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ASROCK 775TWINS-HDTV Manual To Installation And Configuration

ASROCK 775TWINS-HDTV 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 0 / RAID 1 / JBOD) ............................... 4
2.1 Introduction of RAID ................................. 4
2.4 RAID 1 Configuration ................................ 10
2.5 JBOD Configuration ................................. 16
Windows XP Installation ................................ 20

RAID Configuration

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  • Page 1: Table Of Contents

    Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation and RAID Configuration 1. Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation …………….. 2 1.1 Serial ATA (SATA) Hard Disks Installation …… 2 1.2 Making An SATA Driver Diskette ……………… 2 2. Guide to RAID Configurations (RAID 0 / RAID 1 / JBOD) ………………………….

  • Page 2: Guide To Sata Hard Disks Installation

    STEP 6: Connect the SATA power cable to the SATA hard disk. Making An SATA Driver Diskette If you want to install Windows 2000 or Windows XP on your system while you only have SATA HDDs on your system, you will need to make an SATA driver diskette before you start the OS installation.
  • Page 3 Windows 2000 / Windows XP on your system directly without setting the RAID configuration on your system, or you may start to use “ALi RAID BIOS Setup Utility” to set RAID 0 / RAID 1 / JBOD configuration before you install the OS.

  • Page 4: Guide To Raid Configurations (Raid 0 / Raid 1 / Jbod)

    2. Guide to RAID Configurations (RAID 0 / RAID 1 / JBOD) Introduction of RAID This motherboard adopts ALi M5283 IDE controller chip that supports RAID 0 / RAID 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, and JBOD settings.

  • Page 5: Raid Configuration Precautions

    RAID Configurations Precautions It is recommended to use two new drives if you are creating a RAID 0 (striping) array for performance. You may use two new drives, or use an existing drive and a...

  • Page 6: Raid 0 Configuration

    RAID 0 Configuration This section will guide you to configure RAID 0. To set RAID 0 configuration, please follow the instruction below to use “ALi RAID BIOS Setup Utility” for the setting of RAID 0 configuration. STEP 1: Boot-up your computer.
  • Page 7 STEP 3: Move the highlight bar to the item “Create RAID 0 Striping for Performance” and press <Enter> key to activate it. A flashing “S” cursor appears at the Drive Select Menu for you to choose the first drive for RAID 0.
  • Page 8 STEP 5: After two drives are properly assigned, it will appear the following message, “Data on RAID Drives will be deleted (Y/N) ?” RAID BIOS Setup Utility (c) 2003 ALi Corporation www.ali.com.tw Create RAID 0 Striping for Performance Create RAID 1 Mirroring for Reliability...
  • Page 9 STEP 6: After the RAID drives are created, it will appear the following message “Input RAID name (8 characters): ” for you to key in a name for the newly created array. The effective characters for an array name are <0>-<9>, <A>-<Z>, <a>-<z>, <Space>...

  • Page 10: Raid 1 Configuration

    RAID 1 Configuration This section will guide you to configure RAID 1. To set RAID 1 configuration, please follow the instruction below to use “ALi RAID BIOS Setup Utility” for the setting of RAID 1 configuration. STEP 1: Boot-up your computer.
  • Page 11 STEP 3: Move the highlight bar to the item “Create RAID 1 Mirroring for Reliability” and press <Enter> key to activate it. A flashing “M” cursor appears at the Drive Select Menu for you to choose the first (source) drive for RAID 1.
  • Page 12 STEP 5: After two drives are properly assigned, it will appear the following message, “Create RAID 1 (Y/N) ?” RAID BIOS Setup Utility (c) 2003 ALi Corporation www.ali.com.tw Create RAID 0 Striping for Performance Create RAID 1 Mirroring for Reliability...
  • Page 13 STEP 6: After the RAID drives are created, it will appear the following message “Input RAID name (8 characters): ” for you to key in a name for the newly created array. The effective characters for an array name are <0>-<9>, <A>-<Z>, <a>-<z>, <Space>...
  • Page 14 STEP 7: Then you will see the following message: “Duplicate Data from M to m (Y/N) ?” that asks to do drive copy. The source drive is indicated by “M”, while the target drive is indicated by “m” in Drive Select Menu. Pressing <Y> will duplicate the data in source drive to the target drive.
  • Page 15 STEP 8: After the RAID array has been successfully created, it will display the RAID array information at RAID Array List. RAID BIOS Setup Utility (c) 2003 ALi Corporation www.ali.com.tw Create RAID 0 Striping for Performance Create RAID 1 Mirroring for Reliability...

  • Page 16: Jbod Configuration

    JBOD Configuration This section will guide you to configure JBOD. To set JBOD configuration, please follow the instruction below to use “ALi RAID BIOS Setup Utility” for the setting of JBOD configuration. STEP 1: Boot-up your computer. STEP 2: Press <Ctrl> and <A> simultaneously to enter the main menu of “ALi RAID BIOS Setup Utility”.
  • Page 17 STEP 3: Move the highlight bar to the item “Create JBOD for integrated Capacity” and press <Enter> key to activate it. A flashing “J” cursor appears at the Drive Select Menu for you to choose the first drive for JBOD.
  • Page 18 STEP 5: After two drives are properly assigned, it will appear the following message, “Data on RAID Drives will be deleted (Y/N) ?” RAID BIOS Setup Utility (c) 2003 ALi Corporation www.ali.com.tw Create RAID 0 Striping for Performance Create RAID 1 Mirroring for Reliability...
  • Page 19 STEP 6: After the RAID drives are created, it will appear the following message “Input RAID name (8 characters): ” for you to key in a name for the newly created array. The effective characters for an array name are <0>-<9>, <A>-<Z>, <a>-<z>, <Space>...

  • Page 20: Guide To Windows 2000 / Windows Xp Installation

    SATA HDDs on your system, you will need to make an SATA driver diskette (see page 2 to page 3 for details) before you start the OS installation. If you prefer not to use RAID function, you may start to install Windows 2000 / Windows XP once you have the SATA driver diskette ready.
  • Page 21 If you do not have any device support disks from a mass storage device manufacturer, or do not want to specify additional mass storage devices for use with Windows, press ENTER. Press F6 if you need to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver . . . S=Specify Additional Device ENTER=Continue F3=Exit STEP 4: Insert the SATA driver into drive A: and press <Enter>.
  • Page 22 M5283 SATA RAID Controller (WinNT 4.0) M5283 SATA RAID Controller (Win2000) M5283 SATA RAID Controller (Windows XP) Press F6 if you need to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver . . . ENTER=Continue ESC=Cancel F3=Exit STEP 6: Please wait until the Setup finishes loading driver files.

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