5.4.4JMicron® RAID Configuration

The JMicron® Serial ATA controller allows you to configure RAID 0, RAID 1 and JBOD sets on the external Serial ATA hard disk drives.

Before creating a RAID set

Prepare the following items:

1.Two SATA HDDs, preferably with the same model and capacity.

2.A write-enabled floppy disk (Windows XP). A write-enabled floppy disk or a USB flash disk drive (Windows Vista)

3.Microsoft® Windows® OS installation disk (Windows XP)

4.Motherboard support CD with JMB363 driver

Complete the following steps before you create a RAID set:

1.Install the two external Serial ATA hard disk drives on your system.

2.Set the Controller Mode item in the BIOS to [RAID]. See section 4.4.4

Onboard Device Configuration for details.

 

 

 

 

BIOS SETUP UTILITY

 

 

 

 

Advanced

 

 

 

 

 

Onboard Devices Configuration

 

 

Allows BIOS to Select

Serial Port1 Address

[3F8/IRQ4]

S e r i a l P o r t 1 B a s e

Addresses.

J-Micron eSATA/PATA Controller [Enabled]

 

 

 

Controller Mode

[IDE]

 

 

 

Front Panel Support Type

[AC97]

 

 

Onboard 1394

[Enabled]

 

 

Onboard LAN

[Enabled]

 

 

 

Onboard LAN Boot ROM

[Disabled]

 

 

PCI Express x1

[Auto]

 

 

Primary Display Adapter

[PCI-E]

 

Select Screen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Select Item

 

 

 

 

 

 

+-

Change Option

 

 

 

 

 

 

F1

General Help

 

 

 

 

 

 

F10Save and Exit

 

 

 

 

 

 

ESCExit

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3.Enter the JMB363 RAID BIOS utility to set up your RAID configuration.

4.Create a JMB363 RAID driver disk for Windows® OS installation. See section 5.5 Creating a RAID driver disk for details.

5.Install the JMB363 driver after the Windows® OS had been installed.

Always install the JMB363 driver before creating RAID sets.

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