User guide

ASUS P4S800D-E Deluxe motherboard 5-23
5.6 Creating a floppy with RAID driver
A floppy disk with the SIS
®
RAID 180 driver is required when installing
Windows
®
XP™, Windows
®
2000™ or Windows
®
NT™ operating systems.
You can create a floppy disk with the RAID driver using Makedisk.exe
utility. A floppy disk with a RAID driver is necessary when configuring RAID
installations.
To create a floppy disk with RAID driver:
1. Insert the motherboard support CD into the CD-ROM drive and locate
the Makedisk.exe utility for your RAID controller.
The SIS
®
180 SATA driver is located in
“\Drivers\RAID\SISRAID\DriverDisk” of the motherboard
support CD.
2. Insert a clean floppy disk into the floppy disk drive and execute
Makedisk.exe. Follow succeeding screen instructions.
3. Write-protect the floppy disk to avoid computer virus infection.
To use the floppy with RAID driver:
1. During the OS installation, the system prompts to press the F6 key to
install third-party SCSI or RAID driver.
2. Press <F6> then insert the floppy disk with RAID driver into the floppy
disk drive.
3. Follow succeeding screen instructions.
For additional information on RAID installation and configuration, refer
to the Promise
®
RAID installation guide found in
“\Drivers\RAID\964_180um020.doc” of the motherboard support CD.