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Modules & Options

7 - 62 Setting Up SATA RAID or AHCI Modes

7

SATA RAID Setup Procedure (BIOS)

1.

Start-up your notebook computer and press <F2> to enter the BIOS.

2.

Go to the Advanced menu, select "SATA Mode Selection" and press Enter (see
page

5 - 8

).

• Select “RAID”.

3.

Press Esc and go to the Boot menu.

4.

Set the CD/DVD-ROM Drive (make sure the Microsoft Windows OS CD is
inserted) as the first device in the boot order from the Boot menu.

5.

Select Exit Saving Changes from the Exit menu (or press F10 and Enter) and
press Enter to exit the BIOS and reboot the computer.

6.

For RAID mode see the instructions in

“RAID Setup (Intel Matrix)” on page 7 - 63

.

RAID and Ready-

Drive Compatibility

On a system configured
in RAID mode, a condi-
tion exists where NV
Cache commands will
not be sent to the Win-
dows ReadyDrive
*
cache provided by In-
tel

®

Turbo Memory.

Microsoft has released a
Knowledge Base article
and QFE that addresses
this issue. (http://sup-
port.microsoft.com/
kb/954943
).

Intel recommends that
customers who encoun-
ter this issue directly
contact Microsoft to ob-
tain the QFE.

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