Driver Installation

SATA+ Ultra ATA RAID CONTROLLER RC212		User Manual

Array Mode RAID 1 (Mirroring)

Select Disk Drives

Start Create Process

Totally, there are four configurations supported:

RAID	Configurations	Number of disks
level/Type		needed
RAID 0	Disk Striping	2 or 3 or 4
RAID 1	Disk Mirroring	2
RAID 0+1	Disk Striping	4
	+ Mirroring
JBOD	Disk	2 or 3 or 4
	Concatenation

Installing driver on Windows® 98SE/ME

1.Start your PC. Windows ® will detect the VIA VT6421 RAID Card and find a “PCI RAID Controller”. Click the “Cancel” button to cancel the driver installation for the device at this moment. The driver for the device will be installed in the next step.

2.Insert the Driver CD into the CD-ROM Drive, and then please browse CD and locate the Driver Folder “\RC212\” and double click “Setup.exe” to start the driver installation procedure.

3.Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation. When the installation is complete, please select “Yes, I want to restart my computer now.” and restart your system.

4.Once you have rebooted your computer. Windows® will detect the VIA VT6421 RAID card and find a “VIA VT6421 RAID Controller” device. When the “Add New Hardware Wizard” asks “What would you like to do?” select “Specify the location of the driver(Advanced)” and click “Next” button.

5.When the “Add New Hardware Wizard” asks for the driver installation, uncheck all the boxes to allow Windows® to search its own driver database. Click “Next” to start the search.

6.The “Add New Hardware Wizard” will find the driver for the device “VIA VT6421 RAID Controller”. Click “Next” to continue.

7.When the driver installation is complete, click “Finish”.

8.Your computer must be restarted in order to complete the installation, click “Yes” to restart your computer.

Installing driver on Windows® 2000/XP/Server 2003

1.Start your PC. Windows ® will detect the VIA VT6421 RAID Card and find a “RAID Controller”. Click the “Cancel” button to cancel the driver installation for the device at this moment. The driver for the device will be installed in the next step.

2.Insert the Driver CD into the CD-ROM Drive, and then please browse CD and locate the Driver