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Revision 0.96
Document Number: M5281-83_RAID096
Page 9
There are three major areas in the RAID BIOS setup screen: Main Menu, Drive Select Menu and RAID Array List. The
following uses M5281 setup screen for illustration:
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
Channel 0 Master : Maxtor 4A160 J0 UDMA6 163928MB
Channel 0 Slave : Maxtor 6L040J2 UDMA6 40027MB
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
:
3.2 Main
Menu
In
Main Menu
, the user has several options to operate RAID:
3.2.1
Create RAID 0 Striping for Performance
1. Press ‘Enter’ key to activate this item. An ‘
S
’ flash cursor appears at the
Drive Select Menu
for the user to
choose the first drive for RAID 0.
2. Use ‘Space’ key to choose the desired drive for RAID 0. Then the flash cursor changes to an ‘
s
’ flash cursor for
the user to choose the second drive for RAID 0.
3. The prompt ‘Data on RAID Drives will be deleted (Y/N)’ appears after two drives are properly assigned.
4. Press ‘Y’, and then some necessary information will be written to the drives, which will destroy the original data
in the drives.
Warning:
Make sure the data in drives is no longer in use before creating RAID 0.
5. Next, the Array Name input line appears for the user to key in a name for the newly created array. The
effective characters for an array name is ‘0’-‘9’, ‘A’-‘Z’, ‘a’-‘z’, space and underscore.
6. After the RAID array has been created successfully, its information shows up at
RAID Array List
.
Note:
RAID 0 cannot be used for mixed parallel and serial ATA drives.
Drive
Select
Menu
Main Menu
RAID
Array
List
