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5-1-4 Making a SATA RAID/AHCI Driver Diskette
(Required for AHCI and RAID Mode)
TosuccessfullyinstalloperatingsystemontoSATAharddrive(s)thatis/areconguredtoRAID/AHCImode,
you need to install the SATA controller driver during the OS installation. Without the driver, the hard drive may
not be recognized during the Windows setup process. First of all, copy the driver for the SATA controller from
themotherboarddriverdisktoaoppydisk.ForinstallingWindowsVista,youalsocancopytheSATAcon-
trollerdriverfromthemotherboarddriverdisktoaUSBashdrive.Seetheinstructionsbelowabouthowto
copy the driver in MS-DOS and Windows mode.
In MS-DOS mode:
PrepareastartupdiskthathasCD-ROMsupportandablankformattedoppydisk.
Steps:
1: Boot from the startup disk.
2: Removethestartupdiskandinsertthepreparedoppydiskandthemotherboarddriverdisk(hereweas-
sume that the drive letter for your optical drive is D:\).
3: At the A:\> prompt, type the following command. Press <Enter> after the command:
• For the Intel ICH10R, type (Figure 1):
(Note 1)
A:\>copy d:\bootdrv\imsm\32bit\*.*
• For the JMicron JMB362/GIGABYTE SATA2, type (Figure 2):
(Note 1)
A:\>copy d:\bootdrv\gsata\32bit\*.*
• For the Marvell 9128, type (Figure 3):
(Note 2)
A:\>copy d:\bootdrv\Marvell\win32\*.*
Figure 1 Figure 2
Figure 3
(Note 1) Change the directory from \32bit to \64bit for copying the Windows 64-bit driver.
(Note 2) Change the directory from \win32 to \win64 for copying the Windows 64-bit driver.
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