User manual ASUS P8H67-M EVO

[. . . ] After finishing installing it, you can get the advantages of enhancing the performance and raising the system's reliability. When you face any difficulties and find anything you don't understand while using the GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller, please refer to the "Q&A" section on page 88. In this section, you can refer to the problems users may face and find the correct solutions. You can follow its instructions to solve your problems and then you will get satisfactory results. 4 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER'S MANUAL Features Compatible with the ATA133 specification and supports two IDE channels with 4 drives. [. . . ] You can leave Setup Utility and boot directly if you choose background rebuild and rebuild can proceed at the background. 34 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER'S MANUAL The following screen will appear if you choose to monitor the whole rebuild process. When rebuild is completed, a message below will pop up to inform you that rebuild is finished. Then you leave and go back to the Rebuild RAID Menu. 35 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER'S MANUAL RAID Card Configuration Press "5" on the Main Menu then the RAID Card Configuration menu will appear. You can use arrow keys and and the "space" bar key to enable or disable Auto-Rebuild option. When Auto-Rebuild enables, the GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller can rebuild your mirrored array automatically. If a failed mirrored drive is replaced without shutting down your PC, the GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller can detect the hot-swap action and start rebuilding automatically. When Auto-Rebuild is disabled, you need to rebuild your mirrored array manually from Application (Please refer to page 72) or from Rebuild RAID Menu (Please refer to page 31). On the RAID Card Resource section, you can see the PCI slot interrupt and I/O port address used by the GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller. You can also see the status of each hard drive from the Drive Status section. For the meanings of 36 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER'S MANUAL "Channel ID", "Drive Name" and "Size", please refer to Define RAID sub-Menu on page 23. Column "Array No" shows hard drive's array number. If a hard drive is not assigned to an array, it's shown as free. A free hard drive is taken as a normal one. Column "Mode" shows hard drive's data transfer mode. "U" represents Ultra DMA (UDMA) mode, "D" represents Multiword DMA (DMA) mode and "P" represents PIO mode. GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller (Windows 2000/XP) should be contained on the list. If you need to install any other devices, please designate them now. After designating all the devices, please proceed to the next step. Press the <Enter> key to continue the installation of Windows XP. 39 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER'S MANUAL Install the driver under existing Windows XP 1. When Windows detects GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller in the system, a dialog box named Found New Hardware Wizard will show on the screen. Select the Install from a list or specific location (Advanced) option then click "Next" to continue to setup. 40 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER'S MANUAL 3. Insert the GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller Driver diskette into the floppy disk drive then check the Search for the best driver in these locations option and type A:\WIN2K_XP on the field designating the file's location. Press "Next" to continue to setup. 41 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER'S MANUAL 4. The driver installation has finished. Press "Finish" to continue. 5. Follow the instruction to restart the computer then the driver will take effect. 42 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER'S MANUAL Verify Installation Follow the previous section to install the driver. After the system restarts, you can do the following steps to check if the driver has been installed successfully. Right-click My Computer icon on Desktop. Select the Properties option from the form. [. . . ] Select "Array Type" as "RAID 0". Check "Erase Partition" to erase partition table or uncheck "Erase Partition" not to erase partition table. Click "Create". 2. Create RAID 1 Open RAID Manager. Change the control panel to "Create Disks Array". [. . . ]