User manual GIGABYTE GA-7ZXR

[. . . ] FCC Compliance Statement: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in residential installations. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy, and if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. [. . . ] 16126 [ Keys Available ] [] Up [] Down [, , Space] Change Option [ESC] Exit [Ctrl-Y] Save Optimize Array For Select whether you want Performance (RAID 0), Security (RAID 1) under the "Optimize Array for" setting. Performance (RAID 0 Striping) Supports the maximum performance. The storage capacity equals the number of drives times the capacity of the smallest drive in the disk array. NOTE: This motherboard permits striped arrays using 1, 2 drive attached in Auto Setup mode. Security (RAID 1 Mirroring) Creates a mirrored (or fault tolerant) array for data security. NOTE: Under the Security setting, This motherboard permits two drives to be used for a single Mirrored array only. 60 7ZXR Series Motherboard Defining Typical Application Usage Allows the user to choose the type of PC usage that will be performed in order to optimize how This motherboard handles data blocks to enhance performance. Your choice will determine the block size used. You may choose from: A/V Editing (for audio/video applications, or any similar application that requires large file transfers), Server (for numerous small file transfers), or Desktop (a combination of large and small file sizes). If you plan to create multiple arrays, attach only the drives necessary to create the first disk array and complete the <1> Auto Setup. Install the additional drives needed for the second array and again use the <1> Auto Setup. NOTE: If you wish to customize the settings of individual disk arrays (such as block size), you must manually create disk arrays with the Define Array <3> option from the Main Menu. 61 RAID Introduction Viewing Drive Assignments The View Drive Assignments <2> option in the Main Menu displays whether drives are assigned to a disk arrays or are unassigned. Under the "Assignment" column, drives are labeled with their assigned disk array or shown as "Free" if unassigned. Such "Free" drives can be used for a future array. Unassigned drives are not accessible by the OS. The menu also displays the data transfer mode that relates to speed used by each drive (U5 refers to 100MB/sec transfers, U4 refers to 66MB/sec transfers, etc. . . ) FastBuild (tm) Utility 1. xx (c) 1995-2000 Promise Technology, Inc. [ View Drive Assignments ] Channel:ID 1 : Master 1 : Slave 2 : Master Drive Model Capacity(MB) QUANTUMCR8. 4A 8063 QUANTUMCR8. 4A 8063 QUANTUMCR8. 4A 8063 Assignment Mode Array 1 U5 Free U5 Array 1 U5 [ Keys Available ] [] Up [] Down [ESC] Exit Mode (U=UDMA, P=PIO, D=DMA) 62 7ZXR Series Motherboard Manually Creating an Array The Define Array <3> option from the Main Menu allows users to begin the process of manually defining the drive elements and RAID levels for one or multiple disk arrays attached to this motherboard. Users will commonly create one or two drive arrays with the motherboard, though the motherboard will support a maximum of four arrays1. NOTE: For most installations, We recommends the <1> Auto Setup for easy disk array creation. FastBuild (tm) Utility 1. xx (c) 1995-2000 Promise Technology, Inc. [Define Array Menu] Array No Array 1 Array 2 Array 3 Array 4 RAID Mode Stripe ---- ---- ---- Total Drv Capacity(MB) 2 16126 ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- [ Keys Available ] Status Functional ---- ---- ---- Note: * -- Bootable Array [] Up [] Down [ESC] Exit [Enter] Select [Space] Change Boot Drive 1. 2. To manually create an array from the Define Array Menu, use the arrow keys to highlight the array number you wish to define, and press [Enter] to select. The Define Array Definition Menu will next appear that allows drive assignments to the disk array (see next page). 1 A user may use a single drive in either striping mode with system. In this rare scenario, the motherboard will create an individual array ID but will offer conventional controller performance, depending on the drive type. At a later time, a second drive can be added to the array and the array re-created to support RAID 1 mirroring. [. . . ] Check out supported motherboard and Flash ROM : In the very beginning, there is "About this program" icon shown in dialog box. It can help you check out which kind of motherboard and which brand of Flash ROM are supported. In method I, if it shows two or more motherboard's model names to be selected, please make sure your motherboard's model name again. Sellecting name will cause the system unbooted. [. . . ]