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In the example above, 1.0.M means the hard drive is attached to Channel 1, Control-
l e r 0 , a n d t h e d r i v e i s s e t t o M a s t e r . T h e f o l l o w i n g i s a l i s t o f a l l p o s s i b l e c o m b i n a t i o n s :
P a r a l l e l ATA
0.0.M Channel 0, controller 0, Master
0.0.S Channel 0, controller 0, Slave
0.1.M Channel 0, controller 1, Master
0.1.S Channel 0, controller 1, Slave
S e r i a l ATA
1.0.M Channel 1, controller 0, Master
1.1.M Channel 1, controller 1, Slave
Note: There is no such thing as Slave drive in Serial ATA . All drives are considered to
be Master since there is a one to one connection between the drive and the controller.
Using the Define a New Array Window
I f n e c e s s a r y , p r e s s t h e t a b k e y t o m o v e f r o m f i e l d t o f i e l d u n t i l t h e a p p r o p r i a t e f i e l d i s
h i g h l i g h t e d .
• Selecting the RAID Mode
By default, this is set to [Mirroring]. Change to a different RAID mode, press the
down arrow keys until the mode that you want appears in the RAID Mode box—
e i t h e r [ M i r r o r i n g ] , [ S t r i p i n g ] , [ S p a n n i n g ] , o r [ S t r i p e M i r r o r i n g ] .
• Selecting the Striping Block Size
Striping Block size is given in kilobytes, and affects how data is arranged on the
disk. It is recommended to leave this value at the default [Optimal], which is 32KB,
but the values can be between [4 KB] and [128 KB].
Chapter 5 NVIDIA RAID Introduction
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