Technical white paper

AHCI and RAID on

HP Compaq Elite 8000, 8100, 8200, and 8300 Business PCs

Table of contents

 

Introduction

3

Basics of AHCI and RAID Technology

4

Definitions

4

Benefits of AHCI

5

BIOS / Software / Hardware

 

Considerations

5

BIOS Interface

5

Software Drivers

5

Hardware

8

Limitations

8

Changing AHCI to IDE Mode through

 

the HP Replicated Setup Utility

8

Basic RAID Types

8

RAID 0 with two hard drives (Striped)

8

RAID 1 with two hard drives (Mirror))

10

RAID 5 with three hard drives

11

Intel Matrix RAID Technology

12

Configurations

13

Recommended configurations

13

Other supported configurations

14

Unsupported configurations

14

Configuring RAID on non-factory

 

preinstalled configurations

15

Enabling RAID through F10 System

 

BIOS

15

Accessing RAID Option ROM

16

Configuring RAID Volume using the

 

Option ROM

16

Notes for operating system

 

installation

18