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Chapter 4, Creating a raid volume – Asus M5A99X EVO User Manual

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Chapter 4: Software support

Chapter 4

Creating a RAID volume

To create a RAID volume:
1.

In the Main Menu, press <2> to enter the

LD View / LD Define Menu function.

2.

Press + , and the following screen appears.

3.

Move to the

RAID Mode item and press to select a RAID mode to create.

4.

Move to the

Assignment item by using the down arrow key and set Y to select the

hard disk drives you want to include in the RAID set.

5.

Press + to save the setting.

6.

The utility prompts the following message. Press + to input the LD name.

The utility prompts the following message. Press + to input the LD name.

Press + to input the LD name.

Option ROM Utility (c) 2009 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

[] Up [] Down [PaUp/PaDn] Switch page [Space] Change Option

[Ctrl-Y] Save [ESC] Exit

[ Keys Available ]

[ LD Define Menu ]

[ Drives Assignments ]

Port:ID Drive Model Capabilities Capacity(GB) Assignment

01:00 xxxxxxxxx

xxxxxxx

xxxxxx

Y

02:00 xxxxxxxxx

xxxxxxx

xxxxxx

Y

03:00 xxxxxxxxx

xxxxxxx

xxxxxx

N

04:00 xxxxxxxxx

xxxxxxx

xxxxxx

N

LD No LD Name

RAID Mode Drv

LD 1 Logical Drive 1

RAID 0

2

Strip Block

64 KB

Fast Init

ON

Gigabyte Boundary

ON

Cache Mode

WriteThru

Please press Ctrl-Y key to input the LD Name

or press any key to exit.

If you do not input any LD name, the default LD

name will be used.

7.

Eenter an LD name, and then press any key to continue.

enter an LD name, and then press any key to continue.

Enter the LD name here:

Fast Initialization Option has been selected

It will erase the MBR data of the disks.

8.

Press + to erase the MBR, or you may press any key to abort the settings.

Press + to erase the MBR, or you may press any key to abort the settings.

9.

Press + to enter the screen to modify the array capacity, or press any key to
use the maximum capacity.