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5-30 Chapter 5: Software support

If you want to boot the system from a hard disk drive included in a created RAID

set, copy rst the RAID driver from the support CD to a oppy disk before you

install an operating system to the selected hard disk drive. Refer to section

5.5

Creating a RAID driver disk

for details.

5.4 RAID congurations

The motherboard comes with the Intel

ICH8R Southbridge RAID controller that

allow you to congure IDE and Serial ATA hard disk drives as RAID sets. The

motherboard supports the following RAID congurations.

RAID 0

(Data striping) optimizes two identical hard disk drives to read and write

data in parallel, interleaved stacks. Two hard disks perform the same work as a

single drive but at a sustained data transfer rate, double that of a single disk alone,

thus improving data access and storage. Use of two new identical hard disk drives

is required for this setup.

RAID 1

(Data mirroring) copies and maintains an identical image of data from one

drive to a second drive. If one drive fails, the disk array management software

directs all applications to the surviving drive as it contains a complete copy of

the data in the other drive. This RAID conguration provides data protection and

increases fault tolerance to the entire system. Use two new drives or use an

existing drive and a new drive for this setup. The new drive must be of the same

size or larger than the existing drive.

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