MSI RD480 Neo2 - Manual (Page 123)

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MS-7194 ATX Mainboard
Installing RAID Drivers (for Windows 2000/XP only)
Installing RAID Drivers during OS Install
Follow the instructions in this section if you are performing a new installation of the
OS (W indows 2000/XP), and wish to boot from a RAID drive connected to the SATA
controller.
1.
Install the new SATA drives.
a.
Power off the system.
b. Connect the hard drives to the SATA RAID controller ports.
c. Insert your Windows 2000/XP CD into the CD-ROM/DVE drive, or the 2000/XP
boot diskette #1 in the floppy drive if your system cannot boot from the CD.
d. Power up the system.
2. Install the driver during OS boot.
a.
Press F6 for third party SCSI or driver installation at the beginning of the text
mode installation.
b. Press ‘s’ when setup asks if you want to specify an additional device, and
insert the diskette or CD labelled ‘ULi SATARaid Driver Installation Disk’.
c. Press ‘Enter’ and select ‘ULi SATA Controller (M5287, W indows XP/Server
2003) ’ for win XP or select ‘ULi SATA Controller (M5287, W in2000)’ for win
2000.
d. Press ‘Enter’ to continue with text mode setup.
3. Partition and format the Master RAID drive.
a.
Follow the setup instructions to select your choice of partition and file system.
4. Install OS on the Master RAID drive.
a.
After setup has examined your drives, it will copy files to W indows installa-
tion folders and restart the system.
b. The setup program will continue and finish the installation after restart.
c. W ait until W indows 2000/XP finishes installing devices, regional settings,
networking settings, components, and final set of tasks, reboot the system if
it is required.
5. Verify driver installation under W indows 2000 and XP.
a.
Right click on ‘ My Computer’ icon, select ‘Properties’, left click on ‘Hardware’
tab, and then on ‘Device Manager’ button.
b. Double click on ‘SCSI and RAID Controllers’, if there is no yellow ‘!’ or ‘?’ in f-
ront of ‘ULi SATA/RAID Controller (M1573)’, the driver is installed correctly.
MSI Reminds You...
The
ULi SATARaid Driver Installation Disk should be accompanied in
the mainboard package. You may make the Serial ATA RAID driver by
yourself by following the instruction below.
1. Insert the MSI CD into the CD-ROM drive.
2. Click the
“Browse CD” botton on the Setup Screen.
3. C o py all th e c ont ent s ( inc luding the s u b-f old ers ) in t he
\\ULi\Floppy to a formatted floppy disk.
4. The driver disk for ULi SATA Controller is done.