			Linux Driver Disk Readme
			========================

This archive provides disk image(s) for creating driver disks that support
NVIDIA's SATA controllers.

Some older distributions do not contain NVIDIA SATA support.  If a SATA disk
is needed for installation (for example, if the OS is to reside on a SATA disk),
the drivers need to be loaded during the OS installation process via the
provided driver disks.  Refer to distribution-specific instructions for how to
load a driver disk during OS install.

Note that the libata module is also provided on the driver disk.  The SATA
driver requires the support of the libata module.



Hardware Supported
==================
Currently, the driver disk image(s) provide support for nForce4 chipsets.



Contents
========
This archive contains the following files:

README              - this document
rhel3-x86_64-dd.img - driver disk image for RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 (64-bit)
                      NOTE: supports updates 2 and 3 only (kernels 2.4.21-15.EL
                      and 2.4.21-20.EL, respectively)



Creating the Driver Disk
========================
The .img file that corresponds to the installation system needs to be written
onto a floppy disk.

In Linux:

1) Insert a floppy disk into the floppy drive.  Note that the entire contents
   of the floppy disk will be erased.

2) In a shell, use dd to write the floppy image to disk:
   dd if=<.img file> of=/dev/fd0

In Windows:

1) Insert a floppy disk into the floppy drive.  Note that the entire contents
   of the floppy disk will be erased.

2) Obtain a copy of the rawrite executable.  The rawrite utility is a common
   dos executable that can be obtained from the web.

3) In a shell, use rawrite to write the floppy image to disk:
   rawrite -f <.img file> -d <drive letter>
