Creating Your Raid Set; Sata Port Mapping For Desktop Board Dg965Ot After Raid Is Enabled - Intel DG965OT - Desktop Board Motherboard Product Manual

Intel Desktop Board DG965OT Product Guide
Figure 31. SATA Port Mapping for Desktop Board DG965OT
CAUTION
Exercise caution when replacing a failed drive within a RAID storage array. Do not
replace the failed drive based on the original SATA port mapping; use the new
mapping shown in Figure 31.
The SATA port mapping shown in Figure 31 is consistent with the SATA port
assignment in the Intel
Intel Matrix Storage Console software.
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Creating Your RAID Set

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.
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.
NOTE: The maximum number of SATA drives configurable for a single RAID array
is four. However, you can create more than one RAID array on a single system.
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 enter 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.
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After RAID is Enabled
Matrix Storage Configuration Utility (Ctrl+I) and the
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