Configuring the bios, Creating your raid set – Intel DX58SO User Manual

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Configuring for RAID

Configuring for External RAID Using Marvell*
Storage Technology

Configuring the BIOS

1. Assemble your system and attach two External SATA hard drives to the Desktop

Board’s two back panel eSATA connectors.

2. Enter system BIOS Setup by pressing the key after the Power-On-Self-Test

(POST) memory tests begin.

3. Go to Advanced Peripheral Configuration Secondary SATA Controller;

ensure that RAID is selected.

4. Then save your settings by pressing .

Creating Your RAID Set

1. Upon re-boot, you will see the following Marvell Storage Manager option ROM

status message on the screen: Press to enter the RAID
Configuration Utility

. Press and enter the RAID Configuration

Utility.

2. In the Marvell Storage Manager option ROM Main Menu, select: Create RAID

Volume

. Enter a volume name (using English alphanumeric ASCII characters) and

press .

3. Use the arrow keys to select RAID 0 or RAID 1. Press once you have

selected the RAID LEVEL.

4. Select the strip size, if necessary, and press .
5. Enter the size of the volume (if you enter less than the maximum volume size, you

can then create a second RAID array on the remaining portion of your volume) and
press .

6. Finally, press to Create Volume.
7. Exit the Option ROM user interface by pressing or going to the EXIT option

in the MAIN MENU.

Loading the Marvell Storage Technology RAID Drivers
and Software

1. Begin Windows Setup by booting from the Windows installation CD.
2. At the beginning of Windows Setup, press to install a third-party SCSI or

RAID driver. When prompted, insert the diskette that contains the Marvell Storage
Technology RAID Driver in a USB floppy disk drive. Refer to

for information on supported USB

floppy disk drives. Install the Marvell 88SE61XX SATA RAID Controller driver.

3. Finish the Windows installation and install all necessary drivers.