When using Select Disk Drives, the channel column will be activated. Highlight the target drives that you want to use and press to select them. After all drives have been selected, press to go back to the creation steps menu. VIA Technologies,Inc. VIA VT8237 Serial ATA BIOS Setting Utility V1.20 Create a RAID array with the hard disks attached to VIA IDE controller F1 : View Array/disk Status , : Move to next item Enter : Confirm the selection ESC : Exit Channel Driver Name Array Name Mode Size(GB) Status [*]Serial_Ch0 Master ST380013AS SATA 74.53 Stripe0 [*]Serial_Ch1 Master ST9120023AS SATA 111.79 Stripe1 Auto Setup For Performance Array Mode RAID 0 (Striping) Select Disk Drives Block Size 64K Start Create Process 4. If user selects a RAID 0 array in step 2, the block size of the array can also be selected. Use the arrow key to highlight Block Size and press , then select a block size from the popup menu. The block size can be 4KB to 64KB. VIA Technologies,Inc. VIA VT8237 Serial ATA BIOS Setting Utility V1.20 Create a RAID array with the hard disks attached to VIA IDE controller F1 : View Array/disk Status , : Move to next item Enter : Confirm the selection ESC : Exit Channel Driver Name Array Name Mode Size(GB) Status [*]Serial_Ch0 Master ST380013AS SATA 74.53 Stripe0 [*]Serial_Ch1 Master ST9120023AS SATA 111.79 Stripe1 Auto Setup For Performance Array Mode RAID 0 (Striping) Select Disk Drives Block Size 64K Start Create Process 4K 8K 16K 32K 64K GA-8VT880 Serial Motherboard - 96 5. Use the arrow key to highlight Start Create Process and press . A warning message will appear, Press Y to finish the creation, or press N to cancel the creation. 6. Important note: All existing content in the hard drive will be destroyed after array creation. B-2Delete Disk Array A RAID can be deleted after it has been created. To delete a RAID, use the following steps: 1. Select Delete Array in the main menu and press . The channel column will be activated. 2. Select the member of an array that is to be deleted and press . A warning message will show up, press Y to delete or press N to cancel. VIA Technologies,Inc. VIA VT8237 Serial ATA BIOS Setting Utility V1.20 Delete a RAID array contain the hard disks attached to VIA IDE controller F1 : View Array/disk Status , : Move to next item Enter : Confirm the selection ESC : Exit Auto Setup For Performance Array Mode RAID 0 (Striping) Select Disk Drives Block Size 64K Start Create Process The select array will be destoried. Are you sure? Continue ?Press Y/N Channel Driver Name Array Name Mode Size(GB) Status [*]Serial_Ch0 Master ST380013AS ARRAY0 SATA 74.53 Stripe0 [*]Serial_Ch1 Master ST9120023AS ARRAY0 SATA 111.79 Stripe1 Deleting a disk array will destroy all the data on the disk array except RAID 1 arrays. When a RAID is deleted, the data on these two hard disk drives will be reserved and become two normal disk drives. B-3Select Boot Array User can select a disk array as boot device if user wants to boot operating system from an array. Boot disk array cannot be selected if the operating system does not boot from the disk array. Highlight the Select Boot Array item; press and the channel column will be activated. Then highlight the target disk array and press . If user selects a disk array that has a boot mark and press , its boot setting will be canceled. - 97 Technical Reference English English VIA Technologies,Inc. VIA VT8237 Serial ATA BIOS Setting Utility V1.20 Set/Clear bootable array F1 : View Array/disk Status , : Move to next item Enter : Confirm the selection ESC : Exit Create Array Delete Array Create/Delete Spare Select Boot Array Serial Number View Channel Driver Name Array Name Mode Size(GB) Status [*]Serial_Ch0 Master ST380013AS ARRAY0 SATA 74.53 Hdd [*]Serial_Ch1 Master ST9120023AS ARRAY0 SATA 111.79 Hdd VIA Technologies,Inc. VIA VT8237 Serial ATA BIOS Setting Utility V1.20 Set/Clear bootable array F1 : View Array/disk Status , : Move to next item Enter : Confirm the selection ESC : Exit Create Array Delete Array Create/Delete Spare Select Boot Array Serial Number View Channel Driver Name Array Name Mode Size(GB) Status [*]Serial_Ch0 Master ST380013AS ARRAY0 SATA 74.53 Hdd [*]Serial_Ch1 Master ST9120023AS ARRAY0 SATA 111.79 Hdd B-4View Serial Number of Hard Drive Highlight Serial Number View and press . Use arrow key to select a drive, the selected drive.s serial number can be viewed in the last column. The serial number is assigned by the disk drive manufacturer. B-5View Array Status Press the F1 key to show the array status on the lower screen. If there are no disk arrays then nothing will be displayed on the screen. VIA Technologies,Inc. VIA VT8237 Serial ATA BIOS Setting Utility V1.20 Set/Clear bootable array F1 : View Array/disk Status , : Move to next item Enter : Confirm the selection ESC : Exit Create Array Delete Array Create/Delete Spare Select Boot Array Serial Number View A...
