User manual GIGABYTE GA-8I915G DUO

[. . . ] (d) Driver CD for your motherboard. (1) Installing IDE hard drive(s) in your system Attach one end of the IDE cable to the rear of the IDE hard drive and the other end to IDE port(s) controlled by the VT6410 RAID controller on the motherboard. (To ensure that your IDE CD-ROM can work properly, please connect it to the IDE1 port (controlled by the Southbridge) and connect your hard drives to IDE2/IDE3 ports ). Then connect the power connector from your power supply to the hard drive(s). "*" Skip this step if you do not want to create RAID. array on the IDE controller VIA VT6410 IDE RAID Drives Configuration -2- (2) Configuring VT6410 IDE controller mode and boot sequence in BIOS Setup You have to make sure whether the VT6410 IDE controller are configured correctly in system BIOS Setup and set BIOS boot sequence for the IDE RAID hard drive(s). Step 1: Turn on your computer and press the Del key to enter BIOS Setup during POST (Power-On Self Test). [. . . ] It is suitable when the disk drives with which you want to create an array are new ones. Select Disk Drives lets user select the array drives as required. When using the Select Disk Drives method, the channel column will be activated. Just highlight the target drives that you want to use and press ENTER to select them respectively. The selected hard drives will be marked with an asterisk (see Figure 8). VIA Tech. RAID BIOS Ver 2. 11 Auto Setup For Performance Array Mode RAID 0 (Striping) Select Disk Drives Block Size 64K Start Create Process Create a RAID array with the hard disks attached to VIA RAID controller F1 , Enter ESC Array Name : : : : View Array/disk Status Move to next item Confirm the selection Exit Mode Size(GB) Status Stripe0 Stripe1 Channel [*] Channel0 Master Channel0 Slave [*] Channel1 Master Channel1 Slave Drive Name Maxtor 6E030L0 No Drive Maxtor 6E030L0 No Drive ATA 133 28. 63 ATA 133 27. 24 Figure 8 Use the arrow keys to highlight the Block Size item and press ENTER , then a list of block size options will appear. The block size can be selected from 4K to 64K Bytes (Figure 9). Use the arrow keys to highlight the block size you need and press ENTER. VIA Tech. RAID BIOS Ver 2. 11 Auto Setup For Performance 4K Array Mode RAID 0 (Striping) 8K Select Disk Drives 16K Block Size 64K 32K Start Create Process 64K Create a RAID array with the hard disks attached to VIA RAID controller F1 , Enter ESC Array Name : : : : View Array/disk Status Move to next item Confirm the selection Exit Mode Size(GB) Status Stripe0 Stripe1 Channel [*] Channel0 Master Channel0 Slave [*] Channel1 Master Channel1 Slave Drive Name Maxtor 6E030L0 No Drive Maxtor 6E030L0 No Drive ATA 133 28. 63 ATA 133 27. 24 Figure 9 Next, use the arrow keys to highlight Start Create Process and press ENTER to begin the creation of RAID array, then you should see a warning message which says "The data on the selected disks will be destroied. (Y/N) ]. " Press Y to finish the creation, or press N to cancel the creation. The content of hard drive will be destroyed after array creation. -7VIA VT6410 IDE RAID Drives Configuration Ác Åé ¤¤ ¤å Delete Array: If you want to delete an existing RAID array, use the arrow keys to highlight the Delete Array item in main menu interface, and press ENTER. Use the arrow keys to highlight a member of an array that you want to delete and press ENTER. A warning message will display (Figure 10). Press Y to delete a specific array or press N to cancel. VIA Tech. RAID BIOS Ver 2. 11 Create Array Delete Array Create/Delete Spare Select Boot Array Serial Number View The selected array will be destoried. Press Y/N Channel [*] Channel0 Master Channel0 Slave [*] Channel1 Master Channel1 Slave Drive Name Maxtor 6E030L0 No Drive Maxtor 6E030L0 No Drive Delete a RAID array contain the hard disks attached to VIA RAID controller F1 , Enter ESC Array Name ARRAY 0 ARRAY 0 : : : : View Array/disk Status Move to next item Confirm the selection Exit Mode Size(GB) Status Stripe0 Stripe1 ATA 133 28. 63 ATA 133 27. 24 Figure 10 Deletion of a disk array will destroy all the data on the disk array except for RAID 1. When a RAID 1 array is deleted, the data on the two hard drives will be reserved and will become two normal drives. 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 can be not selected if user does not boot operating system from disk array. Use the arrow keys to highlight the Select Boot Disk item then press ENTER. Just use the arrow keys to highlight the target disk array then press ENTER. [. . . ] * If you do not have any device support disks from a mass storage device manufacturer, or do not want to specify additional mass storage devices for use with Windows, press ENTER. S=Specify Additional Device Enter=Continue F3=Exit Figure 21 If a message appears saying that one or some files cannot be found, please check the floppy disk or copy the correct IDE RAID driver again from the motherboard driver CD. "*" Please select the driver according to which of the following operating systems you want to install: Windows 2003 IA32, Windows XP, Windows 2000, or Windows NT4. - 13 VIA VT6410 IDE RAID Drives Configuration Ác Åé ¤¤ ¤å After the IDE RAID driver installation is completed, you should see a screen similar to Figure 22 below. It indicates that you have installed the IDE RAID driver successfully. [. . . ]