User manual ASUS SCSI 320-1

[. . . ] Visit ASUS global website and acquire all kinds of information about ASUS hardware and software products. Besides the articles listed as the contents of shipping package, there also may have other documents within the package, such as warranty documents provided by your dealer. With step-by-step descriptions, this chapter introducess the procedures of setting up a RAID on your system at the time when system is powered on and not yet enters the operation system. The window will show the current operation speed of the SCSI channels. [. . . ] Then input the RAID 5 size value with spanning in the circled area into the Select Size box. You could now view all the RAID setup information in the Configuration Preview window. The two arrays then form a RAID 50, with the Array 2 being the continuance of RAID 1. If no boot storage device is ever set, please select Set Boot Drive and then select Go to change the settings so that the RAID storage device could become the first boot device. Now you could see information about all physical drives and logical drives in the home page of WebBIOS. Press Ctrl + H at the same time and enter the MegaRAID WebBIOS configuration window, where information about all physical drivers installed is displayed. If this is the first time to setup a RAID on your system, click New Configuration and then click Next to continue. Hold on the Ctrl key of your keyboard and select with your mouse two ready drives, click on Accept Array to set up Array 1 as RAID 0. repeat this procedure to setup Array 2. At least four hard disks are need to setup RAID 10. Select two hard disks as and set them as Array1, and the rest Array 2. At least two hard disks are needed for setting up RAID 1, and the number of disks must be even. This warning window will prompt out when hard disks of different sizes are deployed in a RAID. If hard disks of identical space are used, this window would not appear. (We recommend using hard disks of a same model for RAID configuration) You could now see information of all RAID settings. When you have finished the setting for Array 1 and Array 2, please click Next to continue. Input the Select Size box with the RAID 1 size value within the circled area; then click Accept and Next to apply. You could then see the information of RAID settings in the Configuration Preview window. The two arrays form a RAID 10, with the Array 2 being the continuance of the Array 1. If no boot device is ever set, please select Set Boot Drive and then select Go to change the settings so that the RAID storage device could become the first boot device. When one of the hard disks within the array is removed and substituted with new disk, the array could automatically start the rebuilding process. you could check the information of the rebuilding progress in the MegaRAID WebBIOS configuration window. [. . . ] You could get access ASUS global website to download the *. Exe file, the driver would automatically write into the floopy disk. Exe file, please copy these files directly into a blank disk. Then input linux dd when the following screen appears, and press Enter. [. . . ]