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5-1-4 Making a SATA RAID/AHCI Driver Diskette

(Required for AHCI and RAID Mode)

To successfully install operating system onto SATA hard drive(s) that is/are congured to RAID/AHCI mode,

you need to install the SATA controller driver during the OS installation. Without the driver, the hard drive may

not be recognized during the Windows setup process. First of all, copy the driver for the SATA controller from

the motherboard driver disk to a oppy disk. For installing Windows Vista, you also can copy the SATA con-

troller driver from the motherboard driver disk to a USB ash drive. See the instructions below about how to

copy the driver in MS-DOS and Windows mode.

In MS-DOS mode:

Prepare a startup disk that has CD-ROM support and a blank formatted oppy disk.

Steps:

1: Boot from the startup disk.

2: Remove the startup disk and insert the prepared oppy disk and the motherboard driver disk (here we as-

sume that the drive letter for your optical drive is D:\).

3: At the A:\> prompt, type the following command. Press <Enter> after the command:

• For the Intel P55, type (Figure 1):

(Note 1)

A:\>copy d:\bootdrv\irst\32bit\*.*

• For the JMicron JMB362/GIGABYTE SATA2, type (Figure 2):

(Note 1)

A:\>copy d:\bootdrv\gsata\32bit\*.*

• For the Marvell 9128, type (Figure 3):

(Note 2)

A:\>copy d:\bootdrv\Marvell\win32\*.*

Figure 1 Figure 2

Figure 3

(Note 1) Change the directory from \32bit to \64bit for copying the Windows 64-bit driver.

(Note 2) Change the directory from \win32 to \win64 for copying the Windows 64-bit driver.

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