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IMBA-C2260-i2 ATX Motherboard
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CAUTION!
Do not accidentally disconnect the SATA drive cables. Carefully route
the cables within the chassis to avoid system down time.
F.2 Features and Benefits
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Supports RAID levels 0, 1, 5 and 10
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Supports connectivity to two or more disk drives
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Supported Operating Systems include: Windows XP, Windows Server 2003,
Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista and Windows 7
F.3 Accessing the Intel® Matrix Storage Manager
To access the Intel
®
Matrix Storage Manager, please follow the steps below.
Step 1: Connect SATA drives to the system . Connect two or more SATA drives to the
system. Make sure the drives have the same capacity, are the same type and
have the same speed.
NOTE:
Make sure the SATA drives are EXACTLY the same when they are
configured in a RAID configuration. If they are not the same size, disk
drive capacity is sacrificed and overall performance affected.
Step 2: Enable SATA drives in BIOS . Start the computer and access the BIOS setup
program. Enable RAID support for all SATA devices. Refer to the applicable
BIOS configuration section in this user manual.
Step 3: Configure “Option ROM Messages” BIOS option to Force BIOS . This is to
allow the “Press <CTRL+I> to enter Configuration Utility……” message to