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Chapter 5: Software supportChapter 5: Software support
Chapter 5: Software supportChapter 5: Software support
Chapter 5: Software support
5.6 Creating a RAID driver disk
A floppy disk with the RAID driver is required when installing Windows
®
2000/XP operating system on a hard disk drive that is included in a RAID
set.
To create a RAID driver disk:
1. Place the motherboard support CD into the CD-ROM drive.
2. When the
Drivers Drivers
Drivers Drivers
Drivers menu appears, select the RAID driver disk you
want to create:
• Click
Make NVIDIA RAID DriverMake NVIDIA RAID Driver
Make NVIDIA RAID DriverMake NVIDIA RAID Driver
Make NVIDIA RAID Driver to create an NVIDIA
®
RAID
driver disk.
• Click
Make Silicon SATA RAID Driver DiskMake Silicon SATA RAID Driver Disk
Make Silicon SATA RAID Driver DiskMake Silicon SATA RAID Driver Disk
Make Silicon SATA RAID Driver Disk to create a
Silicon Image SATARaid™ RAID driver disk.
Or
Browse the contents of the support CD to locate the driver disk
utility.
• Go to
\Drivers\Chipset\WINXP_2K\Driver_Disk\Drivers\Chipset\WINXP_2K\Driver_Disk
\Drivers\Chipset\WINXP_2K\Driver_Disk\Drivers\Chipset\WINXP_2K\Driver_Disk
\Drivers\Chipset\WINXP_2K\Driver_Disk for the
NVIDIA
®
RAID driver disk utility.
• Go to
\Drivers\Sil3114\Drivers\Sil3114
\Drivers\Sil3114\Drivers\Sil3114
\Drivers\Sil3114 for the Silicon Image RAID driver disk
utility.
4. Insert floppy disk to floppy disk drive.
5. Follow succeeding screen information to complete process.
6. Write-protect the floppy disk to avoid computer virus infection.
To install the RAID driver:
1. During the OS installation, the system prompts you to press the F6
key to install third-party SCSI or RAID driver.
2. Press <F6>
then insert the floppy disk with RAID driver into the floppy
disk drive.
3. Follow the succeeding screen instructions to complete the installation.
Refer to section “5.2.2 Drivers menu” for details.
Due to chipset limitation, the Serial ATA ports supported by the NVIDIA
chipset doesn’t support Serial Optical Disk Drives (Serial ODD) under
DOS.