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Step 5: In Figure 6-19, there are three options.
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Install Base Driver Installs the base driver
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Make Driver Disk Copies the driver to disk
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View Release Notes Opens word document of the release notes
5.6 SATA - ALi RAID Driver Installation
CAUTION!
Because of the inherent limitations by Intel’s ICH4 chipset, the ALi M5283 SATA and RAID controller
is implemented as a device that requires 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 the
MOTHERBOARD system. Otherwise, the Windows installation program may fail to locate the hard
drives whether configuring the SATA disk drives into RAID volumes or using 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.
5.6.1 Installation Steps During Windows XP Installation
Step 1: Enable SATA ROM using the BIOS configuration utility. The process has been
detailed in Appendix E.
Step 2: Locate the ALi installation driver folder within the Utility CD that came with the
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: