Page 1: Table Of Contents
NVIDIA RAID Installation Guide 1. NVIDIA BIOS RAID Installation Guide …………………….. 2 1.1 Introduction to RAID …………………………………….. 2 1.2 RAID Configurations Precautions ……………………… 3 1.3 Installing Windows 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit / Vista / Vista 64-bit With RAID Functions ……………………..5 1.3.1 Installing Windows 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit With RAID Functions ……………………......
Page 2: Nvidia Raid Installation Guide
NVIDIA BIOS RAID Installation Guide NVIDIA BIOS RAID Installation Guide is an instruction for you to configure RAID functions by using NVIDIA RAID Utility under BIOS environment. After you make a SATA / SATAII driver diskette, press <F2> to enter BIOS setup to set the option to RAID mode by following the detailed instruction of the “User Manual”...
Page 3: Raid Configurations Precautions
RAID 0+1 (Stripe Mirroring) RAID 0 drives can be mirrored using RAID 1 techniques, resulting in a RAID 0+1 solution for improved performance plus resiliency. The controller combines the performance of data striping (RAID 0) and the fault tolerance of disk mirroring (RAID 1).
Page 4 Please verify the status of your hard disks before you set up your new RAID array. 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 data building will operate under a clean environment.
Page 5: Installing Windows 2000 / Xp / Xp 64-Bit / Vista
Set the “SATA Operation Mode” option to [RAID]. STEP 2: Make a SATA / SATAII driver diskette. Insert the ASRock Support CD into your optical drive to boot your system. During POST at the beginning of system boot-up, press <F11> key, and then a window for boot devices selection appears.
Page 6: Functions
64-bit OS on your system. When you see “Where do you want to install Windows? ” page, please insert the ASRock Support CD into your optical drive, and click the “Load Driver” button on the left on the bottom to load the NVIDIA RAID drivers.
Page 7 After that, please insert Windows Vista / Windows Vista 64-bit optical disk into ® ® the optical drive again to continue the installation. NOTE. If you install Windows Vista / Windows Vista 64-bit on IDE HDDs and want to ® ®...
Page 8: Create Disk Array
Create Disk Array Power on your system. After adjusting the system BIOS to RAID mode, the below window appears. 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.
Page 9 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.
Page 10 After assigning your RAID array disks, press <F7> to save your changes of RAID array disks. 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.
Page 11: Nvidia Windows Raid Installation Guide
NVIDIA Windows RAID Installation Guide NVIDIA Windows RAID Installation Guide is an instruction for you to configure RAID functions by using NVIDIAMAN under Windows environment. Please read this guide carefully and follow the instructions below to configure and manage RAID functions. For Windows 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit and Windows Vista / Vista 64-bit, there are different installation procedures.
Page 12 B. Creating RAID Arrays This section includes examples of using NVRAIDMAN for creating RAID arrays. If your motherboard is equipped with six SATA / SATAII ports, you may choose to use RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, JBOD, or RAID 5 function with your motherboard according to the SATA / SATAII HDDs amount you install.
Page 13 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 14 Click Next, and the following screen shot will appear. Select the two disks that you want to include in the stripe set.
Page 15 To create a striped array with more disks, select additional disks from the list. Click Next and the following screen shot will appear. Click Finish and the following screen shot will appear. 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.
Page 16 Double click on Administrative Tools. Double click on Computer Management. Click on Disk Management. The following screen is displayed. 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. Follow the Wizard for setting up and formatting the partition.
Page 17 D. Deleting a RAID Array NVRAIDMAN can be used to delete an Array. To delete an Array, please do the following. Launch the NVRAIDMAN application and right click on the RAID array that you want to delete (assuming that you have a RAID array already created) as shown in the following screen shot.
Page 18 Click Next and the following screen shot will appear. Click Finish and the array will be deleted and the following screen shot will appear showing all the free disks. A similar process can be applied to delete any array created by NVIDIA RAID. E.
Page 19 Click Next. The Disk Selection page appears. 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.
Page 20 Click Finish. F. 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. Rebuilding Applies Only to RAID 1, RAID 0+1, or RAID 5 Arrays Rebuilding an array works only when using RAID 1, RAID 0+1, or RAID 5.
Page 21: Nvidia Windows Raid Installation Guide For Windows Vista / Vista 64-Bit Users
NVRAIDMAN window indicates that the array is synchronizing. The synchronization process will start and it will be completed in a short period of time. 2.2 NVIDIA Windows RAID Installation Guide for Windows Vista / Vista 64-bit Users A. Enter Storage RAID driver is built in NVIDIA ALL in one driver provided in our support CD.
Page 22 Click “Create array”. Then you can start to build up RAID. B. Creating RAID Arrays Click Next and the following screen shot will appear.
Page 23 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 24 After you decide the RAID Mode, you are allowed to select the Stripe Size. The default value of this item is 64K. Then click Next. Select the disks to add to the new RAID array, and click Next. Select the disk with data to preserve, and click Next.
Page 25 Click Next to confirm that you agree to use the default settings for RAID configurations. 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 →...
Page 26 Right-click on the unallocated partition and select New Simple Volume. Follow the Wizard for setting up and formatting the partition. Once that is done, you can start using the newly created stripped array.

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