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English After selecting a RAID mode, you must decide whether you want the RAID array to be configured automatically or manually. Auto Setup allows BIOS to assign the hard drives and create arrays automatically. It is recommended all hard drives are new ones when you want to create an array. To manually configure the RAID array, the following items need to be set. Select Disk Drives lets users select the array drives by their requirements. Select the Select Disk Drives item and press . On the target hard drive(s), press . The selected hard drives will be marked with an asterisk (Figure 6). VIA VT8237S V-RAID Utility V1.20 X Auto Setup For Performance X Array Mode RAID 0 (Striping) X Select Disk Drives X Stripe Size 64K X Start Create Process Dev. Posi. Drive Name [*] Channel0 Master [*] Channel1 Master ST3120026AS ST3120026AS Create a RAID array with the hard disks attached to VIA RAID controller F1 : K, L : Enter : ESC : View Array/disk Status Move to next item Confirm the selection Exit Array Name Mode SATA SATA Size(GB) Status 111.79 111.79 Stripe0 Stripe1 Figure 6 For a RAID 0 array, you have to specify the block size. Select Stripe Size and press . Select the block size from the popup menu. The block size can be set from 4 KB to 64 KB (Figure 7). VIA VT8237S V-RAID Utility V1.20 X Auto Setup For Performance X Array Mode4RKAID 0 (Striping) X Select Disk D8rKives X Stripe Size 6416KK X Start Create32PKrocess 64K Dev. Posi. Drive Name [*] Channel0 Master [*] Channel1 Master ST3120026AS ST3120026AS Create a RAID array with the hard disks attached to VIA RAID controller F1 : K, L : Enter : ESC : View Array/disk Status Move to next item Confirm the selection Exit Array Name Mode SATA SATA Size(GB) Status 111.79 111.79 Stripe0 Stripe1 Figure 7 Next, select Start Create Process and press ENTER. The prompt "The data on the selected disks will be destroyed. Continue? (Y/N)" will appear. Press to confirm or to abort. Important All existing contents in the hard drive will be destroyed after the array creation. - 67 - Appendix