Asus P7F-C/SAS - Manual (Page 6)

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Contents
5.3.1 Integrated Mirroring ....................................................... 5-15
5.3.2 Integrated Mirroring Enhanced ..................................... 5-19
5.3.3 Integrated Striping (IS) volume ..................................... 5-22
5.3.4 Managing Arrays ........................................................... 5-25
5.3.5 Viewing SAS topology ................................................... 5-30
5.3.6 Global Properties .......................................................... 5-31
5.4 LSI Software RAID Configuration Utility
(P7F-C/4L model only) ............................................................... 5-34
5.4.1
Creating a RAID set ...................................................... 5-35
5.4.2 Adding or viewing a RAID configuration ....................... 5-41
5.4.3 Initializing the virtual drives ........................................... 5-42
5.4.4 Rebuilding failed drives ................................................. 5-46
5.4.5 Checking the drives for data consistency ..................... 5-48
5.4.6 Deleting a RAID configuration ....................................... 5-51
5.4.7 Selecting the boot drive from a RAID set ...................... 5-52
5.4.8 Enabling WriteCache .................................................... 5-53
Chapter 6: Driver installation
6.1 RAID driver installation ............................................................... 6-3
6.1.1
Creating a RAID driver disk ............................................ 6-3
6.1.2 Installing the RAID controller driver ................................ 6-6
6.2 Intel ® chipset device installation .............................................. 6-19
6.3 LAN driver installation ............................................................... 6-21
6.4 VGA driver installation............................................................... 6-23
6.4.1
Windows ® Server 2003 ................................................. 6-23
6.5 Management applications and utilities installation ................ 6-25
6.5.1
Running the support DVD ............................................. 6-25
6.5.2 Drivers menu ................................................................. 6-25
6.5.3 Utilities menu ................................................................ 6-26
6.5.4 Make disk menu ............................................................ 6-26
6.5.5 Contact information ....................................................... 6-26
Appendix: Reference information
A.1 P7F-C/SAS Series block diagram ...............................................A-3
A.2 P7F-C/4L Series block diagram ..................................................A-4