User manual GIGABYTE GA-8I915G PRO

[. . . ] (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 GigaRAID controller on the motherboard. (To ensure that your IDE CD-ROM drive can work properly, please connect it to the IDE port that is controlled by the Southbridge, not the GigaRAID controller). 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 IDE RAID Drives Configuration (GigaRAID) -2- (2) Configuring GigaRAID controller mode and boot sequence in BIOS Setup You have to make sure whether the GigaRAID 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 Del to enter BIOS Setup during POST (Power-On Self Test). [. . . ] Rebuild RAID [4]: To rebuild RAID 1 or RAID 0+1 set, press 4 to enter the Rebuild RAID menu. RAID Card Configuration [5]: To check information about the RAID controller and current hard drive status, press 5 to enter the RAID Card Configuration screen. Figure 5 -5- IDE RAID Drives Configuration (GigaRAID) Ác Åé ¤¤ ¤å Auto Configuration Auto Configuration will guide you to set an array and this is the simplest and fastest way to create your first array. You should see a screen similar to Figure 6 below after pressing 1 from the Main Menu. Auto Configuration Menu: You can use the ARROW keys or SPACEBAR to cycle through RAID mode options under the Setup Array Type as item. The supported RAID modes include RAID0, RAID1, RAID0+1, JBOD, and Normal (standard ATA mode). Array Configuration: This section displays the information about the RAID set you select, such as RAID mode and RAID array size. This action completes RAID configuration. 6 Figure 6 IDE RAID Drives Configuration (GigaRAID) -6- Define RAID: The Define RAID selection allows you to create RAID set with several hard drives to mirror the data from a damaged RAID 1 (or RAID 0+1) hard drive to the new replacement hard drive. Press 2 in Main Menu and the Define RAID Menu as shown in Figure 7 will appear. Use ARROW keys to highlight through arrays and press ENTER after selecting an array. You will see the Define RAID SubMenu (Figure 8 on next page) from which you may configure the new RAID array. Figure 7 -7- IDE RAID Drives Configuration (GigaRAID) Ác Åé ¤¤ ¤å Define RAID Sub-Menu (Figure 8): Use the UP or DOWN ARROW key to move to an item and use SPACEBAR to cycle through options. Array Mode: Press SPACEBAR under this item to select RAID 0 (Striping) mode. In the following procedure, we will create a RAID 0 (Striping) array as an example. Block Size: If you select to create RAID 0 (Striping) or RAID 0+1 (Striping+Mirroring), you have to specify the block size. The block size options include 1KB, 2KB, 4KB, 8KB, 16KB, 32KB and 64KB. Assignment: Use the ARROW keys to move to the Assignment section of the desired hard drive and press SPACEBAR to change the Assignment option to Y. To successfully create a RAID array, you need to set at least two hard drives to Y status. You will see that the Drive No section displays the number of hard drives that are labeled with Y. Next, if you are sure to erase the old data in the hard drive, press Y to confirm (or N to cancel). Now, you should see "Functional" in the Status section, which indicates the RAID array is operational. Press ESC to return to the Define RAID Menu and you should see the functional RAID set (refer to Figure 9 on next page). Figure 8 IDE RAID Drives Configuration (GigaRAID) -8- Figure 9: Information about the RAID set. -9- IDE RAID Drives Configuration (GigaRAID) Ác Åé ¤¤ ¤å Delete RAID: Press 3 in Main Menu to enter the Delete RAID Menu (Figure 10). [. . . ] The Driver Status section: This section displays the status of each hard drive. Figure 15 - 13 - IDE RAID Drives Configuration (GigaRAID) Ác Åé ¤¤ ¤å (4) Making a IDE RAID controller driver disk To install Windows 2000/XP onto a hard drive on the GigaRAID controller successfully, you need to install required driver for the GigaRAID controller on your motherboard during OS installation. Without the driver, the hard drive may not be recognized during the Windows setup process. First of all, you need to copy the driver for the IDE RAID controller from the motherboard driver CD to a floppydisk. Step 1: Find an available system and insert the motherboard driver CD into the CD-ROM drive. [. . . ]