Making An Sata Driver Diskette - ASROCK P4S55FX+ User Manual

2.9 Making An SATA Driver Diskette

If you want to install Windows 2000 or Windows XP on your SATA HDDs, you
will need to make an SATA driver diskette before you start the OS installation.
STEP 1: Insert the ASRock Support CD into your optical drive to boot your
STEP 2: During POST at the beginning of system boot-up, press <F11> key,
STEP 3: When you see the message on the screen, "Do you want to
STEP 4: Then you will see these messages,
STEP 5: The system will start to format the floppy diskette and copy SATA
Once you have the SATA driver diskette ready, you may start to install Windows
2000 / Windows XP on your system directly without setting the RAID configura-
tion on your system, or you may start to use "SiS RAID BIOS Setting Utility" to set
RAID 0 / RAID 1 / JBOD configuration before you install the OS. Before you start
to configure the RAID function, you need to check the installation guide in the
Support CD for proper configuration. Please refer to the document in the Support
CD, "Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation and RAID Configuration", which is
located in the folder at the following path:
.. \ RAID BIOS Setting Utility
You may also set the RAID configuration by using "SiS RAID Utility for Windows"
in Windows environment. Please refer to the document in the Support CD,
"Guide to SiS RAID Utility for Windows", which is located in the folder at the
following path:
.. \ RAID Utility for Windows
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system. (Do NOT insert any floppy diskette into the floppy drive at
this moment!)
and then a window for boot devices selection appears. Please
select CD-ROM as the boot device.
generate Serial ATA driver diskette [YN]?", press <Y>.
Please insert a diskette into the floppy drive.
WARNING! Formatting the floppy diskette will
lose ALL data in it!
Start to format and copy files [YN]?
Please insert a floppy diskette into the floppy drive, and press <Y>.
drivers into the floppy diskette.