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Creating a floppy with RAID driver - sata drivers

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5.6 Creating a floppy with RAID driver A floppy disk with the SIS® RAID 180 driver is required when installing Windows® XP™, Windows® 2000™ or Windows® NT™ operating systems. You can create a floppy disk with the RAID driver using Makedisk.exe utility. A floppy disk with a RAID driver is necessary when configuring RAID installations. To create a floppy disk with RAID driver: 1. Insert the motherboard support CD into the CD-ROM drive and locate the Makedisk.exe utility for your RAID controller. The SIS® 180 SATA driver is located in "\Drivers\RAID\SISRAID\DriverDisk" of the motherboard support CD. 2. Insert a clean floppy disk into the floppy disk drive and execute Makedisk.exe. Follow succeeding screen instructions. 3. Write-protect the floppy disk to avoid computer virus infection. To use the floppy with RAID driver: 1. During the OS installation, the system prompts 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 succeeding screen instructions. For additional information on RAID installation and configuration, refer to the Promise® RAID installation guide found in "\Drivers\RAID\964_180um020.doc" of the motherboard support CD. ASUS P4S800D-E Deluxe motherboard 5-23

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5.6
Creating a floppy with RAID driver
A floppy disk with the SIS
®
RAID 180 driver is required when installing
Windows
®
XP™, Windows
®
2000™ or Windows
®
NT™ operating systems.
You can create a floppy disk with the RAID driver using Makedisk.exe
utility. A floppy disk with a RAID driver is necessary when configuring RAID
installations.
To create a floppy disk with RAID driver:
1.
Insert the motherboard support CD into the CD-ROM drive and locate
the Makedisk.exe utility for your RAID controller.
The SIS
®
180 SATA driver is located in
“\Drivers\RAID\SISRAID\DriverDisk”
of the motherboard
support CD.
2.
Insert a clean floppy disk into the floppy disk drive and execute
Makedisk.exe. Follow succeeding screen instructions.
3.
Write-protect the floppy disk to avoid computer virus infection.
To use the floppy with RAID driver:
1.
During the OS installation, the system prompts 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 succeeding screen instructions.
For additional information on RAID installation and configuration, refer
to the Promise
®
RAID installation guide found in
“\Drivers\RAID\964_180um020.doc”
of the motherboard support CD.