Asus Pedestal/5U Rackmount Server TS500-E4 Server User Manual page 6

Contents
6. C hapter 6: RAID configuration
6.1.Setting.up.RAID...................................................................... 6-2
6.1.1 RAID definitions ...............................................................6-2
6.1.2 Installing hard disk drives ..................................................6-3
6.1.3 Setting the RAID item in BIOS ...........................................6-3
6.1.4 RAID configuration utilities ...............................................6-3
6.2.. L SI. Logic. Embedded. SATA. RAID. Setup. Utility. (Only. for. PA4.
Model). . ................................................................................... 6-4
6.2.1 Creating a RAID 0 or RAID 1 set .......................................6-5
6.2.2 Creating a RAID 10 set ...................................................6-11
6.2.3 Adding or viewing a RAID configuration ..........................6-15
6.2.4 Initializing the logical drives ............................................6-18
6.2.5 Rebuilding failed drives ...................................................6-23
6.2.6 Checking the drives for data consistency ...........................6-25
6.2.7 Deleting a RAID configuration ..........................................6-28
6.2.8 Selecting the boot drive from a RAID set ...........................6-29
6.2.9 Enabling the WriteCache ..................................................6-30
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6.3.. I ntel . Matrix. Storage. Manage. Option. ROM. Utility. (Only. for. PA4.
model). . ................................................................................. 6-31
6.3.1 Creating a RAID 0 set (Stripe) .........................................6-32
6.3.2 Creating a RAID 1 set (Mirror) .........................................6-34
6.3.3 Creating a RAID 10 set (Stripe + Mirror) ..........................6-35
6.3.4 Creating a RAID 5 set (Parity) .........................................6-36
6.3.5 Deleting a RAID set .........................................................6-37
6.3.6 Resetting disks to Non-RAID ............................................6-38
6.3.7 Exiting the Intel
6.4.Global.Array.Manager. . ........................................................... 6-39
7. Chapter 7: Driver installation
7.1.RAID.driver.installation. . .......................................................... 7-2
7.1.1 Creating a RAID driver disk ...............................................7-2
7.1.2 Installing the RAID controller driver ....................................7-3
7.2.LAN.driver.installation. .......................................................... 7-12
7.2.1 Windows 2000/Server 2003 ............................................7-12
7.2.2 Red Hat/SuSE Linux ........................................................7-16
7.3.VGA.driver.installation. . ......................................................... 7-17
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Matrix Storage Manager ........................6-38