Gateway E-9220T User Manual
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Configuring your onboard RAID solution
To launch the SATA RAID BIOS console:
1
Restart your server.
2
Press F2 when the Gateway logo screen appears during startup. The BIOS Setup utility
opens.
3
From the
Main
BIOS menu, select the
Advanced
menu.
4
Select the
Drive Configuration
sub-menu.
5
For the
Configure SATA as
option, click
RAID
.
6
Exit the BIOS Setup utility.
7
Restart your server.
8
During the boot process you will see the following message:
Press
Press and hold the C
TRL
key, then press the I key. The RAID BIOS console will open.
9
Configure the RAID options, then exit the RAID BIOS console.
10
Reboot the server.
5
Stripes data at a block level
across several drives and
distributes parity among the
drives. No single disk is devoted
to parity.
Fast and
redundant
More disk space
required. Reduces
usable disk space
to 75% of total
storage in the disk
array.
Three
Yes
10
A combination of RAID 1 and
RAID 0. Raid 0 is used for
performance, and RAID 1 is used
for fault tolerance.
Fast and
redundant
An additional drive
required.
Four
Yes
Important
When you press
C
TRL
+ I
to configure the SATA RAID controller,
the error message:
Error (0146): Insufficient Memory to Shadow
PCI ROM may appear. This error message is produced because the
BIOS does not have sufficient memory to load the SATA RAID option
ROM into memory because other option ROMs are already loaded.
This is not a functional problem and can be disregarded. If you receive
this message, press
F1
to continue.
Level
Description and use
Pros
Cons
Number of
drives
Fault
Tolerant