Table of Contents Configuring SATA Hard Drive(s) (Controller: Intel ICH7R) ........................................................... 2 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Installing SATA hard drive(s) in your computer .......................................................................... 2 Configuring SATA controller mode and boot sequence in BIOS Setup .................................... 3 Configuring RAID set in RAID BIOS ............................................................................................. 5 Making a SATA Driver Disk ........................................................................................................... 9 Installing SATA controller driver during OS installation ............................................................. 11 Ác Åé ¤¤ ¤å Configuring SATA Hard Drive(s) (Controller: Intel ICH7R) To configure SATA hard drive(s), follow the steps below: (1) Install SATA hard drive(s) in your system. (2) (3)* (4) (5) Configure SATA controller mode and boot sequence in BIOS Setup. Configure RAID set in RAID BIOS. Make a floppy disk containing the SATA controller driver. Install the SATA controller driver during OS installation. Before you begin Please prepare: (a) Two SATA hard drives (to ensure optimal performance, it is recommended that you use two hard drives with identical model and capacity). If you do not want to create RAID with the SATA controller, you may prepare only one hard drive. (b) An empty formatted floppy disk. (c) Windows XP/2000 setup disk. (d) Driver CD for your motherboard. (1) 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 3Gb/s port(s) on the motherboard. Then connect the power connector from your power supply to the hard drive. "*" Skip this step if you do not want to create RAID array on the SATA controller SATA Hard Drives Configurations (Intel ICH7R) -2- (2) Configuring SATA controller mode and boot sequence in BIOS Setup You have to make sure whether the SATA controller is configured correctly in system BIOS Setup and set BIOS boot sequence for the SATA hard drive(s). Step 1: Turn on your computer and press Del to enter BIOS Setup during POST (Power-On Self Test). If you want to create RAID, set SATA RAID/AHCI Mode under the Integrated Peripherals menu to RAID (Disabled by default). Then, set On-Chip SATA Mode to Manual or Auto (default) based on your own requirements. CMOS Setup Utility-Copyright (C) 1984-2005 Award Software Integrated Peripherals On-Chip Primary PCI IDE On-Chip Secondard PCI IDE SATA RAID/AHCI Mode x On-Chip SATA Mode x PATA IDE Set to SATA Port 0/2 Set to SATA Port 1/3 Set to USB Controller USB 2.0 Controller USB Keyboard Support USB Mouse Support Azalia Codec Onboard H/W 1394 Onboard H/W GigaRAID GigaRAID Function Onboard H/W LAN Onboard LAN Boot ROM Onboard Serial Port 1 G-Keyless Port : Move F3: Language [Enabled] [Enabled] [RAID] Auto Ch.1 Master/Slave Ch.2 Master/Slave Ch.3 Master/Slave [Enabled] [Enabled] [Disabled] [Disabled] [Auto] [Enabled] [Enabled] [RAID] [Enabled] [Disabled] [3F8/IRQ4] [Enabled] Item Help Menu Level Enter: Select +/-/PU/PD: Value F10: Save F5: Previous Values F6: Fail-Safe Defaults ESC: Exit F1: General Help F7: Optimized Defaults Figure 1 The BIOS Setup menus described in this section may not show the exact settings for your motherboard. The actual BIOS Setup menu options you will see shall depend on the motherboard you have and the BIOS version. -3- SATA Hard Drives Configurations (Intel ICH7R) Ác Åé ¤¤ ¤å Step 2: Later, select Hard Disk Boot Priority under the Advanced BIOS Features menu. In the Hard Disk Boot Priority submenu, select the model of the SATA hard drive onto which you intent to install Microsoft Windows 2000/XP (Figure 2). CMOS Setup Utility-Copyright (C) 1984-2005 Award Software Hard Disk Boot Priority 1. SCSI-0 : 2. Bootable Add-in Cards Intel Volume0 Item Help Menu Level Use < > or < > to select a device, then press <+> to move it up, or <-> to move it down the list. Press to exit this menu. : Move PU/PD/+/-: Change Priority F10: Save ESC: Exit Figure 2 Step 3: Set First Boot Device under the Advanced BIOS Features menu to CD-ROM to boot from CD-ROM after system restarts (Figure 3). CMOS Setup Utility-Copyright (C) 1984-2005 Award Software Advanced BIOS Features Hard Disk Boot Priority First Boot Device Second Boot Device Third Boot Device Password Check # CPU Hyper-Threading Limit CPUID Max. to 3 No-Execute Memory Protect CPU Enhanced Halt (C1E) CPU Thermal Monitor 2(TM2) CPU EIST Function (µù) [Press Enter] [CDROM] [Hard Disk] [CDROM] [Setup] [Enabled] [Disabled] [Enabled] [Enabled] [Enabled] [Enabled] Item Help Menu Level Select Hard Disk Boot Device Priority : Move F3: Language Enter: Select +/-/PU/PD: Value F10: Save F5: Previous Values F6: Fail-Safe Defaults ESC: Exit F1: General Help F7: Optimized Defaults Figure 3 Step 4: Save and exit BIOS Setup. SATA Hard Drives Configurations (Intel ICH7R) -4- (3) Configuring RAID set in RAID BIOS Enter the RAID BIOS setup utility to configure a RAID array. Skip this step and proceed to Section 4 if you do not want to create RAID. Step 1: After the POST memory test begins and before the operating system boot begins, look for a message which says "Press to enter Configuration utility" (Figure 4). Press CTRL+ I to enter the RAID BIOS setup utility. Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager option ROM V5.0.0.1032 ICH7R wRAID5 Copyright(C) 2003-05 Intel Corporation. All Rights Reversed. RAID Volumes : None Defined. Physical Disks : Port Driver Model 0 ST3120026AS 1 ST3120026AS Serial # 3JT354CP 3JT329JX Size Type/Status(Vol ID) 111.7GB Non-RAID Disk 111.7GB Non-RAID Disk Press to enter Configuration Utility Figure 4 Step 2: After you press CTRL+ I, the Create RAID Volume screen will appear (Figure 5). Create RAID Volume¡G ¡G If you want to create RAID array, select Create RAID Volume in Main Menu and press ENTER. Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager option ROM V5.0.0.1032 ICH7R wRAID5 Copyright(C) 2003-05 Intel Corporation. All Rights Reversed. [ MAIN MENU ] 1.Create RAID Volume 2. Delete RAID Volume 3. Reset Disks to Non-RAID 4. Exit [ DISK/VOLUME INFORMATION ] RAID Volumes : None Defined. Physical Disks : Port Driver Model 0 ST3120026AS 1 ST3120026AS Serial # 3JT354CP 3JT329JX Size Type/Status(Vol ID) 111.7GB Non-RAID Disk 111.7GB Non-RAID Disk [ ]-Select [ESC]-Exit [ENTER]-Select Menu Figure 5 -5- SATA Hard Drives Configurations (Intel ICH7R) Ác Åé ¤¤ ¤å Step 3: After entering the Create Volume Menu screen, name the disk array with 1~16 letters (letters cannot be special characters) under the Name item. When finished, press ENTER to select a RAID level (Figure 6). There are four RAID levels: RAID0, RAID1, RAID10 and RAID5. Select a RAID level and press ENTER. Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager option ROM V5.0.0.1032 ICH7R wRAID5 Copyright(C) 2003-05 Intel Corporation. All Rights Reversed. [ CREATE VOLUME MENU ] Name : RAID_Volume0 RAID Level : RAID0(Stripe) Disks : Select Disks Strip Size : 128KB Capacity : 223.6 GB Create Volume [ HELP ] RAID0RAID1RAID10RAID5Choose the RAID level best suited to your usage model. Data striped across multiple physical drives for performance. Data mirrored across multiple physical drives for redundancy. Striped volume whose segments are RAID1 volumes. Requires four hard drives. Functionally equivalent to RAID0+1. Data and parity striped across three or more physical drives for performance and redundancy. [TAB]-Next [ESC]-Previous Menu [ENTER]-Select [ ]-Change Figure 6 Step 4: Set the stripe block size (Figure 7). The KB is the standard unit of stripe block size. The stripe block size can be set from 4KB to 128KB. After the setting, press ENTER to set array capacity. Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager option ROM V5.0.0.1032 ICH7R wRAID5 Copyright(C) 2003-05 Intel Corporation. All Rights Reversed. [ CREATE VOLUME MENU ] Name : RAID_Volume0 RAID Level : RAID0(Stripe) Disks : Select Disks Strip Size : 128KB Capacity : 223.6 GB Create Volume [ HELP ] The following are typical values: RAID0 - 128KB RAID10 - 64KB RAID5 - 64KB [ ]-Change [TAB]-Next [ESC]-Previous Menu [ENTER]-Select Figure 7 SATA Hard Drives Configurations (Intel ICH7R) -6- Step 5: After setting all the items above, select Create Volume and press ENTER (Figure 8) to begin the creation of the RAID array. Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager option ROM V5.0.0.1032 ICH7R wRAID5 Copyright(C) 2003-05 Intel Corporation. All Rights Reversed. [ CREATE VOLUME MENU ] Name : RAID_Volume0 RAID Level : RAID0(Stripe) Disks : Select Disks Strip Size : 128KB Capacity : 223.6 GB Create Volume [ HELP ] Enter the volume capacity. The default value indicates the maximum volume capacity using the selected disks. If less than the maximum capacity is chosen, creation of a second volume is needed to utilize the remaining space. [ ]-Change [TAB]-Next [ESC]-Previous Menu [ENTER]-Select Figure 8 Step 6: When prompted to confirm whether to create this volume, press Y to create or N to cancel. Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager option ROM V5.0.0.1032 ICH7R wRAID5 Copyright(C) 2003-05 Intel Corporation. All Rights Reversed. [ CREATE VOLUME MENU ] Name : RAID_Volume0 RAID Level : RAID0(Stripe) Disks : Select Disks Strip Size : 128KB Capacity : 223.6 GB Create Volume WARNING : ALL DATA ON [SELECTED DISKS WILL BE LOST. HELP ] Are you sure you want to creat this volume? (Y/N) : Press "ENTER" to Create the specified volume [ ]-Change [TAB]-Next [ESC]-Previous Menu [ENTER]-Select Figure 9 -7- SATA Hard Drives Configurations (Intel ICH7R) Ác Åé ¤¤ ¤å After the creation is completed, you can see detailed information about the RAID Array in the DISK/ VOLUME INFORMATION section, including RAID mode, disk block size, disk name, and disk capacity, etc. Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager option ROM V5.0.0.1032 ICH7R wRAID5 Copyright(C) 2003-05 Intel Corporation. All Rights Reversed. [ MAIN MENU ] 1. Create RAID Volume 2. Delete RAID Volume 3. Reset Disks to Non-RAID 4. Exit [ DISK/VOLUME INFORMATION ] RAID Volumes : ID Name 0 Volume0 Physical Disks : Port Driver Model 0 ST3120026AS 1 ST3120026AS Level RAID(Stripe) Serial # 3JT354CP 3JT329JX Strip 128KB Size 223.6GB Size 111.8GB 111.8GB Status Normal Bootable Yes Type/Status(Vol ID) Member Disk(0) Member Disk(0) [ ]-Select [ESC]-Exit [ENTER]-Select Menu Figure 10 Delete RAID Volume If you want to delete a RAID volume, select the Delete RAID Volume option in Main Menu. Press ENTER and follow on-screen instructions. Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager option ROM V5.0.0.1032 ICH7R wRAID5 Copyright(C) 2003-05 Intel Corporation. All Rights Reversed. [ MAIN MENU ] 1. Create RAID Volume 2. Delete RAID Volume 3. Reset Disks to Non-RAID 4. Exit [ DISK/VOLUME INFORMATION ] RAID Volumes : ID Name 0 Volume0 Physical Disks : Port Driver Model 0 ST3120026AS 1 ST3120026AS Level RAID(Stripe) Serial # 3JT354CP 3JT329JX Strip 128KB Size 223.6GB Size 111.8GB 111.8GB Status Normal Bootable Yes Type/Status(Vol ID) Member Disk(0) Member Disk(0) [ ]-Select [ESC]-Exit [ENTER]-Select Menu To exit the ICH7R RAID BIOS utility, press ESC in Main Menu. Now, you can proceed to the installation of the SATA driver and operating system. SATA Hard Drives Configurations (Intel ICH7R) -8- (4) Making a SATA Driver Disk To install Windows 2000/XP onto a SATA hard drives on the ICH6R controller successfully, you need to install required driver for the SATA controller during OS installation. Without the driver, the hard drives may not be recognized during the Windows setup process. First of all, you need to copy the driver for the SATA controller from the motherboard driver CD to a floppy disk. The instructions below explain how to copy the driver. Step 1: Find an available system and insert the motherboard driver CD into the CD-ROM drive. The installation utility will appear automatically. Quit the installation utility first. Step 2: Go to My Computer and right-click the CD-ROM drive icon and select Open (Figure 11). Figure 11 Step 3: Go to the BootDrv folder and look for an executable program named MENU.exe (Figure 12). Figure 12 -9- SATA Hard Drives Configurations (Intel ICH7R) Ác Åé ¤¤ ¤å Step 4: Double-click MENU.exe. An MS-DOS prompt screen similar to Figure 13 below will appear. Figure 13 Step 5: Insert an empty floppy disk and press 1 to select 7) Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager 32bit. Then it will take about one minute to copy the SATA driver from the motherboard driver CD to the floppy disk. Step 6: Press 0 to exit when the procedure is complete (Figure 14). You have copied the SATA driver sucessfully. Figure 14 If you wish to install 64-bit Windows Operating System, select 8) Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager 64bit. 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