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1 installing serial ata hard disks, 2 intel, Raid configurations – Asus P5K64 WS User Manual

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ASUS P5K64 WS

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5.4.1

Installing Serial ATA hard disks

The motherboard supports Serial ATA hard disk drives. For optimal performance,

install identical drives of the same model and capacity when creating a disk array.
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.

5.4.2

Intel

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RAID configurations

This motherboard supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10 and Intel

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Matrix

Storage configurations for Serial ATA hard disks drives through the Intel

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ICH9R

Southbridge chip.

See Chapter 4 for details on entering and navigating through the BIOS Setup.

Setting the RAID item in BIOS

You must set the RAID item in the BIOS Setup before you can create a RAID set(s).

To do this:
1. Enter the BIOS Setup during POST.

2. Go to the Main Menu, select SATA Configuration, then press .

3. Select the item Configure SATA as, then press to display the

configuration options.

4. Select RAID from the Configure SATA as item options, then press .

5. Select the item Onboard Serial-ATA BOOTROM, press , then select

Enabled from the options.

6. Save your changes, then exit the BIOS Setup.