Gigabyte GA-K8N Pro Sil3512 SATARAID O.S. Installation Manual
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- Gigabyte GA-K8N Pro | Sil3512 SATARAID O.S. Installation Manual - Page 1
Table of Contents Configuring SATA Hard Drive(s) (Controller: Silicon Image SiI3512 2 (1) Installing SATA hard drive(s) in your computer 2 (2) Setting SATA mode and boot sequence in BIOS Setup 3 (3) Entering the RAID setup utility to select RAID level 5 (4) Making a SATA Driver Disk ...8 (5) - Gigabyte GA-K8N Pro | Sil3512 SATARAID O.S. Installation Manual - Page 2
Ác Configuring SATA Hard Drive(s) (Controller: Silicon Image SiI3512) Åé To set up SATA hard drive(s), you have to follow the steps below: ¤¤ (1) Install SATA hard drive(s) in your computer. ¤å (2) Configure SATA controller mode and boot sequence in BIOS Setup. (3)* Configuring RAID set in - Gigabyte GA-K8N Pro | Sil3512 SATARAID O.S. Installation Manual - Page 3
Award Software Integrated Peripherals IDE Function Setup On-Chip Primary PCI IDE On-Chip Secondary PCI IDE USB Host Controller USB Keyboard Support USB Mouse Support Serial-ATA 2(Internal PHY) AC97 Audio On-Chip LAN(nVIDIA) Onboard Serial ATA Serial ATA Function Onboard 1394 Onboard LAN Control - Gigabyte GA-K8N Pro | Sil3512 SATARAID O.S. Installation Manual - Page 4
Ác Step 2: Select Hard Disk Boot Priority under the Advanced BIOS Features menu and then choose the model of the SATA hard drive onto which you want to install Microsoft Windows 2000/XP (Figure 2). CMOS Setup Utility-Copyright (C) 1984-2004 Award Software Hard Disk Boot Priority 1. SCSI-0 : 02: - Gigabyte GA-K8N Pro | Sil3512 SATARAID O.S. Installation Manual - Page 5
(3) Configuring RAID set in RAID BIOS To create a RAID array on the SATA controller, you have to enter the RAID setup utility to select RAID level. Skip this step and proceed to Section 4 on page 8 if you do not want to create RAID. Step 1: After the Power-On Self-Test (POST) memory test begins and - Gigabyte GA-K8N Pro | Sil3512 SATARAID O.S. Installation Manual - Page 6
configuration, BIOS will automatically set the Striped size to 16KB, first drive to Drive 0, and the second drive to Drive 1. If you choose Manual configuration, you can manually change the chunk size (from 4K to 128K) and the drive sequence. RAID Co nfigu ratio n Utility - Silicon Im age Inc. Copy - Gigabyte GA-K8N Pro | Sil3512 SATARAID O.S. Installation Manual - Page 7
you want to remove one or more RAID sets, select Delete RAID set item (Figure 9) in main menu. Press ENTER and follow the on-screen instructions to delete the RAID set. RAID Co nfigu ratio n Utility - Silicon Im age Inc. Copy right (C) 2003 Create RAID set Delete RAID set Rubuild Mirrored - Gigabyte GA-K8N Pro | Sil3512 SATARAID O.S. Installation Manual - Page 8
Windows setup process. First of all, you have to copy the driver for the SATA controller from the motherboard driver CD to a floppy ¤å disk. 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 - Gigabyte GA-K8N Pro | Sil3512 SATARAID O.S. Installation Manual - Page 9
Step 3: Double-click MENU.exe. An MS-DOS prompt screen similar to Figure 12 will appear. Figure 12 Step 4: Insert an empty floppy disk. If you do not want to create RAID array, press 3 to select the SiIBASE item. If you want to create RAID array(s), press 4 to select the SiIRAID item. Then it will - Gigabyte GA-K8N Pro | Sil3512 SATARAID O.S. Installation Manual - Page 10
not determine the type of one or more mass storage devices installed in your system, or you have chosen to manually specify an adapter. Currently, Setup will load support for the following mass storage device(s) * To specify additional SCSI adapters, CD-ROM drives, or special disk controllers - Gigabyte GA-K8N Pro | Sil3512 SATARAID O.S. Installation Manual - Page 11
begin to load the SATA driver from the floppy disk. Windows Setup You have chosen to configure a SCSI Adapter for use with Windows, using a device support disk provided by an adapter manufacturer. Select the SCSI Adapter you want from the following list, or press ESC to return to the previous screen - Gigabyte GA-K8N Pro | Sil3512 SATARAID O.S. Installation Manual - Page 12
controller driver installation from the floppy disk. The driver installation will be finished in about one minute. Windows Setup Setup will load support for the following mass storage device(s): Silicon Image SiI 3x12 SATARaid Controller for Windows XP * To specify additional SCSI adapters, CD-ROM
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Configuring SATA Hard Drive(s) (Controller: Silicon Image SiI3512)
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Installing SATA hard drive(s) in your computer
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Setting SATA mode and boot sequence in BIOS Setup
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Entering the RAID setup utility to select RAID level
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Making a SATA Driver Disk
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Installing SATA driver during OS installation
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