User manual GIGABYTE GA-7VAXP-A ULTRA

[. . . ] (d) Driver CD for your motherboard. (1) Installing SATA hard drive(s) in your system Attach one end of the SATA signal cable to the rear of the SATA hard drive and the other end to available SATA port(s) on the motherboard (If there are more than one SATA controller on your motherboard, you may check the name of the SATA connnector to identify the SATA controlller for the connector. For example, SATA0_SII/SATA1_SII is controlled by the Sil3112 controller). Then connect the power connector from your power supply to the hard drive. "*" Skip this step if you do not want to create RAID array on the SATA controller SATA Hard Drive Configurations (Sil3112) -2- (2) Configuring SATA controller mode and boot sequence in BIOS Setup You have to make sure whether the SATA controller is configured correctly in system BIOS Setup and set BIOS boot sequence for the SATA hard drive(s). Step 1: Turn on your computer and press Del to enter BIOS Setup during POST (Power-On Self Test). [. . . ] The Create RAID set selection allows user to create a new RAID Set. If there is a previously created RAID set on the hard drives, it is recommended that you back up the data and remove the old RAID set before creating a new RAID set. The Delete RAID set selection allows users to delete an existing RAID set. The Rebuild Mirrored set is used to initiate the copying of data from an existing drive to a replacement drive that has been installed in a RAID 1 set after the failure of one of the members. The Resolve Conflicts is used to automatically find the member drives of a RAID set which has been disrupted (physical drives swapped around, for example) and restore the RAID set to proper operation. Main Menu Help Window Function keys Hard Drives Properties Figure 5 -5SATA Hard Drive Configurations (Sil3112) Ác Åé ¤¤ ¤å Step 3: Create RAID set: Select Create RAID set and press ENTER, and then the RAID type selection menu will appear (Figure 6). Use UP or DOWN ARROW key to select a RAID type that you want to create and press ENTER. The options include Striped (RAID 0) and Mirrored (RAID 1). Figure 6 Step 4: After the selection of a RAID type, select Auto configuration or Manual configuration (Figure 7). If Auto configuration is selected, BIOS will automatically assign RAID member drives and set the chunk size of Striped Sets to 64KB. If Manual configuration is selected, you can manually change the chunk size (from 4K to 128K) and then assign the drives to be used in the RAID array. Figure 7 SATA Hard Drive Configurations (Sil3112) -6- Step 5: After finishing all the settings of a RAID set and press ENTER, the prompt "Are You Sure?" will appear. After the RAID array is created, the lower-left screen will list the RAID set information, including RAID type, chunk size and toal array size (Figure 8). Figure 8 If you want to remove one or more RAID sets, select Delete RAID set item (Figure 9) in Main Menu. Press ENTER and follow the on-screen instructions to delete the RAID set. Figure 9 After completing the configuration, press CTRL+E to exit the RAID Configuration Utility. Now, you can proceed to the installation of the SATA driver and operating system. -7- SATA Hard Drive Configurations (Sil3112) Ác Åé ¤¤ ¤å (4) Making a SATA controller driver disk To install Windows 2000/XP onto a SATA hard disk on the Sil3112 controller successfully, you need to install required driver for the SATA controller during OS installation. Without the driver, the hard drives may not be recognized during the Windows setup process. First of all, you need to copy the driver for the SATA controller from the motherboard driver CD to a floppy disk. The instructions below explain how to copy the driver. Step 1: Find an available system and insert the motherboard driver CD into the CD-ROM drive. The installation utility will appear automatically. Step 2: Go to My Computer and right-click the CD-ROM drive icon and select Open (Figure 10). Figure 10 Step 3: Go to the BootDrv folder and look for an executable program named MENU. exe (Figure 11). Figure 11 SATA Hard Drive Configurations (Sil3112) -8- Step 4: Double-click MENU. exe. [. . . ] Then it will begin to load the SATA driver from the floppy disk. Figure 16 If you have copied the SATA non-RAID driver, a screen similar to that below will appear. Use the ARROW keys to select Silicon Image SiI 3x12 SATALink Controller for Windows XP/Server 2003* (Figure 17) and press ENTER. Then it will begin to load the SATA driver from the floppy disk. Figure 17 If a message appears saying one or some file(s) cannot be found, please check the floppy disk or copy the correct SATA driver again from the motherboard driver CD. "*" Select the driver according to the operating system that you want to install. [. . . ]