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6 creating a raid driver disk – Asus Motherboard A8N-SLI Premium User Manual

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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 menu appears, select the RAID driver disk you want

to create:

• Click Make NVIDIA RAID Driver to create an NVIDIA

®

RAID

driver disk.

• Click 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 for the

NVIDIA

®

RAID driver disk utility.

• Go to \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 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 doesnʼt support Serial Optical Disk Drives (Serial ODD) under

DOS.

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