 The
Silicon Image® 3132 Onboard SATA RAID/BASE software package
provides support for high-performance Serial ATA/Serial ATA II
RAID arrays on select platforms in Windows® operating systems.
Silicon Image® SATA Technology requires the Silicon Image 3132 SATA RAID Controller Hub.
- This software should only be used on
the Bistro955™ system if you have Serial ATA drives on the
secondary Silicon Image 3132 SATA II RAID Controller Hub.
- If you are not using a RAID array, but
are installing Windows XP on the drive(s) connected to the
onboard secondary Silicon Image 3132 SATA II RAID
Controller Hub, only install the drivers for the SATA
controller during a clean OS installation, using F6 to
install drivers from floppy during the OS installation.
We recommend that SATA operating system boot drives are
connected to the onboard Intel® SATA
controller hub instead of the Silicon Image® controller hub
and that drives connected to the
Silicon Image® controller hub are utilized for additional
storage.
- If you are not sure whether or not you
require this software, please
contact technical support for clarification.
If you are using the attached drives in a RAID
array and would prefer to manage your RAID array from within
Windows®, it is preferable that the RAID software should be
the third thing installed, after the operating system
and the Chipset Drivers have been installed correctly,
before installing other hardware drivers.
FOR CLEAN
OS INSTALLATION USING A RAID ARRAY
 If you have
reformatted your boot drive(s), enabled the Silicon Image
SATA RAID controller in your motherboard's BIOS, created a RAID
array in the Silicon Image RAID BIOS menu (by pressing Ctrl+S or
F4 when prompted during POST routine) and would like to install the
related SATA RAID drivers during Windows® XP installation by
using the F6 command to install additional drivers:
Installation Details (download link follows
below)
If you are installing the operating system onto a new RAID
volume on the Silicon Image SATA connectors, you must pre-install the RAID driver
using the F6 method described below:
- Label a standard 1.44 MB floppy disc "Silicon
Image SiI 3132 SoftRAID 5 Driver Installation Disk",
then completely format it, making
sure that the floppy is undamaged and no errors are present
on the disc, keeping the disc inserted in your floppy drive.
- Download, then execute the
silimg3132_xp32_f6raid_1231_whql.exe file
below.
Clicking
on the Unzip button should
automatically extract the needed F6 installation
files to the root of your formatted floppy drive. |
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 Click
on OK, then close the WinZip Self-Extractor. |
- Ensure that 7 files are located on the
root directory of your floppy disc.
- At the beginning of the operating system setup, press F6
to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver.
Note: This prompt appears at the beginning of
the installation routine and only appears for a few moments,
so watch for it closely. After pressing F6, setup
will temporarily continue loading drivers and then 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'. You will then be prompted with a
screen to load support for mass storage device(s).
- When prompted, select 'S' to Specify Additional Device.
- When prompted, insert the floppy disk you created and
press enter.
- At this point you should be presented with the following
2 selections:
- Silicon Image SiI 3132 SoftRAID 5 Controller
for Windows XP/Server 2003
- Silicon Image SiI 3132 SoftRAID 5 Controller
for Windows 2000
Highlight the
correct selection for your operating system and press enter.
- Press enter again to continue. Leave the floppy disk in
the system until the next reboot as the software will need
to be copied from the floppy disk again when setup is
copying files.
Important:
Please follow the Windows Installation prompt to eject the
floppy disc before the system reboots. When the system
reboots for the first and subsequent times during Windows
installation from a CD, you may see a prompt to "Press any
key to boot from CD." DO NOT PRESS a key at this point, as
the OS installation will have already copied the needed
installation files to your hard drive, and needs to be
booted from your hard drive during this portion of the
install routine.
- During Windows setup, create a partition
and file system on the RAID volume as you would any physical
disk, Notice that the size of a RAID 0 volume is
the combined capacity of the two Serial ATA (SATA) disk
drives if they are of the same capacity. If they differ in
capacity, your RAID 0 volume will be twice the size of the
smaller of the two SATA disk drives.
- You may still install the
Silicon Image Windows Software RAID
after the operating system and chipset drivers have been
installed if you have created a RAID array.
FOR CLEAN OS INSTALLATION USING A
NON-RAID (BASE) ARRAY
If you have would like to install the related SATA
drivers during Windows® XP installation by using the F6
command to install additional drivers:
Installation Details (download link follows
below)
If you are installing
the operating system onto a disc connected on the Silicon
Image SATA connectors, and do not want to create a RAID
array, you must pre-install the BASE driver using the F6
method described below:
- Label a standard 1.44 MB floppy disc "Silicon
Image SiI 3132 SATALink Driver Installation Disk", then completely format it, making
sure that the floppy is undamaged and no errors are present
on the disc, keeping the disc inserted in your floppy drive.
- Download, then execute the
silimg3132_xp32_f6base_1009_whql.exe file
below.
Clicking
on the Unzip button should
automatically extract the needed F6 installation
files to the root of your formatted floppy
drive. |
|
Click
on OK, then close the WinZip
Self-Extractor. |
- Ensure that 6 files are located on the
root directory of your floppy disc.
- At the beginning of the operating
system setup, press F6 to install a third party SCSI or
RAID driver. Note: This prompt appears at the
beginning of the installation routine and only appears
for a few moments, so watch for it closely.
After pressing F6, setup will temporarily continue
loading drivers and then 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'. You will then be prompted with a screen
to load support for mass storage device(s).
- When prompted, select 'S' to Specify
Additional Device.
- When prompted, insert the floppy disk
you created and press enter.
- At this point you should be presented with the following
2 selections:
- Silicon Image SiI 3132 SATALink Controller
for Windows XP/Server 2003
- Silicon Image SiI 3132 SATALink Controller
for Windows 2000
Highlight the
correct selection for your operating system and press enter.
- Press enter again to continue. Leave
the floppy disk in the system until the next reboot as
the software will need to be copied from the floppy disk
again when setup is copying files.
Important:
Please follow the Windows Installation prompt to eject
the floppy disc before the system reboots. When
the system reboots for the first and subsequent times
during Windows installation from a CD, you may see a
prompt to "Press any key to boot from CD." DO NOT
PRESS a key at this point, as the OS installation will
have already copied the needed installation files to
your hard drive, and needs to be booted from your hard
drive during this portion of the install routine.
- During Windows setup, create a
partition and file system on one of the disks.
- If SATA drives are being used in a
BASE configuration (not RAID) on this controller, you
should not install the software after the
operating system and chipset drivers have been
installed.
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