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 [. . . ] AMD BIOS RAID Installation Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

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Introduction to RAID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

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RAID Configurations Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

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Installing Windows 7 / 7 64-bit / Vista / Vista 64-bit / XP / XP 64-bit With RAID Funtions . . . .  [. . . ] Use "RAID Installation Guide" to set RAID configuration. 

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Before you start to configure RAID function,  you need to check this RAID installation guide for proper configuration. Please refer to the BIOS RAID installation guide part in this document for details. STEP 3: Install Windows 7 / 7 64-bit / Vista / Vista 64-bit OS on your system. 

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Create Disk Array

Power on your system. If this is the first time you have booted with the disk drives installed,  the AMD onboard RAID Option ROM Utility will display the following screen. 

The RAID Option ROM includes a Utility with tools to set up your physical drives as RAID logical drives. The RAID Option ROM Utility can perform these functions: - Monitoring RAID and JBOD status - Viewing physical drive assignments - Secure erasing of all data on physical drives - Creating RAID logical drives - Creating multiple logical drives using the same physical drives - Deleting RAID logical drives - Diagnosing critical and offline RAID logical drives - Displaying the IRQ and base address (for system diagnosis)

Press <Ctrl+F> keys,  then the RAID Option ROM Utility Main Menu appears. 

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Press 2 on the Main Menu screen to display the Define LD Menu. 

Press the arrow keys to highlight a logical drive number you want to define and press <Enter> to select it. The Define LD Menu for the logical drive number you selected will next appear. 

Choose the RAID level you want. In the Define LD Menu section,  press the spacebar to cycle through logical drive types,  including RAID 0,  RAID 1,  RAID 5,  RAID Ready,  JBOD and RAID 10. 

WARNING!!While you are allowed to use any available RAID level for your bootable logical drive,  it is recommended to use RAID 1 for most applications. 

Press the arrow key to move to Disk Assignments. Press the spacebar to toggle between N and Y for each available drive. Y means this disk drive will be assigned to the logical drive. Assign the appropriate number of disk drives to your logical drive. Then press <Ctrl-Y> to save your logical drive configuration. You have the option of using all of the disk drive capacity for one logical drive or allocating a portion to a second logical drive. 

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Choose one of the following actions: 1. Use the full capacity of the disk drives for a single logical drive: Please read "One Logical Drive" below. RAIDXpert is designed to work with AMD SB850 SATA RAID controllers. Other brands of RAID controllers are not supported. Please read this guide carefully and follow the instructions below to configure and manage RAID functions. 

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Components of RAIDXpert Installation Software

RAIDXpert installation software will install two major components to your system: 1. RAIDXpert RAID management software: The RAIDXpert software installs on the PC with the AMD SB850 SATA RAID Controller (the "Host PC"). Java Runtime Environment (in a private folder): The RAIDXpert installation program installs a private JRE in folder _jvm under the same directory where RAIDXpert is installed. RAIDXpert uses this private JRE to avoid incompatibility issues with any other JREs that may be present on your system. 

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Browser Support

On the Host PC with the AMD SB850 Controller,  where you install RAIDXpert,  you must have one of the following browsers: Internet Explorer 6. 0,  Mozilla Suite 1. 7,  Mozilla Firefox 1. 0,  or Netscape Navigator 7. 1. If you do not have one of the above browsers,  install the browser first and make it the default browser. You must use one of the browsers listed above on your networked PC in order to access RAIDXpert over the network. 

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Installing RAIDXpert

Follow these steps to install RAIDXpert on your Windows-based PC or Server.  [. . . ] Or,  to use the maximum capacity of the physical drives,  check the Use Maximum Capacity box. For RAID Ready and JBOD,  the system will check the Use Maximum Capacity Box automatically. 

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Click the physical drives to select them. For RAID Ready,  select only one physical drive. 

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8. Enter a name for the logical drive in the field provided. 

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