Intel Application Accelerator User's Manual

Loading the Intel Application Accelerator Driver During Operating Sy

12.2 Installation Using F6 Method

When you start the installation of Windows* XP, you most likely will be presented with a

message stating, ‘Setup could not determine the type of one or more mass storage devices

installed in your system’. If this occurs, the instructions below document how to install the RAID

driver. To install the Intel Application Accelerator driver using the F6 installation method,

complete the following steps:

Note: After completing these steps and the operating system has been successfully installed, you will

still need to install the Intel Application Accelerator by running the typical Setup.exe process.

1. Press F6 when prompted in the status line with the ‘Press F6 if you need to install a third

party SCSI or RAID driver’ message at the beginning of Windows XP setup (during text-

mode phase). Note: After pressing F6, setup will temporarily continue loading drivers and

then you will be prompted with a screen to load support for mass storage device(s).

2. Press the ‘S’ key to ‘Specify Additional Device’

3. You will be prompted to ‘Please insert the disk labeled Manufacturer-supplied hardware

support disk into Drive A:’ Once prompted, insert the floppy disk containing the following

files: IAAHCI.CAT, IAACHI.INF, IASTOR.CAT, IASTOR.INF, IASTOR.SYS, and

TXTSETUP.OEM. and press ENTER.

Note: See Section 12.1 titled ‘Instructions on Creating F6 Floppy Diskette’ for instructions on how to

extract these four files from the Intel Application Accelerator Setup.exe file.

4. After pressing ENTER, you should be presented with a list of available SCSI Adapters; it

should list ‘Intel(R) 82801FR Serial RAID Controller’. Select this entry and press ENTER.

5. The next screen should confirm that you have selected the Intel(R) RAID controller. Press

ENTER again to continue.

6. At this point, you have successfully F6’ed in the Intel Application Accelerator driver and

Windows XP setup should continue. Leave the floppy disk in the floppy drive until the

system reboots itself. Windows* setup will need to copy the files from the floppy again to the

Windows installation folders. Once Windows setup has copied these four files again, you

should then remove the floppy diskette so that Windows setup can reboot as needed.

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