Asus K8N-DRE User Manual

Page 5

Contents

4.6

Security menu .................................................................... 4-31
4.7.1

Boot Device Priority .............................................. 4-34

4.7.2

Boot Settings Configuration ................................. 4-35

4.7

Boot menu .......................................................................... 4-34

4.8

Exit menu ........................................................................... 4-37

Chapter 5: RAID configuration

5.1

Setting up RAID .................................................................... 5-1
5.1.1

RAID definitions ...................................................... 5-1

5.1.2

Installing hard disk drives ....................................... 5-2

5.1.3

RAID configuration utility ........................................ 5-2

5.2

NVIDIA

RAID configurations ................................................ 5-3

5.2.1

Setting the BIOS RAID items .................................. 5-3

5.2.2

Entering the NVIDIA

RAID Utility ........................... 5-4

5.2.3

Creating a RAID 0 set (Stripe) ................................ 5-5

5.2.4

Creating a RAID 1 set (Mirror) ................................ 5-7

5.2.5

Rebuilding a RAID set ............................................. 5-8

5.2.6

Deleting a RAID array ............................................. 5-9

5.2.7

Clearing the disk data ........................................... 5-10

5.3

LSI Logic Configuration Utility (SCSI model only) ............... 5-11
5.3.1

Boot Adapter List ................................................. 5-12

5.3.2

Global Properties .................................................. 5-13

5.3.3

Adapter Properties ............................................... 5-15

5.3.4

Creating a RAID 1 (Mirror) set .............................. 5-22

5.3.5

Creating a RAID 0 (Stripe) set .............................. 5-24

5.3.6

Running the Diagnostic Mode ............................... 5-25

5.3.7

Managing arrays ................................................... 5-26

Chapter 6: Driver installation

6.1

RAID driver installation ......................................................... 6-1
Creating a RAID driver disk ................................................... 6-1

6.3

LAN driver installation .......................................................... 6-3

6.4

Support CD information ........................................................ 6-4
6.4.1

Running the support CD ......................................... 6-4

6.4.2

Drivers menu .......................................................... 6-5

6.4.3

Management Software ............................................ 6-6

6.4.4

Utilities ................................................................... 6-7

Appendix: Reference information

A.1

K8N-DRE block diagram ........................................................ A-1