Asus A8N-SLI Premium Personal Computer User Manual


 
ASUS A8N-SLI Premium 5-23
5.5.2 NVIDIA
®
RAID configurations
The motherboard includes a high performance IDE RAID controller
integrated in the NVIDIA
®
SLI southbridge chipset. It supports RAID 0, RAID
1, RAID 0+1, and JBOD with four independent Serial ATA channels.
Setting the BIOS RAID items
After installing the hard disk drives, make sure to set the necessary RAID
items in the BIOS before setting your RAID configuration.
To set the BIOS RAID items:
1. Boot the system and press <Del> during the Power-On Self-Test
(POST) to enter the BIOS Setup Utility.
2. From the Advanced > Onboard Devices Configuration > NVRAID
Configuration menu item in the BIOS set the RAID Enabled item to
Enabled. The succeeding items become user-configurable.
3. Select and enable the IDE or SATA drive(s) that you want to configure
as RAID. See section “4.4.3 Onboard Devices Configuration” for
details.
4. Save your changes and Exit Setup.
For detailed descriptions on the NVIDIA® RAID configuration, refer to the
“NVIDIA
®
RAID Userʼs Manual” found in your motherboard support CD.