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Cr eate Arr ay: In Main Menu, select Create Array and press ENTER, a screen similar to Figure 6 below will appear. VIA Tech. VT8237 SATA RAID BIOS Ver 2.31 Channel Drive Name Array Name Mode Size(GB) Status Serial_Ch0 Master ST3120026AS SATA 111.79 Hdd Serial_Ch1 Master ST3120026AS SATA 111.79 Hdd Create a RAID array with the hard disks attached to VIA RAID controller F1 : View Array/disk Status h, i: Move to next item Enter : Confirm the selection ESC : Exit uAuto Setup For Performance uArray Mode RAID 0 (Striping) uSelect Disk Drives uBlock Size 64K uStart Create Process Figu re 6 The first step to create a RAID array is to set the RAID mode. Select Array Mode and press ENTER. And the RAID mode selection menu will appear (Figure 7). The supported RAID modes include RAID 0 for performance, RAID 1 for data protection, and RAID SPAN for capacity. Use the UP or DOWN ARROW key to select a RAID mode. VIA Tech. VT8237 SATA RAID BIOS Ver 2.31 Channel Drive Name Array Name Mode Size(GB) Status Serial_Ch0 Master ST3120026AS SATA 111.79 Hdd Serial_Ch1 Master ST3120026AS SATA 111.79 Hdd Create a RAID array with the hard disks attached to VIA RAID controller F1 : View Array/disk Status h, i: Move to next item Enter : Confirm the selection ESC : Exit uuArray Mode RAID 0 (Striping) uuuRAID 0 for performance RAID 1 for data protection RAID SPAN for capacity Figu re 7 SATA Hard Drive Configurations (VT8237(R)) 6 Af ter sele cting a RAI D m ode, you mu st d ecid e wh eth er y ou w ant the RAI D a rray to be conf igur ed aut omatically or m anually. Auto Setup allows BIOS to assign the hard drives and create arrays automatically, but it does not duplicate the mirroring drives even if user selects Create and duplicate for RAID 1. It is recommended all hard drives are new ones whe n yo u wa nt t o cr eate an arra y. Select Disk Drives lets users select the array drives by their requirements. Select the Select Disk Drives item and press ENTER, use the ARROW keys to select the target hard drive(s). The selected hard drives will be marke d with an asteris k (Figur e 8). VIA Tech. VT8237 SATA RAID BIOS Ver 2.31 Channel Drive Name Array Name Mode Size(GB) Status [*]Serial_Ch0 Master ST3120026AS SATA 111.79 Stripe0 [*]Serial_Ch1 Master ST3120026AS SATA 111.79 Stripe1 Create a RAID array with the hard disks attached to VIA RAID controller F1 : View Array/disk Status h, i: Move to next item Enter : Confirm the selection ESC : Exit uAuto Setup For Performance uArray Mode RAID 0 (Striping) uSelect Disk Drives uBlock Size 64K uStart Create Process Figu re 8 If you select to create RAID 0 array manually, you can specify the block size. Use the UP or DOWN ARROW keys to select Block Size and press ENTER. Select the block size from the popup menu. The block size can be set between 4KB to 64KB (Figure 9). VIA Tech. VT8237 SATA RAID BIOS Ver 2.31 Channel Drive Name Array Name Mode Size(GB) Status [*]Serial_Ch0 Master ST3120026AS SATA 111.79 Stripe0 [*]Serial_Ch1 Master ST3120026AS SATA 111.79 Stripe1 Create a RAID array with the hard disks attached to VIA RAID controller F1 : View Array/disk Status h, i: Move to next item Enter : Confirm the selection ESC : Exit uAuto Setup For Performance uArray Mode RAID 0 (Striping) uSelect Disk Drives uBlock Size 64K uStart Create Process 4K 8K 16K 32K 64K Figu re 9 Next, use the ARROW keys to select Start Create Process and press ENTER. The prompt "The data on the selected disks will be destroied. Continue? (Y/N)" will appear. Press Y to confirm or N to abort. Important All existing contents in the hard drive will be destroyed after the array creation. -7 -SATA Hard Drive Configurations (VT8237(R)) B. De lete Arr ay: If you want to delete an existing array, select Delete Array in Main Menu and press ENTER. The channel column will be activated. Select the member of an array that is to be deleted and press ENTER. A warning message will show up, press Y to conf irm or press N to cancel (Fig ure 10). VIA Tech. VT8237 SATA RAID BIOS Ver 2.31 Delete a RAID array contain the hard disks attached to VIA RAID controller F1 : View Array/disk Status h, i: Move to next item Enter : Confirm the selection ESC : Exit uCreate Array uDelete Array uCreate/Delete Spare uSelect Boot Array uSerial Number View Channel Drive Name Array Name Mode Size(GB) Status [*]Serial_Ch0 Master ST3120026AS ARRAY 0 SATA 111.79 Stripe0 [*]Serial_Ch1 Master ST3120026AS ARRAY 0 SATA 111.79 Stripe1 The selected array will be destoried. Are you sure? Continue? Press Y/N Figur e 10 Deleting a disk array will destroy all the data on the disk array except for RAID 1 array(s). When a RAID 1 array is deleted, the data on the two hard drives will be reserved and the two hard drives will become tw o n orm al dr ive s. C. S elec t Bo ot Arra y: You can select a disk array as boot device if you want 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 Boo...