Using Fastbuild™ Configuration Utility; Viewing Mbfasttrak133 Lite Bios Screen - Gigabyte Promise RAID Function User Manual

RAID Function
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.Using FastBuild™ Configuration Utility
(Picture below are shown in ATA 133 RAID Function)
The FastBuild Configuration Utility offers several menu choices to create
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and manage the drive array on the RAID connectors. For purposes of this user's guide,
it is assumed you have already created an array in the previous chapter and now wish to
make a change to the array or view other options.
3-1 Viewing RAID Function BIOS Screen
When you boot your system with drives attached to the RAID Function
connectors, the onboard BIOS will detect the drives attached and show the
following screen.
MBFastTrak133 Lite (tm) BIOS Version 2.00.0.XX
(c) 1995-2000 Promise Technology, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Scanning IDE drives . . . . .
If an array exists already, the BIOS will display the following screen showing
the RAID's BIOS version and status of the array.
MBFastTrak133 Lite (tm) BIOS Version 2.00.0.xx
(c) 1995-2000 Promise Technology, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
ID
1 * 2+0 Stripe 16126M
Press <Ctrl-F> to enter FastBuild (tm) Utility....
The array status consists of three possible conditions: Functional, Critical,Offline.
Functional - The array is operational.
Critical - A mirrored array contains a drive that has failed or disconnected.
The remaining drive member in the array is functional. However, the array
has temporarily lost its ability to provide fault tolerance. The user should
identify the failed drive through the FastBuild
MODE SIZE TRACK-MAPPING
611/128/32
Setup utility, and then replace
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1 2
STATUS
Functional