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1. 19 NVIDIA Rebuild Array Wizard Completing the YYIOLA Relbuil Array Wizard wou hoes succesfully completed thz MyJbIA Heculs aeery dt rood Yau haye chosen tosh id the bal nizg dss WIC whe DH ban Tn the to tening R ara NvIDLA IRR S 47E Soilse ieee a d begn bidun Une Jick ole Ae F 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 Rebuilding does not apply to RAID 0 and JBOD arrays Rebuilding applies to a degraded fault tolerant array You can rebuild a degraded mirrored array using any available Free Disk or Dedicated Disk G Synchronizing a RAID Array Synchronizing an array will force a rebuild of redundancy or parity The operation is applicable to any fault tolerant array such as RAID 1 0 1 and RAID 5 For RAID1 and RAID 0 1 sync results in copying the data to the redundancy disk For RAID 5 sync results in rebuilding the parity To sync an array do the following This example assumes you have already created a fault tolerant array such as RAID 1 A Right click on Mirroring and select Synchronize Array Then the Synchronize Array Wizard Welcome screen appears B Click on Next
2. and then click Finish at the Wizard Completion screen The 20 NVRAIDMAN window indicates that the array is synchronizing C 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 After you finish the driver installation you can create delete or rebuild any RAID array Please enter Storage by clicking on Start Programs NVIDIA Corporation Storage There is also a Storage shortcut on the desktop Then below screen appears 21 Click Create array Then you can start to build up RAID B Creating RAID Arrays Welcome to the NVIDIA MediaShield Setup Wizard This wizard wil help you optimize the storage configuration of your new asks MedaShield slows you to configure your dsks to best meet your storage needs You have the following disks avaliable Hard Drive 1 74 5368 Hard Drive 2 74 5368 Click Next and the following screen shot will appear 22 NVIDIA MediaShield Select a configuration that best suits your storage needs Select one of the following configurations Protection Ideal for storing music video pictures and other digital assets Total capacty 74 5368 Disk falre protection FULL Capacity Have your disks work together to provide maximum
3. rebuild any RAID array Please enter NVRAIDMAN by clicking on Start Programs NVIDIA Corporation Mediashield Mediashield There is also a Mediashield shortcut on the desktop Then below screen appears 11 Status Capacity Interface Channel Device WDC WOGSOGD OOFNAO Healthy 34 48GB SATA Primary Master WDC WOGB0GD DOFNAD Healthy 34 4868 SATA Secondary Master 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 Please refer to the RAID functions your motherboard provides in advance and follow the instruction in this section to create RAID arrays The RAID items which may be mentioned in this section are as below RAID 0 Striping RAID 1 Mirroring RAID 0 1 Stripe Mirroring JBOD Spanning RAID 5 In this section we take RAID 0 for example to show you how to use NVRAIDMAN to create RAID 0 Striping If you plan to use NVRAIDMAN to create other RAID arrays the operation procedures are similar to the steps of creating RAID 0 Please do the following A Go to the system BIOS and make sure that the drives that you want to use are RAID enabled B Boot to Windows and launch the NVRAIDMAN application C Create Array and the following s
4. storage capacity Total capacity 199 06GB Disk fare protection NONE Custom Additional optons for advanced users Specify settings such as RAID type and stripe size lt Back net gt caca Select a configuration that best suits your storage needs It is recommended to select Custom Click Next VIENA Mecdiashieia 5 RAID Array Selection Please select the type of RAID array to create Select the type of RAID array to create rere 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 If you plan to use Storage to create other RAID arrays the operation procedures are similar to the steps of creating Striping RAID 0 23 RAID Array Selection Please select the type of RAID array to create Select the type of RAID array to create 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 A Striping array requires 1 or more free hard dsks Data Disk Selection Select the disk with data to preserve Select any one disk by dicking on it Nome Chamel WOC WOSM ID SALSAS WOC wos002 lt 01sas Data from one of the selected disks can be preserved in the new array If ane of the disks in the new ar
5. AID 5 For example assuming you have a three disk RAID 5 array and one of the drives fail then you need to replace the failed drive with a new one and rebuild the array to re generate the lost data on the newly added drive After creating a mirrored array you can rebuild the array using the following steps A Go to Windows and run the NVIDIA RAID Management utility B Right click on Mirroring Then the popup menu appears C From the popup menu click Rebuild Array The NVIDIA Rebuild Array Wizard appears 18 NVIDIA Rebuild Array Wizard Welcome to the NVIDIA Rebuild Array Wizard This wizard will guide you through assigning a mew disk into an existing RAID array The NVIDIA RAID solution allows you to rebuild a new mirrored data cooy while the system is uo and running without disrupting user and application access to the data sat 3 Rebuilding an array can take up to aday ta Db complete This operation occurs in the background and will pet impeds your work IF you need to shutdown the computer the rebuild vall continue where it left off when you restart To continue dick Next D Click Next The Disk Selection page appears NVIDIA Rebuild Array Wizard Disk Selection seot a dak From thin the aL acy Mab UR YAU emay Mast Wo MTT SR AA Gerondare Mast 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
6. D 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 A Click on Start gt Settings gt Control Panel 15 B Double click on Administrative Tools C Double click on Computer Management D Click on Disk Management The following screen is displayed computer Management Fie Au Yeo wida Hep cm fw LS Comrp_ta Manageren cel By Sete gt SH Evel ese Saw Fu dsrs Nolumo L yzu Iypo hb bystors stus ia Scu tan Basc h s Hath Geten se ULB TULE SEG ME SA Liedtke zi Sus E Pel aine Lagan des S Crevice ae Bal avy gy Penvebe Sui aye Cik Dalrasn e le Bey e vies ad Gpp zlii a ite Jnalecarsd Bp 2 adc lniz Ppr io Seine Snalocac d amc 7h FET 7 29 GB Mo eda j E TAASI E 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 Computar Manapament Cris UB Fie duu Wen wida Hep ale xl je fla Pe a Pier zods Remzozb a Soraga Cis Dzfrazme te Cid Management eS taac and Cppiiesticn E L S W liae a Damarseatinn Follow the Wizard for setting up and formatting the partition Once that is done you can start using the
7. Dung tmi scree a o Smpie Bec Maw pehy Promary Parton Li Erect vamer JALAStoch Seppe Uhh Smee Rac COPS Meaty Primary Patinan Sheed toisen Be oval Users ard Gres 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 26
8. NVIDIA RAID Installation Guide NVIDIA BIOS RAID Installation Guide 0 00 2 1 1 Introduction to RAID 2 0 0 c eee eee cece eee 2 1 2 RAID Configurations Precautions ceeeeeeee 3 1 3 Installing Windows 2000 XP XP 64 bit Vista Vista 64 bit With RAID Functions n 5 1 3 1 Installing Windows 2000 XP XP 64 bit With RAID Functions orinn aeinn a nD 1 3 2 Installing Windows Vista Vista 64 bit With RAID FUNGCUONS a aane arna a a aaa 6 1 4 Create Disk Array i siscrisrierreerrrriirerrnrierirrrannns 8 NVIDIA Windows RAID Installation Guide 11 2 1 NVIDIA Windows RAID Installation Guide for Windows 2000 XP XP 64 bit Users cccc cece cece ee eee es 11 2 2 NVIDIA Windows RAID Installation Guide for Windows Vista Vista 64 bit Users 1 0 00 ccc ceee cece eee eee 21 1 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 lt F2 gt to enter BIOS setup to set the option to RAID mode by following the detailed instruction of the User Manual in our support CD or Quick Installation Guide you can start to use NVIDIA RAID Utility to configure RAID This section includes examples of using NVRAID RAID Utility for creating RAID arrays If your motherboard is equipped with six SATA SATAII ports
9. a complete copy of the data in the other drive if one drive fails 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 Data is striped across multiple drives and duplicated on another set of drives JBOD Spanning A spanning disk array is equal to the sum of all drives Spanning stores data onto a drive until it is full then proceeds to store files onto the next drive in the array When any member disk fails it will affect the entire array JBOD is not really a RAID and it does not support fault tolerance RAID 5 RAID 5 stripes both data and parity information across three or more hard disk drives Among the advantages of RAID 5configuration include better HDD performance fault tolerance and higher storage capacity The RAID 5 configuration is best suited for transaction processing relational database applications enterprise resource planning and other business systems Use a minimum of three identical hard disk drives for this setup 1 2 RAID Configurations Precautions 1 Please use two new drives if you are creating a RAID 0 striping array for performance It is recommended to use two SATA drives of the same size you use two drives of different sizes the smaller capacity hard disk will be the base storag
10. creen will appear 12 NVIDIA Creale Array Wizard Welcome to the NY IDIA Create Array Wiesrcd Tz azadi quide yo through ths eaten 0 aTa Ral ary Zeomtiruz elek hest D Click Next and the following screen shot will appear NVIDIA Create Array Wizard RADD An wy Sclechion F ezsa calect the type o7 RAIL ara 12 crecte E 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 13 NVIDIA Create Array Wizard RAM Anay SelecHinn l ors sit thz type o7 HALD grar II crete Sel Ur ape 1 RAL aay lun sans RAC Moda opn stroc 10 Free Visk seiecoon Select the cls to add lt the 7e RAID array ianel Dawu E ia WEIAAR ATTNAN Peray Masi YOC WESEOSC OIFYAO Sauwidary Masse A Drip argy reure Lun wa free a dike G Select the two disks that you want to include in the stripe set 14 NVIDIA Create Array Wizard free Disk Seiectinn dcizct thz cds to add cz the oa HAD array A Shiping aray recures of moz free a deks To create a striped array with more disks select additional disks from the list H Click Next and the following screen shot will appear NVIDIA Creale Array Wizard Completing the WVIDIA Create Array Wirard ru have successful completed the YYIDI Greats iurar curl reltse 215 wear chee mish l Click Finish and the following screen shot will appear The RAI
11. d multiple channels and each channel has a slave and a master The adapter channel master slave status of each hard disk is given in the Loc location columns of the Free Disks and Array Disks lists For example 1 0 M 1 Channel Typically channel 0 is used for Parallel ATA drives while channel 1 is used for Serial ATA drives 0 Controller M M means Master S means Slave Serial ATA 1 0 M Channel 1 controller 0 Master 1 1 M Channel 1 controller 1 Master Finally the Array List window appears where you can review the RAID arrays that you have set up NVIDIA RAID Utility ay List Vendor Array Model Name Healthy NVIDIA STRIPING 7 Ctrl X JExit pu Sclect B Set Boot N New Array ENTER Detail 10 2 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 Please follow the instructions below according to the OS you install 2 1 NVIDIA Windows RAID Installation Guide for Windows 2000 XP XP 64 bit Users A Enter NVRAIDMAN RAID driver is built in NVIDIA ALL in one driver provided in our support CD After you finish the driver installation you can create delete or
12. e size for each drive For example if one hard disk has an 80GB storage capacity and the other hard disk has 60GB the maximum storage capacity for the 80GB drive becomes 60GB and the total storage capacity for this RAID 0 set is 120GB f 2 You may use two new drives or use an existing drive and a new drive to create a RAID 1 mirroring array for data protection the new drive must be of the same size or larger than the existing drive If you use two drives of different sizes the smaller capacity hard disk will be the base storage size For example if one hard disk has an 80GB storage capacity and the other hard disk has 60GB the maximum storage capacity for the RAID 1 set is 60GB 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 1 3 Installing Windows 2000 XP I XP 64 bit Vista Vista 64 bit With RAID Functions If you want to install Windows 2000 Windows XP Windows XP 64 bit Windows Vista or Windows Vista 64 bit on your SATA SATAII HDDs with RAID functions please follow below procedures according to the OS you install 4n Before installing Windows 2000 to your system your Wind
13. newly created stripped array 16 D Deleting a RAID Array NVRAIDMAN can be used to delete an Array To delete an Array please do the following A 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 Tas a al anal Cee w EAGT s RB MTA amay M te Yow AA comday Miete The above screen shot shows that there is a Mirrored array that will be deleted After the Delete Array has been selected the following screen shot appear NVIDIA Delete Array Wizard Welcome to the WVLOLA Delete Array Wizard Tag arad wil quide yo through ths 266107 of a PAID aro Zeochruc check next sri e 17 B Click Next and the following screen shot will appear NVIDIA Delete Array Wilcard Completing the NVIDIA Delete Array Wizard Vou hayo succcesfuly comploted thz IIS Bolte Srray word ou have chosn to seers the Fslezng AJD atay MIDIA IRR OS Te 43 ariens azan cies mish C 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 Rebuilding a RAID Array Rebuilding is the process of restoring data to a hard drive from other drives in the array This applies only to fault tolerant arrays such as RAID 1 RAID 0 1 as well as a R
14. onfigure RAID function you need to check the RAID installation guide in the Support CD for proper configuration Please refer to the BIOS RAID installation guide part of the document in the following path in the Support CD RAID Installation Guide STEP 4 Install Windows 2000 XP I XP 64 bit OS on your system After step 1 2 3 you can start to install Windows 2000 Windows XP Windows XP 64 bit OS on your system At the beginning of Windows setup press F6 to install a third party RAID driver When prompted insert the SATA SATAII driver diskette contain ing the NVIDIA RAID driver After reading the floppy disk the driver will be presented Select the driver to install according to the mode you choose and the OS you install NOTE If you install Windows 2000 Windows XP Windows XP 64 bit on IDE HDDs and want to manage create convert delete or rebuild RAID functions on SATA SATAII HDDs you still need to set up SATA Operation Mode to RAID in BIOS first Then please set the RAID configuration by using the Windows RAID installation guide part of the document in the following path in the Support CD RAID Installation Guide 1 3 2 Installing Windows Vista Vista 64 bit With RAID Functions If you want to install Windows Vista Windows Vista 64 bit on your SATA SATAII HDDs with RAID functions please follow below steps STEP 1 Set Up BIOS A Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY gt Ad
15. ows 2000 optical C disk is supposed to include SP4 If there is no SP4 included in your disk please visit the below website for proper procedures of making a SP4 disk http www microsoft com Windows2000 downloads servicepacks sp4 spdeploy htm the_integrated_installation_fmay 1 3 1 Installing Windows 2000 XP XP 64 bit With RAID Functions If you want to install Windows 2000 Windows XP Windows XP 64 bit on your SATA SATAII HDDs with RAID functions please follow below steps STEP 1 Set Up BIOS A Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen IDE Configuration B Set the SATA Operation Mode option to RAID STEP 2 Make a SATA SATAII driver diskette A Insert the ASRock Support CD into your optical drive to boot your system B During POST at the beginning of system boot up press lt F11 gt key and then a window for boot devices selection appears Please select CD ROM as the boot device C When you see the message on the screen Generate Serial ATA driver diskette YN press lt Y gt D Then you will see these messages Please insert a blank formatted diskette into floppy drive A press any key to start Please insert a floppy diskette into the floppy drive and press any key E The system will start to format the floppy diskette and copy SATA SATAII drivers into the floppy diskette STEP 3 Use RAID Installation Guide to set RAID configuration Before you start to c
16. ration Mode to RAID in BIOS first Then please set the RAID configuration by using the Windows RAID installation guide in the following path in the Support CD RAID Installation Guide 1 4 Create Disk Array Power on your system After adjusting the system BIOS to RAID mode the below window appears NVIDIA RAID IDE ROM BIOS 4 31 Copyright C 2004 NVIDIACorp Detecting array Press F10 to enter RAID setup utility After rebooting your computer wait until you see the RAID software prompting you to press lt F10 gt The RAID prompt appears as a part of the system POST and boot process prior to loading the OS You have a few seconds to press lt F10 gt before the window disappears After you press lt F10 gt the NVIDIA RAID Utility Define a New Array window appears By default RAID Mode is set to Mirroring but please set it to Striping if you want to create RAID 0 And the Striping Block is set to Optimal as default We take RAID 0 for example to show you how to use NVRAID RAID Utility to create RAID 0 Striping If you plan to use NVRAID RAID Utility to create other RAID arrays the operation procedures are similar to the steps of creating RAID 0 NVIDIA RAID Utility Jan 12 2005 Define a New Array RAID Mode SUL SS SS Optimal Free Disks Array Disks ae hae Sicrorio Loc Disk Model Name Stripe Mirroring Spanning Del ESC Quit F6 Back F7 Finish TAB Navigate Select ENTER Pop
17. ray has data you wish to save select it now stock next gt cane Select the disk with data to preserve and click Next 24 Advanced Options Options for advanced users only If you are not sure cick Next to stip this page We higly recommend keeping default settings for the options below If you want to override settings you must first uncheck the Use Default Settings checkbox below To keep the default settings dick Next WV Use Defaut Settings tablity and other undesirable Clear Master Boot Record Completing the NVIDIA MediaShield Setup Wizard This is the final step of the MediaShield Setup Wizard If no data is being preserved then the new array must be partitioned and formatted before it can be used for storage Please refer to the section on Disk Management in your system s Help and Support Center To create the array cick Finish 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 A Click on Start gt Settings gt Control Panel B Double click on Administrative Tools C Double click on Computer Management D Click on Disk Management The following screen is displayed 25 Fe Amen Ven Hele os Bapies E Compute Management resi Votame ison Type Fae Stern Seams a Of Sytem Toots Sompa ie WIPS Meaty Oyman Rest Page Fi Active Cre
18. up 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 The disks that you enabled from the RAID Config BIOS setup page appear in the Free Disks block These are the drives that are available for use as RAID array disk A Tab to the Free Disks section The first disk in the list is selected B Move it from the Free Disks block to the Array Disks block by pressing the right arrow key C Continue pressing the right arrow key until all the disks that you want to use as RAID array disks appear in the Array Disks block NVIDIA RAID Utility Jan 12 2005 Define a New Array RAID Mode Stripimg Block Free Disks Array Disks Loc Disk Model Name Loc Disk Model ae Sn ee 1 1 1 M Maxt 6Y120M0 ESC Quit F6 Back F7 Finish TAB Navigate f1 Select ENTER Popup NVIDIA RAID Utility Jan 12 2005 Define a New Array Free Disks Array Disks Loc Disk Model Name Loc Disk Model Name 1 1 M Maxtor 6Y120M0 4Del ESC Quit F6 Back F7 Finish TAB Navigate Select ENTER Popup After assigning your RAID array disks press lt F7 gt to save your changes of RAID array disks Depending on the platform used the system can have one or more channels Ina typical system there is usually one adapter an
19. vanced screen IDE Configuration B Set the SATA Operation Mode option to RAID STEP 2 Use RAID Installation Guide to set RAID configuration Before you start to configure RAID function you need to check the RAID installation guide in the Support CD for proper configuration Please refer to the BIOS RAID installation guide part of the document in the following path in the Support CD RAID Installation Guide STEP 3 Install Windows Vista Vista 64 bit OS on your system Insert the Windows Vista Windows Vista 64 bit optical disk into the optical drive to boot your system and follow the instruction to install Windows Vista Windows Vista 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 NVIDIA RAID drivers are in the following path in our Support CD 1386 Vista For Windows Vista OS AMD64 Vista64 For Windows Vista 64 bit OS 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 manage create convert delete or rebuild RAID functions on SATA SATAII HDDs you still need to set up SATA Ope
20. 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 Please refer to the RAID functions your motherboard provides in advance and follow the instruction in this section to create RAID arrays 1 1 Introduction to RAID The term RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks which is a method combining two or more hard disk drives into one logical unit For optimal performance please install identical drives of the same model and capacity when creating a RAID set RAID 0 Data Striping RAID 0 is called data striping that optimizes two identical hard disk drives to read and write data in parallel interleaved stacks It will improve data access and storage since it will double the data transfer rate of a single disk alone while the two hard disks perform the same work as a single drive but at a sustained data transfer rate WARNING Although RAID 0 function can improve the access performance it does not provide any fault tolerance Hot Plug any HDDs of the RAID 0 Disk will cause data damage or data loss RAID 1 Data Mirroring RAID 1 is called data mirroring that copies and maintains an identical image of data from one drive to a second drive It provides data protection and increases fault tolerance to the entire system since the disk array management software will direct all applications to the surviving drive as it contains

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