User Guide

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Contents
6.2.1 Creating a RAID 0 or RAID 1 set .................................... 6-5
6.2.2 Creating a RAID 10 set ..................................................6-11
6.2.3 Adding or viewing a RAID conguration ....................... 6-15
6.2.4 Initializing the logical drives .......................................... 6-18
6.2.5 Rebuilding failed drives ................................................. 6-23
6.2.6 Checking the drives for data consistency ..................... 6-25
6.2.7 Deleting a RAID conguration ....................................... 6-28
6.2.8 Selecting the boot drive from a RAID set ...................... 6-29
6.2.9 Enabling the WriteCache .............................................. 6-30
6.3 Intel
®
Matrix Storage Manager Option ROM Utility ................. 6-31
6.3.1 Creating a RAID 0 set (Stripe) ...................................... 6-32
6.3.2 Creating a RAID 1 set (Mirror) ...................................... 6-34
6.3.3 Creating a RAID 10 set (Stripe + Mirror) ....................... 6-35
6.3.4 Creating a RAID 5 set (Parity) ...................................... 6-36
6.3.5 Deleting a RAID set ...................................................... 6-37
6.3.6 Resetting disks to Non-RAID ........................................ 6-38
6.3.7 Rebuilding the RAID ..................................................... 6-38
6.3.8 Exiting the Intel
®
Matrix Storage Manager .................... 6-41
6.3.9 Setting the Boot array use MB BIOS Setup Utility ........ 6-41
6.3.10 Global Array Manager ................................................... 6-42
Chapter 7: Driver installation
7.1 RAID driver installation ............................................................... 7-2
7.1.1 Creating a RAID driver disk ............................................ 7-2
7.1.2 Installing the RAID controller driver ............................... 7-4
7.2 Intel
®
Chipset Update Utility installation .................................. 7-13
7.3 LAN driver installation ............................................................... 7-16
7.4 VGA driver installation............................................................... 7-19
7.4.1 Windows
®
Server .......................................................... 7-19
7.5 Management applications and utilities installation ................ 7-21
7.5.1 Running the support CD ............................................... 7-21
7.5.2 Drivers menu ................................................................. 7-21
7.5.3 Management Software menu ........................................ 7-22
7.5.4 Utilities menu ................................................................ 7-22
7.5.5 Contact information ....................................................... 7-22