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F-2 Appendix F
If necessary, press the <Tab> key to move from
field to field until the appropriate field is
highlighted.
Selecting the RAID Mode
By default, RAID Mode is set to Mirroring. To
change to a different RAID mode, press the
down arrow key (<↓>) until the mode that you
want appears in the RAID Mode box – either
Mirroring, Striping, Spanning, or
Striping/Mirroring.
Selecting the Striping Block Size
Striping block size affects how data is arranged
on the disk. It is recommended to leave this
value at the default Optimal, which is 32KB,
but the values can be between 4KB and 128KB.
Assinging the Disks
The disks that you enabled from the IDE
Function Setup BIOS menu appear in the Free
Disks block. These are the drives that are
available for use as RAID array disks.
To designate a free disk to be used as a RAID
array disk:
1.
2.
3.
Tab to the Free Disks section. The first
disk in the list is selected.
Move it from the Free Disks block to the
Array Disks by pressing the right arrow key
(<→>).
The first disk in the list is moved, and the next
disk in the list is selected and ready to be
moved.
Continue pressing the right arrow key
(<→>) until all the disks that you want to use as
RAID array disks appear in the Array Disks
block.
The figure shown below illustrates the Define a
New Array window after two disks have been
assigned as RAID1 array disks.
Completing the RAID BIOS Setup
After assigning your RAID array disks, press
<F7> key. The Clear disk data prompt appears.
Press <Y> key if you want to wipe out all the
data from the RAID array, otherwise press <N>
key. You must choose YES if the drives were
previously used as RAID drives.
NOTE: If you want to create a RAID 0 (striping)
array or RAID 0+1 array, all the data stored in
the hard disks will first be erased! Please
backup the hard disk data before starting to
create these RAID arrays.
If you want to create a RAID 1 (mirroring) array,
please make sure which hard disk is the source
disk and which one is the destination disk. If
you make a mistake, you may copy the blank
data to the source disk, which will result in both
hard disks becoming blank!
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