ASROCK ALIVENF4G-DVI Installation 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
1.1
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
2.3
BIOS Configuration Utility ....................................... 7
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2.3.2
Enter BIOS Configuration Utility ................ 7
Create Disk Array ....................................... 8
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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
0, RAID 1, and JBOD. You may install SATA hard disks on this motherboard for internal storage devices. For SATA installation guide, please refer to Serial ATA (SATA) Hard Disks Installation of “U ser Manual ” in the support CD. This section will guide you how to create RAID on SATA ports. -
Page 3: Making A Sata Driver Diskette
RAID configuration on your system, or you may start to use “RAID BIOS Setting Utility” in the section 2.3 to set RAID 0 / RAID 1 / JBOD configuration before you install the OS. You may also set the RAID configuration by using “RAID Utility for Windows”... -
Page 4: Guide To Raid Configurations
It will improve data access and storage since it will double the data transfer rate of a single disk alone while the two hard disks perform the same work as a single drive but at a sustained data transfer rate. WARNING!! Although RAID 0 function can improve the access performance, it does not provide any fault tolerance. - Page 5 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.
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Page 6: Raid Configuration Precautions
WARNING!! Please backup your data first before you create RAID functions. In the process you create RAID, the system will ask if you want to “Clear Disk Data” or not. It is recommended to select “Yes”, and then your future... -
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 SATA Operation Mode to [RAID]. -
Page 8: Create Disk Array
Press F10 to enter RAID setup utility . . . After rebooting your computer, wait until you see the RAID software prompting you to press <F10>. The RAID prompt appears as a part of the system POST and boot process prior to loading the OS. You have... - Page 9 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.
- Page 10 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 11 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. For example: 1 .
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Page 12: Create Raid
Press F10 to enter RAID setup utility . . . After rebooting your computer, wait until you seee the RAID software prompting you to press <F10>. The RAID prompt appears as a part of the system POST and boot process prior to loading the OS. You have... - Page 13 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 14 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 - Boot Status Vendor Array Model Name...
- Page 15 Press F10 to enter RAID setup utility . . . After rebooting your computer, wait until you seee the RAID software prompting you to press <F10>. The RAID prompt appears as a part of the system POST and boot process prior to loading the OS. You have...
- Page 16 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.
- Page 17 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 - Boot Status Vendor Array Model Name...