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[. . . ] l o ti e d onr ne i h id u cf q e Host Controller e IDE RAID n To R A User Manual CA I D V N Preliminary Revision 0. 2 November 11, 2002 i g s e In l a . c VIA TECHNOLOGIES, INC. Copyright Notice: Copyright © 2002 VIA Technologies Incorporated. No part of this document may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic, optical, chemical, manual or otherwise without the prior written permission of VIA Technologies Incorporated. The material in this document is for information only and is subject to change without notice. [. . . ] Select Delete Array and press <Enter>. Select the member of an array that is to be deleted and press <Enter>. Press Y to delete or press N to cancel. Deleting a disk array will destroy all the data on the disk array except RAID 1 arrays. When a RAID is deleted, the data on these two hard disk drives will be reserved and become two normal disk drives. l o ti e d onr ne i h id u cf q en e To R ACA I D V N i g s e In l a . c Preliminary Revision 0. 2, November 11, 2002 9 BIOS Configuration Utility Technologies, Inc. We Connect VT6410 User Manual ­ IDE RAID Controller Create and Delete Spare Hard Drive If a RAID 1 array is created and there are drives that do not belong to other arrays, the one that has a capacity which is equal to or greater than the array capacity cab be selected as a spare drive for the RAID 1 array. Select Create/Delete Spare and press <Enter> and he channel column will be activated. Select the drive that you want to use as a spare drive and press <Enter>. The selected drive will be marked as Spare. The spare drive cannot be accessed in an OS. To delete a spare drive, highlight Create/Delete Spare and press <Enter>. Press <Enter> to delete the spare drive. l o ti e d onr ne i h id u cf q en e To R ACA I D V N i g s e In l a . c Preliminary Revision 0. 2, November 11, 2002 10 BIOS Configuration Utility Technologies, Inc. We Connect VT6410 User Manual ­ IDE RAID Controller Select Boot Array User can select a disk array as boot device if user wants to boot operating system from an array. Boot disk array cannot be selected if the operating system does not boot from the disk array. Highlight the Select Boot Array item, then press <Enter> and the channel column will be activated. Then highlight the target disk array and press <Enter>. If user selects a disk array that has a boot mark and press <Enter>, its boot setting will be canceled. l o ti e d onr ne i h id u cf q en e To R ACA I D V N i g s e In l a . c Preliminary Revision 0. 2, November 11, 2002 11 BIOS Configuration Utility Technologies, Inc. We Connect VT6410 User Manual ­ IDE RAID Controller View Serial Number of Hard Drive Highlight Serial Number View and press <Enter>. Use arrow key to select a drive, the selected drive's serial number can be viewed in the last column. The serial number is assigned by the disk drive manufacturer. View Array Status Press the F1 key to show the array status on the screen. If there are no disk arrays then nothing will be displayed on the screen. l o ti e d onr ne i h id u cf q en e To R ACA I D V N i g s e In l a . c Preliminary Revision 0. 2, November 11, 2002 12 BIOS Configuration Utility Technologies, Inc. We Connect VT6410 User Manual ­ IDE RAID Controller Duplicate Critical RAID 1/0+1 Array When booting up the system, BIOS will detect if the RAID 1 or RAID 0+1 array has any inconsistencies between user data and backup data. If BIOS detects any inconsistencies, then the status of the disk array will be marked as critical and BIOS will prompt the user to duplicate the RAID 1 or 0+1 to make the backup data consistent with the user data. Continue to boot will enable duplicating the array after booting into OS. l o ti e d onr ne i h id u cf q en e To R ACA I D V N i g s e In l a . [. . . ] If you cancel the synchronization process, the RAID will be on the "need-sync" condition. You should synchronize again to guarantee that the data between source and mirror disk drives is identical. A message will pop up when the synchronization is finished. l o ti e d onr ne i h id u cf q en e To R ACA I D V N i g s e In l a . c Preliminary Revision 0. 2, November 11, 2002 40 RAID Software Technologies, Inc. We Connect VT6410 User Manual ­ IDE RAID Controller Rebuild Broken RAID 0/0+1 array After booting up the system, the RAID utility will detect if any member disk drives of the RAID 0 or 0+1 array has failed or is absent. [. . . ]