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Appendix C
Intel SATA RAID Utility for Intel ICH10R
Creating a RAID5 Set (Parity)
Follow these steps to create a RAID5 set:
1.
Select
Create RAID Volume
from the main menu and press <Enter>. The
Create Volume
menu screen appears.
2.
Specify a name for the RAID5 set and press <Enter>.
3.
When
RAID Level
is highlighted, use the up and down arrow keys to select
RAID5
(Parity)
and press <Enter>.
4.
When
Disk
is highlighted, press <Enter> to select the HDD to configure as RAID.
5.
On the pop-up screen, use the up and down arrow keys to highlight a drive and press the
space bar to select it. A triangle appears to confirm the selection.
6.
Use the up and down arrow keys to select the stripe size of 4-128 KB for RAID5 and press
<Enter>.
Note
For a server, use a lower stripe size; for a multimedia system, use a higher
stripe size. The default stripe size is 128 KB.
7.
Enter your desired RAID capacity and press <Enter> when the capacity item is highlighted.
The default setting is the maximum capacity allowed.
8.
Press <Enter> when
Create Volume
is highlighted. A warning message displays,
indicating that all data on the selected disks will be lost.
9.
At the
Are you sure you want to create this volume (Y/N)
prompt, press
<Y> to create the RAID volume or <N> to return to the
Create Volume
menu.
Recovery
Use this feature to create the recovery volume by copying data from a designated master drive
to a designated recovery drive.
Note
A recovery drive is a backup drive to store data copied from the original
(master) drive. A master drive is the original drive containing the source files to be
copied to the recovery drive.
Follow these steps to create a recovery drive:
1.
Select
Create RAID Volume
from the main menu and press <Enter>. The Create Volume
Menu screen appears.
2.
Specify a name for the recovery disk drive and press <Enter>.
3.
When
RAID Level
is highlighted, use the up and down arrow keys to select
Recovery
and
press <Enter>.
4.
When
Select Disks
is highlighted, press <Enter> to select the HDD to create the recovery
volume.
