Table of Contents Configuring SATA Hard Drive(s) (Controller: Silicon Image Sil3114) ............................................. 2 (1) Installing SATA hard drive(s) in your system ............................................................................. 2 (2) Configuring SATA controller mode in BIOS Setup ...................................................................... 3 (3) Configuring hard drives in RAID BIOS ................................................................................
Ác Åé Configuring SATA Hard Drive(s) (Controller: Silicon Image Sil3114) ¤¤ ¤å To configure SATA hard drive(s), follow the steps below: (1) Install SATA hard drive(s) in your system.
(2) Enabling SATA controller in BIOS Setup Assure that the SATA controller is enabled in system BIOS Setup. Step 1: Turn on your computer and press Del to enter BIOS Setup during POST (Power-On Self Test). In BIOS Setup menu, go to Integrated Peripherals and assure that SATA RAID-5 Function (Figure 1) is enabled. Please note that SATA RAID-5 Function is to enable or disable the Sil3114 controller. To set either RAID or non-RAID mode (or single hard drive), you MUST enter the Sil3114 RAID BIOS utility.
Ác Åé ¤¤ ¤å (3) Configuring SATA hard drives in RAID BIOS To configure either RAID or non-RAID boot drive/data drive or single hard drive, you MUST enter the the Sil3114 SATA RAID BIOS setup utility. After the POST memory test begins and before the operating system boot begins, look for a message which says "Press or to enter RAID utility"(Figure 2). Hit the CTRL+ S or F4 key to enter the RAID BIOS setup utility.
3-1 Configuring single hard drive or non-RAID boot drive/data drive Since the RAID BIOS no longer reports non-RAID drives to the system BIOS, if you wish to install a single hard drive or configure non-RAID boot drive or data drive, you MUST set the hard drive(s) to JBOD mode in RAID BIOS so the RAID BIOS will report it to the system BIOS. Step 1: Select Create RAID set and press ENTER, and the RAID type selection menu will appear.
Ác Åé Step 4: After the message "Are You Sure?" appears, press Y to confirm or N to abort. ¤¤ ¤å K: L: KL Figure 6 Step 5: If you wish to set other hard drives to JBOD, please repeat Step 1~4. After completion, the JBOD hard drives will be displayed in the logical drive list (Figure 7).
3-2 Configuring RAID set Step 1: Select Create RAID set and press ENTER, and the RAID type selection menu will appear (Figure 8). Use the UP or DOWN ARROW key to select a RAID type that you wish to create and press ENTER. The options include RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID10, SPARE DRIVE, and JBOD. The following is an example of RAID 0 configuration. KL Figure 8 Step 2: After the selection of RAID 0 , select Auto configuration or Manual configuration (Figure 9).
Ác Åé Step 3: After assigning the hard drives, select the size for the RAID set. BIOS will set a default size for it and you can use the UP or DOWN ARROW key to change the size (Figure 10). ¤¤ ¤å K: L: KL Figure 10 Step 5: After finishing all the settings of a RAID set and press ENTER, you should see the prompt "Are You Sure?" Press Y to confirm or N to cancel. After the configuration is completed, the RAID Set will appear in the logical drive list (Figure 11).
3-3 Deleting RAID groups, spare drives, or JBOD If you want to remove one or more RAID sets, spare drives, and JBODs, select the Delete RAID set item (Figure 12) in Main Menu. Press ENTER and follow the on-screen instructions to delete the RAID set. KL Figure 12 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.
Ác Åé ¤¤ ¤å (4) Configuring hard drive boot priority in BIOS Setup After configuring RAID set or hard drive, if you wish to install operating system to the drive, go back to the system BIOS setup to set the hard drive boot priority. Step 1: Turn on your computer and press Del to enter BIOS Setup during POST (Power-On Self Test). In BIOS Setup menu, select Hard Disk Boot Priority under the Advanced BIOS Features menu.
(5) Making a SATA controller driver disk To install Windows 2000/XP onto a SATA hard drive on the Sil3114 controller successfully, you need to install required driver for the SATA controller during OS installation. Without the driver, the hard drive 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. The instructions below explain how to copy the driver.
Ác Åé Step 4: Double-click MENU.exe. An MS-DOS prompt screen similar to Figure 17 below will appear. ¤¤ ¤å Figure 17 Step 5: Insert an empty floppy disk. Select the Sil3114 Raid5 item by pressing the corresponding letter (Figure 18). Important You MUST select the Sil3114 Raid5 item no matter which RAID mode you created. If you wish to set up a non-RAID configuration (or single hard drive), you must select Sil3114 Raid5, too.
(6) Installing SATA controller driver during OS installation Now that you have prepared the SATA driver disk and configured BIOS settings, you are ready to install Windows 2000/XP onto your SATA hard drive with the SATA driver. The following is an example of Windows XP installation. Step 1: Restart your system to boot from the Windows 2000/XP Setup disk and press F6 as soon as you see the "Press F6 if you need to install a 3rd party SCSI or RAID driver" message (Figure 20).
Ác Åé ¤¤ ¤å Step 3: If Setup correctly recognizes the driver in the floppy disk, a controller menu similar to Figure 22 below will appear. Use the ARROW keys to select Silicon Image SiI 3114 SoftRAID 5 Controller for Windows XP/Server 2003 (or the other, depending on the operating system you wish to install) and press ENTER. Then it will begin to load the SATA driver from the floppy disk.
After the SATA controller driver installation is completed, you should see a screen as shown below. It indicates that you have installed the SATA controller driver successfully. You can proceed with the Windows 2000/XP installation. Figure 24 (Note: Each time you add a new hard drive to a RAID array, the RAID driver will have to be installed under Windows once for that hard drive. After that, the driver will not have to be installed.
