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Non-Unicode programs supported .......................................................... 4-12
Core Center (for AMD K8 Processor)............................................................. 4-14
Audio Speaker Setting ..................................................................................... 4-16
Power on Agent ............................................................................................... 4-18
Power On..................................................................................................4-18
Power Off / Restart.................................................................................. 4-19
Start With .................................................................................................. 4-19
Auto Login................................................................................................. 4-20
Chapter 5. nVIDIA RAID Introduction ................................................................. 5-1
Introduction ......................................................................................................... 5-2
System Requirement .................................................................................. 5-2
RAID Arrays ................................................................................................ 5-2
Summary of RAID Configurations .............................................................. 5-2
RAID Configuration............................................................................................. 5-3
Basic Configuration Instructions ............................................................... 5-3
Setting Up the NVRAID BIOS ..................................................................... 5-3
NVIDIA RAID Untility Installation ......................................................................... 5-7
Installing the RAID Driver (for bootable RAID Array) ............................... 5-7
Installing the NVIDIA RAID Software Under Windows
(for Non-bootable RAID Array) ................................................................. 5-9
Initializing and Using the Disk Array ........................................................ 5-10
RAID Drives Management ................................................................................ 5-12
Viewing RAID Array Configurations ....................................................... 5-12
Setting Up a Spare RAID Disk .................................................................. 5-14
Rebuilding a RAID Mirrored Array ............................................................ 5-20
Chapter 6. Silicon Image SATARAID5
TM
Introduction...................................... 6-1
Introduction ......................................................................................................... 6-2
RAID-Redundant Array of Independent Disks .......................................... 6-2
RAID0 (Striping).......................................................................................... 6-2
RAID1 (Mirroring)........................................................................................ 6-2
RAID10 (Disk Mirroring and Striping)......................................................... 6-2
RAID5 (Parrity RAID) .................................................................................. 6-3
JBOD (Just Bunch of Disks) ...................................................................... 6-3
Creating and Deleting Legacy RAID Groups with BIOS Utility ......................... 6-5