Acer Altos G300 Series - Manual (Page 95)

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Configuring Arrays
After you have enabled IDE Software RAID in BIOS and have attached
all physical disk drives, perform the following actions to prepare a
RAID disk array
Creating a Mirrored Array From an Existing Drive
To build a new mirrored array from an existing drive, connect the
current drive and a new drive to the RAID card. Perform the following
steps.
• Turn on the computer and Press <CTRL>+<M> to start the IDE
Software RAID manager.
• Create an array by using Option F4. Change the array type to
Mirror.
• Now include the existing drive and the new drive to this array.
You can identify the existing drive and the new drive by their
connection location.
• Start the rebuilding process by pressing <ENTER>. The setup will
prompt for the target drive name. select the newly connected
drive as the target drive by pressing <SPACE> and then <ENTER>.
• The rebuilding process will start. If there are any errors during
the building of the array, you will be prompted with a message
box. You can choose to ignore the error and proceed or stop the
building process.
Step Action
1 Press <CTRL>+<M> to run the IDE Software RAID Manager
2 Define and configure one or more logical drives.
3 Create and configure one or more system drives (logical drives).
4 Save the configuration.
5 Initialize the system drives. After initialization, you can install the operating
system.
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