User manual GIGABYTE GA-8I915P PRO

[. . . ] (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 GigaRAID controller on the motherboard. (To ensure that your IDE CD-ROM drive can work properly, please connect it to the IDE port that is controlled by the Southbridge, not the GigaRAID controller). 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 IDE RAID Drives Configuration (GigaRAID) -2- (2) Configuring GigaRAID controller mode and boot sequence in BIOS Setup You have to make sure whether the GigaRAID 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 Del to enter BIOS Setup during POST (Power-On Self Test). [. . . ] The folllowing is an example of RAID 0 creation. Array Configuration: This section displays the information about the RAID set you select, such as RAID mode and RAID array size. After selecting the RAID mode, press CTRL+Y to save the settings. And press any key to return to the Main Menu. This action completes RAID configuration. 6 Figure 6 IDE RAID Drives Configuration (GigaRAID) -6- Define RAID: The Define RAID selection allows you to create RAID set with several hard drives to mirror the data from a damaged RAID 1 (or RAID 0+1) hard drive to the new replacement hard drive. Press 2 in Main Menu and the Define RAID Menu as shown in Figure 7 will appear. Use ARROW keys to highlight through arrays and press ENTER after selecting an array. You will see the Define RAID SubMenu (Figure 8 on next page) from which you may configure the new RAID array. Figure 7 -7- IDE RAID Drives Configuration (GigaRAID) Ác Åé ¤¤ ¤å Define RAID Sub-Menu (Figure 8): Use the UP or DOWN ARROW key to move to an item and use SPACEBAR to cycle through options. Array Mode: Press SPACEBAR under this item to select RAID 0 (Striping) mode. In the following procedure, we will create a RAID 0 (Striping) array as an example. Block Size: If you select to create RAID 0 (Striping) or RAID 0+1 (Striping+Mirroring), you have to specify the block size. The block size options include 1KB, 2KB, 4KB, 8KB, 16KB, 32KB and 64KB. Assignment: Use the ARROW keys to move to the Assignment section of the desired hard drive and press SPACEBAR to change the Assignment option to Y. This action adds the drive to the RAID set. To successfully create a RAID array, you need to set at least two hard drives to Y status. You will see that the Drive No section displays the number of hard drives that are labeled with Y. Next, if you are sure to erase the old data in the hard drive, press Y to confirm (or N to cancel). Now, you should see "Functional" in the Status section, which indicates the RAID array is operational. Press ESC to return to the Define RAID Menu and you should see the functional RAID set (refer to Figure 9 on next page). Figure 8 IDE RAID Drives Configuration (GigaRAID) -8- Figure 9: Information about the RAID set. -9- IDE RAID Drives Configuration (GigaRAID) Ác Åé ¤¤ ¤å Delete RAID: Press 3 in Main Menu to enter the Delete RAID Menu (Figure 10). Use UP or DOWN ARROW key to move the selection bar to the RAID array that you want to delete and press Del. Figure 10 When a screen similar to that below appears, confirm again whether you are sure to delete the RAID array. Press CTRL+Y to confirm or other key to abort. Then, when the "Erase the data in the array?" message appears, press Y if you want to keep the data in the RAID set, Figure 11 IDE RAID Drives Configuration (GigaRAID) - 10 - Rebuild RAID: The Rebuild RAID selection allows you to initiate the copying of data from an existing drive to a replacement drive that has been installed in a RAID 1 or RAID 0+1 set after the failure of one of the members. [. . . ] 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 11). Figure 16 Step 3: Go to the BootDrv folder and look for an executable program named MENU. exe (Figure 17). Figure 17 IDE RAID Drives Configuration (GigaRAID) - 14 - Step 3: Double-click MENU. exe. An MS-DOS prompt screen similar to Figure 18 below will appear. Figure 18 Step 4: Insert an empty floppy disk. [. . . ]