Tyan Computer S5350 Intel Application Accelerator RAID Edition, Bios, RAID migration feature

Tiger i7320 S5350 Chapter 4: SATA/RAID Setup (for SATA RAID model)

4.2.3 RAID migration feature

Intel® Application Accelerator RAID Edition features is an advanced software technology called RAID migration that enables a properly configured PC, known as a “RAID Ready” system, to be converted to a high-performance RAID 0 or RAID 1configuration just by adding a Serial ATA hard drive to the system and invoking the RAID migration process.

The migration to a RAID 0 or RAID 1 configuration is performed without the traditional requirements of an operating system re-install. All applications and data remain intact. The migration process itself can take several hours depending on the size of the hard drives being converted, but the system is still fully functional during the migration process. The system can be used as normal during the migration but some disk intensive tasks may experience slower performance. If the migration process is interrupted due to power loss or system reset, the migration will resume from the point of failure after system reboot.

4.3 Intel Application Accelerator RAID Edition

Intel Acceleration RAID edition is a software package for use with high performance RAID 0 and redundant RAID 1 arrays in Windows XP and Windows 2000 operating systems. The package includes:

ƒSerial ATA RAID core driver for Windows XP and Windows 2000

ƒIntel Application Accelerator RAID Edition utility

ƒMigration Feature

4.4 BIOS

In order to install the Intel Application Accelerator RAID Edition, the system BIOS must include the Intel® RAID Option ROM. The system BIOS must also be set up correctly for the RAID controller before installing the Intel Application Accelerator RAID Edition. Refer to the BIOS section of this manual or contact your dealer/technical support for instructions on configuring the system BIOS for RAID.

4.5 Configuring BIOS for Intel RAID for Serial ATA on board

Note

The instructions listed below are specific to motherboards manufactured by Intel with a supported Intel chipset. Always follow the instructions that are provided with your motherboard.

**The specific BIOS settings on non-Intel manufactured motherboards may differ from the instructions listed below. **

The SoftRAID option must be enabled in BIOS before the system can load the Intel RAID Option ROM code for Intel RAID.

1.Enter the BIOS Setup program by pressing the <F2> key after the Power-On-Self-Test (POST) memory test begins.

2.Select the Advanced menu, then the Drive Configuration menu.

3.Switch the Drive Mode option from Legacy to Enhanced.

4.Switch the SoftRAID option to Enabled.

5.Press <F10> to save the BIOS settings and exit the BIOS Setup program.

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