After that, the Array List screen appears, displaying the RAID array that you have created (Figure 7). (Note: BBS stands for BIOS Boot Specification. This indicates that the boot device is defined in the BIOS.)

MediaShield BIOS Jul 27 2007

- Array List -

Boot

Status

Vendor

Array

Size

BBS

Healthy

NVIDIA

STRIPE

223.57G

[Ctrl-X] Exit

[KL] Select [B] Set Bootable

[N] New Array [ENTER] Detail

 

 

Figure 7

 

 

To read more information about the RAID array, press <Enter> to enter the Array Detail screen (Figure 8), which shows various information about the array, including the RAID mode, stripe block size, hard drive model name, and hard drive capacity, etc.

 

 

Array 1: NVIDIA STRIPE 233.57G

 

 

- Array Detail -

 

RAID Mode: Striped

 

 

 

Stripe Width : 2

 

Stripe Block: 64K

 

Port

Index

Disk Model

Capacity

0.0

0

ST3120026AS

111.79GB

0.2

1

ST3120026AS

111.79GB

 

[R] Rebuild

[D] Delete [C] Clear MBR

[ENTER] Return

 

 

Figure 8

 

To clear MBR, press <C> in the Array Detail screen. When the "Clear MBR?" message appears, press <Y> to clear or <N> to cancel.

To delete the array, press <D> in the Array Detail screen. When the "Delete array?" message appears, press <Y> to confirm or <N> to cancel. Press <Enter> to return to the Array List screen.

To exit the NVIDIA RAID setup utility, press <Esc> in the main menu or <Ctrl>+<X> in the Array List screen.

Now, you can proceed to the installation of the SATA controller driver and operating system.

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