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1. Introduction to VIA / JMicron RAID Installation Guide .................................................................................. 3
2. VIA RAID Installation Guide ................................................................................................................... 3
2.1 VIA BIOS RAID Installation Guide .................................................................................................. 3
2.1.1 Introduction of RAID ............................................................................................................. 3
2.1.2 RAID Configuration Precautions ............................................................................................. 4
2.1.3 BIOS Configuration Utility ...................................................................................................... 5
2.1.3.1 Enter BIOS Configuration Utility ...................................................................................... 5
2.1.3.2 Create Disk Array ........................................................................................................ 5
2.1.3.3 Delete Disk Array ........................................................................................................ 7
2.1.3.4 Select Boot Array ........................................................................................................ 8
2.2 VIA Windows RAID Installation Guide ............................................................................................. 8
2.2.1 Create RAID Array ............................................................................................................... 9
2.2.2 Delete Disk Array ................................................................................................................. 11
2.2.3 Check All Disks ................................................................................................................... 12
2.2.4 Verify Mirror Disk ................................................................................................................. 12
2.2.5 Synchronize Mirror Disk ........................................................................................................ 13
2.2.6 Disk Error Detection ............................................................................................................. 14
2.2.7 Duplicate Critical RAID 1 Array ............................................................................................... 14
2.2.8 Rebuild Broken RAID 1 array ................................................................................................. 15
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Page 1: Table Of Contents
VIA / JMicron RAID Installation Guide 1. Introduction to VIA / JMicron RAID Installation Guide ………………………………………………………………………. 3 2. VIA RAID Installation Guide ……………………………………………………………………………………………………. 3 2.1 VIA BIOS RAID Installation Guide …………………………………………………………………………………….. 3 2.1.1 Introduction of RAID ………………………………………………………………………………………………. 3 2.1.2 RAID Configuration Precautions ………………………………………………………………………………… 4 2.1.3 BIOS Configuration Utility …………………………………………………………………………………………... - Page 2 3. JMicron RAID Installation Guide ……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 17 3.1 JMicron BIOS RAID Installation Guide ………………………………………………………………………………… 17 3.1.1 BIOS Configuration Utility …………………………………………………………………………………………. 17 3.1.1.1 Enter BIOS Configuration Utility ……………………. ……………………………………………….. 17 3.1.1.2 Create RAID Disk Drive ……………………………………………………………………………….. 18 3.1.1.3 Delete RAID Disk Drive ……………………………………………………………………………….. 21 3.1.1.4 Revert HDDs to non-RAID ………………………………………………………………………….…...
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Page 3: Introduction To Via / Jmicron Raid Installation Guide
SATA (black) and SATAII (red) 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: Raid Configuration Precautions
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 5: Bios Configuration Utility
The main interface of BIOS configuration utility is as below: 2.1.3.2 Create Disk Array Within the main interface, use the up and down arrow key to highlight the Create Array command and press <Enter> to call out the list of creation steps. - Page 6 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.
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Page 7: 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. -
Page 8: Select Boot 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: Create Raid Array
RAID 0. Then a “Select Array Creating Method” will be prompted. 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:... - Page 10 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. Select a disk drive and click right arrow button to add the specific disk drive to array. After adding a disk drive, user can also remove the selected disk drive from array.
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Page 11: Delete Disk 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. If user wants to keep data in the source drive, RAID tool will ask user to synchronize the mirror drive after the system’s rebooting. -
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: 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 14: Disk Error Detection
When synchronization starts, a dialog will show the process. You can pause or cancel this process at any time. A message will pop up when synchronization is finished. 2.2.6 Disk Error Detection RAID will pop up an error message when the failure or absence of a disk drive is detected. -
Page 15: Rebuild Broken Raid 1 Array
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 RAID 1 array is detected by the RAID software, it will indicate a serial steps to repair this problem. - Page 16 “Next”. 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.
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Page 17: Jmicron Raid Installation Guide
3. JMicron RAID Installation Guide If you insert two HDDs to JMicron SATAII connectors and plan to configure RAID functions, please refer to JMicron RAID installation guide part, including JMicron BIOS RAID installation guide and JMicron Windows RAID installation guide. -
Page 18: Create Raid Disk Drive
The main interface of BIOS configuration utility is as below: 3.1.1.2 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 19 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 20 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.
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Page 21: 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 22: Solve Mirror Conflict
3.1.1.5 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 23: Jmicron Windows Raid Installation Guide
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 24 Select the RAID type. Select the block size.
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Page 25: Creating Raid From Existing Disk
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 26: Deleting Raid
3.2.4 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 27: Auto-Resynching Raid
Right-click the name of the raid array you want to rebuild and then a popup menu will appear. Users could select the “Rebuild Raid” menu item to rebuild RAID. Auto-Resynching RAID 3.2.5 While one disk member of RAID 1 is unplugged, JMRaidTool application will auto-resynchronize the raid when the disk is plugged again.
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