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RAID
Settings
To enable the RAID function, the following settings are required.
1. Connect the Serial ATA drives.
2. Configure Serial ATA in the Award BIOS.
3. Configure RAID in the Intel RAID BIOS.
4. Install the RAID driver during OS installation.
5. Install the Intel Matrix Storage Manager
Step 1: Connect the Serial ATA Drives
Refer to chapter 2 for details on connecting the Serial ATA drives.
Important:
1. Make sure you have installed the Serial ATA drives and con-
nected the data cables otherwise you won’t be able to en-
ter the RAID BIOS utility.
2. Treat the cables with extreme caution especially while cre-
ating RAID. A damaged cable will ruin the entire installation
process and operating system. The system will not boot and
you will lost all data in the hard drives. Please give special
attention to this warning because there is no way of recov-
ering back the data.
SATA 1
SATA 3
SATA 2
SATA 0