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Hardware Installation
Drives in an array must be identical. If striping for performance, use
two new drives. If mirroring for protection, you can use two new
drives or use an existing drive and a new drive (the new drive must
be the same size or larger than the existing drive). Only two drives
can be configured as RAID. Since both of these drives must be in
Master mode, striping or mirroring must be done between 2 RAID
IDE channels; not between 2 drives that are chained on the same
channel.
Note:
Only connect IDE hard drives to the RAID IDE connectors.
BIOS Setting
1. Enable or disable the HighPoint RAID controller in the Genie
BIOS Setting submenu of the Award BIOS. If the hard drives
connected to the RAID IDE connectors will not be configured as
RAID, make sure to set the “RAID Device Control” field in the
Award BIOS to Disabled.
2. Configure and manage RAID in the HighPoint BIOS
Configuration Utility. Refer to chapter 3 for more information.
Driver Installation
Install the HighPoint RAID drivers and utility. Refer to chapter 4 for
more information.