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DRIVER INSTALLATION

Continue with the following steps to make any additional volume sets or pass-through disks accessible to Windows. This proce- dure assumes that the SATA RAID controller hardware, driver, and Windows are installed and operational in your system.

1.Partition and format the new volume set or disks using Disk Administrator:

a. Choose Administrative Tools from the Start menu.

b. Choose Computer Management from the Administrative Tools menu.

c. Select Storage.

d. Select Disk Management.

2.Follow the on-screen prompts to write a signature to the drive.

3.Right click on the disk drive and select “Create Volume” from the menu.

4.Follow the on-screen prompts to create a volume set and to give a disk drive letter.

4.2.3Installing controller into an existing Win- dows 2000/XP/2003 Installation

In this scenario, you are installing the controller in an existing Windows system. To install the driver:

1.Follow the instructions in Chapter 2, the Hardware Installa- tion Chapter, to install the controller and connect the disk drives or enclosure.

2.Start the system and then press Tab+F6 to enter the Mc- BIOS-based configuration utility. Use the configuration utility to create the raid set and volume set. For details, see Chapter 3, McBIOS RAID Manager. Once a volume set is created and configured, continue with installation of the driver.

3.Re-Boot Windows and the OS will recognize the SATA RAID Controller and launche the “Found New Hardware Wizard”,

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