Intel Rapid Storage Guide
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... take advantage of enhanced performance and lower power consumption. AHCI also delivers longer battery life with an external drive. Combined with Intel® Rapid Recover Technology, setting up data protection can be accomplished easily with Link Power Management (LPM), which can have additional..., performance, and expandability for any hard drive can also improve the performance of disk intensive retrieval applications such as well. Intel Rapid Storage Technology can fail without data loss or system downtime. When the failed drive is removed and a replacement hard drive...
... take advantage of enhanced performance and lower power consumption. AHCI also delivers longer battery life with an external drive. Combined with Intel® Rapid Recover Technology, setting up data protection can be accomplished easily with Link Power Management (LPM), which can have additional..., performance, and expandability for any hard drive can also improve the performance of disk intensive retrieval applications such as well. Intel Rapid Storage Technology can fail without data loss or system downtime. When the failed drive is removed and a replacement hard drive...
Intel Rapid Storage Guide
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Installation Instructions 1. Locate the file on your hard drive and double-click it. 3. Click Next. 2 Download the Intel Rapid Storage Technology software from Intel website. Click Continue (if needed) to a known location on your computer's hard drive. 2. Click Next at the Welcome screen. 5. Save the file to launch the installation program. 4.
Installation Instructions 1. Locate the file on your hard drive and double-click it. 3. Click Next. 2 Download the Intel Rapid Storage Technology software from Intel website. Click Continue (if needed) to a known location on your computer's hard drive. 2. Click Next at the Welcome screen. 5. Save the file to launch the installation program. 4.
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Restart your system. You will find the "Intel Rapid Storage Technology" icon on the Windows task bar. 5 10.
Restart your system. You will find the "Intel Rapid Storage Technology" icon on the Windows task bar. 5 10.
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In "Select Volume Type", click "Real-time data protection (RAID 1)". Create a RAID Array 1. Double-click "Intel Rapid Storage Technology" icon, then below main screen appears. 2. Click "Next". 6 Click the "Create" icon to create a RAID array. Here we take RAID 1 for example. 3.
In "Select Volume Type", click "Real-time data protection (RAID 1)". Create a RAID Array 1. Double-click "Intel Rapid Storage Technology" icon, then below main screen appears. 2. Click "Next". 6 Click the "Create" icon to create a RAID array. Here we take RAID 1 for example. 3.
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.... 4. The F6 installation method is not required for Microsoft Windows Vista* or Note Microsoft Windows 7*. Click the Storage Configuration menu. 4. When the Intel Rapid Storage Technology option ROM status screen appears during operating system setup. When finished press Enter. 12 Use the up or down arrow keys to... option must be enabled in the system BIOS, a RAID volume must be created, and the F6 installation method must be used to load the Intel® Rapid Storage Technology driver during POST, press Ctrl and i at the same time to enter the option ROM user interface. 2. Press Enter...
.... 4. The F6 installation method is not required for Microsoft Windows Vista* or Note Microsoft Windows 7*. Click the Storage Configuration menu. 4. When the Intel Rapid Storage Technology option ROM status screen appears during operating system setup. When finished press Enter. 12 Use the up or down arrow keys to... option must be enabled in the system BIOS, a RAID volume must be created, and the F6 installation method must be used to load the Intel® Rapid Storage Technology driver during POST, press Ctrl and i at the same time to enter the option ROM user interface. 2. Press Enter...
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.... 6. When you to load support for mass storage device(s). 2. 7. Nothing will temporarily continue loading drivers. Select 4: Exit and press Enter. 11. Press Y to install the Intel Rapid Storage Technology driver during text-mode phase). Press F6 when you see a prompt that says, Press F6 if you have successfully installed the driver...
.... 6. When you to load support for mass storage device(s). 2. 7. Nothing will temporarily continue loading drivers. Select 4: Exit and press Enter. 11. Press Y to install the Intel Rapid Storage Technology driver during text-mode phase). Press F6 when you see a prompt that says, Press F6 if you have successfully installed the driver...
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.... 7. Once Windows setup has copied these files again, remove the floppy disk so that Windows setup can reboot as you will need to install Intel Rapid Storage Technology by Note running the Setup.exe process after these steps have been completed and the operating system has been successfully installed. 14... Windows setup will need to copy the files again from the floppy to use the Intel Rapid Storage Technology user interface in the floppy drive until the system reboots. If you wish to the Windows installation folders.
.... 7. Once Windows setup has copied these files again, remove the floppy disk so that Windows setup can reboot as you will need to install Intel Rapid Storage Technology by Note running the Setup.exe process after these steps have been completed and the operating system has been successfully installed. 14... Windows setup will need to copy the files again from the floppy to use the Intel Rapid Storage Technology user interface in the floppy drive until the system reboots. If you wish to the Windows installation folders.
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Enabling the RAID controller may cause an immediate blue screen with an 0x0000007b error code, followed by a reboot. Use the Intel Rapid Storage Technology user interface to create a RAID volume. 1. If your RAID controller is not enabled, enabling the RAID controller is not ...steps to create a RAID volume. You can migrate the data from a single hard drive on the system. 4. What if I /O controller hub (ICH). Install Intel® Rapid Storage Technology. 2. You can also create a new RAID volume using the newly added hard drives. 15 If your system to use RAID Note...
Enabling the RAID controller may cause an immediate blue screen with an 0x0000007b error code, followed by a reboot. Use the Intel Rapid Storage Technology user interface to create a RAID volume. 1. If your RAID controller is not enabled, enabling the RAID controller is not ...steps to create a RAID volume. You can migrate the data from a single hard drive on the system. 4. What if I /O controller hub (ICH). Install Intel® Rapid Storage Technology. 2. You can also create a new RAID volume using the newly added hard drives. 15 If your system to use RAID Note...
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... Configuration Utility to Specify Additional Device. 3. Nothing will Note temporarily continue loading drivers. You will then be used to load the Intel® Rapid Storage Technology driver during operating system installation. Press S to create a floppy disk with a screen asking you to ...Please insert the disk labeled Manufacturer-supplied hardware support disk into Drive A:, insert a floppy disk containing the following steps to install the Intel® Rapid Storage Technology driver using the F6 installation method. 1. Use the following files: IAAHCI.INF, IAAHCI.CAT, IASTOR.INF, ...
... Configuration Utility to Specify Additional Device. 3. Nothing will Note temporarily continue loading drivers. You will then be used to load the Intel® Rapid Storage Technology driver during operating system installation. Press S to create a floppy disk with a screen asking you to ...Please insert the disk labeled Manufacturer-supplied hardware support disk into Drive A:, insert a floppy disk containing the following steps to install the Intel® Rapid Storage Technology driver using the F6 installation method. 1. Use the following files: IAAHCI.INF, IAAHCI.CAT, IASTOR.INF, ...
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4. If you wish to copy the files again from the list of available SCSI adapters. Windows setup will need to use the Intel Rapid Storage Technology user interface Note within Windows. 17 Leave the floppy disk in the floppy drive until the system reboots. At this point, you ... the up and down arrow keys to confirm your controller from the floppy to run Setup.exe from within Windows, you have successfully installed the Intel Rapid Storage Technology driver and Windows setup should continue. Press Enter. 5.
4. If you wish to copy the files again from the list of available SCSI adapters. Windows setup will need to use the Intel Rapid Storage Technology user interface Note within Windows. 17 Leave the floppy disk in the floppy drive until the system reboots. At this point, you ... the up and down arrow keys to confirm your controller from the floppy to run Setup.exe from within Windows, you have successfully installed the Intel Rapid Storage Technology driver and Windows setup should continue. Press Enter. 5.
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... Installation Instructions section of installation is used for RAID: This same procedure can be located in the Drivers folder after extraction. 2. It is available for Intel® Matrix Storage Manager version 8.8) with the following steps in order to install the RAID or AHCI driver via unattended install. 1. To extract these files... files will be located in the Drivers64 folder after extraction. Perform the following command line options: -A -A -PC:\, as applicable, into the UNATTEND.TXT file [MassStorageDrivers] "Intel(R) 82801R/DO/DH SATA RAID Controller" = OEM 18
... Installation Instructions section of installation is used for RAID: This same procedure can be located in the Drivers folder after extraction. 2. It is available for Intel® Matrix Storage Manager version 8.8) with the following steps in order to install the RAID or AHCI driver via unattended install. 1. To extract these files... files will be located in the Drivers64 folder after extraction. Perform the following command line options: -A -A -PC:\, as applicable, into the UNATTEND.TXT file [MassStorageDrivers] "Intel(R) 82801R/DO/DH SATA RAID Controller" = OEM 18
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Place IAAHCI.CAT, IAAHCI.INF, IASTOR.CAT, IASTOR.INF, IASTOR.SYS, and TXTSETUP.OEM into the UNATTEND.TXT file [MassStorageDrivers] "Intel(R) 82801R/DO/DH SATA AHCI Controller" = OEM [OEMBootFiles] iaAhci.inf iaStor.sys iaAhci.cat Txtsetup.oem 3. [OEMBootFiles] iaStor.inf iaStor.sys iaStor.cat Txtsetup.oem ...
Place IAAHCI.CAT, IAAHCI.INF, IASTOR.CAT, IASTOR.INF, IASTOR.SYS, and TXTSETUP.OEM into the UNATTEND.TXT file [MassStorageDrivers] "Intel(R) 82801R/DO/DH SATA AHCI Controller" = OEM [OEMBootFiles] iaAhci.inf iaStor.sys iaAhci.cat Txtsetup.oem 3. [OEMBootFiles] iaStor.inf iaStor.sys iaStor.cat Txtsetup.oem ...
Intel Smart Response Installation Guide
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...SSD in Icon tray, lower right-hand corner of the screen. 4. It is not necessary to show the newly accelerated system configuration. * Intel® will update the new version RST driver in RAID ROM. Complete initial system setup, including installing the OS to desktop, open ,...new version RST driver, please check our website for the latest information: http://www.asrock.com * Before you use Enhanced or Maximized Mode. 6. Intel Smart Response Technology Installation Guide This motherboard supports Intel Smart Response Technology. You can find the UI setup instruction and the step by ...
...SSD in Icon tray, lower right-hand corner of the screen. 4. It is not necessary to show the newly accelerated system configuration. * Intel® will update the new version RST driver in RAID ROM. Complete initial system setup, including installing the OS to desktop, open ,...new version RST driver, please check our website for the latest information: http://www.asrock.com * Before you use Enhanced or Maximized Mode. 6. Intel Smart Response Technology Installation Guide This motherboard supports Intel Smart Response Technology. You can find the UI setup instruction and the step by ...
Intel Smart Response Installation Guide
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... up as a Cache Volume and the spare capacity volume (Yellow) if applicable. Also, the Accelerated disk now has an "Accelerated" label and icon (Blue). Enabling Intel Smart Response Technology Setup through Start menu. Select which disk/volume you want to look like this. Select options for your personal preferences: 20GB or...
... up as a Cache Volume and the spare capacity volume (Yellow) if applicable. Also, the Accelerated disk now has an "Accelerated" label and icon (Blue). Enabling Intel Smart Response Technology Setup through Start menu. Select which disk/volume you want to look like this. Select options for your personal preferences: 20GB or...
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Smart Response Technology is now DISABLED and all data is now DISABLED. This could take a few seconds or even a few minutes depending on the "Accelerate" tab. A pop-up window will appear, click "Yes" RST Cache is guaranteed to be written to the HDD. Open RST GUI and click on how much modified data there was. Disabling Intel Smart Response Technology Setup through RST GUI: 1. Click on the "Disable Acceleration" button. 2.
Smart Response Technology is now DISABLED and all data is now DISABLED. This could take a few seconds or even a few minutes depending on the "Accelerate" tab. A pop-up window will appear, click "Yes" RST Cache is guaranteed to be written to the HDD. Open RST GUI and click on how much modified data there was. Disabling Intel Smart Response Technology Setup through RST GUI: 1. Click on the "Disable Acceleration" button. 2.
RAID Installation Guide
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Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation 2 1.1 Serial ATA (SATA) Hard Disks Installation 2 2. Guide to RAID Configurations 3 2.1 Introduction of RAID 3 2.2 RAID Configuration Precautions 5 2.3 Installing Windows® 7 / 7 64-bit / VistaTM / VistaTM 64-bit With RAID Functions 6 2.4 Setting the BIOS RAID Items 7 2.5 Configuring the Intel RAID BIOS 7 2.6 Deleting RAID Volumes 11 1 Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation and RAID Configuration 1.
Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation 2 1.1 Serial ATA (SATA) Hard Disks Installation 2 2. Guide to RAID Configurations 3 2.1 Introduction of RAID 3 2.2 RAID Configuration Precautions 5 2.3 Installing Windows® 7 / 7 64-bit / VistaTM / VistaTM 64-bit With RAID Functions 6 2.4 Setting the BIOS RAID Items 7 2.5 Configuring the Intel RAID BIOS 7 2.6 Deleting RAID Volumes 11 1 Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation and RAID Configuration 1.
RAID Installation Guide
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...Please read the RAID configurations in the support CD. You may install SATA hard disks on SATA ports. 2 1. Guide to the Intel southbridge chipset that your motherboard adopts. This section will guide you how to create RAID on this guide carefully according to SATA Hard Disks Installation... 1.1 Serial ATA (SATA) Hard Disks Installation Intel Z77 chipset supports Serial ATA (SATA) hard disks with RAID functions, including RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10 and Intel Rapid Storage.
...Please read the RAID configurations in the support CD. You may install SATA hard disks on SATA ports. 2 1. Guide to the Intel southbridge chipset that your motherboard adopts. This section will guide you how to create RAID on this guide carefully according to SATA Hard Disks Installation... 1.1 Serial ATA (SATA) Hard Disks Installation Intel Z77 chipset supports Serial ATA (SATA) hard disks with RAID functions, including RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10 and Intel Rapid Storage.
RAID Installation Guide
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...and storage since the disk array management software will direct all applications to configure RAID 0 / RAID 1/ Intel Rapid Storage / RAID 10 / RAID 5 settings. For optimal performance, please install identical drives of RAID This motherboard adopts... Intel southbridge chipset that integrates RAID controller supporting RAID 0 / RAID 1/ Intel Rapid Storage / RAID 10 / RAID 5 function with four independent Serial ATA (SATA) channels. It provides data ...
...and storage since the disk array management software will direct all applications to configure RAID 0 / RAID 1/ Intel Rapid Storage / RAID 10 / RAID 5 settings. For optimal performance, please install identical drives of RAID This motherboard adopts... Intel southbridge chipset that integrates RAID controller supporting RAID 0 / RAID 1/ Intel Rapid Storage / RAID 10 / RAID 5 function with four independent Serial ATA (SATA) channels. It provides data ...
RAID Installation Guide
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... same overhead for this setup. 4 RAID 5 RAID 5 stripes both data and parity information across three or more hard disk drives. Intel Rapid Storage The Intel Rapid Storage technology supported allows you to change the hard disk drive partition size without losing any data. In some instances, a RAID... with RAID 1 segments whose segments are RAID 1 arrays. This technology also allows you to create a virtual RAID 0 and RAID 1 sets. The Intel Rapid Storage technology creates two partitions on each hard disk drive to create a RAID 0 and RAID 1 set using only two identical hard disk drives....
... same overhead for this setup. 4 RAID 5 RAID 5 stripes both data and parity information across three or more hard disk drives. Intel Rapid Storage The Intel Rapid Storage technology supported allows you to change the hard disk drive partition size without losing any data. In some instances, a RAID... with RAID 1 segments whose segments are RAID 1 arrays. This technology also allows you to create a virtual RAID 0 and RAID 1 sets. The Intel Rapid Storage technology creates two partitions on each hard disk drive to create a RAID 0 and RAID 1 set using only two identical hard disk drives....
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... to set RAID configuration. Please refer to the document in the Support CD, "Guide to use both "RAID Installation Guide" and "Intel Rapid Storage Information" for proper configuration. STEP 2: Use "RAID Installation Guide" to [RAID]. Before you start to configure ...the RAID function, you want to use "Intel Rapid Storage" in the Support CD for RAID configuration. If you are allowed to install Windows® 7 / 7 64-bit / VistaTM ...
... to set RAID configuration. Please refer to the document in the Support CD, "Guide to use both "RAID Installation Guide" and "Intel Rapid Storage Information" for proper configuration. STEP 2: Use "RAID Installation Guide" to [RAID]. Before you start to configure ...the RAID function, you want to use "Intel Rapid Storage" in the Support CD for RAID configuration. If you are allowed to install Windows® 7 / 7 64-bit / VistaTM ...