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6.8 Installing Silicon Image 3114 SATARaid
Driver (for n250a-FR only)
1) Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000/XP Fresh Installation
Follow the instructions in this section if you are performing a new installation of
Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000/XP, and you wish to boot from a device
attached to the SiI 3114 controller.
1. Power off the system. Connect the hard drives to the SiI 3114 controller and
insert the controller into a PCI slot. Power up the system.
2. Put your Windows NT/2000/XP CD into the CD-ROM/DVD drive, or the
NT/2000/XP boot diskette #1 in the floppy drive if your system cannot boot from
the CD.
3. Press F6 for third party SCSI or driver installation at the beginning of text mode
installation. Press's' when setup asks if you want to specify an additional device,
and insert the diskette labeled 'Silicon Image SiI 3114 SATARaid Driver
Installation Disk'. Press 'Enter' and select 'Silicon Image SiI 3114 SATARaid
Controller'.
4. Press 'Enter' to continue on with text mode setup.
5. Follow the setup instructions to select your choice for partition and file system.
6. After setup examines your disks, it will copy files to Windows 2000 installation
folders and restart the system. The setup program will continue and finish the
installation after restart.
7. Wait until Windows 2000 finishes installing devices, regional settings,
networking settings, components, and final set of tasks, reboot the system if it is
required.
8. See instructions in section 4 to verify controller was installed correctly.
2) Adding the SiI RAID controller to an existing Windows NT 4.0 installation
Follow the instructions in this section to install the Silicon Image SiI 3114 driver
on a system already running Windows NT 4.0.
1. Power off the system. Connect the hard drives to the SiI 3114 controller and
insert the controller into a PCI slot. Power up the system.
2. After OS boots up, Click 'Start'.
3. Under 'Settings', click 'Control Panel'.
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