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Contents
Chapter6: RAIDconguration
6.1 Setting up RAID ............................................................................ 6-2
6.1.1 RAID denitions ..............................................................
6-2
6.1.2 Installing hard disk drives ................................................
6-3
6.1.3 Setting Jumpers ..............................................................
6-3
6.1.4 Setting the RAID mode in BIOS ......................................
6-3
6.1.5 RAID conguration utilities ..............................................
6-3
6.2 Intel
®
Rapid Storage Technology enterprise
SATA Option ROM Utility .............................................................
6-4
6.2.1 Creating a RAID set ........................................................
6-5
6.2.2 Deleting a RAID set ........................................................
6-7
6.2.3 Resetting disks to Non-RAID ..........................................
6-8
6.2.4 Exiting the Intel
®
Rapid Storage Technology enterprise
SATA Option ROM utility .................................................
6-9
6.2.5 Rebuilding the RAID .......................................................
6-9
6.2.6 Setting the Boot array in the BIOS Setup Utility .............
6-11
6.3 Intel
®
Rapid Storage Technology enterprise (Windows) ........ 6-12
6.3.1 Creating a RAID set ......................................................
6-13
6.3.2 Changing a Volume Type ..............................................
6-15
6.3.3 Deleting a volume .........................................................
6-16
6.3.4 Preferences ...................................................................
6-17
Chapter 7: Driver installation
7.1 RAID driver installation ............................................................... 7-2
7.1.1 Creating a RAID driver disk ............................................
7-2
7.1.2 Installing the RAID controller driver ................................
7-4
7.2 Management applications and utilities installation ..................
7-6
7.3 Running the Support DVD ..........................................................
7-6
7.4 Installing the LAN driver ............................................................
7-14
7.5 Installing the VGA driver ...........................................................
7-19
ASUS contact information .......................................................................A-1