HPT374 UDMA/ATA133 RAID Controller
                  Device Drivers and RAID Management Software
                                 Release Notes

      Copyright (C) 2001 HighPoint Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved.
                          Last updated on Nov 16, 2001

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Controller & Utility Software:
-   BIOS version: v1.1
-   Driver version: v1.1
-   ATA RAID Management Software version: v2.2

Operating Systems:
-   Windows 98/ME
-   Windows NT 4.0
-   Windows 2000
-   Windows XP

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Please review this file for important information about compatibility issues and 
differences in operation that were discovered after our product manuals were 
created. In case of conflict among various parts of the documentation set, this 
file contains the most current information.

Contents on the disk
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Release Notes  TXT      This readme file
DISK1                   Microsoft Windows miniport disk label file 
TXTSETUP       OEM      Microsoft Windows miniport text mode setup file

WIN_XP         <DIR>
  HPT374   SYS          Microsoft Windows XP miniport driver
  HPT374   INF          Microsoft Windows miniport setup file
  HPT374   CAT          Microsoft Windows CAT file

WIN_2000       <DIR>
  HPT374   SYS          Microsoft Windows 2000 miniport driver
  HPT374   INF          Microsoft Windows miniport setup file
  HPT374   CAT          Microsoft Windows CAT file

WIN_NT         <DIR>
  HPT374   SYS          Microsoft Windows NT miniport driver
  HPT374   INF          Microsoft Windows miniport setup file
  HPT374   CAT          Microsoft Windows CAT file

WIN98_ME       <DIR>
  HPT374   MPD          Microsoft Windows98/ME miniport driver
  HPT374   INF          Microsoft Windows miniport setup file
  WRAP374  VXD          HPT374 utility driver
  PWR374   VXD          HPT374 power management driver


Device mapping order
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The device mapping order in system is same as BIOS setting utility. The disk marked
as "BOOT" will always be mapped as first SCSI disk. Please keep it in mind when 
installing Windows NT/2K/XP, otherwise OS may be installed to wrong location.

Known Problems
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1. Install OS to devices attached to HPT374 controller

   Before installing OS to devices attached to HPT374 controller, you must
   remove the drives connected to other controllers from your system temporarily.
   After OS installation complete, you can put them back.

2. Device driver update

   Since HPT374 UDMA/ATA133 RAID Controller is a dual-function PCI chip, when
   updating the driver, you must update it for both functions following their
   order as being shown in Windows device manager. 

3. Moving disks to other IDE controllers

   When you want to use disks previously attached to HPT374 controller on
   other IDE controllers, please first delete any array information on the 
   disks. Otherwise your data may be lost when you want to put it back later.

4. Rescaning disks

   There is a limitation for the refresh function in RAID Management Software.
   If you remove a disk from the controller but the software does not notice this
   event, it is also unable to notice the event when you plug another disk back
   to that location. You must force a refresh action before changing the disk.