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Document Number: M5281-83_RAID096 Revision
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3.2.9
Select Boot Drive
1. Press ‘Enter’ key to activate this item. A ‘
B
’ flash cursor appears at the ‘
Drive Select Menu’
for the user to
choose the boot drive.
2. Press ‘Enter’ or ‘Space’ Key to finish selection.
Note
: The boot drive affects how the operation system treats the order of the other drives. Taking the above M5281
BIOS screen as an example, if Channel 2 is the boot drive, the operation system will use the order of Channel 2
Master, Channel 0 Master, Channel 0 Slave, and Channel 3 Master consecutively.
3.3 Drive Select Menu
This menu lists the available drives and their information. There are three indicator bars in this menu: two RAID Drive
Selection Bar and one Boot Drive Selection Bar.
RAID BIOS Setup Utility (c) 2003 ALi Corporation www.ali.com.tw
Create RAID 0 Striping for Performance
Select Boot Drive
Create RAID 1 Mirroring for Reliability
Create RAID 0+1 for Striping, Mirroring
Create JBOD for integrated Capacity
SPACE : Select
Stripe Size
64K
↑↓
: Moving Cursor
Delete RAID Setting & Partition
ENTER : Select & Finish
Delete All RAID Setting & Partition
ESC
:
Exit
Rebuild RAID Array
Drive Model
Mode
Capacity
RAID Array/Type
S
Channel 0 Master : Maxtor 4A160 J0 UDMA6 163928MB
M Channel 0 Slave : Maxtor 6L040J2 UDMA6 40027MB
s Channel 1 Master : None
Channel 1 Slave : None
B Channel 2 Master : WDC WD360GD-00F SATA1 37019MB
Channel 3 Master : Maxtor 6Y200M0 SATA1 203928MB
Capacity RAID
Type
Stripe
Size
RAID
Name
RAID Array A
:
RAID Array B
:
RAID Array C
:
3.4 RAID Array List
This list shows the existing and newly created RAID arrays.
RAID Drive
Selection Bar
RAID Drive Selection Bar
Boot Drive Selection Bar
