7
If you want to use “Intel Matrix Storage Manager” in Windows
®
environment,
please install SATA / SATAII drivers from the Support CD again so that “Intel
Matrix Storage Manager” will be installed to your system as well.
After the installation of Windows
®
XP / Windows
®
XP-64bit OS, if you
want to manage RAID functions, you are allowed to use both “RAID Installation Guide”
and “Intel Matrix Storage Manager Information” for RAID configuration. Please refer to the
document in the Support CD, “Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation and RAID
Configuration”, which is located in the folder at the following path:
.. \ RAID Installation
Guide
and the document in the support CD, “Guide to Intel Matrix Storage Manager”,
which is located in the folder at the following path:
.. \ Intel Matrix Storage Manager
Information
2.3.2 Setting Up a “RAID Ready” System
You can also set up a “RAID Ready” system with a single SATA / SATAII
hard disk. A “RAID Ready” system can be seamlessly upgraded to RAID 0,
RAID 1 or RAID 5 at a later date by using RAID migration feature of Intel
Matrix Storage. The following steps outline how to build an Intel “RAID
Ready” system.
1. Assemble the system and attach a single SATA / SATAII hard drive.
2. Set up system BIOS as step 1 of page 6. When done, exit Setup.
3. Make a SATA / SATAII driver diskette as step 2 of page 6. Begin
Windows
®
setup by booting from the installation CD.
4. At the beginning of Windows
®
setup, press F6 to install a third-party
RAID driver. When prompted, insert the SATA / SATAII driver diskette
containing the Intel
®
RAID driver. After reading the floppy disk, the driver
will be presented.
STEP 4: Install Windows
®
XP / XP 64-bit OS on your
system.
After making a SATA / SATAII driver diskette and using “RAID
Installation Guide” to set RAID configuration, you can start to install
Windows
®
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 the
Intel
®
RAID driver. After reading the floppy disk, the driver will be
presented. Select the driver to install according to the mode you
choose and the OS you install. You may select: "Intel(R) ICH
10
R
SATA RAID Controller (Desktop - Windows XP)" for Windows
®
XP or
"Intel(R) ICH
10
R SATA RAID Controller (Desktop - Windows XP64)
" for Windows
®
XP 64-bit.
