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5.4.2 Changing a Volume Type

To change the volume type in

Volume Properties

1. Click the SATA array items you want to change in

Volumes

eld.

2 From the

Volume Properties

eld, select

Type:RAID 1 Change type

We recommend a lower stripe size for server systems, and a higher stripe size

for multimedia computer systems used mainly for audio and video editing.

3. You can change the

Name

Select the new volume type

, and

Select

additional disks to include in the new volume

if needed.

4. Select the

Data stripe size

for the RAID array (for RAID 0, 10 and 5 only),

and click

. The available stripe size values range from 4 KB to 128 KB.

The following are typical values:

RAID 0: 128KB

RAID 10: 64KB

RAID 5: 64KB

Содержание

First edition august 2012 2
Chapter 1 product introduction 3
Chapter 2 hardware information 3
Contents 3
Chapter 3 powering up 4
Chapter 4 bios setup 4
Contents 4
Chapter 5 raid configuration 5
Contents 5
Appendix reference information 6
Chapter 6 driver installation 6
Contents 6
Canadian department of communications statement 7
Federal communications commission statement 7
Notices 7
Electrical safety 8
Operation safety 8
Safety information 8
Australia statement notice 9
From 1 january 2012 updated warranties apply to all asus products consistent with the australian consumer law for the latest product warranty details please visit http support asus com our goods come with guarantees that cannot be excluded under the australian consumer law you are entitled to a replacement or refund for a major failure and compensation for any other reasonably foreseeable loss or damage you are also entitled to have the goods repaired or replaced if the goods fail to be of acceptable quality and the failure does not amount to a major failure 9
If you require assistance please call asus customer service 1300 2787 88 or visit us at http support asus com 9
About this guide 10
How this guide is organized 10
Where to find more information 10
Conventions used in this guide 11
Typography 11
Z9pa u8 specifications summary 12
Z9pa u8 specifications summary 13
Introduction 15
Product 15
Chapter summary 16
Before you start installing the motherboard and hardware devices on it check the items in your package with the list below 17
Check your motherboard package for the following items 17
Package contents 17
Thank you for buying an asu 17
The motherboard delivers a host of new features and latest technologies making it another standout in the long line of asus quality motherboards 17
Welcome 17
Z9pa u8 motherboard 17
Ddr3 memory support 18
Hyper threading 18
Latest processor technology 18
Optimized inte 18
Product highlights 18
Serial number label 18
Special features 18
Turbo boost technology 18
Enhanced intel speedstep technology eist 19
L gigabit lan solution 19
Pci expres 19
Serial ata ii technology 19
Serial ata iii technology 19
Asus fan speed control technology 20
Complete usb 3 integration 20
Innovative asus features 20
Pike proprietary i o kit expansion 20
Temperature fan and voltage monitoring 20
Usb 2 technology 20
Hardware 21
Information 21
Chapter summary 22
Before you proceed 23
Standby power led sb_pwr1 23
The motherboard comes with a standby power led the green led lights up to indicate that the system ac power cable is plugged or not plugged this is a reminder that you should shut down the system and unplug the power cable before removing or installing any motherboard component 23
Motherboard overview 24
Placement direction 24
Screw holes 24
Motherboard layout 25
Layout contents 26
Central processing unit cpu 27
Installing the cpu 27
Locate the cpu socket on the motherboard 27
The motherboard comes with a surface mount lga2011 socket designed for the intel 27
To install a cpu 27
Xeon e5 2600 and e5 1600 processors 27
Apply some thermal interface material to the exposed area of the cpu that the heatsink will be in contact with ensuring that it is spread in an even thin layer 31
Connect the cpu fan cable to the connector on the motherboard labeled 31
Cpu_fan1 31
A ddr3 module has the same physical dimensions as a ddr2 dimm but is notched differently to prevent installation on a ddr2 dimm socket ddr3 modules are developed for better performance with less power consumption 32
Memory configurations 32
Overview 32
System memory 32
The motherboard comes with eight double data rate 3 ddr3 dual inline memory modules dimm sockets 32
You may install 1gb 2gb 4gb 8gb 16gb and 32gb rdimms or 1gb 2gb 4gb and 8gb udimms or 8gb 16gb and 32gb lr dimms into the dimm sockets using the memory configurations in this section 32
Installing a dimm on a single clip dimm socket 33
Removing a dimm from a single clip dimm socket 33
Configuring an expansion card 34
Expansion slots 34
Installing an expansion card 34
Interrupt assignments 35
Pci express x16 slot x16 link 35
Pci express x8 slot x8 link 35
Standard interrupt assignments 35
The onboard pcie 3 and 5 slots provide one x8 gen3 link to cpu1 these slots support vga cards and various server class high performance add on cards 35
The onboard pcie4 6 slot provides one x16 gen3 link to cpu1 and auto switches to x8 link if pcie3 5 is occupied this slot supports vga cards and various server class high performance add on cards 35
Pike slot 36
The pike slot allows you to choose and change your preferred sas solution easily install an optional asus pike raid card based on your needs 36
Installing an asus pike raid card 37
Installing asmb6 management board 38
Installing the audio card 38
Onboard leds 39
22 chapter 2 hardware information 42
Continued on the next page 42
Q code table 42
Asus z9pa u8 2 23 43
Jumpers 44
Connectors 48
Rear panel connector 48
Dm_lan1 port led indications 49
Lan port led indications 49
Internal connectors 50
Eatx power connectors 24 pin eatxpwr1 8 pin eatx12v1 55
These connectors are for an eatx power supply plugs the power supply plugs are designed to fit these connectors in only one orientation find the proper orientation and push down firmly until the connectors completely fit 55
Powering up 59
Chapter summary 60
Starting up for the first time 61
Powering off the computer 62
Using the dual function power switch 62
Using the os shut down function 62
Bios setup 63
Chapter summary 64
Asus crashfree bios 3 65
Managing and updating your bios 65
Recovering the bios from a usb flash drive 65
Asus ez flash 2 66
Bupdater 67
Updating the bios file 67
6 chapter 4 bios setup 68
Do not shut down or reset the system while updating the bios to prevent system boot failure 68
The bios update is finished please restart your system 68
The utility returns to the dos prompt after the bios update process is completed reboot the system from the hard disk drive 68
The utility verifies the file then starts updating the bios file 68
Bios setup program 69
8 chapter 4 bios setup 70
Advanced for changing the advanced system settings 70
Bios menu screen 70
Boot for changing the system boot configuration 70
Event logs for changing the event log settings 70
Exit for selecting the exit options 70
Main for changing the basic system configuration 70
Menu bar 70
Monitor for displaying the system temperature power status and changing the fan settings 70
Security for changing the security settings 70
The menu bar on top of the screen has the following main items 70
To select an item on the menu bar press the right or left arrow key on the keyboard until the desired item is highlighted 70
Tool for configuring options for special functions 70
Configuration fields 71
General help 71
Menu items 71
Navigation keys 71
Pop up window 71
Scroll bar 71
Submenu items 71
10 chapter 4 bios setup 72
Allows you to set the system date 72
Allows you to set the system time 72
Main menu 72
System date day xx xx xxxx 72
System time xx xx xx 72
When you enter the bios setup program the main menu screen appears the main menu provides you an overview of the basic system information and allows you to set the system date time settings 72
Advanced menu 73
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Be cautious when changing the settings of the advanced menu items incorrect field values can cause the system to malfunction 73
Cpu configuration 73
The advanced menu items allow you to change the settings for the cpu and other system devices 73
12 chapter 4 bios setup 74
Active processor cores all 74
Allows you to enable or disable the intel hyper threading technology function when disabled only one thread per activated core is enabled configuration options disabled enabled 74
Configuration code numbers vary with cpu models 74
Configuration options all 1 2 4 6 74
Enter to view the cpu information 74
Execute disable bit enabled 74
Hardware prefetcher enabled 74
Hyper threading enabled 74
Limit cpuid maximum disabled 74
Server class custom 74
Setting this item to enabled allows legacy operating system to boot even without support for cpus with extended cpuid functions configuration options disabled enabled 74
Socket 1 cpu information 74
This item allows you to turn on off the mid level cache l2 streamer prefetcher configuration options disabled enabled 74
Use intel recommended prefetch settings configuration options enterprise high performance hpc custom 74
Xp can prevent certain classes of malicious buffer overflow attacks when combined with a supporting os windows server 2003 sp1 windows xp sp2 suse linux 9 redhat enterprise 3 update 3 configuration options disabled enabled 74
Adjacent cache line prefetch enabled 75
Allows you to select local apic mode configuration options autox2apic xapic 75
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Cpu power management configuration 75
Dcu ip prefetcher enabled 75
Dcu streamer prefetcher enabled 75
Eist enabled 75
Enable prefetch of next l1 data line based upon multiple loads in same cache line configuration options disabled enabled 75
Enable prefetch of next l1 line based upon sequential load history configuration options disabled enabled 75
Intel virtualization technology enabled 75
Local apic mode auto 75
Power technology custom 75
This item allows you to enable disable intel speedstep configuration options disabled enabled 75
This item allows you to enable power management features configuration options disabled energy efficient custom 75
This item allows you to turn on off prefetching of adjacent cache lines configuration options disabled enabled 75
When enabled this item a vmm can utilize the additional hardware capabilities provided by vanderpool technology configuration options disabled enabled 75
Cpu c3 report disabled 76
Cpu c6 report enabled 76
Cpu c7 report disabled 76
Energy performance balanced performance 76
Factory long duration maintained 10 s 76
Factory long duration power limit 95 watts 76
Long duration power limit 0 76
P state coordination hw_all 76
Package c state limit c6 76
Recommended short duration power1 1 long duration 76
Short duration power limit 0 76
Turbo mode enabled 76
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Chipset configuration 77
Compatibility rid enabled 77
Configuration options independent mirroring lock step sparing 77
Ddr speed auto 77
Force ddr speed configuration options auto force ddr3 800 force ddr3 1066 force ddr3 1333 force ddr3 1600 force ddr3 1866 77
Memory configuration 77
Memory mode independent 77
Select the mode for memory initializaton 77
Support for compatibility revision id crid functionality mentioned in sandy bridge bios specification configuration options enabled disabled 77
Allow 2x refresh enabled 78
Altitude 300 m 78
Channel interleaving auto 78
Data scrambling enabled 78
Demand scrub enabled 78
Device tagging disabled 78
Enable high temp disabled 78
Memory hot sensor support disabled 78
Patrol scrub disabled 78
Rank interleaving auto 78
Thermal throtting cltt 78
Allows you to decide priority between onboard and 1st offboard video device found configuration options onboard offboard 79
Allows you to enable disable dca support configuration options disabled enabled 79
Allows you to enable disable intel i o accelaration technology configuration options disabled enabled 79
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Cpu iio bridge configuration 79
Dca support enabled 79
Dimm information 79
Intel r i oat disabled 79
Vga priority offboard 79
18 chapter 4 bios setup 80
Allows you to enable disable onboard sata raid option rom if launch storage oprom is enabled configuration options disabled enabled 80
Configuration options disabled enabled 80
Configuration options disabled enabled in s5 enabled in s4 and s5 80
Deep sx disabled 80
Gbe controller disabled 80
Mobile platforms support deep s4 s5 in dc only and desktop platforms support deep s4 s5 in ac only 80
Onboard sata raid oprom enabled 80
Pch compatibility rid disabled 80
Pch configuration 80
Support for pch compatibility configuration options disabled enabled 80
The following item appears only when you set gbe controller to enabled 80
Wake on lan from s5 enabled configuration options disabled enabled 80
Audio configuration 81
Azalia hd audio enabled 81
High precision event timer configuration 81
High precision timer enabled 81
Intel r vt d disabled 81
Intel r vt for directed i o configuration 81
20 chapter 4 bios setup 82
Aggressive link power management enabled 82
Ahci supports staggered spin up configuration options enabled disabled 82
Allows you to set the sata configuration configuration options disabled ide mode ahci mode raid mode 82
Configuration options enabled disabled 82
If you want the serial ata hard disk drives to use the advanced host controller interface ahci keep the default setting ahci mode the ahci allows the onboard storage driver to enable advanced serial ata features that increases storage performance on random workloads by allowing the drive to internally optimize the order of commands 82
If you want to create raid sets with lsi megaraid utility or intel 82
If you want to use the serial ata hard disk drives as parallel ata physical storage devices set this item to ide mode 82
Pch sata configuration 82
Port 1 2 3 4 5 6 staggered spin up disabled 82
S m a r t self monitoring analysis and reporting technology is a monitor system when hard disk read write errors occur this feature allows the hard disk to report warning messages during the post configuration options enabled disabled 82
S m a r t status check enabled 82
Sata mode ahci mode 82
Storage technology enterprise from the serial ata hard disk drives set this item to raid mode 82
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Configuration options 32 pci bus clocks 64 pci bus clocks 96 pci bus clocks 128 pci bus clocks 160 pci bus clocks 192 pci bus clocks 224 pci bus clocks 248 pci bus clocks 83
Configuration options disabled enabled 83
Enables or disables pci device to generate perr 83
Enables or disables pci device to generate serr 83
Enables or disables pci device to load rt32 image 83
Enables or disables vga pallette registers snooping 83
Load rt32 image enabled 83
Pci latency timer 32 pci bus clocks 83
Pci subsystem settings 83
Perr generation disabled 83
Serr generation disabled 83
Value to be programmed into pci latency timer register 83
Vga palette snoop disabled 83
22 chapter 4 bios setup 84
Allows to set the aspm level configuration options disabled auto force l0s force l0s force all links to l0s state auto bios auto configure disabled disabled aspm 84
Aspm support disabled 84
Defines number of microseconds software will wait before polling link training bit in link status register value range from 10 to 1000us 84
Link training timeout us 400 84
Pci express link register settings 84
Pci express settings 84
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Configuration options disabled enabled 85
Enables or disables boot option for legacy mass storage device with option rom 85
Launch storage 0prom enabled 85
Pcie slot option rom configuration 85
Pcie1 option rom enabled 85
Pcie2 option rom enabled 85
Pcie3 option rom enabled 85
Pcie4 option rom enabled 85
Pcie5 option rom enabled 85
Pike option rom enabled 85
24 chapter 4 bios setup 86
Configuration options enabled disabled 86
Configuration options enabled disabled auto 86
Ehci hand off disabled 86
Legacy usb support enabled 86
Port 60 64 emulation enabled 86
This is a workaround for oses without ehci ownership change should be claimed by ehci driver configuration options disabled enabled 86
This is a workaround for oses without xhci ownership change should be claimed by xhci driver configuration options disabled enabled 86
This item enables i o port 60h 64h emulation support this should be enabled for the complete usb keyboard legacy support for non usb aware oses 86
This item enables or disables legacy usb device support 86
This item enables or disables usb3 xhci controller support 86
Usb configuration 86
Usb3 support enabled 86
Xhci hand off enabled 86
Allows you to enable or disable onboard usb ports configuration options disabled enabled 87
Allows you to enable or disable rear usb ports configuration options disabled enabled 87
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Configuration options 1 sec 5 sec 10 sec 20 sec 87
Configuration options 10 sec 20 sec 30 sec 40 sec 87
Device reset time out 20 sec 87
Ehci controller 1 2 enabled 87
Onboard usb 3 4 5 6 10 enabled 87
Rear usb 1 2 enabled 87
This item sets the time out value for control bulk and interrupt transfer 87
Usb configuration the usb device will all disable in os configuration options disabled enabled 87
Usb hardware delays and time outs 87
Usb mass storage device start unit command time out 87
Usb ports configuration 87
Usb transfer time out 20 sec 87
26 chapter 4 bios setup 88
Acpi settings 88
Acpi sleep state s1 cpu stop clock 88
Allows you to enable or disable bios acpi auto configuration configuration options disabled enabled 88
Allows you to enable or disable lock legacy resources configuration options disabled enabled 88
Allows you to enable or disable the tpm support 88
Allows you to set the acpi sleep state configuration options suspend disabled s1 cpu stop clock s3 suspend to ram both s1 and s3 available for os to choose from 88
Configuration options disabled enabled 88
Enable acpi auto configuration disabled 88
Enable hibernation enabled 88
Enables or disables system ability to hibernate 0s s4 sleep state this option may be not effective with some os configuration options disabled enabled 88
Lock legacy resources disabled 88
The following item appears only when you set enabled acpi auto configuration to disabled 88
Tpm support enabled 88
Trusted computing 88
Apm setting 89
Power on by pcie disabled 89
Power on by rtc disabled 89
Restore ac power loss last state 89
Whea configuration 89
Whea support enabled 89
28 chapter 4 bios setup 90
Ansi extended ascii char set 90
Bits per second 57600 selects serial port transmission speed the speed must be matched on the other side long or noisy lines may require lower speeds configuration options 9600 19200 38400 57600 115200 90
Com1 console redirection disabled 90
Console redirection settings 90
Enables or disables the console redirection feature configuration options disabled enabled 90
Serial port console redirection 90
Terminal type vt utf8 allows you to set the terminal type 90
The following item appears only when you set console redirection to enabled 90
This item becomes configurable only when you enable the console redirection item the settings specify how the host computer and the remote computer which the user is using will exchange data both computers should have the same or compatible settings 90
Vt utf8 uses utf8 encoding to map unicode chars onto 1 or more bytes 90
Vt100 ascii char set 90
Vt100 extends vt100 to support color function keys et 90
Com2 console redirection enabled 92
Console redirection disabled 92
Console redirection settings 92
Serial port for out of band management windows emergency management services ems 92
Asus z9pa u8 4 31 93
Enables or disables intel lan1 function configuration options disabled enabled 93
Enables or disables intel lan2 function configuration options disabled enabled 93
Intel lan1 enable enabled 93
Intel lan2 enable enabled 93
Intel w82574l oprom1 pxe 93
Intel w82574l oprom2 pxe 93
Onboard lan configuration 93
This item launched intel w82574l oprom1 configuration options disabled pxe iscsi 93
This item launched intel w82574l oprom2 configuration options disabled pxe iscsi 93
32 chapter 4 bios setup 94
Allows you to enable or disable the serial port configuration options disabled enabled 94
Me subsystem 94
Onboard devices configuration 94
Serial port 1 2 configuration 94
Serial port enabled 94
Asmedia usb 3 battery charging s enabled 95
Asmedia usb 3 controller enabled 95
Pci error logging support disabled 95
Runtime error logging 95
Runtime error logging support disabled 95
34 chapter 4 bios setup 96
Allows you to configure how the system should respond if the os boot watchdog timer expires not available if o s boot watchdog timer is disabled configuration options do nothing reset power down 96
Allows you to configure the length of the o s boot watchdog timer not available if o s boot watchdog timer is disabled configuration options 5 minutes 10 minutes 15 minutes 20 minutes 96
If enabled starts a bios timer which can only be shut off by intel management software after the os loads helps determine that the os sucessfully loaded or follows the o s boot watchdog timer policy configuration options enabled disabled 96
O s watchdog timer disabled 96
O s wtd timer policy reset 96
O s wtd timer timeout 10 minutes 96
Server mgmt menu 96
The server mgmt menu appears only when you install asmb card on the motherboard 96
The server mgmt menu displays the server management status and allows you to change the settings 96
All values changed here do not take effect until computer is restarted 97
Allows you to choose options for erasing sel configuration options no yes on next reset yes on every reset 97
Allows you to choose options for reactions to a full sel configuration options do nothing erase immediately 97
Allows you to enable or disable all features of system event logging during boot configuration options disabled enabled 97
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Erase sel no 97
Sel components disabled 97
System event log 97
The following items appears only when you set sel components to enabled 97
When sel is full do nothing 97
36 chapter 4 bios setup 98
Bmc network configuration 98
Configuration address source previous state 98
Gateway ip address 0 allows you to key in gateway ip address 98
Select to configure lan channel parameters statically or dynamically by bios or bmc unspecified option will not modify any bmc network parameters during bios phase configuration options previous state static mode dhcp mode 98
Station ip address 0 allows you to key in station ip address 98
Subnet mask 0 allows you to key in subnet mask 98
The following items appear only when you set configuration address source to static mode 98
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Change smbios event log settings 99
Enabling disabling options smbios event log enabled change this to enable or disable all features of smbios event logging during boot configuration options disabled enabled 99
Erasing settings erase event log no choose the options for erasing smbios event log erasing is done prior to any logging activation during reset configuration options no yes next reset yes every reset 99
Event logs menu 99
The event logs allows you to change or view the event log settings 99
To change the smbios event log configuration 99
View smbios event log 100
View system event log 100
Allows you to enable or disable the full screen logo display feature configuration options disabled enabled 101
Allows you to select the power on state for the numlock configuration options off on 101
Allows you to set the display mode for options rom configuration options force bios keep current 101
Always do not allow disable ga20 this option is useful when any rt code is executed above 1mb 101
Asus z9pa u8 4 39 101
Boot menu 101
Bootup numlock state on 101
Csm16 module version gatea20 active upon request 101
Full screen logo enabled 101
Keys to adjust the number of seconds to wait for setup activation key 101
Option rom messages force bios 101
Set this item to enabled to use the asus mylogo2 feature 101
Setup prompt timeout xx 101
The boot menu items allow you to change the system boot options 101
Upon request ga20 can be disabled using bios services 101
Boot device seeking endless pxe 102
Boot option priorities 102
Int19 trap response immediate 102
Uefi boot disabled 102
Asus z9pa u8 4 41 103
Boot option filter uefi and legacy this option controls what devices system can boot to configuration options uefi and legacy legacy only uefi only 103
Csm parameters 103
Launch csm always for pci devices other than network mass storage or video defines which oprom to launch configuration options auto always never 103
Launch pxe oprom policy legacy only controls the execution of uefi and legacy pxe oprom configuration options do not launch uefi only legacy only legacy first uefi first 103
Launch storage oprom policy legacy only controls the execution of uefi and legacy storage oprom configuration options do not launch uefi only legacy only legacy first uefi first 103
Launch video oprom policy legacy only controls the execution of uefi and legacy video oprom configuration options do not launch uefi only legacy only legacy first uefi first 103
Other pci device rom priority legacy oprom for pci devices other than network mass storage or video defines which oprom to launch configuration options uefi oprom legacy oprom 103
To change the smbios event log configuration 103
42 chapter 4 bios setup 104
Allows you to configure the asus smart fan feature that smartly adjusts the fan speeds for more efficient system operation configuration options generic mode high speed mode full speed mode 104
Cpu 1 tr1 1 2 temperature xxxºc xxxºf 104
Cpu fan1 speed frnt fan1 4 speed rear fan1 speed xxxx rpm or n a 104
Fan speed control generic mode 104
Monitor menu 104
The monitor menu displays the system temperature power status and allows you to change the fan settings 104
The onboard hardware monitor automatically detects and displays the cpu and motherboard component temperatures 104
The onboard hardware monitor automatically detects and displays the speed of cpu fans front fans and rear fan in rotations per minute rpm if the fan is not connected to the motherboard the field shows n a 104
The onboard hardware monitor automatically detects the voltage output through the onboard voltage regulators 104
Vtt_cpu voltage vcore1 voltage vddq_ab cd_cpu1 voltage 5vsb voltage 5v voltage 12v voltage 3 v voltage vbat voltage 3 vsb voltage 104
Administrator password 105
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Confirm the password when prompted 105
If you have forgotten your bios password erase the cmos real time clock rtc ram to clear the bios password see section 2 jumpers for information on how to erase the rtc ram 105
If you have set an administrator password we recommend that you enter the administrator password for accessing the system otherwise you might be able to see or change only selected fields in the bios setup program 105
Security menu 105
The security menu items allow you to change the system security settings 105
To change an administrator password 105
To set an administrator password 105
Key management 106
Secure boot control disabled 106
Secure boot policy 106
Uefi secure boot management 106
User password 106
A confirmation window appears select yes to discard changes and exit 107
Asus ez flash 2 utility 107
Check section 4 asus ez flash 2 utility for details 107
Discard changes exit 107
Exit menu 107
The exit menu items allow you to save or discard your changes to the bios items 107
To display the submenu 107
Tool menu 107
Boot override 108
Discard changes reset 108
Launch efi shell from filesystem device 108
Restore defaults 108
Save changes reset 108
Configuration 109
Chapter summary 110
Raid definitions 111
Setting up raid 111
Installing hard disk drives 112
Raid configuration utilities 112
Setting the raid item in bios 112
Lsi software raid configuration utility 113
Creating a raid set 114
Easy configuration in this type the virtual drive parameters are set automatically 114
New configuration in this type you manually set the virtual drive parameters 114
The lsi software raid configuration utility allows you to create a raid 0 raid 1 or raid 10 set using these two types of configurations 114
To create a raid set using the easy configuration option 114
Using easy configuration 114
Asus z9pa u8 5 7 115
Bios version a 0 9231523r 115
Lsi software raid configuration utility ver c 5 sep 17 2010 115
Onlin a00 00 115
Onlin a00 01 115
Port 2 disk 74 4gb hds728080pla380 05 1c05 115
The information of the selected hard disk drive displays at the bottom of the screen 115
To configure array setting 115
To select the configurable array 115
When selected the drive indicator changes from ready to onlin ax y where x is the array number and y is the drive number 115
You need at least four identical hard disk drives when creating a raid 10 set 115
You need at least two identical hard disk drives when creating a raid 1 set 115
148 80gb 2 64 kb online 116
8 chapter 5 raid configuration 116
Again the virtual drive information appears including a virtual drive menu that allows you to change the virtual drive parameters 116
Bios version a 0 9231523r 116
Ld raid size stripes stripsz status 116
Lsi software raid configuration utility ver c 5 sep 17 2010 116
148 80gb 2 64 kb online 117
Asus z9pa u8 5 9 117
Bios version a 0 9231523r 117
Enabling dwc can improve the performance but with the risk of data loss 117
Ld raid size stripes stripsz status 117
Lsi software raid configuration utility ver c 5 sep 17 2010 117
When creating a raid 1 or a raid 10 set select dwc from the virtual 117
When creating a when creating a raid 0 set proceed to step 12 117
10 chapter 5 raid configuration 118
148 80gb 2 64 kb online 118
Bios version a 0 9231523r 118
Follow step 2 to 12 to configure additional virtual drives 118
Ld raid size stripes stripsz status 118
Lsi software raid configuration utility ver c 5 sep 17 2010 118
To finish raid configuration when prompted to save 118
Use cursor keys to navigate between items and press enter to select an option 118
When you have finished configuring the selected virtual drive select accept 118
148 80gb 2 64 kb online 119
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Follow steps 10 to 14 of the previous section using easy configuration to create the raid set 119
Follow steps 2 to 9 of the previous section using easy configuration 119
Ld raid size stripes stripsz status 119
To create a raid set using the new configuration option 119
Using new configuration 119
When a raid set already exists using the new configuration command erases the existing raid configuration data if you do not want to delete the existing raid set use the view add configuration command to view or create another raid configuration 119
Adding a new raid configuration 120
Adding or viewing a raid configuration 120
Initializing the virtual drives 121
Using the initialize command 121
100 completed 122
14 chapter 5 raid configuration 122
148 80gb 2 64 kb online 122
Bios version a 0 9231523r 122
Init of vd is in process 122
Initializing a virtual drive erases all data on the drive 122
Ld raid size stripes stripsz status 122
Ld raid size stripes stripsz status 0 10 154494mb 4 64 kb online 122
Lsi software raid configuration utility ver c 5 sep 17 2010 122
Space de select f10 initialize 122
Vd 0 initialization complete press esc 122
Virtual drive 0 122
Virtual drive s configured 122
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Bios version a 0 9231523r 123
Lsi software raid configuration utility ver c 5 sep 17 2010 123
To initialize the virtual drives using the objects command 123
Using the objects command 123
16 chapter 5 raid configuration 124
Bios version a 0 9231523r 124
Init will destroy data on selected vd s 124
Initilize vd 124
Lsi software raid configuration utility ver c 5 sep 17 2010 124
To start initialization 124
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Rebuilding failed drives 125
To rebuild a failed hard disk drive 125
You can manually rebuild failed hard disk drives using the rebuild command in the management menu 125
18 chapter 5 raid configuration 126
Bios version a 0 9231523r 126
Lsi software raid configuration utility ver c 5 sep 17 2010 126
To rebuild the drive 126
When rebuild is complete press any key to continue 126
Checking the drives for data consistency 127
Using the check consistency command 127
Using the objects command 129
22 chapter 5 raid configuration 130
Bios version a 0 9231523r 130
Deleting a raid configuration 130
Lsi software raid configuration utility ver c 5 sep 17 2010 130
Press any key to continue 130
The utility clears all the current array the utility clears all the current array 130
To delete a raid configuration 130
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Bios version a 0 9231523r 131
Create a new raid configuration before selecting the boot drive from a raid set for more details refer to 5 creating a raid set using new configuration 131
Lsi software raid configuration utility ver c 5 sep 17 2010 131
Selecting the boot drive from a raid set 131
The virtual drive is selected as boot drive press any key to continue 131
To select the boot drive from a raid set 131
24 chapter 5 raid configuration 132
Bios version a 0 9231523r 132
Enabling writecache 132
Lsi software raid configuration utility ver c 5 sep 17 2010 132
The writecache function is recommended for raid 1 and raid 10 sets 132
To display the adapter properties 132
To enable writecache 132
To turn on the option 132
When finished press any key to continue 132
When you enable writecache you may lose data when a power interruption occurs while transmitting or exchanging data among the drives 132
You may manually enable the raid controller s writecache option after creating a raid set to improve the data transmission performance 132
Enterprise scu sata option rom utility 133
Rapid storage technology 133
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Install all the serial ata hard disk drives 134
Rapid storage technology enterprise scu sata option rom 134
The navigation keys at the bottom of the screen allow you to move through the menus and select the menu options 134
The raid bios setup screens shown in this section are for reference only and may not exactly match the items on your screen 134
The utility supports maximum four hard disk drives for raid configuration 134
To display the utility main menu 134
To enter the intel 134
Turn on the system 134
Utility 134
After completing your selection 135
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Creating a raid set 135
The following screen appears 135
To create a raid set 135
To select the hard disk drives you want to include in the raid set the select disks screen appears 135
Creating a recovery set 136
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Be cautious when deleting a raid set you will lose all data on the hard disk drives when you delete a raid set 138
Deleting a raid set 138
The following screen appears 138
The following warning message appears 138
To delete a raid set 138
To return to the delete volume menu 138
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Be cautious before you reset a raid volume hard disk drive to non raid resetting a raid volume hard disk drive deletes all internal raid structure on the drive 139
Resetting disks to non raid 139
The following screen appears 139
To reset a raid set hard disk drive 139
To reset the raid set drives a confirmation message appears 139
To return to the utility main menu 139
To select 139
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Exiting the intel 140
If any of the sata hard disk drives included in the raid 1 array failed the system displays the status of the raid volume as degraded during post you can rebuild the raid array with other installed non raid disks 140
Rapid storage technology utility 140
Rebuilding the raid 140
Rebuilding the raid with other non raid disk 140
Select a destination disk with the same size as the original hard disk 140
The following warning message appears 140
This option is only for the raid 1 set 140
To enter the intel rapid storage technology option rom utility 140
To exit 140
To exit the utility 140
To rebuild the raid with other non raid disk 140
To return to the utility main menu 140
Rebuilding the raid with a new hard disk 141
Setting the boot array in the bios setup utility 142
Enterprise utility windows 143
Rapid storage technology 143
Creating a raid set 144
Changing a volume type 146
Deleting a volume 147
E mail preferences 148
Preferences 148
System preferences 148
Driver 149
Installation 149
Chapter summary 150
C600 intel raid driver 151
Creating a raid driver disk 151
Raid driver installation 151
Follow screen instructions to create the driver disk 152
Locate the raid driver and place a blank high density floppy disk to the floppy disk drive 152
Lsi 2008 sas2 driver 152
During windows 154
Installing the raid controller driver 154
Server 2008 os installation 154
Enterprise linux os 5 156
Red hat 156
Enterprise linux os 6 158
Red hat 158
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Preparing the linux driver 161
Suse linux 11 os 162
Chipset device software 164
Installation 164
Installation 167
Network connections software 167
Vga driver installation 170
Enterprise 3 installation 173
Rapid storage technology 173
Driver installation 176
Wg82574l gigabit adapters 176
Drivers menu 180
Management applications and utilities installation 180
Place the support dvd to the optical drive the dvd automatically displays the drivers menu if autorun is enabled in your computer 180
Running the support dvd 180
The drivers menu shows the available device drivers if the system detects installed devices install the necessary drivers to activate the devices 180
The support dvd that came with the motherboard package contains the drivers management applications and utilities that you can install to avail all motherboard features 180
Contact information 181
Make disk menu 181
Utilities menu 181
Reference information 183
Appendix summary 184
A z9pa u8 block diagram 185
Asus computer gmbh germany and austria 187
Asus computer international america 187
Asus contact information 187
Asustek computer inc china 187
Asustek computer inc taiwan 187
Technical support 187
Address 800 corporate way fremon 188
Asus computer international 188
Ca 94539 188
Conforms to the following specifications 188
Date jul 17 2012 188
Declaration of conformity 188
Ec declaration of conformity 188
Fcc part 15 subpart b unintentional radiators 188
Hereby declares that the product 188
Including interference that may cause undesired operation 188
Interference and 2 this device must accept any interference received 188
Model number z9pa u8 188
Per fcc part 2 section 2 1077 a 188
Phone fax no 510 739 3777 510 608 4555 188
Product name motherboard 188
Representative person s name representative person s name steve chang president 188
Responsible party name responsible party name 188
Signature 188
Supplementary information 188
The following two conditions 1 this device may not cause harmful 188
This device complies with part 15 of the fcc rules operation is subject to 188

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