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3. SATA-ALi RAID Driver
CAUTION!
Because of the inherent limitations by system chipset, the ALi M5283
SATA and RAID controller is implemented as a device that requires you
to provide device driver during the Windows installation process. To
successfully install the device driver, please carefully read the following
instructions.
The ALi driver is especially required if SATA drives are the only hard disk drives in your system.
Otherwise the Windows installation program may fail to locate your hard drives whether you
configure your SATA disk drives into RAID volumes or use them as individual disk drives.
The system BIOS can identify SATA disk drives, but cannot control their operation. The
separately installed driver therefore is necessary.
ALi SATA Controller Driver Installation Steps
- During Windows XP Installation
Step 1. Enable SATA ROM using the BIOS configuration utility. The SATA ROM option is
provided in the ALi BIOS menu.
Step 2. Locate the ALi installation driver folder within the Utility CD that came with your
motherboard.
Step 3. Copy files under a sub-directory named “SATA50XX” (taking Windows XP installation
as the example) to the root directory of floppy diskette (labeled driver diskette). The
file names are listed below:
disk1
5283096D.bin
txtsetup.oem
Also copy the OS option directory and related driver files in each directory.
Step 4. Boot from Windows installation CD-ROM (this requires you to set CD-ROM as the 1
st
Boot Device), when the Windows XP Setup blue screen appears and prompts users
to Press F6 if you need to install third-party SCSI or RAID driver, please press the F6
key.
Step 5. The setup program will continue, later when the setup program prompts users to
specify additional adapters, please press the S key.
Step 6. Then the setup program will prompt user to insert the driver diskette. Please insert
the driver diskette your prepared previously, and then press ENTER to continue.
Step 7. The follow-up window will list out the installation choices, please select ALi
SATA/RAID Controller for Windows XP and press ENTER to continue.
Step 8. The follow-up window will list out the devices to be installed, in which selected ALi
controller(s) should be included.
Step 9. Repeat step 5, but select ALi ATA/RAID Controller at step 7. If both controllers are
installed, go to next step.