ASRock 4CoreDual-VSTA RAID Installation Guide - Page 6

Create RAID 1, WARNING, Create JBOD - driver

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Use the arrow key to highlight the Start Create Process and press , then a warning message will appear. Press Y to finish the creation, or press N to cancel the creation. Please note that the content of the hard drive will be destroyed after array creation. Create RAID 1 WARNING!! Due to the driver issue, currently, you are not allowed to create RAID 1 (Mirror) under BIOS environment if you install Windows Vista/Vista 64-bit OS. If you want to build RAID 1 under Windows Vista/Vista 64-bit OS, please use the RAID software, VIA RAID Tool to create RAID 1. This issue may require driver update. Please visit our website for the updated driver in the near future. (http://www.asrock.com) The data on disk drives will be destroyed if user uses "Auto Setup" to create RAID 1. But you can reserve the data on source drive if you use "Select Disk Drives" to select the source and the mirror drive. Press "y" to copy data of source to mirror drive. There is a limitation when using this feature. The capacity of mirror drive must be greater or equal to the source drive; otherwise the RAID 1 can't be created and a error message will appear: "Error: mirror's size is smaller than source!!! Press ESC return". If user does not want to duplicate data, the data on the source and the mirror drive will be destroyed. Create JBOD The data on disk drives will be destroyed if user uses "Auto Setup" to create a JBOD. However, you can reserve the data on the first disk drive of a JBOD array if you use "Select Disk Drives" to select disk drives 6

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Use the arrow key to highlight the Start Create Process and press <Enter>, then a warning message will appear. Press Y to finish the creation, or
press N to cancel the creation. Please note that the content of the hard drive will be destroyed after array creation.
Create RAID 1
WARNING!!
Due to the driver issue, currently, you are not allowed to create RAID 1 (Mirror) under BIOS environment if you install Windows Vista/Vista 64-bit
OS. If you want to build RAID 1 under Windows Vista/Vista 64-bit OS, please use the RAID software, VIA RAID Tool to create RAID 1. This issue
may require driver update. Please visit our website for the updated driver in the near future. (http://www.asrock.com
)
The data on disk drives will be destroyed if user uses “Auto Setup” to create RAID 1. But you can reserve the data on source drive if you use
“Select Disk Drives” to select the source and the mirror drive.
Press “y” to copy data of source to mirror drive. There is a limitation when using this feature. The capacity of mirror drive must be greater or equal
to the source drive; otherwise the RAID 1 can’t be created and a error message will appear: “Error: mirror’s size is smaller than source!!! Press
ESC return”. If user does not want to duplicate data, the data on the source and the mirror drive will be destroyed.
Create JBOD
The data on disk drives will be destroyed if user uses “Auto Setup” to create a JBOD. However, you can reserve the data on the first disk drive of
a JBOD array if you use “Select Disk Drives” to select disk drives