Chapter 5 Nvidia Raid Setup - SOLTEK B9A-FGR Manual

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Chapter 5 nVIDIA RAID Setup

nVIDIA RAID Controller nForce3 250Gb & RAID Driver
nVIDIA RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) Controller
nForce3 250Gb is built in this series of mainboards to provide RAID
configuration of RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1 and JBOD modes. RAID
Drivers are enclosed in a Driver CD as well as a Floppy diskette to
support various RAID systems (Windows 2000/XP) setup.
This Chapter is to introduce the SATA RAID / SATA +
PATA RAID Configurations :
5-0 About Disk Array ................................................................... 81
5-0-1 Disk Array Interpretation.......................................................... 81
5-0-2 Disk Array Member .................................................................... 81
5-0-3 Disk Array Types Supported by nForce3 250Gb ................... 81
5-1. SATA / IDE connectors on B9A-FGR ............................... 82
5-2. Enable RAID function in the BIOS ................................... 82
5-3. About the NVRAID BIOS ................................................... 83
5-4. Configure the RAID Setup .................................................. 84
5-5. Finish the RAID Setup ........................................................ 85
5-6 Install nVIDIA RAID Driver for Windows 2000/XP ....... 87
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