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ASROCK ALIVEDUAL-ESATA2 Installation Manual

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1. Introduction to NVIDIA / JMicron RAID Installation Guide .................................................................................. 3
1.1.1 Installing Windows 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit With RAID Functions .............................................. 4
1.1.2 Installing Windows Vista / Vista 64-bit With RAID Functions .................................................. 5
2. NVIDIA RAID Installation Guide ................................................................................................................... 6
2.1 NVIDIA BIOS RAID Installation Guide ............................................................................................. 6
2.1.1 Introduction of RAID ...................................................................................................... 6
2.1.2 RAID Configuration Precautions ....................................................................................... 7
2.1.3 Create Disk Array .......................................................................................................... 7
2.2 NVIDIA Windows RAID Installation Guide ......................................................................................... 10
3. JMicron RAID Installation Guide .................................................................................................................... 22
3.1 JMicron BIOS RAID Installation Guide .............................................................................................. 22
3.1.1 Enter BIOS Configuration Utility ......................... ............................................................... 22
3.1.2 Create RAID Disk Drive ................................................................................................... 22
3.1.3 Delete RAID Disk Drive ................................................................................................... 25
3.1.4 Revert HDDs to non-RAID ................................................................................................ 25
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  • Page 1: Table Of Contents

    1. Introduction to NVIDIA / JMicron RAID Installation Guide ………………………………………………………………………. 3 1.1 Installing Windows 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit / Vista / Vista 64-bit With RAID Functions ……………………………. 4 1.1.1 Installing Windows 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit With RAID Functions ………………………………………. 4 1.1.2 Installing Windows Vista / Vista 64-bit With RAID Functions …………………………………………..
  • Page 2 3.1.6 Rebuild Mirror Drive …………………………………………………………………………………………. 26 3.2 JMicron Windows RAID Installation Guide ……………………………………………………………………………..27 3.2.1 JMicron Windows RAID Installation Guide for Windows 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit Users ………………. 27 3.2.1.1 Creating RAID …………………………………………………………………………………… 27 3.2.1.2 Creating RAID from Existing Disk …………………………………………………………….. 30 3.2.1.3 Deleting RAID ……………………………………………………………………………………...

  • Page 3: Introduction To Nvidia / Jmicron Raid Installation Guide

    SATA (black) and SATAII (red and orange) connectors’ location before configuring RAID functions. Please note that if you insert one HDD to SATA connector and the other HDD to SATAII connector, you are not allowed to create RAID.

  • Page 4: Installing Windows 2000 / Xp / Xp 64-Bit / Vista / Vista 64-Bit With Raid Functions

    If you want to install Windows 2000, XP or XP 64-bit on your SATA / SATAII HDDs with RAID functions, please follow below steps. NOTE. 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 below website for proper procedures of making a SP4 disk: http://www.microsoft.com/Windows2000/downloads/servicepacks/sp4/spdeploy.htm#the_integrated_installation_fmay...

  • Page 5: Installing Windows Vista / Vista 64-Bit With Raid Functions

    RAID functions. NOTE1. After the installation of Windows 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit OS and RAID utility, if you want to manage RAID functions, please refer to the Windows RAID installation guide part of this document for details.

  • Page 6: Nvidia 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...

  • Page 7: Raid Configuration Precautions

    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 8 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. The disks that you enabled from the RAID Config BIOS setup page appear in the Free Disks block.
  • Page 9 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 10: Nvidia Windows Raid Installation Guide

    B. Creating RAID Arrays 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 following:...
  • Page 11 Create Array and the following screen will appear. 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 12 Click Next, and the following screen shot will appear. Select the two disks that you want to include in the stripe set.
  • Page 13 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. 2. Double click on Administrative Tools.
  • Page 14 5. 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. 6. Follow the Wizard for setting up and formatting the partition. Once that is done, you can start using the newly created stripped array.
  • Page 15 E. Rebuilding a RAID Array Rebuilding is the process of recovering data from one hard drive to another. All data is copied from one hard drive to another and then the data is synchronized between the two hard drives. After creating a mirrored array, you can rebuild the array using the following steps: 1. Go to Windows and run the NVIDIA RAID Management utility.
  • Page 16 2. Right-click on Mirroring. Then the popup menu appears. 3. From the popup menu, click Rebuild Array. The NVIDIA Rebuild Array Wizard appears. 4. Click Next. The Disk Selection page appears.
  • Page 17 5. 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. 6. Click Finish. More About Rebuilding Arrays - Rebuilding Occurs in the Background The rebuilding process takes some time to complete, and occurs in the background so as not to affect the performance of the system.

  • Page 18: Nvidia Windows Raid Installation Guide For Windows Vista / Vista 64-Bit Users

    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. (There is also a “Storage”...
  • Page 19 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 20 Select the disks to add to the new RAID array, and click Next. Select the disk with data to preserve, and click Next. Click Next to confirm that you agree to use the default settings for RAID configurations.
  • Page 21 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. Click on Start → Settings → Control Panel. Double click on Administrative Tools.

  • Page 22: Jmicron Raid Installation Guide

    The main interface of BIOS configuration utility is as below: 3.1.2 Create RAID Disk Drive Entering “Create RAID Disk Drive” item, you can see the below window. Before you create RAID, you need to select RAID mode, as you want.
  • Page 23 When you push “Create RAID Disk Drive” item to enter RAID selection menu, you can use <↑> <↓> to select RAID mode. There are three RAID modes that are RAID 0, RAID 1, and JBOD.
  • Page 24 Then you can select HDDs to create RAID. Entering “Select Disk Drives” item, use <Space> to choose the HDDs you want to select. After selecting HDD to create RAID. You can choose Block Size from 4K to 128K Bytes in RAID Mode.

  • Page 25: Delete Raid Disk Drive

    After finishing all selections, press <Enter> to confirm RAID construction. The Dialog Box will show up “Create RAID on the select HDD (Y/N)?” If you enter <Y> key, RAID will be created. If you enter <N> key, RAID setting will be ignored and RAID is not created.

  • Page 26: Solve Mirror Conflict

    3.1.5 Solve Mirror Conflict When your mirror raid drive has lost each other, the Option ROM gives users an method to solve this problem. You can choose one of the members of Mirror drive as source disk. And then try to rebuild the Mirror drive according to the content of chosen one.

  • Page 27: Jmicron Windows Raid Installation Guide

    3.2.1.1 Creating RAID JMRaidTool supports the creation of RAID 0 (Stripe), 1 (Mirror), and JBOD. When the raid array is created, the data in the disks will be erased meanwhile. The disks of the raid array need to be initialized and partitioned before using it.
  • Page 28 Key-in the name of the raid array. Select the RAID type.
  • Page 29 Select the block size. Select hard disks and then press “Next” button.

  • Page 30: Creating Raid From Existing Disk

    3.2.1.2 Creating RAID from Existing Disk JMRaidTool supports the RAID creation from the existing disk. The data of the existing source disk will be kept and will not be erased when the new disk array is created. The existing source disk should be a non-RAID disk.

  • Page 31: Rebuilding Raid

    3.2.1.4 Rebuilding RAID RAID 1 can be rebuilt while RAID 0, JBOD cannot be rebuilt. While one disk member of RAID 1 is broken or is unplugged, there is an exclamation mark on the RAID. Users could use a new and robust disk to rebuild the RAID.

  • Page 32: Jmicron Windows Raid Installation Guide For Windows Vista / Vista 64-Bit Users

    While one disk member of RAID 1 is unplugged, JMRaidTool application will auto-resynchronize the raid when the disk is plugged again. 3.2.2 JMicron Windows RAID Installation Guide for Windows Vista / Vista 64-bit Users 3.2.2.1 Create RAID JMRaidTool supports the creation of RAID 0, 1, JBOD.
  • Page 33 Select the RAID type. Select the block size (The block size is selectable only with RAID 0 configurations).
  • Page 34 Press the “Next” button to continue creating RAID. Select hard disks and press the “Next” button. Press the “Finish” button.

  • Page 35: Create Raid From Existing Disk

    3.2.2.2 Create RAID from Existing Disk You can combine the Existing Disk (Source disk may content OS and Data) with other HD (must be larger than source Disk) to be RAID. The data on Source Disk will be reserved. After RAID is built, system will need to reboot.

  • Page 36: Rebuild Raid

    When RAID is removed, All Data on the Disks will still be reserved. If we use RAID 1, the data will still be on the disk and be used. But if there is RAID 0, the data is crashed. Please format disk if possible.

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