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Chapter 5 Appendix

5-1 Conguring SATA Hard Drive(s)

To congure SATA hard drive(s), follow the steps below:

A. Install SATA hard drive(s) in your computer.

B. CongureSATAcontrollermodeinBIOSSetup.

C. CongureaRAIDarrayinRAIDBIOS.

(Note 1)

D. Install the SATA RAID/AHCI driver

(Note 2)

and operating system.

Before you begin

Please prepare:

At least two SATA hard drives (to ensure optimal performance, it is recommended that you use two hard

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drives with identical model and capacity). If you do not want to create RAID, you may prepare only one

hard drive.

Windows 7/Vista/XP setup disk.

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Motherboard driver disk.

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AUSBoppydiskdrive(neededduringWindowsXPinstallation)

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Anemptyformattedoppydisk(neededduringWindowsXPinstallation)

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5-1-1 Conguring SATA Controllers

A. Installing SATA hard drive(s) in your computer

Attach one end of the SATA signal cable to the rear of the SATA hard drive and the other end to available

SATA port

(Note 3)

on the motherboard. Then connect the power connector from your power supply to the hard

drive.

(Note 1) Skip this step if you do not want to create RAID array on the SATA controller.

(Note 2) Required when the SATA controller is set to AHCI or RAID mode.

(Note 3) When a RAID set is built across the SATA 6Gb/s and SATA 3Gb/s channels, the system perfor-

mance of the RAID set may vary depending on the devices being connected.

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