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CAUTION!

Do not accidentally disconnect the SATA drive cables. Carefully route the

cables within the chassis to avoid system down time.

D.2 Features and Benefits

Supports RAID levels 0, 1, 5 and 10

Supports connectivity to two or more disk drives

Supported Operating Systems include: Windows XP, Windows Server 2003

and Windows Vista

D.3 Accessing the Intel

Matrix Storage Manager

To access the Intel

Matrix Storage Manager, please follow the steps below.

Step 1:

Connect SATA drives to the system. Connect two or more SATA drives to the

system. Make sure the drives have the same capacity, are the same type and

have the same speed.

NOTE:

Make sure the SATA drives are EXACTLY the same when they are configured

in a RAID configuration. If they are not the same size, disk drive capacity is

sacrificed and overall performance affected.

Step 2:

Enable SATA drives in BIOS. Start the computer and access the BIOS setup

program. Enable SATA support for all IDE devices. Refer to the applicable BIOS

configuration section in this user manual.