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In the example above, 1.0.M means the hard drive is attached to Channel 1,

Controller 0, and the drive is set to Master. The following is a list of all possible

combinations:

Parallel ATA

0.0.M

Channel 0, controller 0, Master

0.0.S

Channel 0, controller 0, Slave

0.1.M

Channel 0, controller 1, Master

0.1.S

Channel 0, controller 1, Slave

Serial ATA

1.0.M Channel 1, controller 0, Master

1.1.M Channel 1, controller 1, Slave

Note: There is no such thing as Slave drive in Serial ATA. All drives are consid-

ered to be Master since there is a one to one connection between the drive and

the controller.

Using the Define a New Array Window

If necessary, press the key to move from field to field until the appropriate

field is highlighted.

• Selecting the RAID Mode

By default, this is set to [Mirroring]. To change to a different RAID mode, press

the down arrow key until the mode that you want appears in the RAID Mode

box—either [Mirroring], [Striping], [Spanning], or [Stripe Mirroring].

• Selecting the Striping Block Size

Striping Block size is given in kilobytes, and affects how data is arranged on the

disk. It is recommended to leave this value at the default [Optimal], which is

32KB, but the values can be between [4 KB] and [128 KB].

• Assigning the Disks

The disks that you enabled from the RAID Config BIOS setup page appear in the

Free Disks block. These are the drives that are available for use as RAID array

disks.

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