Asus VISTA EDITION M2N-PLUS SLI - NVIDIA RAID Configurations

ASUS M2N-Plus SLI Vista Edition 5-35
5.5.2 NVIDIA
®
RAID congurations
The motherboard includes a high performance IDE RAID controller integrated in
the NVIDIA
®
SLI southbridge chipset. It supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, and
JBOD with four independent Serial ATA channels.
Setting the BIOS RAID items
After installing the hard disk drives, make sure to set the necessary RAID items in
the BIOS before setting your RAID conguration.
To set the BIOS RAID items:
1. Boot the system and press <Del> during the Power-On Self-Test (POST) to
enter the BIOS Setup Utility.
2. From the
Advanced > Onboard Devices Conguration > NVRAID
Conguration
menu item in the BIOS set the RAID Enabled item to Enabled.
The succeeding items become user-congurable.
3. Select and enable the IDE or SATA drive(s) that you want to congure as
RAID. See section “5.4.3 Onboard Devices Conguration” for details.
4. Save your changes and Exit Setup.
• For detailed descriptions on the NVIDIA
®
RAID conguration, refer to the
“NVIDIA
®
RAID User’s Guide” found in your motherboard support CD.
• When using Windows 2000 operating system, make sure to install the
Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 or later versions.