NEC EXP200, User Manual

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Configuring Your Server 4-33
Installing the Hard Disk Drives
Install the two serial ATA hard disk drives to your server. Refer to Chapter 9 for detail.
IMPORTANT:
Use two hard disk drives of the same revolution. In
addition, use two hard disk drives of the same capacity if you are going
to configure RAID1.
Enabling RAID Feature by BIOS SETUP Utility
The two hard disk drives installed can be used either as a single disk or a RAID drive.
To configure a disk drives as RAID drive, you must specify the hard disk drive being connected to
the onboard SATA connector as a RAID drive by using the BIOS SETUP Utility.
NOTE:
The factory-set value is to use the hard disk drive as a single
disk drive.
To change settings by BIOS SETUP Utility:
1.
Start the BIOS SETUP utility.
See "Starting SETUP Utility" described earlier.
2.
On the [I/O Device Configuration] menu in Advanced menu, change the parameter of
[SATA Controller Mode Option] to [Enhanced] and change the parameter of [SATA RAID
Enabled] to [Enabled].
3.
Select [Exit]
→
[Exit Saving Changes] to save the settings and exit the SETUP utility.
When the setting has been changed, POST will display a message to prompt you to start [Array
Configuration Utility (ACU)] every time the server is started.
Press <Ctrl><A> for Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility
Start the utility to configure the RAID drive as needed. See the description below for details.