ASRock 775XFire-RAID Quick Installation Guide - Page 27

After the installation of Windows 2000 / Windows XP / Windows XP 64-bit OS, if you want to manage RAID functions, you are allowed to use both "RAID Installation Guide" and "Intel Matrix Storage Manager Information" for RAID configuration. Please refer to the document in the Support CD, "Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation and RAID Configuration", which is located in the folder at the following path: .. \ RAID Installation Guide and the document in the support CD, "Guide to Intel Matrix Storage Manager", which is located in the folder at the following path: .. \ Intel Matrix Storage Manager Information If you want to use "Intel Matrix Storage Manager" in Windows environment, please install SATA drivers from the Support CD again so that "Intel Matrix Storage Manager" will be installed to your system as well. 2.12.1 Setting Up a "RAID Ready" System You can also set up a "RAID Ready" system with a single SATA hard disk. A "RAID Ready" system can be seamlessly upgraded to RAID 0 or RAID 1 at a later date by using RAID migration feature of Intel Matrix Storage. The following steps outline how to build an Intel "RAID Ready" system. 1. Assemble the system and attach a single SATA hard drive. 2. Set up system BIOS as step 1 of page 26. When done, exit Setup. 3. Make a SATA driver diskette as step 2 of page 26. Begin Windows setup by booting from the installation CD. 4. At the beginning of Windows setup, press F6 to install a third-party SCSI or RAID driver. When prompted, insert a floppy disk containing the Intel RAID driver. After reading the floppy disk, the driver will be presented. Select the driver to install according to the mode you choose and the OS you install. You may select: "Intel(R) 82801FR SATA RAID Controller (Desktop ICH6R-Windows XP/2000)" for Windows XP/2000 or "Intel(R) 82801FR SATA RAID Controller (Desktop ICH6R-Windows XP64)" for Windows XP 64-bit. 5. Finish the Windows installation and install all necessary drivers. 6. Install the Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager software via the CD-ROM included with your motherboard or after downloading it from the Internet. This will add the Intel(R) Matrix Storage Console which can be used to manage the RAID configuration. 7. After setting up a "RAID Ready" system as the above steps, you can follow the procedures of the next section to migrate the system to RAID 0 or RAID 1. 2.12.2 Migrating a "RAID Ready" System to RAID 0 or RAID 1 If you have an existing "RAID Ready" system, then you can use the following steps to perform a migration from a single non-RAID configuration to a two drive RAID 0 or RAID 1 configuration. To prepare for this, you will need another SATA hard drive with a capacity equal to or greater than that currently being used as the source hard drive. 27 ASRock 775XFire-RAID Motherboard English