Serial ATA RAID and My Hate For Motherboard Manufacturer's

[DARTH_MAUL]

Holy Cr#p I can not believe what mainboard manufacturers are getting away with still in this day and age of review awareness and visiblity. I just went through TWO mainboards, the Intel 7205 from ASUS and GIGABYTE. Both had the SILicon IMAGE 3112 SERIAL ATA RAID controller....Well now of course neither one of them bothers to include the driver disk to install under WindowsXP or Windows2000 . So naturally not having a floppy on my new Inspiron 8200 I am left with NO floppy drive on a working systme from which I can extract a floppy to serve said purpose of installing the driver at time of OS install. How do these companies expect some building a system to install the OS on the SATA RAID Drives? Why have no reviews even mentioned this, especially now that the WD RAPTOR 10K RPM SATA drives are out?

Ok so can anyone help? Here is what I have done:

Copied the following files onto the root of the floppy disk:

Si3112r.inf
Si3112r.mpd
Si3112r.sys
SIISUPP.VXD
TxtSetup.oem
readme.txt

I now get this error:

"File txtsetup.oem caused an unexpected error (4096) at line 1742 in d:\xpclient\base\boot\setup\oemdisk.c. "

Totally repeatable.

System config:
P4 3.06GB 533MHz
ASUS P4G8X Deluxe & GIGABYTE GA-8INXP
2GB Corsair DDR
2x WD RAPTOR 10k RPM SATA HD in RAID 0
Sapphire Radeon 9800 PRO

WinXp

Please help...even if it is steps to slipstream WinXp with SP1 and this driver would be cool

Look forward to your reply,
DARTH