Appendix
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C-2 Optional - Silicon Image Sil3114 RAID BIOS Utility
To enter this BIOS utility, power on and wait for the following message to appear
during boot-up:
Press <CTRL-S> or F4 to enter RAID utility.
An easy-to-use screen will appear with the following choices in the top left:
Create RAID Set
Delete RAID Set
Rebuild RAID Set
Resolve Conflicts
Low Level Format
Logical Drive Info
Below this will be listed the drives currently installed on the system.
The top right half of the screen displays directions and comments for the user. The
bottom right half lists the command keys:
Arrows up and down are Select Keys
ESC takes the user to the previous menu
Enter selects the user’s choice
Ctrl-E exits the utility
Creating RAID Sets
This creates RAID Sets.
1. Select “Create RAID Set”
2. Choose either a “Striped” or “Mirrored” RAID Set.
3. Select if you want the utility to Auto Configure the RAID Set or if you want
to manually configure the RAID Set. For Striped Sets, you can change the
chunk size. For Mirrored Sets, you assign which is the Source and Target
drives, as well as if you want Disk Copy.
What is Disk Copy?
If the disk assigned as the source disk already has
been partitioned and has data stored on it, and then a second disk is added
for redundancy, the data on the source drive can be copied to the destina-
tion drive, so the disks are identical, and all subsequent data will be written
