
ASUS M2N-Plus SLI Vista Edition 5-35
5.5.2 NVIDIA
®
RAID congurations
The motherboard includes a high performance IDE RAID controller integrated in
the NVIDIA
®
SLI southbridge chipset. It supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, and
JBOD with four independent Serial ATA channels.
Setting the BIOS RAID items
After installing the hard disk drives, make sure to set the necessary RAID items in
the BIOS before setting your RAID conguration.
To set the BIOS RAID items:
1. Boot the system and press <Del> during the Power-On Self-Test (POST) to
enter the BIOS Setup Utility.
2. From the
Advanced > Onboard Devices Conguration > NVRAID
Conguration
menu item in the BIOS set the RAID Enabled item to Enabled.
The succeeding items become user-congurable.
3. Select and enable the IDE or SATA drive(s) that you want to congure as
RAID. See section “5.4.3 Onboard Devices Conguration” for details.
4. Save your changes and Exit Setup.
• For detailed descriptions on the NVIDIA
®
RAID conguration, refer to the
“NVIDIA
®
RAID User’s Guide” found in your motherboard support CD.
• When using Windows 2000 operating system, make sure to install the
Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 or later versions.