IEI Technology IOWA-MARK-533-128MB-R10, User Manual

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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
Supports RAID levels 0, 1, and JBOD
Supports connectivity to two disk drives
Supported Operating Systems include: Windows 98/Me, Windows 2000 and
Windows XP
Windows-based software for RAID management
F.3 Accessing the ALi RAID Utility
To access the Ali RAID Utility , please follow the steps below:
Step 1: Connect SATA drives to the system . Connect two 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 (JBOD, RAID 0 or RAID 1). 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 Phoenix
Award BIOS setup program. Next, open the Advanced BIOS Features menu.
Enable the SATA BOOT ROM Control BIOS option. (See Chapter 6 , Section