Gigabyte GA-8VT880P Combo Manual page 8

B. Delete Array:
If you want to delete an existing array, select Delete Array in Main Menu and press ENTER. The channel
column will be activated. Select the member of an array that is to be deleted and press ENTER. A warning
message will show up, press Y to confirm or press N to cancel (Figure 10).
u Create Array
u Delete Array
u Create/Delete Spare
u Select Boot Array
u Serial Number View
The selected array will be destoried.
Are you sure? Continue? Press Y/N
Channel
[*]Serial_Ch0 Master
[*]Serial_Ch1 Master ST3120026AS
Deleting a disk array will destroy all the data on the disk array except for RAID 1 array(s). When a RAID
1 array is deleted, the data on the two hard drives will be reserved and the two hard drives will become
two normal drives.
C. Select Boot Array:
You can select a disk array as boot device if you want to boot operating system from an array. Boot
disk array cannot be selected if the operating system does not boot from the disk array. Highlight the Select
Boot Array item in Main Menu; press ENTER and the channel column will be activated. Then highlight
the target disk array and press ENTER. Press ESC to go back to Main Menu. If you want to cancel the
boot array setting, select the disk array that has an asterisk and press ENTER, its boot setting will be
canceled (Figure 11).
u Create Array
u Delete Array
u Create/Delete Spare
u Select Boot Array
u Serial Number View
Channel
[*]Serial_Ch0 Master
[*]Serial_Ch1 Master ST3120026AS
SATA Hard Drive Configurations (VT8237(R))
VIA Tech. VT8237 SATA RAID BIOS Ver 2.31
Drive Name
ST3120026AS
VIA Tech. VT8237 SATA RAID BIOS Ver 2.31
Drive Name
ST3120026AS
Delete a RAID array contain
the hard disks attached to
VIA RAID controller
F1 : View Array/disk Status
h, i
: Move to next item
Enter : Confirm the selection
ESC : Exit
Array Name Mode
ARRAY 0 SATA
ARRAY 0 SATA
Figure 10
Set/Clear bootable array
F1 : View Array/disk Status
h, i
: Move to next item
Enter : Confirm the selection
ESC : Exit
Array Name Mode
ARRAY 0 SATA
ARRAY 0 SATA
Figure 11
8 -
Size(GB) Status
111.79 Stripe0
111.79 Stripe1
Size(GB) Status
111.79 Boot
111.79 Boot