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Creating a raid volume – Asus Rampage III Extreme User Manual

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Chapter 4: Software support

The navigation keys at the bottom of the screen allow you to move through
the menus and select the menu options.

The RAID BIOS setup screens shown in this section are for reference only and
may not exactly match the items on your screen.

The utility supports maximum four hard disk drives for RAID configuration.

Creating a RAID volume

To create a RAID set
1.

From the utility main menu, select

1. Create RAID Volume and press

. The following screen appears.

Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager option ROM v8.9.0.1014 PCH-D wRAID5

Copyright(C) 2003-09 Intel Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

[

CREATE VOLUME MENU

]

[

HELP

]

Enter a unique volume name that has no special characters and is

16 characters or less.

[↑↓]Change [TAB]-Next [ESC]-Previous Menu [ENTER]-Select

Name:

Volume0

RAID Level: RAID0(Stripe)

Disks: Select Disks

Strip Size: 128KB

Capacity: 0.0 GB

Sync: N/A

Create Volume

2.

Enter a name for the RAID set and press .

3.

When the

RAID Level item is selected, press the up/down arrow key to

select a RAID mode to create, and then press .

4.

When the

Disks item is selected, press to select the hard disk drives

you want to include in the RAID set. The

SELECT DISKS screen appears.

[ SELECT DISKS ]

Port Drive Model Serial # Size Status

0 ST3160812AS 9LS0HJA4 149.0GB Non-RAID Disk

1 ST3160812AS 9LS0F4HL 149.0GB Non-RAID Disk

2 ST3160812AS 3LS0JYL8 149.0GB Non-RAID Disk

3 ST3160812AS 9LS0BJ5H 149.0GB Non-RAID Disk

Select 2 to 6 disks to use in creating the volume.

[↑↓]-Prev/Next [SPACE]-SelectDisk [ENTER]-Done