Appendix A172 ASUS PCI-DA2100/PCI-DA2200 User’s Manual7.2 Making Floppy Diskettes for SlackWare 3.2 Installation1. Prepare two formatted floppy diskettes.2. Copy the files of Disk 1 and Disk 3 to a UNIX machine withfloppy drive.3. Place the formatted disk into the floppy drive and use the UNIX"dd" command to make the driver floppy diskettes.For example:# dd if=iabl11f1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k# dd if=iabl11f3 of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k4. Label each disk according to the above description.7.3 Installing Red Hat LinuxIMPORTANT:• ALWAYS CHANGE THE CACHE TO WRITE-BACK DISABLEDBEFORE INSTALLING OPERATING SYSTEMS ANDPARTITIONING.• The ASUS PCI-DA2100/-DA2200 is a high-performance PCI RAIDcontroller with Write-Back cache enabled. During the installation ofsome operating systems, the installation program might reset thecomputer automatically while the cache still contains data not yetwritten to the drives. It might cause the installation or partitioningfailure. To avoid the failure, always switch the cache mode to Write-Back DISABLED (Write-Through mode) before changing the drivepartition (e.g., using MS-DOS FDISK) and before installing anyoperating systems.1. Follow these steps to change the cache mode to Write-backDisabled:a) Using BIOS Text RAID Manager (PC platform only) todisable the Write-Back Cache. Power on the computer,press when the information appears.
