Two RAID Driver Questions

[Jackpine]

The P5LD2 Deluxe motherboard manual provides instructions on how to configure various RAID arrays using the Intel Matrix Storage Manager Option ROM Utility or the Silicon Image RAID Controller. Nowhere does it say that you have to install a RAID driver as part of the process.

1. Then why does the manual include the option of making an Intel ICH7 or a Silicon Image RAID Driver disk?

2. (Side question): Can someone confirm that if a P4 650 3.4GHz cpu is used, and a RAID driver was going to be made, the version to be made is the 64 bit RAID Driver, rather than the 32 bit RAID Driver?

[Moop]

I've never used raid on intel so I'm only assuming that it's basically the same as AMD. The bios and controllers don't need a driver to create your array but XP needs the driver to recognize the array. If you already have XP installed then you can install the driver from within windows. If it's a fresh install then you need the driver floppy disk and you use the F6 option to install XP to your already configured raid array.
The 64 bit driver should be for XP 64 bit. If your running 32 bit XP then use the 32 bit driver. :thumb: