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5-30 Chapter 5: Software support

5.4.2 Intel

RAID congurations

This motherboard supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10* (0+1) and Intel

Matrix Storage congurations for Serial ATA hard disks drives through the Intel

ICH7R Southbridge chip.

5.4.1 Installing Serial ATA hard disks

The motherboard supports Serial ATA hard disk drives. For optimal performance,

install identical drives of the same model and capacity when creating a disk array.

To install the SATA hard disks for a RAID conguration:

1. Install the SATA hard disks into the drive bays.

2. Connect the SATA signal cables.

3. Connect a SATA power cable to the power connector on each drive.

See Chapter 4 for details on entering and navigating through the BIOS Setup.

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 “5.6

Creating a RAID driver disk” for details.

Intel

Matrix Storage. The Intel

Matrix Storage technology supported by the

ICH7R chip allows you to create a RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID 10* function

to improve both system performance and data safety. You can also combine two

RAID sets to get higher performance, capacity, or fault tolerance provided by the

difference RAID function. For example, RAID 0 and RAID 1 set can be created by

using only two identical hard disk drives.

*To build a RAID 10 set, you need to cross-congure Intel

ICH7R with Silicon

Image

, which controls the EZ_RAID connectors for the EZ Backup feature. See

section “5.4.5 Cross-RAID conguration” for details.

Setting the RAID item in BIOS

You must set the RAID item in the BIOS Setup before you can create a RAID

set(s). To do this:

1. Enter the BIOS Setup during POST.

2. �o to the Main Menu, select IDE Conguration, then press <Enter>.

3. Select the item Congure SATA As, then press <Enter> to display the

conguration options.

4. Select RAID from the Congure SATA As item options, then press <Enter>.

5. Select the item Onboard Serial-ATA BOOTROM, press <Enter>, then select

Enabled from the options.

6. Save your changes, then exit the BIOS Setup.

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