User manual GIGABYTE GA-8VT880-L

[. . . ] (d) Driver CD for your motherboard. (1) Installing SATA hard drive(s) in your computer Attach one end of the SATA signal cable to the rear of the SATA hard drive and the other end to available SATA port(s) on the motherboard. (If there are more than one SATA controller on your motherboard, you may check the name of the SATA connector to identify the SATA controller for the connector. For example, SATA0_SB/SATA_SB is controlled by the SATA controller on South-Bridge. ) Then connect the power connector from your power supply to the hard drive. "*" Skip this step if you do not want to create RAID array on the SATA controller. SATA Hard Drive Configurations (VT8237(R)) 2- (2) Configuring SATA controller mode and boot sequence in BIOS Setup You have to make sure whether the SATA controller is configured correctly in system BIOS Setup and set BIOS boot sequence for the SATA hard drive(s). [. . . ] The selected hard drives will be marked with an asterisk (Figure 8). VIA Tech. VT8237 SATA RAID BIOS Ver 2. 31 u u u u u 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 h, i Enter ESC Array Name : : : : View Array/disk Status Move to next item Confirm the selection Exit Mode SATA SATA Size(GB) 111. 79 111. 79 Status Stripe0 Stripe1 Channel Drive Name [*]Serial_Ch0 Master ST3120026AS [*]Serial_Ch1 Master ST3120026AS Figure 8 If you select to create RAID 0 array manually, you can specify the block size. Use the UP or DOWN ARROW keys to select Block Size and press ENTER. Select the block size from the popup menu. The block size can be set between 4KB to 64KB (Figure 9). VIA Tech. VT8237 SATA RAID BIOS Ver 2. 31 u u u u u 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 h, i Enter ESC Array Name : : : : View Array/disk Status Move to next item Confirm the selection Exit Mode SATA SATA Size(GB) 111. 79 111. 79 Status Stripe0 Stripe1 Channel Drive Name [*]Serial_Ch0 Master ST3120026AS [*]Serial_Ch1 Master ST3120026AS Figure 9 Next, use the ARROW keys to select Start Create Process and press ENTER. The prompt "The data on the selected disks will be destroied. Important All existing contents in the hard drive will be destroyed after the array creation. -7SATA Hard Drive Configurations (VT8237(R)) Ác Åé ¤¤ ¤å B. Delete Array: If you want to delete an existing array, select Delete Array in Main Menu and press ENTER. Select the member of an array that is to be deleted and press ENTER. A warning message will show up, press Y to confirm or press N to cancel (Figure 10). VIA Tech. VT8237 SATA RAID BIOS Ver 2. 31 u u u u u Create Array Delete Array Create/Delete Spare Select Boot Array Serial Number View Delete a RAID array contain the hard disks attached to VIA RAID controller F1 h, i Enter ESC Array Name ARRAY 0 ARRAY 0 : : : : View Array/disk Status Move to next item Confirm the selection Exit Mode SATA SATA Size(GB) 111. 79 111. 79 Status Stripe0 Stripe1 The selected array will be destoried. Press Y/N Channel Drive Name [*]Serial_Ch0 Master ST3120026AS [*]Serial_Ch1 Master ST3120026AS Figure 10 Deleting a disk array will destroy all the data on the disk array except for RAID 1 array(s). When a RAID 1 array is deleted, the data on the two hard drives will be reserved and the two hard drives will become two normal drives. Select Boot Array: You can select a disk array as boot device if you want to boot operating system from an array. Boot disk array cannot be selected if the operating system does not boot from the disk array. Highlight the Select Boot Array item in Main Menu; press ENTER and the channel column will be activated. [. . . ] (Windows XP, Windows 2000 or Windows NT4). If you do not want create a RAID array, select VIA ATA/ATAPI Host Controller(Windows XP). - 13 SATA Hard Drive Configurations (VT8237(R)) Ác Åé ¤¤ ¤å After the SATA controller driver installation is completed, you should see a screen as below. It indicates that you have installed the SATA controller driver successfully. [. . . ]