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Foxconn RAID User Manual

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  • Page 1 RAID User Guide Edition V1.0 Trademarks All brand or product names mentioned are trademarks or registered trade- marks of their respective holders.

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Contents 1. Introduction ................1 2. Installing Hard Disks ............... 2 3. BIOS Configuration ..............3 4. RAID Configuration Utility ............3 1) Intel Matrix Storage Manager Option ROM Utility ......3 2) Silicon Image BIOS RAID Configuration Utility ......14 3) VASSTEK BIOS RAID Configuration (optional) ......

  • Page 3: Introduction

    RAID User’s Guide RAID Configurations 1. Introduction RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) is a method of combining two hard disk drives into one logical unit. The advantage of an Array is to provide better performance or data fault tolerance. The motherboard comes with the Intel ICH7R, the Silicon Image Sil3132 and the VASSTEK VSC6110 RAIDm1 RAID controllers that allow you to configure Serial ATA and IDE hard disk drives as RAID sets.

  • Page 4: Installing Hard Disks

    RAID User’s Guide Intel Matrix Storage The Intel Matrix Storage technology creates two partitions on each hard disk drive to create a virtual RAID 0 and RAID 1 sets. This technology also allows you to change the hard disk drive partition size without losing any data. You only need two SATA hard disks to utilize this function.

  • Page 5: Bios Configuration

    RAID User’s Guide 3. BIOS Configuration A. Enter the BIOS setup program by pressing the <Del> key during the POST (Power-On Self Test ). B. Setting ICH7R RAID item in BIOS 1) Select the OnChip IDE Device item form Integrated Peripherals menu. 2) Switch the SATA Mode option to [RAID].
  • Page 6 RAID User’s Guide b. Choose Create RAID Volume and press <Enter> to enter. Press <Tab> to switch to RAID Level item, and then use Up and Down arrow keys to select RAID0 (Stripe), pressing <Enter> confirms. c. Using up or down arrow key to select the hard disks you want to set RAID 0 from Disks item, <Space>...
  • Page 7 RAID User’s Guide d. Use Up and Down arrow keys to select desired strip size when enter Strip Size menu. The available values range from 4KB to 128KB. The strip value should be based on the planned drive usage. Some suggested selections are listed below.
  • Page 8 RAID User’s Guide B. Setting RAID1 a. Select RAID1 (Mirror) by using Up and Down arrow keys in RAID Level item. Press the <Enter> key to make selecting. b. Using up or down arrow key to select the hard disks you want to set RAID 1 from Disks item, <Space>...
  • Page 9 RAID User’s Guide d. Select option 4. Exit in main menu and press the <Enter> key to exit the RAID configuration utility. Press <Y> key to confirm the exit. C. Setting RAID5 a. Select RAID5 (Parity) by using Up and Down arrow keys in RAID Level item. Press the <Enter>...
  • Page 10 RAID User’s Guide c. Use Up and Down arrow keys to select desired strip size when enter Strip Size menu. The available values range from 4KB to 128KB. The strip value should be based on the planned drive usage. Some suggested selections are listed below.
  • Page 11 RAID User’s Guide D. Setting RAID 10(RAID0+1) a. To utilize RAID 10 function, four SATA hard disks should be installed. b. Choose Create RAID Volume and press <Enter> to enter. Press <Tab> to switch to RAID Level item, and then use Up and Down arrow keys to select RAID10(RAID0+1), pressing <Enter>...
  • Page 12 RAID User’s Guide d. Press the <Enter> key after the Create Volume prompt appears to create the array. Press the <Y> key after the prompt to confirm this selection. e. Select option 4. Exit in main menu and press the <Enter> key to exit the RAID configuration utility.
  • Page 13 RAID User’s Guide E. Setting Matrix RAID a. Intel ICH7R chipset features a new RAID form named Matrix RAID, a combina- tion of RAID 0 and RAID 1 bringing you the best of both worlds. b. Follow Setting RAID 0 steps to set RAID 0. You should divide half capacity size or less for RAID 1 in Capacity item.
  • Page 14 RAID User’s Guide c. You may see the RAID type (Member Disk (0,1)) in the main menu, when you finished the setting steps. Note: This operation will delete all the data from hard disk, so please take care. And our company will not be responsible for data lose and benefit damage caused.
  • Page 15 RAID User’s Guide F. Delete RAID Volume 1. Select Delete RAID Volume in main menu and press <Enter> key. 2. Press <Del> key to delete the RAID volume in below screen. 3. Press <Y> key to confirm the volume deletion, and press <N> to cancel the operation.

  • Page 16: Silicon Image Bios Raid Configuration Utility

    RAID User’s Guide 2) Silicon Image BIOS RAID Configuration Utility A. Creating RAID Sets As previously discussed, the Silicon Image SATA host adapter supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, and JBOD configurations using a Serial ATA port multiplier. The selection of the RAID level to be used should be based upon factors including performance, data security, and number of drives available.
  • Page 17 RAID User’s Guide d. If manual configuration is selected, the chunk size of Striped Sets can be selected. For Mirrored Sets, the Source and Target drives can be selected. e. If auto configuration is selected, BIOS will select RAID member drives auto matically and the chunk size of Striped Sets is set to 64KB.
  • Page 18 RAID User’s Guide B. Creating Spare Drive If there is a RAID 1 set, spare driver can be created. The spare drive can be allocated to the RAID 1 set in the event of a failure of one of the drives in the RAID1 set.
  • Page 19 RAID User’s Guide D. Deleting RAID Groups, Spare Drive, and CONCATENATION a. To remove one or more RAID sets, spare drives, and CONCATENATION, select “Delete RAID set”. b. Select the desired item to delete from the logical drive list and press Enter. c.
  • Page 20 RAID User’s Guide F. Resolving Conflict W hen a RAID set is created, the metadata written to the disk includes drive con- nection information including the channel on the host adapter to which it is connected. If after a disk failure the replacement disk was previously part of a RAID set or used in another system, it may have conflicting metadata, specifically in reference to the drive connection information.
  • Page 21 RAID User’s Guide c. Note that some conflict resolutions may result in the drive letter assignment changing; for example the RAID set may have been drive D: but after the conflict resolution, it may become drive E. Be aware of this when performing a conflict resolution.
  • Page 22 RAID User’s Guide G. Low Level Formatting The Low Level Format menu selection allows the complete erasure of data on a hard drive. This is not an action which typically needs to be performed as format- ting the drive under Windows is usually sufficient to prepare the drive for use. H.
  • Page 23 RAID User’s Guide I. Reserved Drive and Setting Size for RAID Set, Spare Drive, or CON- CATENATION Once a physical drive has been used to create a RAID set, spare drive, or CON- CATENATION by BIOS utility, BIOS saves user selected set or drive size in the reserved area of the physical drive.

  • Page 24: Vasstek Bios Raid Configuration (Optional)

    RAID User’s Guide 3) VASSTEK BIOS RAID Configuration (optional) A. Setting RAIDm1 mode a. Attach the HDD you would like to set RAIDm1 as Master device. b. Boot up the system. c. No matter the HDD is new or you have ever used, VASRAID would detect it is a ATA Mode and shows ”ATA mode is detected!”...

  • Page 25: Installing Operating System With Raid

    RAID User’s Guide 5. Install Operating System with RAID Mode a. Setup the desired RAID mode. b. Insert the OS installation CD into the CD-ROM. c. Press the <F6> when the following pictures appear: d. Press <S> key to specify additional equipment when below picture appears. e.

  • Page 26: Installing Raid Driver

    RAID User’s Guide 6. Installing RAID Driver W hen you finish installing Operation System with RAID, in order to enable RAID function you need to install RAID driver. The following instruction is provided for your reference. a. Insert the driver CD into CD-ROM drive. The driver CD will automatically display main menu screen.
  • Page 27 RAID User’s Guide e. Click “Go” to start. f. Select floppy drive from the list, then click “OK”. g. Insert one floppy into your 3.5-inch standard model FDD. h. RAID floppy tool will format your floppy, then start to create RAID driver. i.

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