ASROCK 775DUAL-880PRO Manual To Installation And Configuration
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ASROCK 775DUAL-880PRO Manual To Installation And Configuration

ASROCK 775DUAL-880PRO Manual To Installation And Configuration

Guide to sata hard disks installation and raid configuration
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Guide to SATA Hard Disks
Installation and RAID Configuration
1.
Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation ............................ 2
1.1
1.2
Making An SATA Driver Diskette ............................... 3
2.
Guide to RAID Configurations ......................................... 4
2.1
Introduction of RAID ............................................... 4
2.2
RAID Configuration Precautions ............................ 6
2.3
BIOS Configuration Utility ....................................... 7
2.3.1
2.3.2
2.3.3
2.3.4
3.
Create Disk Array ...................................... 8
Delete Disk Array ..................................... 13
Select Boot Array ..................................... 14

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  • Page 1: Table Of Contents

    RAID Configuration Precautions ......6 BIOS Configuration Utility ........7 2.3.1 Enter BIOS Configuration Utility ....7 2.3.2 Create Disk Array ........8 2.3.3 Delete Disk Array ........13 2.3.4 Select Boot Array ........14 Installation of Windows 2000 / Windows XP ....15...

  • Page 2: Guide To Sata Hard Disks Installation

    This section will guide you to install the SATA hard disks. STEP 1: Install the SATA hard disks into the drive bays of your chassis. STEP 2: Connect the SATA power cable to the SATA hard disk.

  • Page 3: Making An Sata Driver Diskette

    Windows 2000 / Windows XP on your system directly without setting the RAID configuration on your system, or you may start to use “VT8237 SATA RAID BIOS” to set RAID 0 / RAID 1 / JBOD configuration before you install the OS. You may also set the RAID configuration by using “VIA RAID Tool”...

  • Page 4: Guide To Raid Configurations

    It will improve data access and storage since it will double the data transfer rate of a single disk alone while the two hard disks perform the same work as a single drive but at a sustained data transfer rate. WARNING!! Although RAID 0 function can improve the access performance, it does not provide any fault tolerance.
  • Page 5 A spanning disk array is equal to the sum of all drives. Spanning stores data onto a drive until it is full then proceeds to store files onto the next drive in the array. When any member disk fails, it will affect the entire array.

  • Page 6: Raid Configuration Precautions

    2.2 RAID Configurations Precautions Please use two new drives if you are creating a RAID 0 (striping) array for performance. It is recommended to use two SATA drives of the same size. If you use two drives of different sizes, the smaller capacity hard disk will be the base storage size for each drive.

  • Page 7: Bios Configuration Utility

    2.3 BIOS Configuration Utility 2.3.1 Enter BIOS Configuration Utility After the system powers on, the following information will appear on the screen. Press ‘Tab’ key to enter BIOS configuration utility. The main interface of BIOS configuration utility is as below:...

  • Page 8: Create Disk Array

    2.3.2 Create Disk Array Within the main interface, use the up and down arrow key to highlight the Create Array command and press <Enter> to call out the list of creation steps. Highlight the Array Mode and press <Enter>, then a list of array modes will appear.
  • Page 9 When using Select Disk Drives method, the channel column will be activated. Just highlight the target drives that you want to use and press <Enter> to select them respectively. When all drives have been selected, press <Esc> to go back to the creation steps menu.
  • Page 10 Create RAID 0 If RAID 0 array is selected in step 2, user can also select a block size for the array. Use the arrow key to highlight the “Block Size” and press <Enter>. Then the list of available block size will popup. The block size can be selected from 4K to 64K Bytes.
  • Page 11 Create RAID 1 The data on disk drives will be destroyed if user uses “Auto Setup” to create RAID 1. But you can reserve the data on source drive if you use “Select Disk Drives” to select the source and the mirror drive.
  • Page 12 JBOD array if you use “Select Disk Drives” to select disk drives The data on the first disk drive will be reserved and the other disk drives in JBOD will be expanded behind the first disk drive and become free space.

  • Page 13: Delete Disk Array

    N to cancel. Delete a disk array will destroy all the data on the disk array except RAID 1. When a RAID 1 is deleted, the data on these two hard disk drives will be reserved and become two normal disks.

  • Page 14: Select Boot Array

    2.3.4 Select Boot Array User can select a disk array as boot device if user wants to boot operating system from an array. Boot disk array may not be selected if user does not boot the Operating System from the disk array.

  • Page 15: Installation Of Windows 2000 / Windows Xp

    Windows 2000 or Windows XP CD into the optical drive. Then remove the floppy diskette, and reboot the system. At the very beginning, you will see the message at the bottom of the screen, “Press F6 if you need to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver..”...
  • Page 16 You will see the instruction as followed. After inserting the SATA HDD driver diskette and pressing <Enter> key, you will see the different versions of the SATA HDD drivers for you to install. Please use arrow keys to move the highlight bar to make your selection according to the OS you use.

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