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3.11 SATA-ALi RAID DRIVER INSTALLATION

CAUTION!

Because of the inherent limitations by AMD Geode CS5536 chipset, the ALi M5283 SATA and RAID
controller is implemented as a device that requires 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 the FPD6065/FPC6084
system. Otherwise, the Windows installation program may fail to locate the hard drives whether configuring
the SATA disk drives into RAID volumes or using 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.

3.11.1 INSTALLATION STEPS DURING WINDOWS XP INSTALLATION

Step 1: Enable SATA ROM using the BIOS configuration utility. The process has been detailed in Appen-
dix E.

Step 2: Locate the ALi installation driver folder within the Utility CD that came with the 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

Step 4: Also copy the OS option directory "win98_me", "win_nt", or "win_xp", and related driver files in
each directory.

Step 5: Boot from Windows installation CD-ROM (set CD-ROM as the 1st Boot Device), when the Win-
dows XP Setup blue screen appears and prompts users to Press F6. Please press the F6 key, if third-
party SCSI or RAID driver installation is needed.