Asus KFN5-Q/SAS - Manual (Page 110)

ASUS KFN5-Q Series 5-3
5.2 NVIDIA ® RAID configurations
The motherboard includes a high performance SATA RAID controller
integrated in the NVIDIA ® MCP55 Professional chip. The RAID controller
supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, RAID 5, and JBOD configurations using
the six Serial ATA ports.
5.2.1 Setting the BIOS RAID items
After installing the hard disk drives, make sure to set the necessary RAID
items in the BIOS before setting your RAID configuration.
To set the BIOS RAID items:
1. Enter the BIOS Setup during POST.
2. Go to the Main Menu, select IDE Configuration, then press .
3. Set the nVidia RAID Option ROM item to [Enabled], then press
. The master and slave drive list appears.
4. Enable the drives you want to set as RAID.
5. Save your changes, then exit the BIOS Setup.
• Refer to Chapter 4 for details on entering and navigating through
the BIOS Setup.
• The RAID BIOS setup screens shown in this section are for reference
only, and may not exactly match the items on your screen.
5.1.3 RAID configuration utility
Depending on the RAID connectors that you use, you can create a RAID set
using the utilities embedded in each RAID controller. For example, you may
use the LSI1068 SAS Configuration Utility if you installed SAS hard disk
drives to the mini-SAS connector(s) supported by the LSI1068 PCI-X SAS
controller.
Refer to the succeeding sections for details on how to use each RAID
configuration utility.