LSI D815-000319-00, ICH6R

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Main Page Page Page Preface Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Chapter 1 Overview 1.1 RAID Benefits 1.1.1 Improved I/O 1.2 Product Features 1.2.1 SATA Ports 1.2.2 BIOS Features 1.2.3 Driver Features 1.2.4 Manageability/Disk Console Chapter 2 RAID Levels 2.1 RAID 0 2.2 RAID 1 2.3 RAID 10 Page Chapter 3 BIOS Configuration Utility 3.1 Configuring Arrays 3.2 Configuration Strategies 3.3 Assigning RAID Levels 3.4 Performing a Quick Configuration 3.5 Configuring Arrays and Logical Drives 3.5.1 Starting the BIOS Configuration Utility 3.5.2 Selecting a Configuration Method 3.5.3 Configuring Physical Arrays and Logical Drives Page Page Page Page 3.5.4 Initializing Logical Drives 3.6 Rebuilding Failed Disks 3.6.1 Inserting a Previously Removed Drive from a RAID 1 Array 3.7 Checking Data Consistency 3.8 Using a Pre-loaded System Drive Page Page Chapter 4 Operating System Installation 4.1 Windows 2000/2003/XP Driver Installation 4.1.1 Updating the Windows 2000/2003/XP Driver 4.1.2 Confirming the Windows 2000/2003/XP Driver Installation 4.2 DOS Driver Installation 4.3 Linux Driver Installation 4.3.1 Obtaining the Driver Image File 4.3.2 Preparing the Installation Disk(s) for Linux 4.3.3 Red Hat Linux Driver Installation on a New System 4.3.4 SuSE Linux 9.0 Driver Installation on a New System 4.3.5 SuSE 8.2 Driver Installation 4.3.6 SuSE SLES8 Driver Installation 4.4 Novell NetWare Driver Installation 4.4.1 Novell NetWare Driver Files Description 4.4.2 New Novell NetWare System Driver Installation Page 4.4.3 Existing Novell NetWare System Driver Installation Page Page Chapter 5 Hyper Configuration Utility 5.1 General Description 5.2 Installing HyperCFG 5.3 Using HyperCFG Table5.1 HyperCFG Options and Attributes Page Page Page Page 5.4 Configuration File 5.4.1 RAID Information 5.4.2 Logical Array Information 5.4.3 Physical Drive Information 5.5 Return Codes on Error Condition Table5.2 Return Codes on Error Conditions Page Chapter 6 Spy Service 6.1 Starting or Stopping Spy Service under Windows 2000, XP, or 2003 Page 6.2 Installing Spy Service under Linux 6.3 Installing and Running Spy Service under Novell NetWare 6.4 Uninstalling Spy Service 6.5 Spy Service Icon Page Page Chapter 7 Troubleshooting 7.1 Problems and Suggested Solutions 7.2 Embedded SATA Software RAID Problem Report Form Table 7-2 contains a form you can just to record problems with the Embedded SATA Software RAID. Table7.1 Problems and Suggested Solutions Table7.2 Embedded SATA Software RAID Problem Report Form Page Customer Feedback