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ASROCK 4COREDUAL-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 BIOS Configuration Utility ........................................................................................................ 4
1.3.1 Enter BIOS Configuration Utility ........................................................................................ 4
1.3.2 Create Disk Array ........................................................................................................... 4
1.3.3 Delete Disk Array ........................................................................................................... 7
1.3.4 Select Boot Array ........................................................................................................... 7
2 VIA Windows RAID Installation Guide ................................................................................................ 9
2.1.1 Create RAID Array ............................................................................................................... 9
2.1.2 Delete Disk Array ................................................................................................................. 11
2.1.3 Check All Disks ................................................................................................................... 12
2.1.4 Verify Mirror Disk ................................................................................................................. 13
2.1.5 Synchronize Mirror Disk ........................................................................................................ 14
2.1.6 Disk Error Detection ............................................................................................................. 15
2.1.7 Duplicate Critical RAID 1 Array ............................................................................................... 15
2.1.8 Rebuild Broken RAID 1 array ................................................................................................. 15

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  • Page 1: Table Of Contents

    1.3.3 Delete Disk Array …………………………………………………………………………………………..7 1.3.4 Select Boot Array …………………………………………………………………………………………….. 7 2 VIA Windows RAID Installation Guide ………………………………………………………………………………...… 9 2.1 VIA Windows RAID Installation Guide for Windows 2000/XP/XP 64-bit Users ……………………………….. 9 2.1.1 Create RAID Array ………………………………………………………………………………………………… 9 2.1.2 Delete Disk Array ……………………………………………………………………………………………..…… 11 2.1.3 Check All Disks …………………………………………………………………………………………………….
  • Page 2 2.2 VIA Windows RAID Installation Guide for Windows Vista/Vista 64-bit Users ………………………………… 18 2.2.1 Create Disk Array …………………………………………………………………………………………………. 18 2.2.2 Remove Array …………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 21 2.2.3 Add/Remove Spare ………………………………………………………………………………………………. 21 2.2.4 Synchronize Mirror Disk …………………………………………………………………………………………. 22 2.2.5 Repair Broken Disk Array ………………………………………………………………………………………… 22...

  • Page 3: Via Bios Raid Installation Guide

    JBOD (Spanning) 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: Bios Configuration Utility

    You may use two new drives, or use an existing drive and a new drive to create a RAID 1 (mirroring) array for data protection (the new drive must be of the same size or larger than the existing drive). If you use two drives of different sizes, the smaller capacity hard disk will be the base storage size.
  • Page 5 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 6 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 7: Delete Disk Array

    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 9: Via Windows Raid Installation Guide

    SATA controller. Please read this guide carefully and follow the instructions below to configure and manage 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 10 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 11: Delete Disk Array

    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 12: Check All Disks

    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. When a RAID is deleted, the data on these two hard disk drives will be reserved.

  • Page 13: 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 14: 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. For example, the source disk is absent and the mirror disk runs in the tolerance mode. So the exact meaning of “Synchronize Mirror”...

  • Page 15: Disk Error Detection

    A message will pop up when synchronization is finished. 2.1.8 Rebuild Broken RAID 1 array If, during the system-booting, the failure or absence of any member disk of RAID is detected, the array will be marked as broken status. If broken...
  • Page 16 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 17 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.

  • Page 18: Create Disk Array

    Operation block. If the number of available free disks is enough for a RAID mode, you can finish your creation. When free disks (disks not in any disk array) are selected to create a disk array, original data on these disks maybe lost, so be sure these data will never be needed or conduct necessary back-ups.
  • Page 19 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. Besides, you have to select the creation method in this step. Selecting “Auto”, the tool will select array disks for you, and you don’t need to do anything.
  • Page 20 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 21: Remove Array

    This function is specified for RAID1 (Mirroring) disk array. A Spare disk is a special array disk that will be used to replace the Source or Mirror disk when one of them meets disk failure. To Add a Spare disk to or Remove Spare from a RAID1 disk array, you can click “Add/ Remove Spare”...

  • Page 22: Synchronize Mirror Disk

    Repair Broken Disk Array If some disk(s) in a disk array can not work any more (due to disk failure or disk absence), the disk array will be in broken status. At this time, the array's icon in the Array View will looks like .

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