5.5Creating 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.Select Make Disk tab.

3.From the Make Disk menu, select the RAID driver disk you want to create:

¥Click Make NVIDIA nForce 32bit SATA RAID Driver Disk to create an NVIDIA¨ Serial ATA RAID driver disk for a 32-bit OS.

¥Click Make NVIDIA nForce 32bit PATA RAID Driver Disk to create an NVIDIA¨ Parallel ATA RAID driver disk for a 32-bit OS.

¥Click Make Silicon Image 32bit RAID Driver Disk to create a Silicon Image RAID driver disk for 32-bit OS.

¥Click Make Silicon Image 32bit SATA Driver Disk to create a Silicon Image Serial ATA driver disk for 32-bit OS.

Or

Browse the contents of the support CD to locate the driver disk utility.

¥Go to \Drivers\Chipset\MakeDisk\XP_32\sataraid

for the NVIDIA¨ Serial ATA RAID driver disk utility.

¥Go to \Drivers\Chipset\MakeDisk\XP_32\pataraid

for the NVIDIA¨ Parallel ATA RAID driver disk utility.

¥ Go to

\Drivers\SiI3132\32bit\MakeDisk\MakeDisk_SATA

for the 32-bit Silicon Image¨ Serial ATA driver disk utility.

¥ Go to

\Drivers\SiI3132\32bit\MakeDisk\MakeDisk_RAID

for the 32-bit Silicon Image¨ Serial ATA RAID driver disk utility.

¥ Go to

\Drivers\SiI3132\64bit\MakeDisk\MakeDisk_SATA

for the 64-bit Silicon Image¨ Serial ATA driver disk utility.

¥ Go to

\Drivers\SiI3132\64bit\MakeDisk\MakeDisk_RAID

for the 64-bit Silicon Image¨ Serial ATA RAID driver disk utility.

Refer to section Ò5.2.4 Make Disk menuÓ for details.

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