Gigabyte GA-M59SLI-S4, GA-M59SLI-S5 user manual English, A. Create Array, Steps

A. Create Array:

In the main screen, press ENTER on the Create RAID Disk Drive item. Then the RAID creation screen appears (Figure 5).

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[ Create New RAID ]

Name: JRAID

Level: 0-Stripe

Disks: Select Disk

Block: 128KB

Size: 240GB

Confirm Creation

[ RAID Disk Drive List ]

[ Hard Disk Drive List ]
Mode Name	Available	Type/Status
HDD0: ST3120026AS	120 GB	Non-RAID
HDD1: ST3120026AS	120 GB	Non-RAID

[ Help ]

Enter RAID Name

Enter a string between 1 to 16 characters in length for the created RAID drive to be identified by system BIOS or OS.

[ ]-Move Cursor [DEL,BS]-Delete Character [ENTER]-Next [ESC]-Abort

Figure 5

In the RAID creation screen, the Create New RAID block displays all the items that need to be set for creating an array (Figure 5). The following procedure uses RAID 0 creation as an example.

Steps:

1.Enter Array Name: Under the Name item, enter an array name with 1~16 letters (letters cannot be special characters) and press ENTER.

2.Select RAID Mode: Under the Level item, use UP or DOWN ARROW key to select RAID 0 (Stripe), RAID 1 (Mirror), or JBOD (Figure 6). Then press ENTER to move onto the next step.

GIGA-BYTE Technology Corp. PCIE-to-SATAII/IDE RAID Controller BIOS V1.06.12

[ Create New RAID ]

Name: JRAID

Level: 0-Stripe

Disks: Select Disk

Block: 128KB

Size: 240GB

Confirm Creation

[ RAID Disk Drive List ]

[ Hard Disk Drive List ]
Mode Name	Available	Type/Status
HDD0: ST3120026AS	120 GB	Non-RAID
HDD1: ST3120026AS	120 GB	Non-RAID

[ Help ]

	Select RAID Level
RAID 0	-	Data striped for performance
RAID 1	-	Data mirrored for redundancy
JBOD	-	Data concatenated for huge
		temporarily disk required

[ ]-Switch RAID Level	[ENTER]-Next	[ESC]-Abort
	Figure 6
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