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Power On..................................................................................................4-18

Power Off / Restart..................................................................................4-19

Start With .................................................................................................. 4-19

Auto Login................................................................................................. 4-20

Chapter 5. VIA VT8237 Serial ATA RAID & Promise FastTrak579 Parallel

ATA / Serial ATA RAID (Optional) Introduction ............................. 5-1

Introduction................................................................................................................. 5-2

System BIOS Setup ................................................................................................... 5-3

VIA VT8237 Serial ATA RAID ................................................................................. 5-4

Create Your RAID Disk Array Under DOS ................................................................ 5-5

Create Disk Array............................................................................................... 5-6

Delete Disk Array ............................................................................................... 5-8

Create and Delete Spare Hard Drive ................................................................ 5-9

View Serial Number of Hard Drive .................................................................... 5-9

Duplicate Critical RAID 1 Array ........................................................................ 5-10

Rebuild Broken RAID 1 Array ..........................................................................5-10

Installing Operating System & Drivers .................................................................... 5-12

Install Driver in Windows OS...........................................................................5-12

VIA SATA RAID Drivers .................................................................................... 5-13

Using VIA RAID Tool................................................................................................. 5-14

Promise FastTrak579 Parallel ATA / Serial ATA RAID (Optional) ............... 5-16

Create Your RAID Disk Array Under DOS .............................................................. 5-17

Performance Array (Striped, RAID0) ..............................................................5-18

Security Array (Mirrored, RAID1) with New Drives ...................................... 5-18

Security Array (Mirrored, RAID1) with an Existing Data Drive ......................5-18

Installing Operation System .....................................................................................5-32

Windows Server 2003 .................................................................................... 5-21

Windows XP .....................................................................................................5-22

Windows 2000 ................................................................................................. 5-23

Installing Drivers and Utility ..................................................................................... 5-24

Promise 579 S-ATA RAID ................................................................................. 5-24

Promise 579 S-ATA .......................................................................................... 5-29

MSI K8T Neo2-F User Manual

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