User manual GIGABYTE GA-8I915G DUO

[. . . ] (d) Driver CD for your motherboard. (1) Installing IDE hard drive(s) in your system Attach one end of the IDE cable to the rear of the IDE hard drive and the other end to IDE port(s) controlled by the VT6410 RAID controller on the motherboard. (To ensure that your IDE CD-ROM can work properly, please connect it to the IDE1 port (controlled by the Southbridge) and connect your hard drives to IDE2/IDE3 ports ). Then connect the power connector from your power supply to the hard drive(s). "*" Skip this step if you do not want to create RAID. array on the IDE controller VIA VT6410 IDE RAID Drives Configuration -2- (2) Configuring VT6410 IDE controller mode and boot sequence in BIOS Setup You have to make sure whether the VT6410 IDE controller are configured correctly in system BIOS Setup and set BIOS boot sequence for the IDE RAID hard drive(s). Step 1: Turn on your computer and press the Del key to enter BIOS Setup during POST (Power-On Self Test). [. . . ] Use the UP and DOWN ARROW keys to highlight the RAID mode you want to create and press ENTER to confirm the selection. VIA Tech. RAID BIOS Ver 2. 11 Auto Setup For Data Security RAID 0 for performance Array Mode RAID 0 (Striping) RAID 1 Drives Select Diskfor data protection RAID 0/1 Block Size 64K RAID SPAN for capacity Start Create Process Create a RAID array with the hard disks attached to VIA RAID controller F1 , Enter ESC Array Name : : : : View Array/disk Status Move to next item Confirm the selection Exit Mode Size(GB) Status Hdd Hdd Channel Channel0 Master Channel0 Slave Channel1 Master Channel1 Slave Drive Name Maxtor 6E030L0 No Drive Maxtor 6E030L0 No Drive ATA 133 28. 63 ATA 133 27. 24 Figure 7 VIA VT6410 IDE RAID Drives Configuration -6- After selecting an array mode, you have to decide the way to create the array. Auto Setup lets BIOS select the disk drives and create array automatically but it does not duplicate the mirroring drives even user selects Create and duplicate for RAID 1 and 0+1. It is suitable when the disk drives with which you want to create an array are new ones. When using the Select Disk Drives method, the channel column will be activated. Just highlight the target drives that you want to use and press ENTER to select them respectively. The selected hard drives will be marked with an asterisk (see Figure 8). VIA Tech. RAID BIOS Ver 2. 11 Auto Setup For Performance Array Mode RAID 0 (Striping) Select Disk Drives Block Size 64K Start Create Process Create a RAID array with the hard disks attached to VIA RAID controller F1 , Enter ESC Array Name : : : : View Array/disk Status Move to next item Confirm the selection Exit Mode Size(GB) Status Stripe0 Stripe1 Channel [*] Channel0 Master Channel0 Slave [*] Channel1 Master Channel1 Slave Drive Name Maxtor 6E030L0 No Drive Maxtor 6E030L0 No Drive ATA 133 28. 63 ATA 133 27. 24 Figure 8 Use the arrow keys to highlight the Block Size item and press ENTER , then a list of block size options will appear. Use the arrow keys to highlight the block size you need and press ENTER. VIA Tech. RAID BIOS Ver 2. 11 Auto Setup For Performance 4K Array Mode RAID 0 (Striping) 8K Select Disk Drives 16K Block Size 64K 32K Start Create Process 64K Create a RAID array with the hard disks attached to VIA RAID controller F1 , Enter ESC Array Name : : : : View Array/disk Status Move to next item Confirm the selection Exit Mode Size(GB) Status Stripe0 Stripe1 Channel [*] Channel0 Master Channel0 Slave [*] Channel1 Master Channel1 Slave Drive Name Maxtor 6E030L0 No Drive Maxtor 6E030L0 No Drive ATA 133 28. 63 ATA 133 27. 24 Figure 9 Next, use the arrow keys to highlight Start Create Process and press ENTER to begin the creation of RAID array, then you should see a warning message which says "The data on the selected disks will be destroied. (Y/N) ]. " Press Y to finish the creation, or press N to cancel the creation. -7VIA VT6410 IDE RAID Drives Configuration Ác Åé ¤¤ ¤å Delete Array: If you want to delete an existing RAID array, use the arrow keys to highlight the Delete Array item in main menu interface, and press ENTER. Use the arrow keys to highlight a member of an array that you want to delete and press ENTER. RAID BIOS Ver 2. 11 Create Array Delete Array Create/Delete Spare Select Boot Array Serial Number View The selected array will be destoried. Press Y/N Channel [*] Channel0 Master Channel0 Slave [*] Channel1 Master Channel1 Slave Drive Name Maxtor 6E030L0 No Drive Maxtor 6E030L0 No Drive Delete a RAID array contain the hard disks attached to VIA RAID controller F1 , Enter ESC Array Name ARRAY 0 ARRAY 0 : : : : View Array/disk Status Move to next item Confirm the selection Exit Mode Size(GB) Status Stripe0 Stripe1 ATA 133 28. 63 ATA 133 27. 24 Figure 10 Deletion of a disk array will destroy all the data on the disk array except for RAID 1. When a RAID 1 array is deleted, the data on the two hard drives will be reserved and will become two normal drives. Select Boot Array: User can select a disk array as boot device if user wants to boot operating system from an array. Boot disk array can be not selected if user does not boot operating system from disk array. Use the arrow keys to highlight the Select Boot Disk item then press ENTER. Just use the arrow keys to highlight the target disk array then press ENTER. If user select a disk array that has a boot mark (an asterisk) and press ENTER, then its boot setting will be cancelled (see Figure 11). VIA Tech. RAID BIOS Ver 2. 11 Create Array Delete Array Create/Delete Spare Select Boot Array Serial Number View The selected array will be destoried. [. . . ] The driver installation will be finished in about one minute. Windows Setup Setup will load support for the following mass storage device(s): VIA RAID Controller(Windows XP) * To specify additional SCSI adapters, CD-ROM drives, or special disk controllers for use with Windows, including those for which you have a device support disk from a mass storage device manufacturer, press S. * If you do not have any device support disks from a mass storage device manufacturer, or do not want to specify additional mass storage devices for use with Windows, press ENTER. S=Specify Additional Device Enter=Continue F3=Exit Figure 21 If a message appears saying that one or some files cannot be found, please check the floppy disk or copy the correct IDE RAID driver again from the motherboard driver CD. "*" Please select the driver according to which of the following operating systems you want to install: Windows 2003 IA32, Windows XP, Windows 2000, or Windows NT4. - 13 VIA VT6410 IDE RAID Drives Configuration Ác Åé ¤¤ ¤å After the IDE RAID driver installation is completed, you should see a screen similar to Figure 22 below. [. . . ]