Pre-Installation Of The Intel® Raid Driver - TYAN TOMCAT I875PF User Manual

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4.7 Pre-Installation of the Intel® RAID Driver
Installation of Windows XP or Windows 2000 on a RAID volume will require that the Intel®
Application Accelerator RAID Edition driver be pre-installed. A RAID 0, RAID 1, or a "RAID
Ready" configuration would require this type of installation.
1. Most likely, when you start the installation of Windows, you 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 is the case, then you are already in the right
place and are ready to supply the RAID driver. If this is not the case, then simply press
F6 when prompted at the beginning of Windows setup.
2. Press the 'S' key to select 'Specify Additional Device"
3. At this point you should be prompted to insert a floppy drive containing the manufacturer -
supplied driver into the A: drive**. In this case, it should contain the Intel® RAID driver,
which includes the driver binary (iastor.sys), its INF file (iastor.inf), and the txtsetup.oem
file (txtsetup.oem). These should be in the root directory of the floppy. Insert this floppy
and press ENTER.
4. A few seconds later, you should be presented with a list of available SCSI Adapters. It
should list "Intel® RAID Controller". Select it and press ENTER.
5. The next screen should confirm that you have selected the Intel® RAID controller. Press
ENTER again to continue.
6. At this point, you have successfully F6'ed in the IAA RAID driver, and Windows setup
should continue. Leave the floppy disk in the floppy driver until the system reboots itself.
Windows setup will need to copy the files from the floppy again after the RAID volume is
formatted, and Windows setup starts copying files.
7. Finish the Windows installation and install all necessary drivers.
** How to enable the USB Floppy drive
Enter the BIOS setup program by pressing the <Del> key after the Power-On Self Test
(POST) memory test begins.
Select the Integrated Peripherals menu, then the Super IO Device menu
Switch the Onboard FDC Controller option from [Enabled] to [Disabled]
Press <ESC> key till back to Main menu, then select the Standard CMOS Features
menu
Switch Drive A and Drive B option both to [None]
Press <F10> to save the BIOS setting and exit the BIOS setup program.
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