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Chapter 3 Appendix
Before you begin, please prepare the following items:
•
At least two SATA hard drives (to ensure optimal performance, it is recommended that you use two hard drives
with identical model and capacity). If you do not want to create RAID, you may prepare only one hard drive.
•
Windows setup disk.
•
Motherboard driver disk.
•
A USB lash drive.
Coniguring the Onboard SATA Controller
A. Installing SATA hard drive(s) in your computer
Attach one end of the SATA signal cable to the rear of the SATA hard drive and the other end to available SATA
port on the motherboard. Then connect the power connector from your power supply to the hard drive.
B. Coniguring SATA controller mode in BIOS Setup
Make sure to conigure the SATA controller mode correctly in system BIOS Setup. For the BIOS Setup menus,
refer to Chapter 2, "BIOS Setup," "Integrated Peripherals."
Steps:
1.
Turn on your computer and press <Delete> to enter BIOS Setup during the POST (Power-On Self-Test).
Ensure
OnChip SATA Channel
is enabled under
Peripherals\SATA Coniguration
. To enable RAID for
the SATA3 0/1/2/3 connectors, set
OnChip SATA Type
to
RAID
. To enable RAID for the SATA3 4/SATA3
5 connectors, set
OnChip SATA Type
to
RAID
and set
OnChip SATA Port4/5 Type
to
As SATA Type
.
2.
If you want to conigure UEFI RAID, follow the steps in "C-1." To enter the legacy RAID ROM, save the
settings and exit BIOS Setup. Refer to "C-2" for more information.
3-1 Coniguring SATA Hard Drive(s)
The BIOS Setup menus described in this section may differ from the exact settings for your motherboard.
The actual BIOS Setup menu options you will see shall depend on the motherboard you have and
the BIOS version.
C-1. UEFI RAID Coniguration
Only Windows 8.1/8 64-bit supports UEFI RAID coniguration.
To conigure UEFI RAID, you need to prepare a USB lash drive using FAT 32 ile format and copy all iles
(including the UEFI RAID utility rcadm.ei) in the \BootDrv\UEFI RAID Utility folder in your motherboard driver
disk to the lash drive. Then follow the steps below.
Steps:
In BIOS Setup, go to
BIOS Features
and set
Windows 8 Features
to
Windows 8
and
CSM Support
to
Never
.
Save the changes and exit BIOS Setup.
Running the UEFI RAID Utility
Restart your computer and press <F12> to enter the boot device coniguration menu. Use the up or down arrow
key to select your USB lash drive which is preixed with "UEFI:" string. Then press <Enter> to access the screen
as shown in Figure 3. To run the UEFI RAID utility, enter the following commands.
You can enter the commands at
Shell
or
fsx:
level (
x
represents the disk number for your USB lash drive).
Checking Disk Information
To see the hard drive information, enter the following commands and press <Enter>. You will see CONTROLLER
LIST and DISK LIST displayed on the screen.
rcadm -M -qa
