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DRIVER INSTALLATION

9. After the installation is completed, reboot the system to load

the new drivers/operating system.

10. See Chapter 5 in this manual to customize your RAID vol-

ume sets using McRAID storage manager.

4.2.2.2 Making Volume Sets Available to Windows

System

When you reboot the system, log in as a system administrator.

Continue with the following steps to make any additional volume

sets or pass-through disks accessible to Windows. This proce-

dure assumes that the SATA RAID controller hardware, driver,

and Windows are installed and operational in your system.

1. Partition and format the new volume set or disks using Disk

Administrator:

a. Choose “Administrative Tools” from the “Start” menu.

b. Choose “Computer Management” from the “Administrative

Tools” menu.

c. Select “Storage”.

d. Select “Disk Management”.

2. Follow the on-screen prompts to write a signature to the

drive.

3. Right click on the disk drive and select “Create Volume” from

the menu.

4. Follow the on-screen prompts to create a volume set and to

give a disk drive letter.

4.2.3 Installing Controller into an Existing Win-

dows 2000/XP/2003/Vista Installation

In this scenario, you are installing the controller in an existing

Windows system. To install the driver:

1. Follow the instructions in Chapter 2, the Hardware Installation

Chapter, to install the controller and connect the disk drives or

enclosure.