User's Manual

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Contents
5.1.1 RAID denitions .............................................................. 5-2
5.1.2 Installing Serial ATA hard disks .......................................
5-3
5.1.3 Setting the RAID item in BIOS ........................................
5-3
5.2 LSISoftwareRAIDCongurationUtility ...................................
5-4
5.2.1 Creating a RAID set ........................................................
5-5
5.2.2 Adding or viewing a RAID conguration ........................
5-11
5.2.3 Initializing the virtual drives ...........................................
5-12
5.2.4 Rebuilding failed drives .................................................
5-16
5.2.5 Checking the drives for data consistency .....................
5-18
5.2.6 Deleting a RAID conguration .......................................
5-21
5.2.7 Selecting the boot drive from a RAID set ......................
5-22
5.2.8 Enabling WriteCache ....................................................
5-23
5.3 Intel
®
Rapid Storage Technology enterprise SCU/SATA
Option ROM Utility .....................................................................
5-24
5.3.1 Creating a RAID set ......................................................
5-25
5.3.2 Creating a Recovery set ...............................................
5-26
5.3.3 Deleting a RAID set ......................................................
5-28
5.3.4 Resetting disks to Non-RAID ........................................
5-29
5.3.5 Exiting the Intel
®
Rapid Storage Technology utility ........ 5-29
5.3.6 Rebuilding the RAID .....................................................
5-30
5.3.7 Setting the Boot array in the BIOS Setup Utility ............
5-32
5.1.5 Marvell RAID utility ........................................................
5-33
5.4 Intel
®
Rapid Storage Technology enterprise Utility
(Windows) ...................................................................................
5-37
5.4.1 Creating a RAID set ......................................................
5-38
5.4.2 Change Volume Type ....................................................
5-40
5.4.3 Delete volume ...............................................................
5-41
5.4.4 Preferences ...................................................................
5-42
Chapter 6: Driver installation
6.1 RAID driver installation ............................................................... 6-2
6.1.1 Creating a RAID driver disk ............................................
6-2
6.1.2 Installing the RAID controller driver ................................
6-4
6.2 Intel
®
Chipset Device Software installation ............................. 6-13
6.3 Intel
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Network Connections Software installation.................. 6-15