Contents

6.Chapter 6: RAID configuration

6.1 Setting up RAID......................................................................

6-2

6.1.1 RAID definitions................................................................

6-2

6.1.2 Installing hard disk drives..................................................

6-3

6.1.3 Setting the RAID item in BIOS............................................

6-3

6.1.4 RAID configuration utilities................................................

6-3

6.2 LSI Logic Embedded SATA RAID Setup Utility (Only for PA4

Model)....................................................................................

6-4

6.2.1 Creating a RAID 0 or RAID 1 set........................................

6-5

6.2.2 Creating a RAID 10 set....................................................

6-11

6.2.3 Adding or viewing a RAID configuration...........................

6-15

6.2.4 Initializing the logical drives............................................

6-18

6.2.5 Rebuilding failed drives...................................................

6-23

6.2.6 Checking the drives for data consistency............................

6-25

6.2.7 Deleting a RAID configuration..........................................

6-28

6.2.8 Selecting the boot drive from a RAID set...........................

6-29

6.2.9 Enabling the WriteCache...................................................

6-30

6.3 Intel® Matrix Storage Manage Option ROM Utility (Only for PA4

 

model)..................................................................................

6-31

 

6.3.1 Creating a RAID 0 set (Stripe)..........................................

6-32

 

6.3.2 Creating a RAID 1 set (Mirror).........................................

6-34

 

6.3.3 Creating a RAID 10 set (Stripe + Mirror)...........................

6-35

 

6.3.4 Creating a RAID 5 set (Parity)..........................................

6-36

 

6.3.5 Deleting a RAID set.........................................................

6-37

 

6.3.6 Resetting disks to Non-RAID............................................

6-38

 

6.3.7 Exiting the Intel® Matrix Storage Manager.........................

6-38

6.4

Global Array Manager............................................................

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7.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.....................................

7-3

7.2

LAN driver installation..........................................................

7-12

 

7.2.1 Windows 2000/Server 2003............................................

7-12

 

7.2.2 Red Hat/SuSE Linux........................................................

7-16

7.3

VGA driver installation..........................................................

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