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GA-K8VM800M Motherboard

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Delete Disk Array

A RAID can be deleted after it has been created. To delete a RAID, use the following steps:

1. Select Delete Array in the main m enu and press <Enter>. The channel colum n will be activated.

2. Select the member of an array that is to be deleted and press <Enter>. A warning m essage will show

up, press Y to delete or press N to cancel.

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

Delete a RAID array contain 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

u Create Array

u Delete Array

u Create/Delete Spare

u Select Boot Array

u Serial Number View

The selected array will be destoried.

Are you sure? Continue? Press Y/N

Channel Driver Name Array Name Mode Size(GB) Status

[*]Serial_Ch0 Master ST380013AS SATA 74.53 Stripe0

[*]Serial_Ch1 Master ST9120023AS SATA 111.79 Stripe1

Deleting a disk array will destroy all the data on the disk array except RAID 1 arrays. When a RAID is

deleted, the data on these two hard disk drives will be reserved and become two normal disk drives.

Select Boot Array

User can select a disk array as boot device if user wants to boot operating system from an array.

Boot disk array cannot be selected if the operating system does not boot from the disk array. Highlight

the Select Boot Arr ay item; press <Enter> and the channel column will be activated. Then highlight the

target disk array and press <Enter>. If user selects a disk array that has a boot mark and press <Enter>,

its boot setting will be canceled.