K8SLI
NVIDIA RAID Utility Configuration
The NVIDIA RAID Utility is used to configure RAID disk management into your hard disks. This section will explain how to setup and maintain your RAID disk drives.
Starting up the NVIDIA BIOS RAID Utility
When the system boots up during the POST
Press F10 to enter RAID setup utility
Press the <F10> key to enter the NVIDIA BIOS RAID utility (note that you will only have a short window of time to press <F10> before the system continues with the next step of the boot process). The Raid Utility screen will display as shown right.
Associating Screen Drive Names with Physical Drives on the Board
This section explains how to associate the drives listed on the “Define a New Array” screen with the physical drives attached to the connectors on the mainboard. This becomes important when identifying drives that need to be replaced or changed.
Channel, Controller, Master/Slave
Located here are 3 identifiers separated by periods. These identifiers represent the Channel, Controller, and Master/Slave ID for a drive. With these identifiers, you can associate the drives on this screen with a physical connector and drive on the board.
Channel 0 – Represents one of the PATA connectors Channel 1 – Represents one of the SATA connectors Controller 0 – 1st connector (e.g. PATA1 or SATA1) Controller 1 – 2nd connector (e.g. PATA2 or SATA2)
Master/Slave – SATA drives will always be Master drives since an SATA connector can only support 1 drive. PATA connectors can support a Master and a Slave drive.
Examples:
On a board with 4 connectors (PATA1, PATA2, SATA1, SATA2), the following applies:
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