The navigation keys at the bottom of the screen allow you to move through the menus and select the menu options.

The RAID BIOS setup screens shown in this section are for reference only and may not exactly match the items on your screen.

The utility supports maximum four hard disk drives for RAID configuration.

Creating a RAID set

To create a RAID set:

1.From the utility main menu, select 1. Create RAID Volume and press <Enter>. The following screen appears:

Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager option ROM v8.0.0.1038 ICH10R wRAID5

Copyright(C) 2003-08 Intel Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

[ CREATE VOLUME MENU ]

Name: Volume0

RAID Level: RAID0(Stripe)

Disks: Select Disks

Strip Size: 128KB

Capacity: 0.0 GB

Create Volume

[ HELP ]

Enter a unique volume name that has no special characters and is

16 characters or less.

[↑↓]Change

[TAB]-Next

[ESC]-Previous Menu

[ENTER]-Select

2.Enter a name for the RAID set and press <Enter>.

3.When the RAID Level item is selected, press the up/down arrow key to select a RAID level to create, and then press <Enter>.

4.When the Disks item is selected, press <Enter> to select the hard disk drives you want to include in the RAID set. The SELECT DISKS screen appears:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[ SELECT DISKS ]

 

 

4Chapter

 

 

Port Drive Model

Serial #

Size

Status

 

 

 

0

ST3160812AS

9LS0HJA4

149.0GB

Non-RAID Disk

 

 

 

 

1

ST3160812AS

9LS0F4HL

149.0GB

Non-RAID Disk

 

 

 

2

ST3160812AS

3LS0JYL8

149.0GB

Non-RAID Disk

 

 

3

ST3160812AS

9LS0BJ5H

149.0GB

Non-RAID Disk

 

 

 

 

Select 2 to 6 disks to use in creating the volume.

 

 

 

 

[↑↓]-Prev/Next [SPACE]-SelectDisk [ENTER]-Done

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Chapter 4: Software support