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Installing the RAID drivers

To install operating system onto a serial ATA hard disk successfully, you need to install the SATA

controller driver during OS installation. Without the driver, the hard disk may not be recognized during

the Windows setup process. First of all, copy the driver for the SATA controller from the motherboard

driver CD-ROM to a floppy disk. See the instructions below about how to copy the driver in MS-DOS

mode

(Note1)

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

Step 1: Insert the prepared startup disk and motherboard driver CD-ROM in your system. Boot from the

startup disk. Once at the A:\> prompt, change to the CD-ROM drive (example: D:\>). At the D:\>

prompt, type the following two commands. Press ENTER after each command (Fig.1):

cd bootdrv

Step 2: When the controller menu (Fig.2) appears, remove the startup disk and insert the blank formatted

disk. Select the controller driver by pressing the corresponding letter from the menu

(Note2)

. Your system

will then automatically zip and transfer this driver file to the floppy disk. Press 0 to exit when finished.

Fig.1

Fig.2

Step 3: After completing the steps, boot from the Windows installation disk to install the RAID drivers.

Press F6 as soon as you see the "Press F6 if you need to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver"

message, then supply serial ATA controller driver by this floppy disk. Follow the on-screen instructions

to complete the installation.

(Each time you add a new hard drive to a RAID array, the RAID driver will have to be installed under

Windows once for that hard drive. After that, the driver will not have to be installed.)

(Note 1): For users without a startup disk.

Use an alternative system and insert the GIGABYTE motherboard driver CD-ROM. From the

CD-ROM drive (example: D:\) double click the MENU.exe file in the BootDrv folder. A

command prompt window will open similar to that in Fig. 2.

(Note 2) : If you wish to install operating system to SATA hard disks on the Sil3114 controller,

you must select the Sil3114 Raid5 item. Please refer to the provided Sil3114 SATA RAID

(RAID 5) function manual for detailed information about Sil3114 SATA RAID configuration.

Only for GA-K8N Ultra-SLI.

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