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Table of Contents Configuring IDE RAID Hard Drive(s) (Controller GigaRAID (IT8212 2 (1) Installing IDE hard drive(s) in your system 2 (2) Configuring GigaRAID controller mode and boot sequence in BIOS Setup 3 (3) Configuring RAID set in RAID BIOS 5 (4) Making a IDE RAID controller driver disk
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Ác Configuring IDE RAID Hard Drive(s) (Controller GigaRAID (IT8212)) Åé ¤¤ To set up IDE RAID hard drive(s), follow the steps below ¤å (1) Install IDE hard drive(s) in your computer. (2) Configure GigaRAID controller mode and boot sequence in BIOS Setup. (3)* Configure RAID set in RAID BIOS.
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(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
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Ác Step 2 Next, go to Advanced BIOS Features and select Hard Disk Boot Priority. In the Hard Disk Boot Priority Åé submenu, use the ARROW keys to select the desired IDE hard drive onto which you want to install ¤¤ Microsoft Windows 2000/XP and use the PLUS SIGN to move it up to the first item.
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use Number keys 1 to 5 to select the item you need. Auto Configuration [1]: It will guide you to set an array and this is the simplest and fastest way to create your first array. Define RAID [2]: To manually create an array, press 2 to enter the Define RAID menu. Delete RAID [3]: To delete existing
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Ác Auto Configuration Åé Auto Configuration will guide you to set an array and this is the keys or SPACEBAR to cycle through RAID mode options under the Setup Array Type as item. The supported RAID modes include RAID0, RAID1, ¤å RAID0+1, JBOD, and Normal (standard ATA mode). The folllowing
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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
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Ác 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. Åé RAID Array Setup Sequence-- ¤¤ 1. Array Mode: Press SPACEBAR under this item to select RAID 0 (Striping) mode. In the following procedure, we will create a RAID 0 (
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Figure 9: Information about the RAID set. - 9 - IDE RAID Drives Configuration (GigaRAID)
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Ác Delete RAID: Press 3 in Main Menu to enter the Delete RAID Menu (Figure 10). Åé Use UP or DOWN ARROW key to move the selection bar to the RAID array that you want to delete and ¤¤ press Del. ¤å Figure 10 When a screen similar to that below appears, confirm again whether you are sure to
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Rebuild RAID: The Rebuild RAID selection allows you to initiate the copying of data from an existing drive to a replacement drive that has been installed in a RAID 1 or RAID 0+1 set after the failure of one of the members. Press 4 in Main Menu to enter the Rebuild RAID Menu. Use the ARROW keys to
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Ác After the assignment, the following window (Figure 14) will appear. Press Y to continue or N to abort. Later, answer Y or N to the next prompt "Do you like monitoring the reconstruction status till it Åé completes?" If you answer Y, you can monitor the whole rebuild process until it
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RAID Controller can detect the hot-swap action and start rebuilding automatically. When Auto-Rebuild is disabled, you need to rebuild your mirrored array manually from Rebuild RAID Menu (please refer to page 11). The RAID Card Resource section: This section displays PCI slot interrupt and I/O port
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Windows setup process. ¤å First of all, you need to copy the driver for the IDE RAID controller from the motherboard driver CD to a floppydisk. The instructions below explain how to copy the driver. Step 1: Find an available system and insert the motherboard driver CD into the CD-ROM drive. The
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Step 3: Double-click MENU.exe. An MS-DOS prompt screen similar to Figure 18 below will appear. Figure 18 Step 4: Insert an empty floppy disk. Press 2 to select the 2)GIGARAID item. Then it will take about one minute to copy the GigaRAID driver from the motherboard driver CD to the floppy disk. Step
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Ác (5) Installing IDE RAID controller driver during OS installation Åé Now that you have prepared a floppy disk with the IDE RAID controller driver and adjusted BIOS settings, you are ready to install Windows 2000/XP onto your IDE hard drive with the driver. The following is an ¤¤ example of
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Step 3: If Setup correctly recognizes the driver in the floppy disk, a controller menu will appear. If you want to install Windows XP, use the UP or DOWN ARROW key to select ITE IT8212 ATA RAID Controller (Windows 2000/XP)* (Figure 22) and press ENTER. Then it will begin to load the driver from the
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Ác After the GigaRAID controller driver installation is completed, you should see a screen similar to Figure 23 below. It indicates that you have installed the driver successfully. You can proceed with the Windows Åé 2000/XP installation. ¤¤ ¤å Figure 23 (Note: Each time you add a new hard