ASRock A330ION RAID Installation Guide - Page 4

1.3 Create Disk Array After the system powers on, press key to enter BIOS setup utility. Highlight Advanced and press , then the main inter-face of BIOS setup utility will appear. Please set the option "SATA Option Mode" to [RAID]. BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced SATA Configuration Onboard SATA Controller SATA Operation Mode SATAII_1 SATAII_2 SATAII_3 ESATA [Enabled] [RAID] [ATAPI CDROM] [Hard Disk] [Not Detected] [Not Detected] Options Enabled Disabled +F1 F9 F10 ESC Select Screen Select Item Change Option General Help Load Defaults Save and Exit Exit v02.54 (C) Copyright 1985-2005, American Megatrends, Inc. After adjusting the system BIOS to RAID mode, reboot your system. Wait until you see the RAID software prompting you to press . The RAID prompt appears as a part of the system POST and boot process prior to loading the OS. You have a few seconds to press before the window disappears. MediaShield ROM BIOS 10.0.0.35 Copyright (C) 2008 NVIDIA Corp. Detecting storage devices . . . 1 SATA_2 Slimtype DVD A DS8A3S Press F10 to enter RAID setup utility. - After you press , the MediaShield BIOS - Define a New Array window appears. By default, RAID Mode is set to Mirrored, but please set it to Striped if you want to create RAID 0. And the Stripe Block is set to Optimal as default. We take RAID 0 for example to show you how to use MediaShield BIOS to create RAID 0 (Striped). If you plan to use MediaShield BIOS to create other RAID array, the Stripe block size is given in kilobytes, and affect how data is arranged on the disk. It is recommended to leave this value at the default Optimal, which is 64KB, but the values can be between 8KB and 128KB (8, 16, 32, 64, and 128KB). Then, you have to assign the disks. The disks that you enabled from the RAID Configuration BIOS setup page appear in the Free Disks block. These are the drives that are available for use as RAID array disk, the operation procedures are similar to the steps of creating RAID 0. 4