Configuring The Nvidia Raid Bios - TYAN TOMCAT K8E Manual

4. Press Enter. The RAID Config screen appears.
RAID Enable
x SATA 1 Primary RAID
x SATA 1 Secondary RAID
x SATA 2 Primary RAID
x SATA 2 Secondary RAID
5. From the RAID Config screen, enable RAID, then enable any of the
disksthat you want to use as RAID disks. In the figure above, the master
and slave drives on the secondary IDE port are enabled as RAID disks.
Make sure to enable the SATA drives also if you are setting up a RAID 0+1
arrary.
6. Press F10 to save the configuration and exit. The PC reboots.
7. Enter the RAID BIOS setup by pressing F10 when prompted, and proceed
to set up NVIDIA RAID BIOS as described in the next section.

5.2 Configuring the NVIDIA RAID BIOS

The NVIDIA RAID BIOS set up lets you choose the RAID type and which hard
drives you want to make part of the array.
Entering the RAID BIOS Setup
1. Wait until you see the RAID software prompting you to press F10. The
RAID prompt appears as part of the system POST and boot process prior
to loading the OS. You have a few seconds to press F10 before the
screen disappears.
2. Press F10. The NVIDIA RAID utility – Define a New Array screen appears.
Phoenix-AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility
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