User's Manual

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Contents
6.1.3 Setting the RAID item in BIOS ........................................ 6-3
6.1.4 RAID conguration utilities ..............................................
6-3
6.2 LSISoftwareRAIDCongurationUtility ....................................
6-4
6.2.1 Creating a RAID 0 or RAID 1 set ....................................
6-5
6.2.2 Creating a RAID 10 set ..................................................
6-11
6.2.3 Adding or viewing a RAID conguration .......................
6-15
6.2.4 Initializing the logical drives ..........................................
6-18
6.2.5 Rebuilding failed drives .................................................
6-23
6.2.6 Checking the drives for data consistency .....................
6-25
6.2.7 Deleting a RAID conguration .......................................
6-28
6.2.8 Selecting the boot drive from a RAID set ......................
6-29
6.2.9 Enabling the WriteCache ..............................................
6-30
6.3 Intel
®
Matrix Storage Manager Option ROM Utility ................. 6-31
6.3.1 Creating a RAID 0 set (Stripe) ......................................
6-32
6.3.2 Creating a RAID 1 set (Mirror) ......................................
6-34
6.3.3 Creating a RAID 10 set (Stripe + Mirror) .......................
6-35
6.3.4 Creating a RAID 5 set (Parity) ......................................
6-36
6.3.5 Deleting a RAID set ......................................................
6-37
6.3.6 Resetting disks to Non-RAID ........................................
6-38
6.3.7 Exiting the Intel
®
Matrix Storage Manager .................... 6-38
Chapter 7: Driver installation
7.1 RAID driver installation ............................................................... 7-2
7.1.1 Creating a RAID driver disk ............................................
7-2
7.1.2 Installing the RAID controller driver ................................
7-5
7.2 Intel
®
chipset device installation .............................................. 7-13
7.3 LAN driver installation ...............................................................
7-16
7.4 VGA driver installation
............................................................... 7-19
7.4.1 Windows
®
Server ......................................................... 7-19
7.5 Management applications and utilities installation ................
7-21
7.5.1 Running the support CD ...............................................
7-21
7.5.2 Drivers menu .................................................................
7-21
7.5.3 Management Software menu ........................................
7-22
7.5.4 Utilities menu ................................................................
7-22
7.5.5 Contact information .......................................................
7-22