Intel Rapid Storage Technology, User Manual

Page 1: ...tection can be accomplished easily with an external drive Intel Rapid Storage Technology can also improve the performance of disk intensive retrieval applications such as editing home video By combining from two to six drives in a RAID 0 configuration data can be accessed on each drive simultaneously speeding up response time on data intensive applications Also due to drive load balancing even sys...

Page 2: ...nology software from Intel website Save the file to a known location on your computer s hard drive 2 Locate the file on your hard drive and double click it 3 Click Continue if needed to launch the installation program 4 Click Next at the Welcome screen 5 Click Next 2 ...

Page 3: ...6 Read the license agreement and click Yes to accept the terms and continue 7 Click Next The application files will now be installed 3 ...

Page 4: ...8 Click Next 9 Click Yes to the restart option and then click Finish to restart your computer 4 ...

Page 5: ...10 Restart your system You will find the Intel Rapid Storage Technology icon on the Windows task bar 5 ...

Page 6: ...e click Intel Rapid Storage Technology icon then below main screen appears 2 Click the Create icon to create a RAID array Here we take RAID 1 for example 3 In Select Volume Type click Real time data protection RAID 1 Click Next 6 ...

Page 7: ...ume you need to key in the Volume Name with 1 16 letters select the RAID disks and then specify the volume size Click Next 5 In Confirm Volume Creation you may review the selected configuration Then click Create Volume 7 ...

Page 8: ...6 The volume is created successfully But you still need to partition your new volume by using Windows Desk Management before adding any data Click OK 7 You will see the current status 8 ...

Page 9: ...8 In Windows Desk Management you need to initialize a disk before Logical Disk Management can access it Click OK 9 Right click on Disk 0 click New Simple Volume 9 ...

Page 10: ...10 Then follow the instructions on the New Simple Volume Wizard 11 Finally you can start to use RAID 1 function 10 ...

Page 11: ...Delete a RAID Array You can also use this utility to delete the RAID array or configure other RAID functions 11 ...

Page 12: ...r the Advanced menu 3 Click the Storage Configuration menu 4 Switch the SATA Operation Mode option to RAID 5 Click F10 to save the BIOS settings and exit the BIOS Setup program Create a RAID Volume Use the following steps to create a RAID volume 1 When the Intel Rapid Storage Technology option ROM status screen appears during POST press Ctrl and i at the same time to enter the option ROM user inte...

Page 13: ...orarily continue loading drivers You will then be prompted Note with a screen asking you to load support for mass storage device s 2 Press S to Specify Additional Device 3 When you see a prompt that says Please insert the disk labeled Manufacturer supplied hardware support disk into Drive A insert a floppy disk containing the following files IAAHCI INF IAAHCI CAT IASTOR INF IASTOR CAT IASTOR SYS a...

Page 14: ...isk so that Windows setup can reboot as needed 7 During Windows setup create a partition and file system on the RAID volume as you would on any physical disk If you wish to use the Intel Rapid Storage Technology user interface in Windows you will need to install Intel Rapid Storage Technology by Note running the Setup exe process after these steps have been completed and the operating system has b...

Page 15: ...rning drive Enabling the RAID controller may cause an immediate blue screen with an 0x0000007b error code followed by a reboot If you wish to enable it you will need to reinstall the operating system If both of the above conditions are met use the following steps to create a RAID volume 1 Install Intel Rapid Storage Technology 2 Turn off the system and install one or more additional hard drives 3 ...

Page 16: ...s line that says Press F6 if you need to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver This message appears at the beginning of Windows XP setup during text mode phase Nothing will happen immediately after pressing F6 Setup will Note temporarily continue loading drivers You will then be prompted with a screen asking you to load support for mass storage device s 2 Press S to Specify Additional Device 3...

Page 17: ...apid Storage Technology driver and Windows setup should continue Leave the floppy disk in the floppy drive until the system reboots Windows setup will need to copy the files again from the floppy to the Windows installation folders Once Windows setup has copied these files again remove the floppy disk so that Windows setup can reboot as needed If you wish to use the Intel Rapid Storage Technology ...

Page 18: ...r Intel Matrix Storage Manager version 8 8 with the following command line options A A PC path as described in the Advanced Installation Instructions section of the README TXT Does the system contain a 32 bit or 64 bit processor o If the system has a 32 bit processor the files will be located in the Drivers folder after extraction o If the system has a 64 bit processor the files will be located in...

Page 19: ...on marks Insert the lines below into the UNATTEND TXT file MassStorageDrivers Intel R 82801R DO DH SATA AHCI Controller OEM OEMBootFiles iaAhci inf iaStor sys iaAhci cat Txtsetup oem 3 Place IAAHCI CAT IAAHCI INF IASTOR CAT IASTOR INF IASTOR SYS and TXTSETUP OEM into the following folder SystemRoot i386 OEM Textmode Operating System Windows 2000 Windows XP Professional Windows XP Home Edition Wind...