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Free Disks, Array Disks

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Step 5: Next, select the hard drives which you wish to be included in the disk array. The Free Disks block displays the information about the SATA hard drives that are available for use as RAID array drives. Press to move to the Free Disks block. Select the target hard drives using the up or down arrow key and use the right arrow key to add the hard drives to the Array Disks block (Figure 4). RAID Mode: Striped MediaShield BIOS Feb 13 2008 - Define a New Array - Stripe Block: Optimal Free Disks Port Disk Model Capacity Array Disks Port Disk Model 0.0 [J] Add 0.2 ST3120026AS ST3120026AS Capacity 111.79GB 111.79GB [I] Del [ESC] Quit [F6] Back [F7] Finish [TAB] Navigate [KL] Select [ENTER] Popup Figure 4 Step 6: After assigning the RAID drives, press . A message which says "All data on new(or added) disks may be overwritten. Continue?" appears (Figure 5). To overwrite the data in the selected hard drives, press to confirm or press to cancel. (If the hard drives contain a previously created RAID array, you need to press to clear the data in the hard drives.) If you confirm Yes to the prompt above, the "Clear MBR?" prompt appears. Press to clear or to abort. (We recommend that you clear the MBR to reduce drive errors.) RAID Mode: Striped MediaShield BIOS Feb 13 2008 - Define a New Array - Stripe Block: Optimal Free Disks Port Disk Model All data on new(or added) disks maAyrbraeyovDeirswksritten. Contiune? Capacity Port Disk Model Clear disk da1ta.0?.M ST3120026AS [[JY]] YAEddS [N1].1N.MO ST3120026AS Capacity 111.79GB 111.79GB [Y] YES [N] NO [I ] Del [ESC] Quit [F6] Back [F7] Finish [TAB] Navigate [KL] Select [ENTER] Popup Figure 5 GA-M750SLI-DS4 Motherboard - 78 -

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Step 6:
After assigning the RAID drives, press <F7>. A message which says "All data on new(or added) disks
may be overwritten. Continue?" appears (Figure 5). To overwrite the data in the selected hard drives,
press <Y> to confirm or press <N> to cancel. (If the hard drives contain a previously created RAID
array, you need to press <Y> to clear the data in the hard drives.) If you confirm Yes to the prompt
above, the "Clear MBR?" prompt appears. Press <Y> to clear or <N> to abort. (We recommend that you
clear the MBR to reduce drive errors.)
Figure 5
Figure 4
Step 5:
Next, select the hard drives which you wish to be included in the disk array. The
Free Disks
block
displays the information about the SATA hard drives that are available for use as RAID array drives.
Press <Tab> to move to the
Free Disks
block. Select the target hard drives using the up or down arrow
key and use the right arrow key to add the hard drives to the
Array Disks
block (Figure 4).
MediaShield BIOS
Feb 13 2008
- Define a New Array -
RAID Mode:
Striped
Stripe Block:
Optimal
[
] Add
[
] Del
[ESC] Quit
[F6] Back
[F7] Finish
[TAB] Navigate
[
] Select
[ENTER] Popup
0.0
ST3120026AS
111.79GB
0.2
ST3120026AS
111.79GB
Free Disks
Port
Disk
Model
Capacity
Array Disks
Port
Disk
Model
Capacity
RAID Mode:
Striped
Stripe Block:
Optimal
[
] Del
[ESC] Quit
[F6] Back
[F7] Finish
[TAB] Navigate
[
] Select
[ENTER] Popup
111.79GB
111.79GB
MediaShield BIOS
Feb 13 2008
- Define a New Array -
Capacity
Free Disks
Port
Disk
Model
All data on new(or added) disks may be overwritten. Contiune?
[Y] YES
[N] NO