Asus P7F-E - Motherboard - ATX - Page 6

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Contents
5.2.1 Creating a RAID set ........................................................ 5-6
5.2.2 Adding or viewing a RAID conguration ....................... 5-12
5.2.3 Initializing the virtual drives ........................................... 5-13
5.2.4 Rebuilding failed drives ................................................. 5-17
5.2.5 Checking the drives for data consistency ..................... 5-19
5.2.6 Deleting a RAID conguration ....................................... 5-22
5.2.7 Selecting the boot drive from a RAID set ...................... 5-23
5.2.8 Enabling WriteCache .................................................... 5-24
5.3 Intel
®
Matrix Storage Manage Option ROM Utility ................... 5-25
5.3.1 Creating a RAID set ...................................................... 5-26
5.3.2 Creating a Recovery set ............................................... 5-27
5.3.3 Deleting a RAID set ...................................................... 5-29
5.3.4 Resetting disks to Non-RAID ........................................ 5-30
5.3.5 Recovery Volume Options ............................................ 5-31
5.3.6 Exiting the Intel
®
Matrix Storage Manager .................... 5-32
5.3.7 Rebuilding the RAID ..................................................... 5-32
5.3.8 Setting the Boot array in the BIOS Setup Utility ............ 5-34
Chapter 6: Driver installation
6.1 RAID driver installation ............................................................... 6-3
6.1.1 Creating a RAID driver disk ............................................ 6-3
6.1.2 Installing the RAID controller driver ................................ 6-6
6.2 Intel
®
chipset device installation .............................................. 6-19
6.3 LAN driver installation ............................................................... 6-21
6.4 VGA driver installation............................................................... 6-24
6.5 Management applications and utilities installation ................ 6-26
6.5.1 Running the support DVD ............................................. 6-26
6.5.2 Drivers menu ................................................................. 6-26
6.5.3 Utilities menu ................................................................ 6-27
6.5.4 Make disk menu ............................................................ 6-27
6.5.5 Contact information ....................................................... 6-27
Appendix: Reference information
A.1 P7F-E block diagram ....................................................................A-3