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C HAPTER
CREATING RAID ARRAYS
Thischapterprovidesinstructionsoncreatingbootableandnon‐bootableRAIDarrays.
• CreatingaBootableArray
YoucanconfigureaRAIDarrayandtheninstalltheoperatingsystemoverit.
• CreatingaNon‐BootableArray
Thisisthestandardmethodofusing non‐bootabledisksinaRAIDarray.
Creating a Bootable Array
Step 1: Enable RAID in the system BIOS
See“EnablingRAIDintheSystemBIOS”onpage 8fordetailedinstructions.
Step 2: Create a RAID array using the RAID BIOS
See“CreatingaRAIDArrayUsingtheRAIDBIOS”onpage 11fordetailedinstructions.
Step 3: Install the RAID Drivers
InstalltheRAIDdriverswhenyouinstalltheOS.
1 CreatetheDriverDisk
The\DriverDiskfoldercontainsdriverpackagesforvariousLinuxdistributions.
ChoosethecorrectfilesunderDriverDiskthatcorrespondtotheLinuxOSthatyouwill
beinstalling,andcopythefilesinthatfoldertoaformatteddiskette.
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