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Configuring SATA Hard Drive(s) (Controller: ULi M1573) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Installing SATA hard drive(s) in your system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Configuring SATA controller mode and boot sequence in BIOS Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Configuring RAID set in RAID BIOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  [. . . ] The prompt "Create RAID 1 (Y/N)?" appears after two drives are properly assigned. Press Y,  and then some necessary information will be written to the drives,  which will destroy the original data in the drives. It is recommended to use new drives to create RAID 1. If existing drive is to be used,  back up all necessary data before creating RAID 1. 

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Next,  the Array Name input line appears for the user to key in a name for the newly created array. The effective characters for an array name are 0-9,  A-Z,  a-z,  space and underscore. Lastly a prompt message "Duplicate Data from M to m (Y/N)?" asks whether to do drive copy. The source and target drives are indicated by "M" and "m" in Drive Select Menu respectively. Pressing Y will duplicate the data in source drive to the target drive. Make sure the source drive is the correct one. www. uli. com. tw Create RAID 0 Striping for Performance Create RAID 1 Mirroring for Reliability Create RAID 0+1 for Striping,  Mirroring SPACE : Select Create JBOD for integrated Capacity ,  : Moving Cursor Stripe Size 16K Enter : Select & Finish Delete RAID Settings & Partition ESC : Exit Delete All RAID Settings & Partition Rebuild RAID Array Data on first 4 drives will be deleted (Y/N)?Drive Model Channel 0 Master : ST3120026AS Channel 1 Master : ST3120026AS Channel 2 Master : HDS722512VLSA80 Channel 3 Master : HDS722512VLSA80 Capacity RAID Array A : RAID Array B : RAID Array C : Mode SATA 1 SATA 1 SATA 1 SATA 1 RAID Type Capacity 120034 MB 120034 MB 123522 MB 123522 MB Stripe Size RAID Array/Type

RAID Name

Figure 13 You must use four hard drives to create RAID 0+1 and it is recommended to use new drives. If existing drive is to be used,  backup all necessary data before creating RAID 0+1. Next,  the Array Name input line appears for the user to key in a name for the newly created array. The effective characters for an array name is 0-9,  A-Z,  a-z,  space and underscore. (Figure 14)
RAID BIOS Setup Utility (c) 2005 ULi Electronics Inc. www. uli. com. tw Create RAID 0 Striping for Performance Create RAID 1 Mirroring for Reliability Create RAID 0+1 for Striping,  Mirroring SPACE : Select Create JBOD for integrated Capacity ,  : Moving Cursor Stripe Size 16K Enter : Select & Finish Delete RAID Settings & Partition ESC : Exit Delete All RAID Settings & Partition Rebuild RAID Array Input RAID Name (8 characters) : ULi_RAID Drive Model Mode Channel 0 Master : ST3120026AS SATA 1 Channel 1 Master : ST3120026AS SATA 1 Channel 2 Master : HDS722512VLSA80 SATA 1 Channel 3 Master : HDS722512VLSA80 SATA 1 Capacity RAID Array A : RAID Array B : RAID Array C : RAID Type Capacity 120034 MB 120034 MB 123522 MB 123522 MB Stripe Size RAID Array/Type

RAID Name

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After the RAID array has been created successfully,  its information shows up at RAID Array List. (Figure 15)
RAID BIOS Setup Utility (c) 2005 ULi Electronics Inc. www. uli. com. tw Create RAID 0 Striping for Performance Create RAID 1 Mirroring for Reliability Create RAID 0+1 for Striping,  Mirroring SPACE : Select Create JBOD for integrated Capacity ,  : Moving Cursor Stripe Size 16K Enter : Select & Finish Delete RAID Settings & Partition ESC : Exit Delete All RAID Settings & Partition Rebuild RAID Array Drive Model Channel 0 Master : ST3120026AS Channel 1 Master : ST3120026AS Channel 2 Master : HDS722512VLSA80 Channel 3 Master : HDS722512VLSA80 Capacity 240 GB Mode SATA 1 SATA 1 SATA 1 SATA 1 RAID Type 0+1 Capacity 120034 MB 120034 MB 123522 MB 123522 MB Stripe Size 16K RAID Array/Type RAID A/0+1 RAID A/0+1 RAID A/0+1 RAID A/0+1 RAID Name ULi_RAID

RAID Array A : RAID Array B : RAID Array C :

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4. Create JBOD for integrated Capacity
Press ENTER on Create JBOD for integrated Capacity item. A "J" flash cursor appears at Drive Select Menu for the user to choose the first drive for JBOD. Use SAPCEBAR to select the desired drive for JBOD. Press ENTER to finish JBOD drive selection(Figure 16).  [. . . ] The installation utility will appear automatically. Step 2: Go to My Computer and right-click the CD-ROM drive icon and select Open (Figure 17). 

Figure 17

Step 3: Go to the BootDrv folder and look for an executable program named MENU. exe (Figure 18). 

Figure 18

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Step 3: Double-click MENU. exe. An MS-DOS prompt screen similar to Figure 16 below will appear. 

Figure 19 Step 4: Insert an empty floppy disk. Then it will take about one minute to copy the SATA driver from the motherboard driver CD to the floppy disk.  [. . . ]

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