ASROCK 939S56-M Installation And Configuration Manual
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ASROCK 939S56-M Installation And Configuration Manual

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Guide to SATA Hard Disks
Installation and RAID Configuration
(RAID 0 / RAID 1 / JBOD) ............................... . 4
2.1 Introduction of RAID ................................. 4
2.3 RAID 0 Configuration ................................. 6
2.4 RAID 1 Configuration ................................13
2.5 JBOD Configuration ................................. 19
3. Guide to Windows 2000 /
Windows XP Installation ................................ . 23

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  • Page 1: Table Of Contents

    Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation and RAID Configuration 1. Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation …………….. 2 1.1 Serial ATA (SATA) Hard Disks Installation …… 2 1.2 Making An SATA Driver Diskette ……………… 3 2. Guide to RAID Configurations (RAID 0 / RAID 1 / JBOD) ………………………….

  • Page 2: Guide To Sata Hard Disks Installation

    1 . Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation 1.1 Serial ATA (SATA) Hard Disks Installation This motherboard adopts SiS 965L south bridge chipset that supports Serial ATA (SATA) hard disks. You may install SATA hard disks in this motherboard for internal storage devices. This section will guide you to install the SATA hard disks.

  • Page 3: Making An Sata Driver Diskette

    SATA driver diskette before you start the OS installation. How to make an SATA driver diskette? STEP 1: Insert the ASRock Support CD into your optical drive to boot your system. (Do NOT insert any floppy diskette into the floppy drive at this moment!) STEP 2: During POST at the beginning of system boot-up, press <F11>...

  • Page 4: Guide To Raid Configurations (Raid 0 / Raid 1 / Jbod)

    2 . Guide to RAID Configurations (RAID 0 / RAID 1 / JBOD) 2.1 Introduction of RAID This motherboard adopts SiS 964 south bridge chipset that integrates RAID controller supporting RAID 0 / RAID 1 / JBOD function with two independent Serial ATA (SATA) channels.

  • Page 5: Raid Configuration Precautions

    1. “SiS RAID Utility for Windows” are only available for Windows XP / Windows 2000. There is no RAID utility supporting Win- dows 98 SE and Windows ME. 2. “SiS SATA driver/utility/BIOS” may be updated occasionally. Please visit ASRock website for the latest driver update. ASRock website: http://www.asrock.com...

  • Page 6: Raid 0 Configuration

    2.3 RAID 0 Configuration This section will guide you to configure RAID 0. To set RAID0 configuration, please follow the instruction below to use “SiS RAID BIOS Setting Utility”. NOTE In the following instruction, the term “Disk 1” refers to the SATA hard disk that you connect to “SATA1”...
  • Page 7 STEP 4: Press <A> key to create array. SiS RAID BIOS Setting Utility RAID Setup * Current Created Raid * Press [A] key to create RAID [Q] : Exit current menu Location Model Capacity Mode RAID Type Disk 1 XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXX XXXXXXX Disk 2 XXXXXX...
  • Page 8 STEP 6: Press <1> or <2> to select Create options. If you select <1> “Auto Create”, “Disk 1” will be the Source disk. If you select <2> “Manual Create”, the first selected disk will be the Source disk. SiS RAID BIOS Setting Utility RAID Setup * Current Created Raid * RAID 0...
  • Page 9 STEP 8: Use < > and < > keys to select disk, and press <Enter> to confirm your selection. Please note that the disk you select first will be the SOURCE disk. SiS RAID BIOS Setting Utility RAID Setup * Current Created Raid * RAID 0 to select and press <Enter>...
  • Page 10 STEP 9: Press <Q> to escape the current setup menu. Then you will see the following message: “Split the SOURCE (Disk 1) data to RAID disks? N” If you press <N> and <Enter>, it will Create Stripe only. If you press <Y> and <Enter>, it will split the data on source disk to RAID disks.
  • Page 11 STEP 10: Press <Enter> to escape the current menu. Then the following screen will appear. SiS RAID BIOS Setting Utility RAID Setup * Current Created Raid * RAID 0: Disk1 Disk 2 Press [D] key to delete RAID [Q] : Exit current menu Location Model Capacity...
  • Page 12 STEP 12: Then you will see the confirming message: “Do You Want to Save Changes? N” Please press <Y> and <Enter> to save changes. Disk Status SiS RAID BIOS Setting Utility RAID Setup * Current Created Raid * RAID 0: Disk1 Disk 2 [R] : E Do You Want To Save changes ? N...

  • Page 13: Raid 1 Configuration

    2.4 RAID 1 Configuration This section will guide you to configure RAID 1. To set RAID 1 configuration, please follow the instruction below to use “SiS RAID BIOS Setting Utility” for the setting of RAID 1 configuration. NOTE In the following instruction, the term “Disk 1” refers to the SATA hard disk that you connect to “SATA1”...
  • Page 14 STEP 4: Press <A> key to create array. SiS RAID BIOS Setting Utility RAID Setup * Current Created Raid * Press [A] key to create RAID [Q] : Exit current menu Location Model Capacity Mode RAID Type Disk 1 XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXX XXXXXXX Disk 2 XXXXXX...
  • Page 15 STEP 6: Press <1> or <2> to select Create options. If you select <1> “Auto Create”, “Disk 1” will be the SOURCE disk, and the “Disk 2” will be the MIRROR disk. If you select <2> “Manual Create”, the first se- lected disk will be the SOURCE disk, and the next selected disk will be the MIRROR disk.
  • Page 16 STEP 7: Use < > and < > keys to select disk, and press <Enter> to confirm your selection. Please note that the disk you select first will be the SOURCE disk. SiS RAID BIOS Setting Utility RAID Setup * Current Created Raid * RAID 1 to select and press <Enter>...
  • Page 17 STEP 8: Then you will see the following message: “Duplicate the SOURCE (Disk 1) data to RAID disks? N”. If you press <N> and <Enter>, it will Create Mirror only. If you press <Y> and <Enter>, it will duplicate the data on source disk to RAID disks. SiS RAID BIOS Setting Utility RAID Setup * Current Created Raid *...
  • Page 18 STEP 9: Press <Q> to escape the setup menu. SiS RAID BIOS Setting Utility RAID Setup * Current Created Raid * RAID 1: Disk1 Disk 2 [R] : Enter Raid setup utility [Q] : Exit current menu Location Model Capacity Mode RAID Type Disk 1...

  • Page 19: Jbod Configuration

    2.5 JBOD Configuration This section will guide you to configure JBOD. To set JBOD configuration, please follow the instruction below to use “SiS RAID BIOS Setting Utility” for the setting of JBOD configuration. NOTE In the following instruction, the term “Disk 1” refers to the SATA hard disk that you connect to “SATA1”...
  • Page 20 STEP 4: Press <A> key to create array. SiS RAID BIOS Setting Utility RAID Setup * Current Created Raid * Press [A] key to create RAID [Q] : Exit current menu Location Model Capacity Mode RAID Type Disk 1 XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXX XXXXXXX Disk 2 XXXXXX...
  • Page 21 STEP 6: Press <1> or <2> to select Create options. If you select <1> “Auto Create, the “Disk 1” will be the first disk, and “Disk 2” will be the second disk. If you select <2> “Manual Create”, the first selected disk will be the first disk, and the next selected disk will be the second disk.
  • Page 22 STEP 8: Press <Q> to escape the setup menu. SiS RAID BIOS Setting Utility Disk Status RAID Setup * Current Created Raid * JBOD: Disk1 Disk 2 RAID 0 [R] : Enter Raid setup utility Do you want to Split the SOURCE disk data to other disks ? N [Q] : Exit the menu [Q] : Exit current menu Location...

  • Page 23: Windows Xp Installation

    3 . Installation of Windows 2000 / Windows XP If you want to install Windows 2000 or Windows XP on your SATA HDDs, you will need to make an SATA driver diskette (see page 3 for details) before you start the OS installation. If you prefer not to use RAID function, you may start to install Windows 2000 / Windows XP once you have the SATA driver diskette ready.
  • Page 24 3. When the Windows 2000 / Windows XP Setup window is generated, press <S> key to specify an Additional Device(s). Windows Setup Setup could not determine the type of one or more mass storage devices installed in your system, or you have chosen to manually specify an adapter. Currently, Setup will load support for the following mass atorage devices.
  • Page 25 5. Choose one of the following items: “WinXP SiS Raid/IDE Controller” (for RAID), “Win2000 SiS Raid/IDE Controller” (for RAID), that appears on screen, and then press <Enter> key. Windows Setup You have chosen to configure a SCSI Adapter for use with Windows, using a device support disk provided by an adapter manufacturer.

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