From: "Rich Gauszka" 

"Geo"  wrote in message news:42155bcf{at}w3.nls.net...
> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
> news:42153a0a$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Many of the current motherboards have sata raid mirroring. That sort of
>> negates that distinction now.
>
> When you use that, what is the procedure to recover from a blown drive?
>
> Geo.
>
>

Disclaimer - I don't use RAID right now so I can't tell you how well the mb
RAID  works

For my DFI motherboard one can either use the BIOS Utility or the SATA RAID GUI.

BIOS

During boot hitting F4 will get you into the BIOS RAID Utility

One can

Create a RAID Group

Delete a RAID Group

Rebuild a RAID1 set

Low Level Format

Resolve conflicts ( find drive members of a set that has been disrupted )

for the GUI here's the table of contents

Table of Contents

1 Welcome
...............................................................................
.............................................................4

SATARaid
Features.......................................................................
..........................................................
4

2 An Introduction to
RAID...........................................................................
.........................................5

3 Installing Drivers for Windows
XP/2000/98/NT..................................................................
............6

4 JAVA 2 Runtime Environment Installation
...............................................................................
......7

5 SATARaid GUI Installation
...............................................................................
................................9

6 Creating and Deleting RAID Sets
...............................................................................
..................11

Creating RAID Sets
...............................................................................
................................................
13

Deleting RAID
Sets...........................................................................
.....................................................
14

Rebuild RAID 1 Set
...............................................................................
................................................
15

Resolving Conflicts
...............................................................................
................................................
16

Low Level
Formatting.....................................................................
......................................................
18

Logical Drive Information
...............................................................................
.......................................
18

7 Allocating
Partitions.....................................................................
..................................................19

Windows XP & 2000
...............................................................................
................................................
19

Windows
NT.............................................................................
.............................................................
24

Windows 98 & Me
...............................................................................
..................................................
27

8 SATARaid GUI
Overview.......................................................................
........................................32

Devices and Information
Windows........................................................................
................................
32

Event Viewer and Events
Windows........................................................................
................................
34

SATARaid Toolbar and Menu
Commands.......................................................................
.......................
34

RAID
Management.....................................................................
...........................................................
35

System
View...........................................................................
..............................................................
35

Configure
SATARaid.......................................................................
......................................................
35

Send
Configuration..................................................................
.............................................................
35

Save
Configuration..................................................................
.............................................................
35

Copy
Configuration..................................................................
.............................................................
35

SATARaid Help
...............................................................................
......................................................
35

Exit
...............................................................................
........................................................................
35

About SATARaid
...............................................................................
....................................................
36

9 SATARaid
Configuration..................................................................
..............................................37

10 RAID Set Management Under Windows 2000 &
XP....................................................................45

Creating RAID Sets
...............................................................................
................................................
46

Deleting RAID
Sets...........................................................................
.....................................................
54

Modifying RAID Sets
...............................................................................
...............................................
56

Creating a Spare RAID 1
Drive..........................................................................
.....................................
62

Deleting a Spare RAID 1 Drive
...............................................................................
................................
64

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