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ASROCK P4VM900-SATA2 Installation Manual

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1 VIA BIOS RAID Installation Guide .................................................................................................... 3
1.1 Introduction of RAID ............................................................................................................... 3
1.2 RAID Configuration Precautions ................................................................................................ 3
1.3 Installing Windows 2000 / XP / Vista With RAID Functions .............................................................. 4
1.4.1 Installing Windows 2000 / XP With RAID Functions................................................................ 4
1.4.2 Installing Windows Vista With RAID Functions....................................................................... 5
1.4 BIOS Configuration Utility ......................................................................................................... 6
1.4.1 Enter BIOS Configuration Utility ........................................................................................ 6
1.4.2 Create Disk Array ........................................................................................................... 6
1.4.3 Delete Disk Array ........................................................................................................... 8
1.4.4 Select Boot Array ........................................................................................................... 8
2 VIA Windows RAID Installation Guide ................................................................................................ 10
2.1 VIA Windows RAID Installation Guide for Windows 2000/XP Users ................................................... 10
2.1.1 Create RAID Array ............................................................................................................... 10
2.1.2 Delete Disk Array ................................................................................................................. 12
2.1.3 Check All Disks ................................................................................................................... 13
2.1.4 Verify Mirror Disk ................................................................................................................. 14
2.1.5 Synchronize Mirror Disk ........................................................................................................ 15
2.1.6 Disk Error Detection ............................................................................................................. 16

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  • Page 1: Table Of Contents

    VIA RAID Installation Guide 1 VIA BIOS RAID Installation Guide …………………………………………………………………………………..….. 3 1.1 Introduction of RAID …………………………………………………………………………………………..……. 3 1.2 RAID Configuration Precautions …………………………………………………………………………...……… 3 1.3 Installing Windows 2000 / XP / Vista With RAID Functions ………………………………………………..…… 4 1.4.1 Installing Windows 2000 / XP With RAID Functions………………………………………………..…….. 4 1.4.2 Installing Windows Vista With RAID Functions………………………………………………………..…...
  • Page 2 2.1.7 Duplicate Critical RAID 1 Array ………………………………………………………………………………….. 16 2.1.8 Rebuild Broken RAID 1 array ……………………………………………………………………………………. 16 2.2 VIA Windows RAID Installation Guide for Windows Vista Users ……………………………………………… 19 2.2.1 Create Disk Array …………………………………………………………………………………………………. 19 2.2.2 Remove Array …………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 22 2.2.3 Add/Remove Spare ………………………………………………………………………………………………. 22 2.2.4 Synchronize Mirror Disk ………………………………………………………………………………………….

  • Page 3: Via Bios Raid Installation Guide

    1 VIA BIOS RAID Installation Guide You are allowed to configure RAID functions under BIOS environment. 1.1 Introduction of RAID VIA VT8237S south bridge chipset integrates RAID controller supporting RAID 0, RAID 1, and JBOD functions with two independent SATA channels.

  • Page 4: Installing Windows 2000 / Xp / Vista With Raid Functions

    STEP 2: Make a SATA / SATAII driver diskette. Insert the ASRock Support CD into your optical drive to boot your system. During POST at the beginning of system boot-up, press <F11> key, and then a window for boot devices selection appears. Please select CD-ROM as the boot device.

  • Page 5: Installing Windows Vista With Raid Functions

    Insert the Windows Vista optical disk into the optical drive to boot your system, and follow the instruction to install Windows Vista OS on your system. When you see “Where do you want to install Windows?” page, please insert the ASRock Support CD into your optical drive, and click the “Load Driver”...

  • Page 6: Bios Configuration Utility

    1.4 BIOS Configuration Utility 1.4.1 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: 1.4.2 Create Disk Array Within the main interface, use the up and down arrow key to highlight the Create Array command and press <Enter>...
  • Page 7 There are two methods to create a disk array. One method is “Auto Setup”, and another is “Select Disk Drives”. Select “Auto Setup” to allow BIOS to select the disk drives and create array automatically. Select “Select Disk Drives” to let user select the array drives manually.

  • Page 8: Delete Disk Array

    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. Press “y”...
  • Page 9 warning message will appear. Press Y to delete a specific array or press 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 10: Via Windows Raid Installation Guide

    VIA Windows RAID Installation Guide You are allowed to configure RAID functions under Windows environment. The “RAID Software” is a Windows-based software utility with graphical user interface and provides user an easy-operation tool to configure and manage disk drives or disk arrays connected to VT8237S SATA controller.
  • Page 11 Auto: The software will configure the available hard disk drives to be a disk array. User can modify the hard disk drives later. It is strongly recommended to use this method. Custom: Disk array is arranged by user. Click “Auto” button. The “Creating Array” window will pop up. If you select “Custom”, the “Available Disks” window will list the available disk drives for array-creating.

  • Page 12: Delete Disk Array

    Create RAID 1 You can reserve the data on the source drive after clicking “Create” button when you create a RAID 1 array. There is a limitation if user wants to keep the data on the source drive the capacity of the mirror drive must be greater or equal to the source drive, otherwise the RAID 1 can’t be created.

  • Page 13: Check All Disks

    2. Click “Yes” to delete the specific disk array or click “No” to cancel. A message box will pop up to prompt user that the disk array has been deleted successfully and ask user whether to restart the computer. Click “Yes” to restart the computer or click “No” to skip the restarting. New setting will take effect only after restarting. Warning: Deleting a disk array will destroy all the data on the disk array except RAID 1.

  • Page 14: Verify Mirror Disk

    2.1.4 Verify Mirror Disk Data on the mirror disk must be the same as its corresponding source disk to provide fault tolerance for RAID 1. Select a RAID 1. Right-click the selected RAID, and then a shortcut menu will appear. Click “Verify Mirror” to verify whether the source and the mirror disks are identical.

  • Page 15: Synchronize Mirror Disk

    “need-sync” mirror disk should be synchronized as soon as possible. 2.1.5 Synchronize Mirror Disk For RAID 1, it must be synchronized when data on the mirror disk is not identical with its corresponding source disk. Sometimes the data on the mirror disk may be newer than the source disk.

  • Page 16: Disk Error Detection

    2.1.6 Disk Error Detection RAID will pop up an error message when the failure or absence of a disk drive is detected. 2.1.7 Duplicate Critical RAID 1 Array If, during the system-booting, the software detects the inconsistence between the source and the mirror disks of RAID 1, the disk array will be marked as critical status, and the software will automatically prompt user to duplicate the RAID 1 to make the mirror disk consist with the corresponding source disk again.
  • Page 17 RAID 1 array is detected by the RAID software, it will indicate a serial steps to repair this problem. A dialog box will pop up to indicate the RAID is broken. Click Yes. Then another dialog box will pop up. If the source or the mirror disk drive is unplugged only, click “Cancel” to stop rebuilding step. Shut down the system.
  • Page 18 A warning message will pop up. If you want to rebuild the RAID by using the disk drive that you selected in the previous step, click “Next”. Warning: The data on the selected disk drive will be lost. Reboot the system. This RAID is marked as a critical RAID.

  • Page 19: Via Windows Raid Installation Guide For Windows Vista Users

    2.2 NVIDIA Windows RAID Installation Guide for Windows Vista Users After GUI software is installed, it will automatically start every time when your Windows OS is started. An icon will appear in the system tray of the tool bar to indicate that GUI software is currently running. Just double click on the small icon to call out the main interface of the software.
  • Page 20 Select one type by clicking corresponding item and click <Next>. Select Controller and Creating Method Select a controller to create array. As soon as you select one controller, the disks you will select for this array will be limited on this controller.
  • Page 21 You need to select the disks for the array you are creating. Please select an available disk from the left side list, then click the Right-Arrow button to add a disk into array. Array disks will be added in the order of Source, Mirror and Spare disk. A Spare disk can also be added or removed after a Mirror array is created.

  • Page 22: Remove Array

    As soon as you click the <Next> button, the data on the hardware disk maybe destroyed permanently. So please do confirm your data, and backup the important data before clicking <Next> button. Successful Information This step informs you that you have create an array successfully. 2.2.2 Remove Array To remove a disk array, you can click on “Remove Array”...

  • Page 23: Synchronize Mirror Disk

    2.2.4 Synchronize Mirror Disk Synchronize Mirror Disk forces data on the mirror disk to be identical with the source disk by copying the data from the one with newer data to the other disk. Note that the source disk does not always have the latest data. Please follow the instructions on the screen to synchronize mirror array.

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