Os Installation Tips; Sas Raid); Drivers Required - Acer Altos R720 Installation & Configuration Manual

OS INSTALLATION TIPS

Altos R720 Installation Configuration Guide
Below is Altos R720 OS certification matrix:
Operating System
Windows 2000 Advanced Server,
Service Pack 4
Windows Server 2003 x64 Enterprise
Edition
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise
Edition SP1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 EM64T
Update 2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 Update
2
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 EM64T
SP3
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 SP3
NetWare 6.5 Support Pack5
The drivers required for the OS installation can be found on the EasyBUILD 7.1
build 100 (or later). We suggest that you use the drivers contained in the
EasyBUILD 7.1 build 100 (or later), as these drivers are tested and qualified by
Acer.
There are two ways you can get the drivers. You can either make diskettes
from EasyBUILD 7.1 build 100 (or later), or put it in the optical drive and search
the driver directly.
NOTE. In this section, we assume the OS is installed on the HDD connected to
the onboard SAS or integrated SAS RAID.
NOTE. The internal USB floppy drive is an option. If you do not have this option
and you need to apply the driver during the OS installation, you need an
external USB floppy drive.
Windows Server 2003 x64 Enterprise Edition Installation (with
integrated SAS RAID)
Below information describes how to manually install Windows Server 2003 x64
Enterprise Edition on Altos R720.

Drivers Required

For Windows 2003 x64 Installation, the following device drivers are required.
Device
Integrated SAS
RAID
Onboard Intel
5000P Chipset
Onboard Intel
6
Status
Tested
Tested
Tested
Tested
Tested
Certified
Certified
Tested
Version Directory on EasyBUILD
1.17.0.64 \Disk\R720\RAID\Integrated_SAS\WS2K
3X64
7.3.0.1011 \Disk\R720\onboard\Chipset\
9.3.39 \Disk\R720\NIC\Intel\pro1000.net\ws03
Note