Windows XP Professional Edition SP2 Installation (SAS Daughter
Board)
Below information describes how to manually install Windows XP Professional
Edition on Altos R5250 with SAS daughter board.
Drivers Required
For Windows XP Installation, the following device drivers are required.
Device
SAS Daughter
Board
Onboard NVIDIA
NFP3600 Chipset
Onboard NVIDIA
nForce Networking
Controller
Onboard XGI Z9s
ATI FireGL V5200
Software Required
The management utility for SAS daughter board can be found in the EasyBUILD
8.0 build 100 (or later).
Software
MegaRAID Storage
Manager
ForceWare Network
Access Manager
Configuring SAS Daughter Board
Please refer to the Appendix B. for the SAS daughter board configuration.
Installation Tips
As Windows XP can't recognize the SAS daughter board, you need to
1.
make a driver diskette from the EasyBUILD 8.0 build 100 first before the
installation.
Press F6 at the start of installation to provide the driver disk for the SAS
2.
daughter board.
Select "LSI PCI Fusion-MPT Driver (XP 32-bit)" as target driver
3.
After loading the RAID driver from diskette, follow the normal procedure
4.
to finish the installation.
Chipset Driver Installation
After the installation completes, you would see the following devices
1.
with yellow mark in Device Manager.
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Version
Directory on EasyBUILD
1.25.10.00
\Disk\r5250\sas\sas1068\wsxp\
Package 9.21
\Disk\R5250\onboard\Chipset\wsxp\
65.3.1.0
Including in chipset driver package
9.21
6.14.10.900
\Disk\R5250\onboard\xgiz9s\wsxp\
8.323.1.0
\Disk\R5250\graphic\V5200\wsxp\
Version
Directory on EasyBUILD
2.30
\app\R5250\sas\lsi1068\Windows\
65.31
Including in chipset driver package
9.21
Altos R5250 Installation Configuration Guide