With BIOS R34 or later, Intel® Matrix Storage Manager is supported on Intel® Server Board S3000AH(all SKUs) with Microsoft Windows* driver support only. Below are the steps on how to use Intel® Matrix Storage SATA RAID on Intel® Server Board S3000AH.

1. Upgrade BIOS to R34 or later.
2. Enter BIOS setup screen by F2.
3. Select Advanced | IDE Controller, enable SATA RAID. The SATA RAID OPROM setting will be displayed.
4. There are 2 options in SATA RAID OPROM*, “LSI” and “Intel Matrix Storage”. Choose “Intel Matrix Storage”.
5. Save the change and exit BIOS by F10.
6. Follow these instructions to use Intel® Matrix Storage Manager to build a "RAID Ready" system.
7. Please download the appropriate Intel® Matrix Storage driver. For S3000AH, please choose below driver during driver installation.
   • Intel(R) 82801GR/GH SATA RAID Controller (Desktop ICH7R/DH)

    *Note: Please refer to Product User's Guide for detail information on RAID options supported by Intel® Server Board S3000AH.

Intel® Matrix Storage Manager provides software support for high-performance Serial ATA RAID 0 arrays, fault-tolerant Serial ATA RAID 1 arrays, high capacity and faulttolerant Serial ATA RAID 5 arrays, and high performance and fault-tolerant Serial ATA RAID 10 arrays on supported chipsets using select operating systems. Intel® Matrix Storage Manager is the software that enables Intel® Matrix Storage Technology.

For detailed information and supported OSes, please refer to the following website:
http://support.intel.com/support/chipsets/imsm/

This applies to:

Intel® Server Board S3000AH