1. Manuals
  2. Brands
  3. ASROCK Manuals
  4. Motherboard
  5. N68-GS
  6. Installation manual

ASROCK N68-GS Installation Manual

Nvidia raid
Hide thumbs Also See for N68-GS:
Table of Contents

Advertisement

Quick Links

Download this manual See also: User Manual
1. NVIDIA BIOS RAID Installation Guide .......................... 2
1.1 Introduction to RAID ............................................ 2
1.2 RAID Configurations Precautions ........................... 3
Vista 64-bit With RAID Functions ............................. 5
RAID Functions .............................................. 5
1.3.2 Installing Windows Vista / Vista 64-bit With RAID
Functions ........................................................ 6
1.4 Create Disk Array ................................................ 8
2000 / XP / XP 64-bit Users .................................. 11
Vista / Vista 64-bit Users ...................................... 21
1

Advertisement

Table of Contents
loading

Related Manuals for ASROCK N68-GS

Summary of Contents for ASROCK N68-GS

  • Page 1: Table Of Contents

    1.1 Introduction to RAID …………………………………….. 2 1.2 RAID Configurations Precautions ……………………… 3 1.3 Installing Windows 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit / Vista / Vista 64-bit With RAID Functions ……………………..5 1.3.1 Installing Windows 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit With RAID Functions ……………………......

  • Page 2: Nvidia Raid Installation Guide

    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.

  • Page 3: Raid Configurations Precautions

    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. JBOD is not really a RAID, and it does not support fault tolerance.
  • Page 4 Please backup your data first before you create RAID functions. In the process you create RAID, the system will ask if you want to “Clear Disk Data” or not. It is recommended to select “Yes”, and then your future data building will operate under a...

  • Page 5: Installing Windows 2000 / Xp / Xp 64-Bit / Vista

    Before installing Windows 2000 to your system, your Windows 2000 optical disk is supposed to include SP4. If there is no SP4 included in your disk, please visit the below website for proper procedures of making a SP4 disk: http://www.microsoft.com/Windows2000/downloads/servicepacks/sp4/spdeploy.

  • Page 6: Functions

    When prompted, insert the SATA / SATAII driver diskette containing the NVIDIA RAID driver. After reading the floppy disk, the driver will be presented. Select the driver to install according to the mode you choose and the OS you install.
  • Page 7 (create, convert, delete, or rebuild) RAID functions on SATA / SATAII HDDs, you still need to set up “SATA Operation Mode” to [RAID] in BIOS first. Then, please set the RAID configuration by using the Windows RAID installation guide in the following path in the Support CD: ..

  • Page 8: Create Disk Array

    After you press <F10>, the NVIDIA RAID Utility - Define a New Array window appears. By default, RAID Mode is set to Mirroring, but please set it to Striping if you want to create RAID 0. And the Striping Block is set to Optimal as default. We take RAID 0 for example to show you how to use NVRAID RAID Utility to create RAID 0 (Striping).
  • Page 9 Striping block size is given in kilobytes, and affect how data is arranged on the disk. It is recommended to leave this value at the default Optimal, which is 64KB, but the values can be between 8KB and 128KB (8, 16, 32, 64, and 128KB). Then, you have to assign the disks.
  • Page 10 The adapter / channel / master / slave status of each hard disk is given in the Loc (location) columns of the Free Disks and Array Disks lists. For example: 1 .

  • Page 11: Nvidia Windows Raid Installation Guide

    RAID functions. For Windows 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit and Windows Vista / Vista 64-bit, there are different installation procedures. Please follow the instructions below according to the OS you install.
  • Page 12 JBOD: Spanning RAID 5 In this section, we take RAID 0 for example to show you how to use NVRAIDMAN to create RAID 0 (Striping). If you plan to use NVRAIDMAN to create other RAID arrays, the operation procedures are similar to the steps of creating RAID 0. Please do the...
  • Page 13 Click Next and the following screen shot will appear. Click the RAID Mode list arrow and select Striping, and leave the “Stripe Size” with its default value as shown in the following screen shot.
  • Page 14 Click Next, and the following screen shot will appear. Select the two disks that you want to include in the stripe set.
  • Page 15 Click Finish and the following screen shot will appear. The RAID 0 is created successfully. C. Initializing NVRAID Array Disks Now that the two-disk array has been created, it needs to be partitioned and formatted. Click on Start → Settings → Control Panel.
  • Page 16 Double click on Computer Management. Click on Disk Management. The following screen is displayed. The 153.38 GB is for the two disk striped array that was created earlier. To create a partition on it, right click on the Unallocated partition and select New Partition.
  • Page 17 (assuming that you have a RAID array already created) as shown in the following screen shot. The above screen shot shows that there is a Mirrored array that will be deleted. After the “Delete Array...” has been selected, the following screen shot appear.
  • Page 18 Rebuilding is the process of restoring data to a hard drive from other drives in the array. This applies only to fault tolerant arrays such as RAID 1, RAID 0+1, as well as a RAID 5. For example, assuming you have a three disk RAID 5 array, and one of the drives fail, then you need to replace the failed drive with a new one, and rebuild the array to re-generate the lost data on the newly added drive.
  • Page 19 Click Next. The Disk Selection page appears. Select the drive that you want to rebuild by clicking it from the list, then click Next. The Completing the NVIDIA Rebuild Array page appears.
  • Page 20 Synchronizing an array will force a rebuild of redundancy or parity. The operation is applicable to any fault tolerant array such as RAID 1, 0+1 and RAID 5. For RAID1 and RAID 0+1, “sync” results in copying the data to the redundancy disk. For RAID 5, “sync”...

  • Page 21: Nvidia Windows Raid Installation Guide For Windows Vista / Vista 64-Bit Users

    Vista 64-bit Users A. Enter Storage RAID driver is built in NVIDIA ALL in one driver provided in our support CD. After you finish the driver installation, you can create, delete, or rebuild any RAID array. Please enter Storage by clicking on Start → Programs → NVIDIA Corporation → Storage.
  • Page 22 Click “Create array”. Then you can start to build up RAID. B. Creating RAID Arrays Click Next and the following screen shot will appear.
  • Page 23 Select a configuration that best suits your storage needs. It is recommended to select “Custom”. Click Next. Then, select the type of RAID array to create. You need to choose the RAID Mode first and click Next. Here we take Striping (RAID 0) for example to show you how to use Storage to create Striping (RAID 0).
  • Page 24 After you decide the RAID Mode, you are allowed to select the Stripe Size. The default value of this item is 64K. Then click Next. Select the disks to add to the new RAID array, and click Next. Select the disk with data to preserve, and click Next.
  • Page 25 Click Next to confirm that you agree to use the default settings for RAID configurations. Click Finish to complete the steps of creating RAID array. C. Initializing NVRAID Array Disks Now that the two-disk array has been created, it needs to be partitioned and formatted.
  • Page 26 Right-click on the unallocated partition and select New Simple Volume. Follow the Wizard for setting up and formatting the partition. Once that is done, you can start using the newly created stripped array.

Table of Contents