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1 installing hard disks – Asus M2N4-SLI User Manual

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ASUS M2N4-SLI

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5.4.1 Installing hard disks

The motherboard supports Ultra DMA /133/100/66 and Serial ATA hard

disk drives. For optimal performance, install identical drives of the same

model and capacity when creating a disk array.

Installing Parallel ATA hard disks

To install IDE hard disks for a RAID configuration:

1. Set the jumpers of each hard disk as Master/Master or Slave/Slave.
2. Install the hard disks into the drive bays.
3. Connect the HDD signal cables.
4. Connect a 4-pin power cable to the power connector on each drive.

Installing Serial ATA (SATA) hard disks

To install the SATA hard disks for a RAID configuration:

1. Install the SATA hard disks into the drive bays.
2. Connect the SATA signal cables.
3. Connect a SATA power cable to the power connector on each drive.

If you want to boot the system from a hard disk drive included in a RAID

set, copy first the RAID driver from the support CD to a floppy disk

before you install an operating system to a selected hard disk drive.

Refer to section “5.6 Creating a RAID driver disk” for details.

Refer to the RAID controllers user manual in the motherboard support

CD for detailed information on RAID configurations. See section “5.2.4

Manuals menu”.