ASROCK FATAL1TY P67 PERFORMANCE Installation Manual

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Guide to SATA Hard Disks
Installation and RAID Configuration
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Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation ............................ 2
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Guide to RAID Configurations ......................................... 3
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Introduction of RAID ............................................... 3
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RAID Configuration Precautions ............................ 5
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2.4
Setting the BIOS RAID Items ................................ 11
2.5
Configuring the Intel RAID BIOS ........................... 11
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Deleting RAID Volume .......................................... 15
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  • Page 1: Table Of Contents

    RAID Configuration Precautions ......5 ® Installing Windows 7 / 7 64-bit / Vista Vista 64-bit / XP / XP 64-bit With RAID Functions 6 Setting the BIOS RAID Items ........ 11 Configuring the Intel RAID BIOS ......11 Deleting RAID Volume .......... 15...
  • Page 2: Guide To Sata Hard Disks Installation

    You may install SATA hard disks on this motherboard for internal storage devices. For SATA installation guide, please refer to Serial ATA (SATA) Hard Disks Installation of “User Manual” in the support CD. This section will guide you how to create RAID on SATA ports.
  • Page 3: Guide To Raid Configurations

    RAID 10 / RAID 5 function with four independent Serial ATA (SATA) channels. This section will introduce the basic knowledge of RAID, and the guide to configure RAID 0 / RAID 1/ Intel Rapid Storage / RAID 10 / RAID 5 settings.
  • Page 4 RAID 0 and RAID 1 set using only two identical hard disk drives. The Intel Rapid Storage technology creates two partitions on each hard disk drive to create a virtual RAID 0 and RAID 1 sets. This technology also allows you to change the hard disk drive partition size without losing any data.
  • Page 5: Raid Configuration Precautions

    WARNING!! Please backup your data first before you create RAID functions. In the process you create RAID, the system will ask if you want to “Clear Disk Data” or not. It is recommended to select “Yes”, and then your future...
  • Page 6: Installing Windows

    ® 7 / 7 64-bit / Vista / Vista bit / XP / XP 64-bit OS on your SATA / SATAII / SATA3 HDDs with RAID functions, please follow below procedures according to the OS you install. 2.3.1 Installing Windows ®...
  • Page 7 Hard Disks Installation and RAID Configuration”, which is located in the folder at the following path: .. \ RAID Installation Guide and the document in the support CD, “Guide to Intel Rapid Storage”, which is located in the folder at the following path: .. \ Intel Rapid Storage Information If you want to use “Intel Rapid Storage”...
  • Page 8 1. Physically attach one additional SATA / SATAII / SATA3 hard drive to the SATAII / SATA3 port not being used. Note the serial number of the hard drive already in the system; you will use this to select it as the source hard drive when initiating the migration.
  • Page 9 .. \ RAID Installation Guide and the document in the support CD, “Guide to Intel Rapid Storage”, which is located in the folder at the following path: .. \ Intel Rapid Storage Information...
  • Page 10 ® If you want to use “Intel Rapid Storage” in Windows environment, please install “SATAII drivers” from the Support CD again so that “Intel Rapid Storage” will be installed to your system as well.
  • Page 11: Setting The Bios Raid Items

    2.4 Setting the BIOS RAID Items After installing the hard disk drives, please set the necessary RAID items in the BIOS before setting your RAID configuration. Boot your system, and press <F2> key to enter BIOS setup utility. Highlight Advanced and press <Enter>, then the main interface of BIOS setup utility will appear.
  • Page 12 1-16 letters for your RAID volume then press <Enter>. Volume0 Use the up or down arrow keys to select your desired RAID Level. You may select RAID0 (Stripe), RAID1 (Mirror), RAID 5, RAID 10, or Matrix Storage for your RAID level. Press <Enter>, and then you can...
  • Page 13 Volume0 If you selected RAID 0 (Stripe), use the up or down arrow keys to select the stripe size for your RAID 0 array then press <Enter>.The available values range from 8 KB to 128 KB. The default selection is 128 KB.
  • Page 14 Volume0 Press <Enter> under the Create Volume item. The utility prompts a confirmation message as below. Volume0 Press <Y> to complete the setup of RAID. After the completion, you will see the detailed information about the RAID that you set up.
  • Page 15: Deleting Raid Volume

    Please note that you are only allowed to create one RAID partition at a time under BIOS RAID environment. If you want to create extra RAID partition, please use the RAID utility under Windows environment to configure RAID functions after you install OS.

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