RC200 FAQ
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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 driver diskette for the
RC-200 controller(To make this floppy disk, copy the contents of the driver folder, found on the driver
CD, onto a blank floppy disk). Press 'ENTER',
4. Select 'Silicon Image RC-200 ultra-133 Medley ATA Raid Controller' and press 'ENTER'.
5. Press 'ENTER' to continue and follow on-screen instructions to compete installation.
And the second problem: bootable CD/DVD cannot boot on some main boards and
CD-ROM/DVD-ROMs, I think it is a bug of RC-200 BIOS. But just now I tried the Pioneer DVD-116
DVD-ROM and Samsung TS-1552D DVD Writer on the RC-200 card, they are both work fine.
Boot from the hard drive attached to the RC-200 controller card:
If we want to boot the system from the hard drive connected to the RC-200 controller card, the hard
drive must already have Windows OS installed. Before the installation, we have to prepare a floppy disk
to copy from the folder, PCI_IO\Cmd0680\raid from our enclosed CD. Then we connect the hard drive
to RC-200 controller card and start the computer. Before we can load into Windows, we need to press
F3 in the BIOS to get into the RAID setup menu and set the RAID we want. Then we have to install
Windows. During the installation, at the very beginning, press F6 to prompt the system for correct driver
path. Direct the path to floppy driver we made. Finish up the Windows installation then.
After doing above operations, but the computer still can't boot from the hard drive attached the RC-200
card, please set system BIOS to boor from SCSI or RAID as first priority boot device.
On the other side, we suggest that use RC-200 Non-Raid controller for the followings:
(1)We are using only one hard drive.
(2).We are using only for CD Rom, CD Writer, DVD Rom, DVD Writer.
We suggest that using RC-200 Raid controller for followings:
(1). We are using more than one hard drive.
(2). We want to speed up the performance with raid setting on two hard drives.
(3). We want backup data with RAID setting on two hard drives.
We've contacted the FAE of the Silicon Image to ask the boot issue for the RC-200 controller. And
he tell us the fact: The HDD/ODD attached on RC-200 can be shown in the system/motherboard BIOS's
boot priority list (It's able to show the ODD/HDD model name). If we've set the motherboard's BIOS to
boot from a device (The hard drive or CD-ROM/DVD-ROM attached on RC-200) as first priority boot
device, after power on system, the computer will boot from the RC-200. If not, the issue comes from the
Motherboard's BIOS, that's not from the RC-200.
And if after inserting the RC-200 into the PCI slot and there are some PATA devices(HDD or CD-ROMs)
attached to the RC-200, but these PATA devices haven't boot feature(It means the hard drives haven't
Windows OS installed, or there are no bootable CDs in the CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive). As the result, if
the computer does not boot from the bootable devices attached IDE/SATA controller on the
motherboard. These phenomena also prove the issue comes from the Motherboard's BIOS.
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