Asus P5B-PLUS - JMicron RAID Configuration; Preparing for RAID Set Creation (JMicron)

ASUS P5B-Plus Series 5-47
5.5.4 JMicron
®
RAID Conguration
The JMicron
®
Serial ATA controller allows you to congure RAID 0, RAID 1 and
JBOD sets on the external Serial ATA hard disk drives.
Before creating a RAID set
Prepare the following items:
1. Two SATA HDDs, preferably with the same model and capacity.
2. A write-enabled oppy disk
3. Microsoft
®
Windows
®
OS installation disk (Windows 2000/XP)
4. Motherboard support CD with JMB363 driver
Complete the following steps before you create a RAID set:
1. Install an internal Serial ATA hard disk drive and an external Serial ATA hard
disk drive on your system.
Install the internal Serial ATA hard disk drive to the SATA connector labeled
SATA_RAID or SATA_RAID1.
2. Set the
JMicron Controller Mode
item in the BIOS to [RAID]. See section
4.4.6 Onboard Devices Conguration
for details.
3. Enter the JMB363 RAID BIOS utility to set up your RAID conguration.
4. Create a JMB363 RAID driver disk for Windows
®
OS installation. See section
5.6 Creating a RAID driver disk
for details.
5. Install the JMB363 driver after the Windows
®
OS had been installed.
Always install the JMB363 driver before creating RAID sets.
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BIOS SETUP UTILITY
Advanced
Congure Win627EHF Super IO Chipset
HD Audio Controller [Enabled]
Front Panel Support Type [AC97]
Onboard 1394 Controller [Enabled]
Onboard PCIE GbE LAN [Enabled]
LAN Option ROM [Disabled]
JMicron SATA/PATA Controller [Enabled]
JMicron SATA Controller Mode [SATA]
Serial Port1 Address [3F8/IRQ4]
Parallel Port Address [378]
Parallel Port Mode [ECP]
ECP Mode DMA Channel [DMA3]
Parallel Port IRQ [IRQ7]
Enable or Disable
High Denition Audio
Controller