User Guide

30 Intel® Integrated RAID Solution User Guide
The following guidelines apply when creating an Integrated Striping volume:
• All physical disks in the volume must be either SATA (with extended command set
support) or SAS (with SMART support). You cannot combine SAS and SATA disks
in the same volume. However, it is possible to configure one volume with SAS disks
and one volume with SATA disks on the same controller.
• Disks in the volume must have 512-byte blocks and must not have removable
media.
• Integrated Striping volumes must have at least 2 disks and no more than 10 disks.
Integrated Striping volumes do not support hot spare disks.
Follow these steps to configure an Integrated Striping volume with the SAS3 BIOS CU.
The steps begin with the Adapter List window that appears when the SAS3 BIOS CU
starts.
1. On the Adapter List window, select an Intel SAS-3 adapter, and press Enter.
The Adapter Properties window appears, as the following figure shows.
Figure 10. Adapter Properties Window
2. Select RAID Properties, and press Enter.
The Create Array window appears.
3. Select Create RAID 0 Volume.
The Create New Array window appears.