Asus P5MT User Manual

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Contents

4.5

Power menu ........................................................................ 4-28
4.5.1

APM Configuration ................................................ 4-28

4.5.2

Hardware Monitor ................................................. 4-31

4.6

Boot menu .......................................................................... 4-33
4.6.1

Boot Device Priority .............................................. 4-33

4.6.2

Boot Settings Configuration ................................. 4-34

4.6.3

Security ................................................................ 4-35

4.7

Exit menu ........................................................................... 4-38

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

Setting the RAID item in BIOS ................................ 5-2

5.1.4

RAID configuration utilities ..................................... 5-3

5.2

LSI Logic Embedded SATA RAID Setup Utility ...................... 5-4
5.2.1

Creating a RAID 0 or RAID 1 set ............................. 5-5

5.2.2

Creating a RAID 10 set ......................................... 5-11

5.2.3

Adding or viewing a RAID configuration ............... 5-15

5.2.4

Initializing the logical drives .................................. 5-18

5.2.5

Rebuilding failed drives ......................................... 5-23

5.2.6

Checking the drives for data consistency ............ 5-25

5.2.7

Deleting a RAID configuration ............................... 5-28

5.2.8

Selecting the boot drive from a RAID set ............. 5-29

5.2.9

Enabling the WriteCache ...................................... 5-30

5.3

Global Array Manager ......................................................... 5-30

5.4

LSI Logic Configuration Utility ............................................ 5-31
5.4.1

Boot Adapter List ................................................. 5-32

5.4.2

Global Properties .................................................. 5-33

5.4.3

Adapter Properties ............................................... 5-35

5.4.4

Creating a RAID 1 (Mirror) set .............................. 5-42

5.4.5

Creating a RAID 0 (Stripe) set .............................. 5-44

5.4.6

Running the Diagnostic Mode ............................... 5-44

5.4.7

Managing arrays ................................................... 5-46