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GA-K8VM800M Motherboard

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Create Disk Array

1. Use the arrow keys to navigate the main m enu. Use the up and down arrow keys to select the

Create Array com mand and press <Enter> to call out the list of creation steps.

VIA Technologies,Inc. VIA VT8237 Serial ATA BIOS Setting Utility V1.20

Create a RAID array with the hard disks

attached to VIA IDE controller

F1 : View Array/disk Status

h, i : Move to next item

Enter : Confirm the selection

ESC : Exit

Channel Driver Name Array Name Mode Size(GB) Status

Serial_Ch0 Master ST380013AS SATA 74.53 Hdd

Serial_Ch1 Master ST9120023AS SATA 111.79 Hdd

u Auto Setup For Data Security

u Array Mode RAID 0 (Striping)

u Select Disk Drives

u Start Create Process

2. Select Array M ode and press <Enter>, a list of array modes will appear. Highlight the target array

mode that you want to create, and press <Enter> to confirm the selection. If RAID 1 is selected, an

option list will popup and enable the users to select Cr eate only or Create and duplicate. Cr eate

only will allow BIOS to only create an array. The data on the mirroring drive may be different from

the source drive. Cr eate and duplicate lets BIOS copy the data from the source to the m irroring

drive.