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3. SATA-ALi RAID Driver
CAUTION!
Because of the inherent limitations by system chipset, the ALi M5283
SATA and RAID controller is implemented as a device that requires you
to provide device driver during the Windows installation process. To
successfully install the device driver, please carefully read the following
instructions.
The ALi driver is especially required if SATA drives are the only hard disk drives in your system.
Otherwise the Windows installation program may fail to locate your hard drives whether you
configure your SATA disk drives into RAID volumes or use them as individual disk drives.
The system BIOS can identify SATA disk drives, but cannot control their operation. The separately
installed driver therefore is necessary.
ALi SATA Controller Driver Installation Steps
- During Windows XP Installation
Step 1. Enable SATA ROM using the BIOS configuration utility. The SATA ROM option is
provided in the Southbridge chipset menu. The process has been detailed in
Chapter 4.
Step 2. Locate the ALi installation driver folder within the Utility CD that came with your
motherboard.
Step 3. Copy files under a sub-directory named “SATA50XX” (taking Windows XP installation
as the example) to the root directory of floppy diskette (labeled driver diskette). The
file names are listed below:
„
disk1
„
5283096D.bin
„
txtsetup.oem
Also copy the OS option directory “win98_me”, “win_nt”, or “win_xp”, and related
driver files in each directory.
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