User manual ASUS PIKE 1078

[. . . ] PIKE 1078 LSISAS1078 SAS RAID card E3735 First Edition V1 June 2008 Copyright © 2008 ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. No part of this manual, including the products and software described in it, may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language in any form or by any means, except documentation kept by the purchaser for backup purposes, without the express written permission of ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. Product warranty or service will not be extended if: (1) the product is repaired, modified or altered, unless such repair, modification of alteration is authorized in writing by ASUS; or (2) the serial number of the product is defaced or missing. ASUS PROVIDES THIS MANUAL "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. [. . . ] This means that a new configuration can be initialized in the background while you use WebBIOS to do other configuration tasks. Yes: Select Yes if you do not want to allow background initializations for configurations on this controller. · Select Size: Specify the size of the virtual disk in megabytes. Normally, this would be the full size for RAID 10 shown in the Configuration Panel on the right. You may specify a smaller size if you want to create other virtual disks on the same disk group. 9. Click Accept to accept the changes to the virtual disk definition, or click Back to return to the previous settings. 10. When you are finished defining virtual disks, click Next. The configuration preview screen appears, as shown in the right figure. Check the information in the configuration preview. 12. If the virtual disk configuration is acceptable, click Accept to save the configuration. Otherwise, click Cancel to end the operation and return to the WebBIOS main menu, or click Back to return to the previous screens and change the configuration. If you accept the configuration, click Yes at the prompt to save the configuration. The WebBIOS main menu appears. ASUS PIKE 1078 2-23 Using Custom Configuration: RAID 50 RAID 50 provides the features of both RAID 0 and RAID 5. RAID 50 uses both distributed parity and disk striping across multiple arrays. It provides high data throughput, data redundancy, and very good performance. It is best implemented on two RAID 5 disk arrays with data striped across both disk arrays. Though multiple drive failures can be tolerated, only one drive failure can be tolerated in each RAID 5 level array. RAID 50 is appropriate when used with data that requires high reliability, high request rates, high data transfer, and medium to large capacity. When you select Custom Configuration and click Next, the Disk Group Definition screen appears. You use this screen to select physical drives to create disk groups (arrays). Hold <Ctrl> while selecting at least three ready physical drives in the Physical Drives window on the left. Click Accept DG to move the drives to a proposed disk group configuration in the Disk Groups window on the right. If you need to undo the changes, click the Back button. [. . . ] Follow screen instructions to continue. ASUS PIKE 1078 3-5 After Windows® OS installation 1. 3. To update the RAID card driver after installing Windows® OS: Right-click the My Computer icon on the desktop and select Properties from the menu. Click the Hardware tab on the top, then click the Device Manager button. Double-click the LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS PCI Express ROMB item. 4. Click the Driver tab on the top, then click Update Driver. 3-6 Chapter 3: Driver installation 5. Toggle Install from a list or specific location (Advanced), then click Next to continue. 6. Toggle Don't search. [. . . ]