This document provides instructions for installing SATA hard disks and configuring RAID. It includes a guide for SATA hard disk installation and making a SATA driver diskette, as well as an introduction to RAID configurations and the use of the BIOS configuration utility.
This manual explains how to install Serial ATA (SATA) hard disks on a motherboard that uses the nVidia nForce3 chipset and supports RAID functions. It covers driver diskette creation for Windows installations, BIOS configuration, and the use of the NVIDIA RAID Utility.
The document provides detailed procedures for creating RAID 0 (striping), RAID 1 (mirroring), and JBOD (spanning) arrays, including recommended drive sizes, BIOS setup steps, and precautions such as backing up data before configuring RAID.
| Chipset | nVidia nForce3 |
|---|---|
| BIOS SATA operation mode | RAID |
| Recommended drive size for RAID 0 | Two identical SATA drives of the same size |
Yes, you must create a SATA driver diskette before installing Windows XP if you want to use RAID functions.
You can, but the smaller drive determines the usable capacity for the RAID 1 set.