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ASROCK 775Dual-880Pro Getting Started

ASROCK 775Dual-880Pro Getting Started

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RAID Software
1.

Getting Start

The "RAID Software" is a Windows-based software utility with
graphical user interface and provides user an easy-operation tool to
configure and manage disk drives or disk arrays connected to VT8237
SATA controller.
After GUI software is installed, it will automatically start every time
when your Windows OS is started. An icon
will appear in the
system tray of the tool bar to indicate that GUI software is currently
running.
Just double click on the small icon to call out the main interface of the
software.

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  • Page 1: Getting Start

    RAID Software Getting Start The “RAID Software” is a Windows-based software utility with graphical user interface and provides user an easy-operation tool to configure and manage disk drives or disk arrays connected to VT8237 SATA controller. After GUI software is installed, it will automatically start every time when your Windows OS is started.

  • Page 2: Create Disk Array

    Create Disk Array You may click on one of the three buttons to create different types of disk array– RAID 1, Span, and 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.
  • Page 3 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.

  • Page 4: Create Raid

    A message box will pop up to prompt user that the disk array has been created successfully and ask user whether to restart the computer. Click “Yes” to restart the computer or click “No” to skip restarting. New disk array setting will take effect only after restarting.
  • Page 5 Create JBOD The data in the first disk drive of JBOD array can be reserved when a JBOD array is created. The data on the first disk drive will be reserved and the other disk drives in JBOD will be expanded behind the first disk drive and become free space.

  • Page 6: Delete Disk Array

    Delete Disk Array Select the disk array that you want to delete from the left window. Click “Remove Array” button , then a warning message will pop up. Click “Yes” to delete the specific disk array or click “No” to cancel.

  • Page 7: Check All Disks

    A message box will pop up to prompt user that the disk array has been deleted successfully and ask user whether to restart the computer. 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.

  • Page 8: Verify Mirror Disk

    Verify Mirror Disk Data on the mirror disk must be the same as its corresponding source disk to provide fault tolerance for RAID 1. Select a RAID 1. Right-click the selected RAID, and then a shortcut menu will appear. Click “Verify Mirror” to verify whether the source and the mirror disks are identical.
  • Page 9 After executing “verify mirror” command, a dialog will show the verifying process. You can pause or cancel this process at any time. The process may take a long time if the capacity of RAID is large. When the mirror disk is not identical with the corresponding source disk, the mirror disk will be marked with a “need-sync”...

  • Page 10: Synchronize Mirror Disk

    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.

  • Page 11: 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. Disk Error Detection RAID will pop up an error message when the failure or absence of a disk drive is detected.

  • Page 12: Duplicate Critical Raid 1 Array

    Duplicate Critical RAID 1 Array If, during the system-booting, the software detects the inconsistence between the source and the mirror disks of RAID 1, the disk array will be marked as critical status, and the software will automatically prompt user to duplicate the RAID 1 to make the mirror disk consist with the corresponding source disk again.

  • Page 13: 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 14 Select a disk drive from “Available Disks” and click button to replace the broken-down one, and then click “Next”.
  • Page 15 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. Reboot the system. This RAID is marked as a critical RAID.

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