Configuring Intel; Configuring The Bios For Intel Matrix Storage Technology; Creating Your Raid Set (For Systems With More Than One Sata Hard Drive) - Intel D945GBO Product Manual

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4 Configuring Intel

Technology (RAID)

Requires Serial ATA (SATA) Hard Drives

1. Assemble your system and attach one or more SATA hard drives.

2. Enter system BIOS Setup by pressing the <F2> key after the Power-On-Self-Test (POST)

memory tests begin.

3. Go to Advanced

4. Then save your settings by pressing <F10>.

Creating Your RAID Set (for systems with more than one

SATA hard drive)

1. Upon re-boot, you will see the following Intel Matrix Storage Manager option ROM status

message on the screen: Press <Ctrl-I> to enter the RAID Configuration Utility. Press

<Ctrl-I> and enter the RAID Configuration Utility.

2. In the Intel Matrix Storage Manager option ROM Main Menu, select option #1: Create RAID

Volume. Enter a volume name and press <Enter>.

NOTE: The RAID Volume name must be in English alphanumeric ASCII characters.

3. Use the arrow keys to select RAID 0 or RAID 1 (if only two SATA drives are available),

RAID 5 and RAID 10 (these options will only appear if three or four SATA drives are installed

respectively). Press <Enter> once you have selected the RAID LEVEL.

4. Select the drives to be used in the RAID array (only if there are more than two drives available)

and press <Enter>.

5. Select the strip size, if necessary, and press <Enter>.

6. Enter the size of the volume (if you select less than the maximum volume size, you can then

create a second RAID array on the remaining portion of your volume) and press <Enter>.

7. Finally, press <Enter> to Create Volume.

8. Exit the Option ROM user interface by pressing <Esc> or going to the EXIT option in the

MAIN MENU.

Matrix Storage

Drive Configuration

Configure SATA as; ensure RAID is selected.

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