Installing the Operating System with Express Setup 5-47HostRAIDThe following explains the overview of HostRAID and the setup procedure.Overview of HostRAIDHostRAID provides RAID feature through the onboard serial ATA interface in your system.HostRAID consists of the driver that controls disk arrays and "Adaptec Storage Manager™ -Browser Edition" (hereinafter referred to as "ASMBE") that is a disk array management utility.The software products are mandatory for HostRAID to function normally. Be sure to install bothsoftware products. For the driver, refer to the setup procedure explained in this manual. ForASMBE, refer to the "Adaptec Storage Manager™ - Browser Edition User's Guide."Overview of the specificationsHard disk drive: One hard disk drive for each channel (two hard disk drivesmax.)RAID level: RAID0 or RAID1Operating system: Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition/Enterprise EditionMicrosoft Windows Server 2003 x64 EditionsMicrosoft Windows 2000 Server/Advanced ServerConfiguration Method of disk arrays: BIOS setup utility, NEC EXPRESSBUILDER andASMBEFeatures HostRAID enables the BIOS utility to select the disk array/standard SATA for eachchannel. Since the JAVA-based management utility ASMBE uses the browser (IE5.5 or later), thesoftware does not need to be installed into each client PC for management. (The softwaremust be installed in each server.)
