Rosewill RC211 Bios Setting RAID Setting, Creating Striped Sets RAID, Creating Mirrored Sets RAID

RC211 Installation Instruction

11.Use SATARAID5 Manager GUI for RAID configuration setting. If 1 Disk, please select “Concatenate” or “Contiguous” setting only.

If 2 Disks, don’t select “Parity RAID” or “Mirrored Striped” setting If 3 Disks, don’t select “Mirrored Striped” setting

12.Click “Task Manager” to make sure Raid setting is completed. It shall be “Green” color or “Blue” color on the selected components. RAID5 setting may cost hours for component ready and function available, please be patient for that.

13.Use Device Manager for hard disk initialization, partition and formatting.

4. BIOS Setting ( RAID Setting )

Creating and deleting RAID sets is a function found in the BIOS. During boot up, the RAID setting message will appear and pause for a few moments to allow the user to choose what to do. This board will act as normal NON-RAID card when BIOS not configured for RAID. Just proceed to Software Installation section directly. If you use traditional parallel ATA HDD, make sure your hard drives be set up as master mode before the RAID setting.

4.1. Creating Striped Sets (RAID 0)

1.As the BIOS boots, Press CTRL+S or F4 to enter the raid bios utility.

2.Select Create RAID set. Press Enter.

3.Select RAID 0 then press Enter.

4.Select Number of hard drive. Press Enter.

5.Select RAID size. Press Enter.

6.Press Y to save your settings.

7.Press CTRL+E and then press Y to exit the setup.

8.Continue with conventional Fdisk and Format steps as if you are installing a conventional hard drive.

9.Your RAID configuration is complete. Please proceed to software installation section.

4.2. Creating Mirrored Sets (RAID 1)

1.As the BIOS boots, Press CTRL+S or F4 to enter the raid bios utility.

2.Select Create RAID set. Press Enter.

3.Select RAID 1 then press Enter.