Rosewill RC-209 User Manual

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SATA 4 Port PCI Adaptor with RAID RC209

9. When asked

Are you sure to exit(Y/N)?, press Y to exit and reboot.

0. Continue with FDISK and FORMAT steps as if you were installing a conventional hard drive.

Deleting RAID Arrays

. As the BIOS boots press

Ctrl+S or F4 when prompted to enter the RAID BIOS.

2. Select

Delete RAID Set, then press Enter.

3. Select the RAID set then press

Enter.

4. When asked

Are You Sure(Y/N)?, press Y to confirm.

Resolving Conflicts

When a RAID set is created, then metadata written to the disk includes drive connection
information. If, after a disk failure, the replacement disk was previously part of a RAID set (or used
in another system), it may have conflicting metadata. If so, this will prohibit the RAID set from
being either created or rebuilt, in order for the RAID set to function properly, this old metadata
must be first overwritten with the new metadata. To resolve this, from the main BIOS window
select

Resolve Conflicts, then press Enter, the correct metadata, including the correct drive

connection information, will be written to the replacement disk.

Low Level Format

Low Level Format is build into the RAID BIOS to make it more convenient to erase the entire
contents of a hard disk drive, including data, drive and partition information. The Low Level
Format utility works on single hard drive only, before the RAID set is configured.

Logical Drive Info

This menu item allows the display of the assignment of physical drives within a logical set(RAID0,
RAID, etc.). This is display only function.

BIOS Configuration

The Serial ATA 4-Channel RAID adapter BIOS will appear every time your system starts up. If the
BIOS doesn’t show, please try your controller in another PCI slot. During this (POST) process, the

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