Technical white paper
AHCI and RAID on
HP Compaq Elite 8000, 8100, 8200, and 8300 Business PCs
Table of contents |
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Introduction | 3 |
Basics of AHCI and RAID Technology | 4 |
Definitions | 4 |
Benefits of AHCI | 5 |
BIOS / Software / Hardware |
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Considerations | 5 |
BIOS Interface | 5 |
Software Drivers | 5 |
Hardware | 8 |
Limitations | 8 |
Changing AHCI to IDE Mode through |
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the HP Replicated Setup Utility | 8 |
Basic RAID Types | 8 |
RAID 0 with two hard drives (Striped) | 8 |
RAID 1 with two hard drives (Mirror)) | 10 |
RAID 5 with three hard drives | 11 |
Intel Matrix RAID Technology | 12 |
Configurations | 13 |
Recommended configurations | 13 |
Other supported configurations | 14 |
Unsupported configurations | 14 |
Configuring RAID on |
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preinstalled configurations | 15 |
Enabling RAID through F10 System |
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BIOS | 15 |
Accessing RAID Option ROM | 16 |
Configuring RAID Volume using the |
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Option ROM | 16 |
Notes for operating system |
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installation | 18 |