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5. Use the arrow key to highlight Start Create Process and press <Enter>. A warning message will
appear, press Y to finish the creation, or press N to cancel the creation.
6. Important note: All existing content in the hard drive will be destroyed after array creation.
B-2. Delete Disk Array
A RAID can be deleted after it has been created. To delete a RAID, use the following steps:
1. Select Delete Array in the main menu and press <Enter>. The channel column will be activated.
2. Select the member of an array that is to be deleted and press <Enter>. A warning message will
show up, press Y to delete or press N to cancel.
VIA Technologies,Inc. VIA VT8237 Serial ATA BIOS Setting Utility V1.20
Delete a RAID array contain the hard disks
attached to VIA IDE controller
F1 : View Array/disk Status
KK
KK
K,
LL
LL
L : Move to next item
Enter : Confirm the selection
ESC : Exit
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X Create Array
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X Delete Array
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X Create/Delete Spare
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X Select Boot Array
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X Serial Number View
The selected array will be destoried.
Are you sure? Continue? Press Y/N
Channel Driver Name Array Name Mode Size(GB) Status
[*]Serial_Ch0 Master ST380013AS SATA 74.53 Stripe0
[*]Serial_Ch1 Master ST9120023AS SATA 111.79 Stripe1
Deleting a disk array will destroy all the data on the disk array except RAID 1 arrays. When a RAID
is deleted, the data on these two hard disk drives will be reserved and become two normal disk drives.
