Intel Matrix Storage Manager 8.x User Guide

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ver7.0 / User's Manual
7.1 Overview ..............................................................................................32
7.2 System Requirements ............................................................................32
7.3 RAID-Ready System Setup Steps .............................................................32
8 RAID Migration .................................................................................................33
8.1 Overview ..............................................................................................33
8.2 RAID Migration Steps: RAID-Ready to 2-drive RAID 0/1 .............................33
8.3 RAID Migration Steps: RAID-Ready to 3 or 4-drive RAID 0/5 .......................35
9 Volume Creation ...............................................................................................42
9.1 RAID Volume Creation ............................................................................42
9.2 Recovery Volume Creation ......................................................................49
9.2.1 Recovery Volume Creation in Basic Mode .....................................49
9.2.2 Recovery Volume Creation in Advanced Mode...............................50
Appendix A Error Messages.................................................................................................56
A.1 Incompatible Hardware .....................................................................................56
A.2 Operating System Not Supported .......................................................................56
A.3 Source Hard Drive Cannot Be Larger ...................................................................56
A.4 Hard Drive Has System Files ..............................................................................57
A.5 Source Hard Drive is Dynamic Disk .....................................................................57
F i gu r e s
Figure 1. Matrix RA I D ........................................................................................12
Figure 2. User Prompt .......................................................................................16
Figure 3. Start Menu Item..................................................................................30
Figure 4. Driver Details Example.........................................................................30
Figure 5. Driver Version Information ...................................................................31
Figure 6. Tray Icon Status .................................................................................34
Figure 7. User Interface Status ...........................................................................35
Figure 8. Progress Dialog ...................................................................................35
T ab l e s
Table 1. RAID 0 Overview ..................................................................................10
Table 2. RAID 1 Overview ..................................................................................10
Table 3. RAID 5 Overview ..................................................................................11
Table 4. RAID 10 Overview ................................................................................11
Table 5. Recovery Volume Overview ...................................................................13