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3. SATA-ALi RAID Driver

CAUTION!

Because of the inherent limitations by system chipset, the ALi M5283 SATA and RAID controller is implemented as a device that requires you to provide device driver during the Windows installation process. To successfully install the device driver, please carefully read the following instructions.

The ALi driver is especially required if SATA drives are the only hard disk drives in your system. Otherwise the Windows installation program may fail to locate your hard drives whether you configure your SATA disk drives into RAID volumes or use them as individual disk drives.

The system BIOS can identify SATA disk drives, but cannot control their operation. The separately installed driver therefore is necessary.

ALi SATA Controller Driver Installation Steps- During Windows XP Installation

Step 1. Enable SATA ROM using the BIOS configuration utility. The SATA ROM option is provided in the ALi BIOS menu.

Step 2. Locate the ALi installation driver folder within the Utility CD that came with your motherboard.

Step 3. Copy files under a sub-directory named “SATA50XX” (taking Windows XP installation as the example) to the root directory of floppy diskette (labeled driver diskette). The file names are listed below:

„disk1

„5283096D.bin

„txtsetup.oem

Also copy the OS option directory and related driver files in each directory.

Step 4.

Boot from Windows installation CD-ROM (this requires you to set CD-ROM as the 1st

 

Boot Device), when the Windows XP Setup blue screen appears and prompts users

 

to Press F6 if you need to install third-party SCSI or RAID driver, please press the F6

 

key.

Step 5.

The setup program will continue, later when the setup program prompts users to

 

specify additional adapters, please press the S key.

Step 6.

Then the setup program will prompt user to insert the driver diskette. Please insert

 

the driver diskette your prepared previously, and then press ENTER to continue.

Step 7.

The follow-up window will list out the installation choices, please select ALi

 

SATA/RAID Controller for Windows XP and press ENTER to continue.

Step 8.

The follow-up window will list out the devices to be installed, in which selected ALi

 

controller(s) should be included.

Step 9.

Repeat step 5, but select ALi ATA/RAID Controller at step 7. If both controllers are

 

installed, go to next step.

 

 

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