Foxconn NF3GK8MA-RS - Manual (Page 61)

Chapter 5 NVIDIA RAID Introduction
Entering the RAID BIOS Setup
1. After rebooting your PC, wait until you see the RAID software prompting you to
press F10. The RAID prompt appears as part of the system POST and boot process
prior to loading OS.
2. Press F10, and the NVIDIA RAID Utility --- Define a New Array window will appear.
The default RAID Mode is set to Mirroring and the default Striping Block is set to
Optimal.
Understanding the “Define a New Array” Window
Use the Define a New Array window to
• Select the RAID Mode
• Set up the Striping Block
• Specify which disks to use for the RAID Array
Depending on the platform used, the system have one or more channels. In a
typical system there are usually one controller and multiple channels, and each
channel have a slave and a master.
The channel/controller/master/slave status of each hard disk is given in the Loc
(location) columns of the Free Disks and Array Disks lists.
1. 0. M
M: Master
S: Slave
0: Controller
Channel - Typically, channel 0 is used for
Parallel ATA drivers while channel 1 is used
for Serial ATA drives.
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