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Deleting raid arrays, Resolving conflicts, Driver installation – Rosewill RC200 User Manual

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Deleting RAID Arrays

1.

As the BIOS boots press F3 when prompted to enter the RAID BIOS.

2.

Press F1 to dissolve a RAID set.

3.

Enter the number of the RAID set to be deleted.

4.

Answer Y to remove the RAID set.

5.

Press ESC when finished to reboot.

Resolving Conflicts

If after a disk failure, the replacement disk was previously part of a RAID set (or used in

another system), it may have conflicting metadata, specifically in reference to the drive

connection information. If so, this will prohibit the RAID set from being either created or

rebuilt, in order for the RAID set to function properly, this old metadata must be first

overwritten with the new metadata. To resolve this, press F4, the correct metadata,

including the correct drive connection information, will be written to the replacement

disk.

Driver Installation

Quick guide:

1.

If you want to add RC-200 to an existing OS, set up RC-2090 into a PCI slot. Enter the

OS and install RC-200 with driver disk. In this case, PC is booting up by an existing HD

connecting to motherboard. After RC-200 is installed complete, you can add HD and

set the RAID by RAID BIOS.

2.

If you want to add RC-200 to a new PC without any OS, you need to boot the OS from