Adaptec RAID 2100S Software User's Manual

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2-34Storage Manager on ROMCreating a SMOR Boot DiskTo create a SMOR boot disk, click Action > Make Boot Floppy oruse the Adaptec RAID Installation CD. You may need a SMOR bootdisk in certain situations when it is not possible to access SMOR bytyping Ctrl+A during startup. To create a SMOR boot disk1 Insert a blank disk into the disk drive.2 Select Action > Make Boot Floppy.3 When prompted, select Yes to create the bootable disk. Aprogress indicator appears showing the progress of the diskcreation. When finished, the progress meter closes.To use the bootable disk with SMOR, follow these steps:1 Insert the bootable disk you created into your disk drive.2 Restart your system. The system boots from the disk and startsSMOR automatically. If the system attempts to boot fromanother device, you must change the boot order setting in yoursystem BIOS setup. Refer to your system documentation forinformation about changing this setting.3 Use this version of SMOR to perform whatever tasks arenecessary to configure your storage subsystem.4 When you are finished, remove the disk from the disk drive.Select File > Exit to exit SMOR.Note: Exiting automatically restarts the computer. Leave thebootable disk in the disk drive, it will restart SMOR.