VIA VT64xx/VT8251/VT8237(x) ComboRAID Driver(5.x)Installation Guide
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This
readme file provides information on VIA VT6410,
VT6421, VT8251, VT8237/A SATA software packages. VIA Technologies assumes no
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VT6410 IDE/RAID Adapter
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It is a RAID controller that supports RAID 0, 1, 0+1 and
JBOD.
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It also supports up to four IDE hard disk drives.
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VT6421 SATA RAID Adapter
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It supports two SATA HDDs + Two
IDE HDDs.
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It supports RAID 0, 1, 0+1 and JBOD functions.
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VT8237(x)
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It is a south bridge which includes VT6420 SATA controller
so this software package also supports VT8237 SATA controller.
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It supports RAID 0, 1, and JBOD functions.
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VT8251
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It supports four SATA connections to be configured as one
of IDE, AHCI or RAID mode controller.
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It supports RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5 and JBOD functions. The RAID
5 is a software RAID technology applied CPU resource to archive RAID 5.
This
"VIA RAID Software Package" is used to install the drivers and
utility which are needed for using the VIA VT6410, VT6421, VT8251,
VT8237/A SATA RAID controller.
The
supported platforms are described in System Requirement section.
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This package should be installed on the system with VIA
This software package only supports Microsoft Windows©
Platforms. The setup program will detect the current platform and install
proper driver on your system. The supported platforms are list below:
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows 98se
Windows Millennium
Windows NT4 Plus
service packs 6
Windows 2000 RTM
and above
Windows XP RTM
and above
Windows Server 2003 RTM and above
Windows XP-x64 RTM
and above
Windows Server 2003 SP1-x64 RTM and above
The setup program will display the released data
and version for this package at dialog title.
There is specific version syntax for package
identification:
The X is
the major version of this package; and YZ represents the minor version.
The
alphabetic is always appended after version field to represent the
qualification by Windows Hardware Qualification Lab. The A means the first
package for the same driver binary, B means the second released package for the
same driver binary, and so on.
In this section, we show the detail file list of ZIP-compressed package
in which include setup and driver files.
0X0409.INI,
INSTMSIA.EXE, INSTMSIW.EXE, ISSCRIPT.MSI,
License.rtf,
PCIENUM.SYS, README.TXT, SETUP.EXE,
Setup.ini,
SETUP.ISS, SETUP.MLF, SETUP.SCF,
viasetup.dll,
VIASetup.msi Readme.html
English.slf, asia.slf, europe1.slf, europe2.slf
europe3.slf, 165x300.bmp, 500x60.bmp
viarAID:
rAID dRIVER FILES
VIARAID\component.cif,
VIARAID\MRAID.DLL, VIARAID\RAIDDRV9X.DLL, VIARAID\RAIDDRV.DLL,
VIARAID\InsMRaid.exe
Driver
files: VIARAID\DRIVER
Windows 2000, XP and Server
2003
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wINxp\vIAmRAID.SYS |
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WINxp\VIAmRAID.INF |
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Windows XP and Server 2003
AMDx64
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x64\vIAmrx64.SYS |
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x64\VIAmrx64.INF |
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Windows NT4
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winnt4\vIAmraid.SYS |
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winnt4\VIAmraid.INF |
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Windows 9x, Millennium
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win9x\vIAmraid.mpd |
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win9x\vIAmvsd.vxd |
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win9x\VIAmraid.INF |
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RAIDTOOL: RAID Management Tool
files
RAIDTOOL5\component.cif, RAIDTOOL5\RAIDUTL.DLL,
RAIDTOOL5\RAIDTULNT.DLL
Tool files: RAIDTOOL5\UTILITY
Main program
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RAIDTOOL5\UTILITY\rAID_TOOL.EXE |
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RAIDTOOL5\UTILITY\rAID_TOOL.CHM |
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raidtool5\UTILITY\eRRlIST.MLF |
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Interface DLL
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RAIDTOOL5\UTILITY\Win2000-xp\drvinterface.dll |
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RAIDTOOL5\UTILITY\WINNT40\ drvinterface.dll |
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RAIDTOOL5\UTILITY\WIN98-ME\ drvinterface.dll |
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There are two operation
modes, Windows UI and command line, to execute installation and remove. The
most popular is the Windows UI mode that provides convenient user interface and
systematic operation. The command line mode, also called as silent mode, need
user append more parameters behind SETUP.EXE as answer to make the setup
program silence without pop any dialogs.
There are
possible two types setup package you may have. One is compressed as a zip file
includes visible setup and driver files. Another one is made as a
self-extracted-execution file. In the following, we will show you the steps to
complete driver installation and remove with both package types.
If the downloaded file is ZIP-compressed format, please
extract it to proper location in your hard disk first. Then launch the
SETUP.EXE by double-clicking. Otherwise, you could double-click the
self-extracted-execution file and wait for few seconds for the self-extraction.
The extracted file will be deleted automatically after setup has been terminated.
If it is the first time to execute the setup package,
you will only have the choice of installation.
After the first time execution, you could have choice to
make Update and Remove. You will see two options, Update and Remove in the
first shown dialog. If you are going to update the driver, please active the
Update radio button and press next button to enter next steps. Else, if you are
going to remove the installed driver in your system, please active the Remove
radio button and press next button to enter next steps.
There is another path to remove the installed driver is
to go through “Add Remove Programs” service of control panel. An uninstall item
is added after install , VIA Platform Device Manager,
to handle all the installed VIA driver components. You could select the VIA IDE
Bus Master item in the list box of Remove option.
The silent mode are usually applied to system
maintainer for servicing hundreds systems that wont have interactive user
interface. They would execute the setup through command line in console or
batch file execution without closing any popped dialog popped or pressing next
buttons. In addition, the command line parameters of these two types of
downloaded file format get few differences.
In this type package, you could see a setup.exe in
those extracted files. User could append parameters behind setup.exe as command
line in console.
The present command line parameters
are: -s and /z"reboot;remove;kompnt:xx,yy,zz"
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Parameter |
Description |
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-s |
It
is a required command line parameter to enable silent mode operation. If this
parameter is missed, the setup |
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-zParam1;K;ParamN |
It
passes predefined parameters to SETUP.EXE. Each parameter, Param1;K;ParamN, should be separated with semicolons. The
predefined sub-parameters are: reboot It causes Setup.exe automatically to reboot after the silent mode
operation completed. remove It is a switch to cause Setup.exe to remove components. If
this parameter is absent, then SETUP.EXE will install components. kompnt:xx,yy,zz It is an optional parameter to
assign specific component in this package to be install/remove. The xx,yy,zz
should be replaced with component name in which is defined as same as the
component folder name of this package. |
Examples:
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Command
line |
Execution
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setup.exe
-s |
Silent
install all included components but not reboot the computer. |
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setup.exe
-s /z"reboot" |
Silent
install all component and reboot the computer. |
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setup.exe
-s /z"reboot;remove" |
Silent
uninstall all include component and reboot the computer. |
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setup.exe
-s /z"remove" |
Silent
uninstall all components but not reboot the computer. |
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setup.exe
-s /z"kompnt:VIAMACH,VIAUDIO" |
Silent
install VIAMACH and VIAUDIO components only |
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setup.exe
-s /z"remove;kompnt:VIAMACH,VIAUDIO" |
Silent
uninstall VIAMACH and VIAUDIO components only |
This type is a single
self-extracted-execution file. All necessary files are all integrated together
so that user does not need to extract it to specific folder for operation.
There is extra parameter to make the self-extracted shell to be in silent mode.
The present command line
parameters are -s -a, -s and /z"reboot;remove;kompnt:xx,yy,zz"
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Parameter |
Description |
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-s
-a |
It
is a required command line parameter to make the self-extracted shell program
to be in silent mode. And it should be the first parameter in command line. |
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-s |
It
is a required command line parameter to enable silent mode operation. If this
parameter is missed, the setup |
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-zParam1;K;ParamN |
It
passes predefined parameters to SETUP.EXE. Each parameter, Param1;K;ParamN, should be separated with semicolons. The
predefined sub-parameters are: reboot It causes Setup.exe automatically to reboot after the silent mode
operation completed. remove It is a switch to cause Setup.exe to remove components. If
this parameter is absent, then SETUP.EXE will install components. kompnt:xx,yy,zz It is an optional parameter to
assign specific component in this package to be install/remove. The xx,yy,zz
should be replaced with component name in which is defined as same as the
component folder name of this package. |
Examples:
We assume that you download a self-extracted-execution file
named as VIAAGP.exe.
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Command
line |
Execution
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VIAAGP.exe
-s -a -s |
Silent
install all included components but not reboot the computer. |
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VIAAGP.exe
-s -a -s /z"reboot" |
Silent
install all components and reboot the computer. |
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VIAAGP.exe
-s -a -s /z"reboot;remove" |
Silent
uninstall all included component and reboot the computer. |
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VIAAGP.exe
-s -a -s /z"remove" |
Silent
uninstall all components but not reboot the computer. |
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VIAAGP.exe
-s -a -s /z"kompnt:VIAMACH,VIAUDIO" |
Silent
install VIAMACH and VIAUDIO components only |
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VIAAGP.exe
-s -a -s /z"remove;kompnt:VIAMACH,VIAUDIO" |
Silent
uninstall VIAMACH and VIAUDIO components only |
Under Windows 2000 and later
OS, while user intends to install OS on the disk attached on the RAID
controller, they have to prepare a floppy driver disk including the pre-OS
installation files and press “F
The driver disk files
had been prepared in this package. Please follow the steps to prepare it.
1.
Make sure the target system is already install floppy
drive
2.
Prepare a empty and valid floppy disk
3.
Copy all files under \DRVDISK to the floppy without losing
4.
Power on the target machine and boot from the Boot CD. And
press “F
5.
After the booting process ask you to insert the floppy
disk, please insert the prepared floppy disk to the floppy drive and press
enter
6.
Choose the proper item to fit the OS and RAID controller
you are installing. Each item shows the matched OS for it.
The default-supported language in this
package is in English.
If the executed Windows OS is in an un-supported
language to this package, the user interface will be represented in
English.
This setup package support 33
languages as below
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Chinese(Simplified), |
Chinese (Traditional), |
Indonesian, |
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Japanese, |
Korean, |
Russian, |
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Thai, |
Turkish. |
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Basque, |
Bulgarian, |
Catalan, |
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Croatian, |
Czech, |
Danish, |
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Dutch, |
English, |
Finish, |
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French( |
French(France), |
German, |
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Greek, |
Hungarian, |
Italian, |
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Norwegian, |
Polish, |
Portuguese(Brazi), |
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Portuguese( |
Romanian, |
Serbian, |
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Slovak, |
Slovenian, |
Spanish, |
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Swedish. |
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All the language sequence is arranged as alphabetical.
Limitation:
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RAID5 solution for VT8251 only
supports Windows 2000 and later version. Win9x, NT4 platforms are not
supported.
Application
Compatibility:
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“Everest and SpeedFan”
program has problem on their coding that could not display the information of disks
connected on VIA Storage Host.
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