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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 - for BIOS Console

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