Intel Matrix Storage Manager Quick Guide for Acer Selected Veriton PC V1.1
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8.
Pre-Installation of the Intel® Matrix Storage Manager Driver
This section is for user who may want to install the operating system
themselves. Because Acer systems are defaulted as RAID Ready systems, you may
need to follow the following steps to pre-install the RAID driver.
The Intel Matrix Storage Manager driver must be installed before installing
Windows XP on a RAID volume or when in AHCI mode. The Intel Matrix Storage Manager
AHCI driver can be installed over Vista's native AHCI driver.
8.1 Build the RAID driver on a floppy disk
You can download the RAID driver from the Acer website or Acer Resource CD.
The driver file is named "f6flpy32." Once the build up complete, remove the floppy
disk and prepare for Windows installation.
1. On a system running Windows, download the application f6flpy32.exe (for 32-bit
operating system) or f6flpy64.exe (for 64-bit operating system) to your local
drive.
2. Double click on the application. A dialog box prompting you to
Insert floppy
to write
will appear.
3. Insert a blank floppy into floppy drive and click OK to proceed.
4. The application will perform the following tasks:
a. Format the disk.
b. Write data to the disk
c. Verify data on the disk.
5. After the task is done,
About Self-Extractor for WinImage
will be displayed.
Click OK to exit.
6. Now your floppy disk will have the valid Intel Matrix Storage Manager Driver
which can be used for installation using the F6 process.
8.2 Pre-Installation Using the "F6" process
1. When installing Windows XP and older operating systems, the user may encounter
a message stating
Setup could not determine the type of one or more mass storage
devices installed in your system
. If this is the case, then the user is ready
to supply the driver. If this is not the case, press F6 when prompted at the
beginning of Windows setup.
2. Press the 'S' key to select
Specify Additional Device
.
3. The user will be prompted to insert a floppy disk containing the
manufacturer-supplied driver into the A: drive. (See Section 7.3 for instructions
