System Timer
1
2
Keyboard Controller
2
-
Programmable Interrupt
3*
11
Communications Port (COM2)
4*
12
Communications Port...
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... 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 112
... 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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Chapter 6: RAID...
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... 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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...driver...
3. The next screen appears. Press to specify an additional device.
Windows Setup
Setup could not determine the type 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, CD-ROM drives, or special disk controllers...
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... ready.
ENTER=Continue ESC=Cancel F3=Exit
5. Select the RAID controller driver you need from the list, and then press .
6. The Windows® Setup loads the RAID controller drivers from the RAID driver disk. When the next screen appears, press to continue installation.
7. Setup then proceeds with the OS installation. Follow screen instructions to continue.
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...® Server 2008 OS installation To install the RAID controller driver when installing Windows® Server 2008 OS
1. Boot the computer using the Windows® Server 2008 OS installation disc. Follow the screen instructions to start installing Windows Server 2008.
2. When prompted to choose a type of installation, click Custom (advanced).
3. Click Load Driver.
4. A message appears, reminding...
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... continue.
6. Select the RAID controller driver you need from the list and click Next. 7. When the system finishes loading the RAID driver, replace the motherboard
Support DVD with the Windows Server installation disc. Select the drive to install Windows and click Next.
8. Setup then proceeds with the OS installation. Follow screen instructions to continue.
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Red Hat® Enterprise Linux OS 4.8 To install the RAID controller driver when installing Red Hat® Enterprise OS:
1. Boot the system from the Red Hat® OS installation CD. 2. At the boot:, type linux dd. 3. Press .
- To install or upgrade in graphical mode, press the key. - To install or upgrade in text mode, type: linux text . - Use the function keys...
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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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Chapter...
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SUSE Linux 11 / 11 SP1 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 ...
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...=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 OK, then press .
Please choose the Driver Update medium.
sda: USB Floppy Other device
OK
Back
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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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... the optical drive. The support
DVD automatically displays the Drivers menu if Autorun is enabled in your computer.
If Autorun is NOT enabled in your computer, browse the contents of the support DVD to locate the file AUTORUN.EXE and double-click the AUTORUN.EXE to run the support DVD.
3. Click the item Intel Network Connection Software from the menu.
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4. When the Install Network Connectons window appears, select Install Drivers and Sofware, then click Next to start the installation.
5. When the Intel® Network Connections - InstallShield Wizard window appears, click Next to start the installation.
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... Adapter driver installation (RS924A-E6/RS8 only)
This section provides instructions on how to install the Mellanox driver.
7.5.1 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 DVD to the optical...
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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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