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Steps:
1. Turn on your computer and press <Delete> to enter BIOS Setup during the POST (Power-On Self-Test).

Under

Integrated Peripherals

, make sure

NV Serial-ATA Controller

is enabled. To enable RAID, go to

the

Serial-ATA RAID Config

sub-menu.

2. Set

NV SATA RAID function

Enabled

to enable RAID control for each SATA connector. Then enable

the SATA channels with hard drives that you want to use for RAID (for example,

NV SATA 1 Primary

RAID

controls the SATA2_0 connector and

NV SATA 1 Secondary RAID

controls the SATA2_1 connector).

3. Save changes and exit BIOS Setup.

The BIOS Setup options described in this section may differ from the exact settings for your mother-
board. The actual BIOS Setup options you will see shall depend on the motherboard you have and
the BIOS version.

C. Configuring RAID set in RAID BIOS

Enter the RAID BIOS setup utility to configure a RAID array. After the POST memory test begins and before

the operating system boot begins, look for a message which says "Press <F10> to enter RAID setup utility."

Hit the <F10> key to enter the NVIDIA RAID setup utility.

Steps:

1. Press the <Tab> key to move from field to field until the appropriate field is highlighted.

2. In the

RAID Mode

field, use the up or down arrow key to select a RAID mode. The following procedure dem-

onstrates how a RAID 0 array (Striping) is created.

3. In the

Striping Block

field, use the up or down arrow key to set the striping block size. The striping block

size can be set from 4 KB to 128 KB.

4. Next, press <Tab> to move to the

Free Disks

block. Select the target hard drives using the up or down

arrow key and use the right arrow key to add the hard drives to the

Array Disks

block.

5. Press <F7>. A message which says "Clear disk data?" appears. Press <Y> to confirm. (If the hard drives

contain a previously created RAID array, you need to press <Y> to clear the data in the hard drives.)

After that, the

Array List

screen appears, displaying the RAID array that you have created.

6. To exit the NVIDIA RAID setup utility, press <Esc> in the main menu or <Ctrl>+<X> in the

Array List

screen. Now, you can proceed to the installation of the SATA controller driver and operating system.

Making a SATA RAID Driver Diskette

Copy the driver for the SATA controller from the motherboard driver disk to a floppy disk (for Windows XP) or
a USB flash drive (for Windows 7/Vista). For example, to copy the RAID driver for Windows XP 32-bit operat

ing system, copy the driver from the following directory to your floppy disk:

BootDrv\UDA\WinXP\sataraid

Installing the SATA RAID Driver and Operating System

A. Installing Windows XP

Restart your system to boot from the Windows XP setup disk and press <F6> as soon as you see the mes-

sage "Press F6 if you need to install a 3rd party SCSI or RAID driver." Insert the floppy disk containing the

SATA controller driver. Follow the on-screen instructions to install the two drivers displayed. When completed,

proceed with the Windows XP installation.

B. Installing Windows 7/Vista

Restart your system to boot from the Windows 7/Vista setup disk and perform standard OS installation steps.

Select

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