User manual ASUS P8H61-M2/TPM/SI

[. . . ] 8 EXISTING WINDOWS 2000/XP INSTALLATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 CONFIRMING WINDOWS 2000/XP DRIVER INSTALLATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BIOS Utility Operation (for RAID only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 CREATING AN ARRAY FOR PERFORMANCE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 CREATING A MIRROR ARRAY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 CREATING A JBOD ARRAY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 CREATING A STRIPE-MIRROR ARRAY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Step 4. SIS 964 RAID Utility Operation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 VIEWING THE "CREATE RAID" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 CREATE A RAID SET. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 VIEWING THE RAIDTYPE MEANING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 DELETE A RAID SET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 RAID RECOVERY OPERATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Serial ATA RAID Quick User' Guide s Introduction The 964 S-ATA controller is a hybrid solution that combines two independent SATA ports and one Ultra ATA port for support of up to two Serial ATA (Serial ATA RAID) and two Ultra ATA (Ultra ATA RAID) drives. [. . . ] From Windows 2000/XP, open the Control Panel from "My Computer" followed by the System icon. Choose the "Hardware" tab, then click the "Device Manager" tab. Click the "+" in front of "SCSI and RAID Controllers" hardware type. The driver "WinXP SiS964 Raid Controller" (for RAID) or "Win2000/XP SiS964 IDE Controller" (for SATA) should appear. 9 Serial ATA RAID Quick User' Guide s Step 3. BIOS Utility Operation (for RAID only) Note: For the best performance and reliability, please read "Performance Hints and Recommend Setting" section in Step 0 1. If this is the first time you have booted with the SIS 964 and the drives installed, the onboard BIOS will display the following screen. Silicon Integrated Systems Corp. RAID Card BIOS Setting Utility 1. 00. 0. XX (c) 2003-2006 Silicon Integrated Systems Corp. All Rights Reserved. Press <Ctrl><S> to run BIOS Setting Utility 2. Press <Ctrl-S> keys to display the SIS964 Utility Main Menu. Press "R" to display the RAID setup menu below. This is the fastest and easiest method to creating your first array. 10 Serial ATA RAID Quick User' Guide s Creating an Array for Performance NOTE: SIS 964 enables users to create striped arrays with 1, 2, 3, or 4 drives. Information: This pane will show the information about creating a RAID set after clicking the button "Create". The information may be "Please select the <Raid Type> first!", "Please select the <Mode Type> first!", "Please select the <Block Size> first!", "Please select the disk you want first!", "Mirror supports TWO DISKS only. ", "StripeMirror needs least FOUR DISKS. ", "Raid Created successful!Reboot please!!" or "Raid Creation failed!". f) Create a RAID set a) To create a JBOD array, follow these steps: 1. "Configuration" ¡÷ "Create Raid" ¡÷ "Raid Type" ¡÷ JBOD. From the drop-down box "Mode Type", select the mode type you want. 3. From the "Available Disks" pane, select the disk and click downward arrow icon or double click it to add the disk on the "Selected Disks" pane. 26 Serial ATA RAID Quick User' Guide s NOTE: You must have at least two hard disks to create a JBOD array. 4. When the JBOD array' configuration is finished, click the button s "Create". Pay attention to the warning message, and then click "Yes" button to finish the creation of JBOD array, or click "No" button to cancel. NOTE: If the disk you selected has the ability of booting, another warning message will be popup before "SiS Software RAID" message. You can click "Yes" button to continue or click "No" button to cancel. 27 Serial ATA RAID Quick User' Guide s 5. Next, another message box will be popup to tell user that disk setting has been changed and ask whether to restart the computer or not. Click "Yes" button to restart the computer or click "Cancel" button to skip restarting. NOTE: New Setting will take effect after restarting only. b) To create a RAID 0 (Stripe) array, follow these steps: 1. [. . . ] In which, the meaning of "?" and "!" will show below. 33 Serial ATA RAID Quick User' Guide s <Example> <Showing its information> 34 Serial ATA RAID Quick User' Guide s Delete a Raid set a) To delete a JBOD, RAID0 or RAID1 array, follow these steps: 1. "Configuration" ¡÷ "Delete Raid", the following windows will appear: 2. Highlight the disk array in the "Current RaidType" pane, and then click the "Information" button or double click the array. You can get some information about the disk array. 35 Serial ATA RAID Quick User' Guide s 3. [. . . ]