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Installing the Hard Disks, Enter FastTrak100 BIOS and FastBuild Utility

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5. SOFTWARE SETUP 5.4.1 Installing the Hard Disks The RAID 0 setting allows users to reformat two hard disks with the same new OS simultaneously. RAID 1 arrays can use a pre-existing hard disk along with a blank hard disk, or two new hard disks. 1. Install the first and second hard disk into the hard disk bays of your system. Connect each hard disk drive with a separate UltraDMA/100 cable, one to the Primary ATA IDE1 connector, and the other to the Secondary ATA IDE2 connector onboard the A7V266-E. 2. Connect the power cables to the hard disks. 3. Ensure that the ATA/100 / RAID 0/1 jumper 3 is reset from the default: [1-2] to the RAID 0/1 setting: [2-3]. (See: Section 3.4.2, Hardware Setup: Motherboard Settings) 4. Boot-up the PC. 5.4.2 Enter FastTrak100 BIOS and FastBuild Utility 1. Boot-up your computer once more. If this is the first time you have booted with two hard disks correctly installed, then FastTrak100™ "Lite" BIOS scans the IDE drives and displays this screen: 5. S/W SETUP RAID 2. Press keys to display the FastBuild™ Utility Main Menu: FastBuild (tm) Utility 1.31 (c) 1996-2000 Promise Technology, Inc. [ Main Menu ] Auto Setup 11 ]] View Drive Assignments . . . . [[ 22 ]] View Array 33 ]] Delete Array 44 ]] Rebuild Array 55 ]] Controller Configuration . . . [[ 66 ]] [ Keys Available ] Press 1..6 to select Option [ESC] Exit ASUS A7V266-E User's Manual 83

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5.
SOFTWARE SETUP
ASUS A7V266-E User’s Manual
5.
S/W SETUP
5.4.1
Installing the Hard Disks
The RAID 0 setting allows users to reformat two hard disks with the same new OS
simultaneously.
RAID 1 arrays can use a pre-existing hard disk along with a blank
hard disk, or two new hard disks.
1.
Install the first and second hard disk into the hard disk bays of your system.
Connect each hard disk drive with a separate
UltraDMA/100
cable, one to the
Primary ATA IDE1 connector, and the other to the Secondary ATA IDE2 connector
onboard the A7V266-E.
2.
Connect the power cables to the hard disks.
3.
Ensure that the ATA/100 / RAID 0/1 jumper 3 is reset from the default: [1-2] to
the RAID 0/1 setting: [2-3].
(See:
Section 3.4.2, Hardware Setup: Motherboard Settings
)
4.
Boot-up the PC.
5.4.2
Enter FastTrak100 BIOS and FastBuild Utility
1.
Boot-up your computer once more. If this is the first time you have booted
with two hard disks correctly installed, then
FastTrak100
™ “Lite” BIOS
scans the IDE drives and displays this screen:
2
.
Press
<Ctrl-F>
keys to display the
FastBuild
™ Utility
Main Menu
:
RAID
FastBuild (tm) Utility 1.31 (c) 1996-2000 Promise Technology, Inc.
Auto Setup . . . . . . . . . .
[ 1 ]
[ 1 ]
View Drive Assignments . . . . [ 2 ]
[ 2 ]
View Array . . . . . . . . . . [ 3 ]
[ 3 ]
Delete Array . . . . . . . . . [ 4 ]
[ 4 ]
Rebuild Array. . . . . . . . . [ 5 ]
[ 5 ]
Controller Configuration . . . [ 6 ]
[ 6 ]
Press 1..6 to select Option
[ESC] Exit
[ Main Menu ]
[ Keys Available ]