ASROCK K7NF2-RAID Installation And Configuration Manual
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Guide to SATA Hard Disks
Installation and RAID Configuration
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Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation ............................ 2
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Serial ATA (SATA) Hard Disks Installation ............... 2
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Making a SATA Driver Diskette ................................ 3
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Guide to RAID Configurations ......................................... 4
2.1
Introduction of RAID ............................................... 4
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RAID Configuration Precautions ............................ 6
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BIOS Configuration Utility ....................................... 7
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2.3.2
Enter BIOS Configuration Utility ................ 7
Create Disk Array ...................................... 9
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Page 1: Table Of Contents
Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation and RAID Configuration Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation ......2 Serial ATA (SATA) Hard Disks Installation ....2 Making a SATA Driver Diskette ........ 3 Guide to RAID Configurations ......... 4 Introduction of RAID ..........4 RAID Configuration Precautions ...... -
Page 2: Guide To Sata Hard Disks Installation
Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation 1.1 Serial ATA (SATA) Hard Disks Installation This motherboard adopts MCP-RAID southbridge chipset that supports Serial ATA (SATA) hard disks with RAID functions, including RAID 0, RAID 1, and JBOD. You may install SATA hard disks on this motherboard for internal storage devices. -
Page 3: Making A Sata Driver Diskette
SATA driver diskette before you start the OS installation. STEP 1: Insert the ASRock Support CD into your optical drive to boot your system. (Do NOT insert any floppy diskette into the floppy drive at this moment!) STEP 2: During POST at the beginning of system boot-up, press <F11>... -
Page 4: Guide To Raid Configurations
Guide to RAID Configurations 2.1 Introduction of RAID This motherboard adopts MCP-RAID south bridge chipset that integrates RAID controller supporting RAID 0 / RAID 1 / RAID 0+1 / JBOD function with two independent Serial ATA (SATA) channels. This section will introduce the basic knowledge of RAID, and the guide to configure RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, and JBOD settings. - Page 5 RAID 1 (Data Mirroring) RAID 1 is called data mirroring that copies and maintains an identical image of data from one drive to a second drive. It provides data protection and increases fault tolerance to the entire system since the disk array management software will direct all applications to the surviving drive as it contains a complete copy of the data in the other drive if one drive fails.
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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 Setup Utility 2.3.1 Enter BIOS Setup Utility After the system powers on, press <F2> key to enter BIOS setup utility. Highlight Advanced and press <Enter>, then the main inter- face of BIOS setup utility will appear. Please set the option RAID Option Mode to [Enabled]. - Page 8 Within RAID Disk Configuration, use the up and down arrow key to highlight the target array mode that you want to create, and press <Enter> to confirm the selection. BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced Set SATA as RAID. RAID Disk Configuration SATA1 as RAID [Enabled] SATA2 as RAID...
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Page 9: Create Disk Array
2.3.2 Create Disk Array Create RAID 0 Within RAID Disk Configuration, use the up and down arrow key to highlight the target array mode that you want to create, and press <Enter> to confirm the selection. BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced Set SATA as RAID. - Page 10 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. NVIDIA RAID Utility Jan 12 2005 - Define a New Array -...
- Page 11 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 12 Depending on the platform used, the system can have one or more channels. In a typical system there is usually one adapter and multiple channels, and each channel has a slave and a master. 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.
- Page 13 Create RAID 1 Within RAID Disk Configuration, use the up and down arrow key to highlight the target array mode that you want to create, and press <Enter> to confirm the selection. BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced Set SATA as RAID. RAID Disk Configuration SATA1 as RAID [Enabled]...
- Page 14 After you press <F10>, the NVIDIA RAID Utility - Define a New Array window appears. By default, RAID Mode is set to Mirroring, so you do not need to change it when setting up RAID 1. And the Striping Block is set to Optimal as default.
- Page 15 NVIDIA RAID Utility Jan 12 2005 - Define a New Array - RAID Mode : Stripimg Block : Mirroring Optimal Free Disks Array Disks Disk Model Name Disk Model Name 1.0.M Maxtor 6Y120M0 [ ]Add 1.1.M Maxtor 6Y120M0 [ ]Del [ESC] Quit [F6] Back [F7] Finish [TAB] Navigate [ ] Select [ENTER] Popup NVIDIA RAID Utility - Array List -...
- Page 16 Create JBOD Within RAID Disk Configuration, use the up and down arrow key to highlight the target array mode that you want to create, and press <Enter> to confirm the selection. BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced Set SATA as RAID. RAID Disk Configuration SATA1 as RAID [Enabled] SATA2 as RAID...
- Page 17 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 Spanning if you want to create RAID JBOD. And the Striping Block is set to Optimal as default. NVIDIA RAID Utility Jan 12 2005 - Define a New Array -...
- Page 18 NVIDIA RAID Utility Jan 12 2005 - Define a New Array - RAID Mode : Stripimg Block : Spanning Optimal Free Disks Array Disks Disk Model Name Disk Model Name 1.0.M Maxtor 6Y120M0 [ ]Add 1.1.M Maxtor 6Y120M0 [ ]Del [ESC] Quit [F6] Back [F7] Finish [TAB] Navigate [ ] Select [ENTER] Popup NVIDIA RAID Utility - Array List -...