User manual GIGABYTE GA-8PE667 ULTRA 2

[. . . ] 3 Configuring RAID set in RAID BIOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Making a SATA controller driver disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Installing SATA controller driver during OS installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Ác Åé ¤¤ ¤å Configuring SATA Hard Drive(s) (Controller: Silicon Image Sil3112) To configure SATA hard drive(s), follow the steps below: (1) (2) (3)* (4) Install SATA hard drive(s) in your system. [. . . ] Skip this step and proceed to Section 4 if you do not want to create RAID. Step 1: After the Power-On Self Test (POST) memory test begins and before the operating system boot begins, look for a message which says "Press <Ctrl+S> or <F4> to enter RAID utility"(Figure 4). If you cannot enter the RAID BIOS correctly, assure that your SATA drives are properly installed. Figure 4 Step 2: After you enter the RAID Configuration Utility, a screen similar to that below will appear (Figure 5). Main Menu: The Main Menu in the upper left corner allows you to use the UP or DOWN ARROW key to highlight through choices. If there is a previously created RAID set on the hard drives, it is recommended that you back up the data and remove the old RAID set before creating a new RAID set. The Delete RAID set selection allows users to delete an existing RAID set. The Rebuild Mirrored set is used to initiate the copying of data from an existing drive to a replacement drive that has been installed in a RAID 1 set after the failure of one of the members. The Resolve Conflicts is used to automatically find the member drives of a RAID set which has been disrupted (physical drives swapped around, for example) and restore the RAID set to proper operation. Main Menu Help Window Function keys Hard Drives Properties Figure 5 -5SATA Hard Drive Configurations (Sil3112) Ác Åé ¤¤ ¤å Step 3: Create RAID set: Select Create RAID set and press ENTER, and then the RAID type selection menu will appear (Figure 6). Use UP or DOWN ARROW key to select a RAID type that you want to create and press ENTER. The options include Striped (RAID 0) and Mirrored (RAID 1). Figure 6 Step 4: After the selection of a RAID type, select Auto configuration or Manual configuration (Figure 7). If Auto configuration is selected, BIOS will automatically assign RAID member drives and set the chunk size of Striped Sets to 64KB. If Manual configuration is selected, you can manually change the chunk size (from 4K to 128K) and then assign the drives to be used in the RAID array. Figure 7 SATA Hard Drive Configurations (Sil3112) -6- Step 5: After finishing all the settings of a RAID set and press ENTER, the prompt "Are You Sure?" will appear. After the RAID array is created, the lower-left screen will list the RAID set information, including RAID type, chunk size and toal array size (Figure 8). Figure 8 If you want to remove one or more RAID sets, select Delete RAID set item (Figure 9) in Main Menu. Press ENTER and follow the on-screen instructions to delete the RAID set. Figure 9 After completing the configuration, press CTRL+E to exit the RAID Configuration Utility. Now, you can proceed to the installation of the SATA driver and operating system. -7- SATA Hard Drive Configurations (Sil3112) Ác Åé ¤¤ ¤å (4) Making a SATA controller driver disk To install Windows 2000/XP onto a SATA hard disk on the Sil3112 controller successfully, you need to install required driver for the SATA controller during OS installation. Without the driver, the hard drives may not be recognized during the Windows setup process. First of all, you need to copy the driver for the SATA controller from the motherboard driver CD to a floppy disk. Step 1: Find an available system and insert the motherboard driver CD into the CD-ROM drive. [. . . ] "*" Select the driver according to the operating system that you want to install. - 11 SATA Hard Drive Configurations (Sil3112) Ác Åé ¤¤ ¤å Step 4: When the screen as shown below appears, press ENTER to continue the SATA driver installation from the floppy disk. The driver installation will be finished in about one minute. Figure 18 After the SATA controller driver installation is completed, you should see a screen silimar to Figure 19 below. It indicates that you have installed the SATA controller driver succesfully. [. . . ]