Asus P8B-M Series User Manual page 6

Contents
5.2.2
5.2.3
5.2.4
5.2.5
5.2.6
5.2.7
5.2.8
5.3 Intel
5.3.1
5.3.2
5.3.3
5.3.4
5.3.5
5.3.6
5.3.7
5.3.8
Chapter 6:
6.1 RAID driver installation ............................................................... 6-3
6.1.1
6.1.2
6.2 Intel
6.3 LAN driver installation ............................................................... 6-17
6.4 VGA driver installation............................................................... 6-20
6.5 Management applications and utilities installation ................ 6-23
6.5.1
6.5.2
6.5.3
6.5.4
6.5.5
Appendix:
A.1 P8B-M block diagram ...................................................................A-3
A.2 P8B-MX block diagram ................................................................A-4
ASUS contact information .......................................................................... 1
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Adding or viewing a RAID configuration ....................... 5-12
Initializing the virtual drives ........................................... 5-13
Rebuilding failed drives ................................................. 5-17
Checking the drives for data consistency ..................... 5-19
Deleting a RAID configuration ....................................... 5-22
Selecting the boot drive from a RAID set ...................... 5-23
Enabling WriteCache .................................................... 5-24
Rapid Storage Technology Option ROM Utility ............. 5-25
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Creating a RAID set ...................................................... 5-26
Creating a Recovery set ............................................... 5-27
Deleting a RAID set ...................................................... 5-29
Resetting disks to Non-RAID ........................................ 5-30
Recovery Volume Options ............................................ 5-31
Exiting the Intel
Rebuilding the RAID ..................................................... 5-32
Setting the Boot array in the BIOS Setup Utility ............ 5-34
Driver installation
Creating a RAID driver disk ............................................ 6-3
Installing the RAID controller driver ................................ 6-6
chipset device software installation ............................... 6-15
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Running the support DVD ............................................. 6-23
Drivers menu ................................................................. 6-23
Utilities menu ................................................................ 6-24
Make disk menu ............................................................ 6-24
Contact information ....................................................... 6-24
Reference information
Rapid Storage Technology utility ........ 5-32
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