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If you want to use “VIA RAID Tool” in Windows ® environment, please install
SATA drivers from the Support CD again so that “VIA RAID Tool” will be
installed to your system as well. If you want to use “JMicron RAID Tool” in
Windows
®
environment, please install SATAII drivers from the Support CD
again so that “JMicron RAID Tool” will be installed to your system as well.
NOTE. After the installation of Windows ® 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit OS and RAID utility, if you
want to manage RAID functions, please refer to the Windows RAID installation
guide of the document in the following path in the Support CD:
.. \ RAID Installation Guide
E. The system will start to format the floppy diskette and copy SATA / SATAII
drivers into the floppy diskette.
STEP 3: Use “RAID Installation Guide” to set RAID configuration.
Before you start to configure RAID function, you need to check the RAID installation
guide in the Support CD for proper configuration. Please refer to the BIOS RAID
installation guide of the document in the following path in the Support CD:
.. \ RAID Installation Guide
STEP 4: Install Windows
®
2000 / XP / XP 64-bit OS on your system.
After making a SATA / SATAII driver diskette and set RAID configuration, you can
start to install Windows
®
2000 / XP / XP 64-bit on your system. At the beginning of
Windows
®
setup, press F6 to install a third-party RAID driver. When prompted, insert
the SATA / SATAII driver diskette containing VIA
®
and JMicron
®
RAID driver. After
reading the floppy disk, the driver will be presented. Select your required driver to
install according to the SATA / SATAII controller support vendor and the OS you
install. The driver options are as below:
1. VIA VT8251/8237/8237A/6421/6410 SATA RAID Controller (Windows XP/SRV2003)
2. VIA VT8251/8237/8237A/6421/6410 SATA RAID Controller (Windows 2K)
3. VIA VT8251/8237/8237A/6421/6410 SATA RAID Controller (Windows NT4)
4. JMicron JMB36X RAID Controller (Windows 2K/XP/2003)
5. JMicron JMB36X AHCI Controller (Windows 2K/XP/2003)
If you insert HDDs to VIA
®
SATA connectors (black), please choose item 1, 2, or 3
according to the OS you install. If you insert HDDs to JMicron
®
SATAII connectors
(red), please choose item 4. You can also specify twice to load both two drivers if
you plan to create RAID on two SATA HDDs and two SATAII HDDs, but please note
that the two SATA HDDs and two SATAII HDDs provide separated RAID functions.