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Summary of Contents for Nvidia NVRAID
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Page 1: Quick Start Guide
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Page 2: Raid Array
Quick Start Guide for NVRAID This Quick Start guide is for configuring a non-bootable NVRAID for the first time under Windows XP. Refer to the NVRAID manual for information on how to configure a bootable NVRAID. Setting Up a Non-Bootable RAID Array Choose the hard disks that are to be RAID enabled in the system BIOS. - Page 3 NVRAID Quick Start Guide Setting Up BIOS 1. Start your computer, and then press to enter the BIOS setup. Delete The BIOS CMOS Setup Utility window displays. Figure 1. BIOS CMOS Setup Utility Main Window 2. Use the arrow keys to select Integrated Peripherals , and then press Enter.
- Page 4 NVRAID Quick Start Guide 3. Use the arrow keys to select , and then press . The RAID Conifg Enter RAID window is displayed. Config Figure 3. RAID Config Window 4. From the window, enable RAID Config RAID 5. Enable the disks that you want to use as RAID disks. In this example you need to enable the SATA ports that are connected to your hard drives.
- Page 5 NVRAID Quick Start Guide Run Windows ForceWare Setup Application and Install the RAID Software After enabling the drives in the system BIOS that are RAID-enabled, boot into Windows and install the RAID software. Launch nForce ForceWare by double clicking on to display the NVIDIA Setup Windows nForce Drivers window (Figure 4).
- Page 6 NVRAID Quick Start Guide Configure the RAID 0 Array Using the NVRAIDMAN Do the following after the NVRAID drivers have been installed and the PC has been rebooted. 1. Click on Start Programs NVIDIA Corporation RAID Manager. nvraid 2. Select RAID Manager to display the screen (Figure 5).
- Page 7 NVRAID Quick Start Guide 4. Click on Next> Figure 7. RAID Array Selection 5. Click on Mirroring and select Striping from the dropdown list as shown in Figure 8. Figure 8. RAID Array Selection DU-01628-001_v01 NVIDIA CONFIDENTIAL 11/19/04...
- Page 8 NVRAID Quick Start Guide 6. Leave the set to 64 K as shown in Figure 8 and click on Stripe Size Next The following screen should be displayed. Figure 9. Free Disk Selection 7. Select the that you want to use for the two disk strip set by clicking to drivers the left of the name of each drive as shown in the following screen shot.
- Page 9 NVRAID Quick Start Guide 8. Click Next 9. Click again. Next 10. Click The following screen is displayed. Finish. Figure 11. Two Disk Striped Array You now have a two disk striped array with a total size of 153.38 GB. However, the array can not be used yet since you need to create a partition and format that partition.
- Page 10 NVRAID Quick Start Guide Initialize NVRAID Array Disks Now that the two-disk array has been created, it needs to be partitioned and formatted. 1. Click on Start Settings Control Panel 2. Double click on Administrative Tools 3. Double click on Computer Management 4.
- Page 11 NVRAID Quick Start Guide 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 and select Unallocated partition New Partition…. Figure 13. Creating a New Partition 6.
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