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Hardware Installation
5. Install the NVRAID driver.
If you are in the process of installing Windows
®
XP or
Windows
®
2000 on RAID configured Serial ATA drives, you will
need the provided nVRAID driver floppy diskette. If you are
installing the driver on existing Windows
®
XP or Windows
®
2000, install the NVIDIA Windows nForce Drivers that is in the
provided CD.
For steps 1 to 4, refer to chapter 3 for more information. For step
5, refer to chapter 4 for more information.
Important:
Before creating RAID, make sure you have installed the Serial/
Parallel ATA drives and connected the data cables otherwise you
won’t be able to enter the NVIDIA RAID BIOS utility.
Connecting the IDE Disk Drive Cable
The system board is equipped with two shrouded PCI IDE headers
that will interface four Enhanced IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics)
disk drives. To prevent improper IDE cable installation, each shrouded
PCI IDE header has a keying mechanism. The 40-pin connector on
the IDE cable can be placed into the header only if pin 1 of the
connector is aligned with pin 1 of the header.
Each IDE connector supports 2 devices, a Master and a Slave. Use
an IDE ribbon cable to connect the drives to the system board. An
IDE ribbon cable have 3 connectors on them, one that plugs into an
IDE connector on the system board and the other 2 connects to
IDE devices. The connector at the end of the cable is for the Master
drive and the connector in the middle of the cable is for the Slave
drive.
Install one end of the IDE cable into the Primary IDE header (J25)
on the system board and the other connectors to the IDE devices.
If you are adding a third or fourth IDE device, use another IDE
cable and install one end of the cable into the Secondary IDE
header (J22) on the system board and the other connectors to the
IDE devices.
Note:
Refer to your disk drive user’s manual for information about
selecting proper drive switch settings.
