[. . . ] After finishing installing it, you can get the advantages of enhancing the performance and raising the system's reliability. When you face any difficulties and find anything you don't understand while using the GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller, please refer to the "Q&A" section on page 88. In this section, you can refer to the problems users may face and find the correct solutions. You can follow its instructions to solve your problems and then you will get satisfactory results. 4 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER'S MANUAL Features Compatible with the ATA133 specification and supports two IDE channels with 4 drives. [. . . ] If your RAID Mode is neither Mirror nor Stripe + Mirror, this array setting is finished then you can click the "Esc" key to go back to the Define RAID Menu on page 22. 25 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER'S MANUAL If your RAID Mode selection is Mirror or Stripe + Mirror and you choose not to delete the boot sector of the array, the following window will appear to ask whether you want to rebuild an array. (Please refer to page 31. ) If you choose not to rebuild this array for the time being, the GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller cannot read data correctly because the data is inconsistent in the 26 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER'S MANUAL mirrored hard drives. Thus, the following window will appear. Please press arrow keys and to highlight your selection and press the "Enter" key to select the source disk(s) then you have finished the setting and the screen will go back to the Define RAID Sub-Menu automatically. You can press the "Esc" key to go back to the Define RAID Menu on page 22. 27 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER'S MANUAL Delete RAID Press "3" on the Main Menu then the Delete RAID Menu will appear. Please use arrow keys and to highlight the array you want to delete, press "Del" to select it and then enter the Delete RAID Sub-Menu to delete your array. The "Del" key has no effect if the highlight raw is an empty array. If you want to leave and go to the Main Menu, press the "Esc" key. As for the detailed descriptions of "Array Mode", "Drive No", "Size" and "Status", please refer to Define RAID on page 22. 28 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER'S MANUAL Delete RAID Sub-Menu When you highlight the array you select to delete at the Delete RAID Menu and press the "Del" key, the Delete RAID Sub-Menu will appear. Please press "Ctrl-Y" keys to confirm to delete an array or press any other keys to abort array delete. 29 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER'S MANUAL If you press "Ctrl-Y" keys to make sure to delete an array, the following window will appear. After you finish the selection, Delete RAID Menu will pop up automatically. 30 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER'S MANUAL Rebuild RAID Press "4" when you are at the Main Menu then the Rebuild RAID Menu will appear. You can use and keys to highlight different arrays, press the "Enter" key to select an array and enter the next rebuild drive select screen. If the RAID Mode of the array you want to select is neither mirror nor stripe + mirror, the "Enter" key will have no effect. After that, the driver will not have to be installed. ) 38 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER'S MANUAL Windows XP Install the driver during Windows XP installation 1. Start Windows XP installation. Warning: Because of the different selections of the ! following installation methods, the time when step2 starts will be different. Boot from floppy with Windows installation diskette. When the message "Press F6 if you need to install third party SCSI or RAID driver" appears on the bottom of the screen, please press the <F6> key. When a message appears to ask you to designate the device you want to install, press the <S> key. Follow the instruction of the installation program to insert the GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller Driver diskette into the floppy disk drive then press the <Enter> key to continue. Select GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller (Windows 2000/XP) from the device list shown on the window then press the <Enter> key to continue. The devices that are going to be installed will be listed on the next window. GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller (Windows 2000/XP) should be contained on the list. Press the <Enter> key to continue the installation of Windows XP. 39 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER'S MANUAL Install the driver under existing Windows XP 1. When Windows detects GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller in the system, a dialog box named Found New Hardware Wizard will show on the screen. Select the Install from a list or specific location (Advanced) option then click "Next" to continue to setup. 40 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER'S MANUAL 3. Insert the GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller Driver diskette into the floppy disk drive then check the Search for the best driver in these locations option and type A:\WIN2K_XP on the field designating the file's location. [. . . ] Selected Disks: Disks will be put in an array. 78 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER'S MANUAL Click "Create" to create a disk array. Source Disk is valid when Array Type is RAID 1 or RAID 0+1 and Erase Partition is disabled. Check "Erase Partition" to erase partition table or uncheck "Erase Partition" not to erase partition table. If there is an Array of RAID 1 or RAID 0+1, "Erase Partition" can't be modified. [. . . ]