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Chapter 5: Software support

Entering VIA Tech RAID BIOS Utility

1. Boot-up your computer.
2. During POST, press to enter VIA RAID configuration utility.

The following menu options will appear.

On the upper-right side of the screen is the message and legend box. The

keys on the legend box allows you to navigate through the setup menu

options. The message describes the function of each menu item. The

following lists the keys found in the legend box with their corresponding

functions.

:

View Array/Disk Status

,

:

Move to the next item

:

Confirm the selection

:

Exit

The RAID BIOS information on the setup screen shown below is for

reference only. What you see on your screen may not exactly match

what is shown here.

5.4.2 VIA RAID configurations

The motherboard includes a high performance IDE RAID controller

integrated in the VIA VT8237A southbridge chipset. It supports RAID 0 and

RAID 1 with two independent Serial ATA channels.

Refer to VIA8237 SATA Quick Setup guide found in the support

CD for detailed information on RAID configurations under different

operating systems.

Create Array

Delete Array

Create/Delete Spare

Select Boot Array

Serial Number View

VIA Tech. RAID BIOS Ver 1.xx

Create a RAID array with

the hard disks attached to

VIA RAID controller

F1 : View Array/Disk Status

, : Move to next item

Enter : Confirm the selection

ESC : Exit

Channel

Drive Name Array Name Mode Size(GB) Status

Serial_Ch0 Master XXXXXXXXXXX

ARRAY 0 SATA 999.99 XXXXXXX

Serial_Ch1 Master XXXXXXXXXXX ARRAY 0 SATA 999.99 XXXXXXX