Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation RAID Configuration
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1. Size RAID Name RAID Array A RAID Array B RAID Array C If you press Y some necessary information will be written to the drives and it will destroy the original data in the drives 18 NASRockK WWW Gsiock com SIEP 6 After the RAID drives are created it will appear the following message Input RAID name 8 characters for you to key in a name for the newly created array The effective characters for an array name are lt 0 gt lt 9 gt lt A gt lt Z gt a z Space key and underscore RAID BIOS Setup Utility c 2003 ALi Corporation www ali com tw Create RAID 0 Striping for Performance Create RAID 1 Mirroring for Reliability Stripe Size Select Delete RAID Setting amp Partition Moving Cursor Delete All RAID Setting amp Partition Select amp Finish Rebuild RAID Array Exit Select Boot Drive Input RAID name 8 characters ALi RAID Drive Model Mode Capacity RAID Array Type J B Channel 1 Master XXXX XXXX XXXX R OE O PAV EN G D XXXX XXXX Capacity RAID Type Stripe Size RAID Name RAID Array A RAID Array B RAID Array C STEP 7 After the RAID array has been successfully created it will display the RAID array information at RAID Array List RAID BIOS Setup Utility c 2003 ALi Corporation www ali com tw Create RAID 0 Striping for Performance Create RAID 1 Mirroring for Reliability Stripe Size Select Delete RAID Setting2. Stripe Size RAID Name 10 ISRock WWW GSiOCk com STEP 3 Move the highlight bar to the item Create RAID 1 Mirroring for Reliability and press Enter key to activate it A flashing M cursor appears at the Drive Select Menu for you to choose the first source drive for RAID 1 RAID BIOS Setup Utility c 2003 ALi Corporation www ali com tw Create RAID 0 Striping for Performance Create JBOD for integrated Capacity Stripe Size Select Delete RAID Setting amp Partition Moving Cursor Delete All RAID Setting amp Partition Select amp Finish Rebuild RAID Array Exit Select Boot Drive Select Mirror Drives Drive Model Mode Capacity RAID Array Type M B Channel 1 Master XXXX XXXX XXXX Channel 2 Master XXXX XXXX XXXX Capacity RAID Type Stripe Size RAID Name RAID Array A RAID Array B RAID Array C STEP 4 Use lt Space gt key to choose the desired drive for RAID 1 After you select the first dirve for RAID 1 the M cursor will stop flashing and mark out the selected drive Then it appears another flashing cursor m for you to choose the second target drive for RAID 1 RAID BIOS Setup Utility c 2003 ALi Corporation www ali com tw Create RAID 0 Striping for Performance Create JBOD for integrated Capacity Stripe Size Select Delete RAID Setting amp Partition Moving Cursor Delete All RAID Setting amp Partition Select amp Finish Rebuild RAID Array Exit Select
3. 2 STEP 5 Connect the other end of the SATA data cable to the secondary SATA hard disk STEP 6 Connect the SATA power cable to the SATA hard disk 1 2 Making An SATA Driver Diskette If you want to install Windows 2000 or Windows XP on your system while you only have SATA HDDs on your system you will need to make an SATA driver diskette before you start the OS installation 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 lt F11 gt key and then a window for boot devices selection appears Please select CD ROM as the boot device SIEP 3 When you see the message on the screen Do you want to generate Serial ATA driver diskette YN press Y MISRock www asiock com STEP 4 Then you will see these messages Please insert a diskette into the floppy drive WARNING Formatting the floppy diskette will lose ALL data in it Start to format and copy files YN Please insert a floppy diskette into the floppy drive and press Y SIEP 5 The system will start to format the floppy diskette and copy SATA drivers into the floppy diskette Once you have the SATA driver diskette ready you may start to install Windows 2000 Windows XP on your system directly without setting the RAID configuration on your system or you may start to use ALi RAID BIOS Setup
4. Boot Drive Select Mirror Drives Drive Model Mode Capacity RAID Array Type M B Channel 1 Master XXXX XXXX XXXX m Channel 2 Master XXXX 0 0 0 4 20 9 94 Capacity RAID Type Stripe Size RAID Name RAID Array A RAID Array B RAID Array C 11 IISKock WWW Gsiock com STEP 5 After two drives are properly assigned it will appear the following message Create RAID 1 Y N RAID BIOS Setup Utility c 2003 ALi Corporation www ali com tw Create RAID 0 Striping for Performance Create JBOD for integrated Capacity Stripe Size Select Delete RAID Setting amp Partition Moving Cursor Delete All RAID Setting amp Partition Select amp Finish Rebuild RAID Array Exit Select Boot Drive Create RAID 1 Y N Drive Model Mode Capacity RAID Array Type M B Channel 1 Master XXXX XXXX XXXX m Channel 2 Master XXXX XXXX XXXX Capacity RAID Type Stripe Size RAID Name RAID Array A RAID Array B RAID Array C If you press Y some necessary information will be written to the drives and it will destroy the original data in the drives 12 IISKock WWW CSIOCK com STEP 6 After the RAID drives are created it will appear the following message Input RAID name 8 characters for you to key in a name for the newly created array The effective characters for an array name are lt 0 gt lt 9 gt lt A gt lt Z gt a z Space key and underscore RAID BIOS Set
5. ID 1 Mirroring for Reliability Create JBOD for integrated Capacity Stripe Size Delete RAID Setting amp Partition Delete All RAID Setting amp Partition Rebuild RAID Array Select Boot Drive Drive Model Mode B Channel 1 Master XXXX XXXX Channel 2 Master XXXX XXXX Capacity RAID Array A XXXX 0 RAID Array B RAID Array C Select Moving Cursor Select amp Finish Exit Capacity RAID Array Type XXXX XXXX 16 K RAID Type Stripe Size RAID Name ALi RAID fAiSRock WWW GSsiOCK com 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 ALi RAID BIOS Setup Utility for the setting of RAID 1 configuration STEP 1 Boot up your computer STEP 2 Press Ctrl and lt A gt simultaneously to enter the main menu of ALi RAID BIOS Setup Utility RAID BIOS Setup Utility c 2003 ALi Corporation Create RAID 1 Mirroring for Reliability Create JBOD for integrated Capacity Stripe Size Delete RAID Setting amp Partition Delete All RAID Setting amp Partition Rebuild RAID Array Select Boot Drive B Channel Master Channel 2 Master RAID Array A RAID Array B RAID Array C Drive Model Mode XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX Capacity XXXX XXXX www ali com tw Select Moving Cursor Select amp Finish Exit RAID Array Type Capacity RAID Type
6. IISKock WWW GSiOCk com 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 2 2 Guide to RAID Configurations RAID 0 RAID 1 JBOD cece ee eee 4 2 1 Introduction of RAID 4 2 2 RAID Configuration Precautions 5 2 3 RAID 0 Configuraion esses 6 2 4 RAID 1 Configuration suus 10 2 5 JBOD Configuration 16 3 Guide to Windows 2000 Windows XP Installation 20 MISRock www asiock com 1 Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation 1 1 Serial ATA SATA Hard Disks Installation This motherboard adopts ALi M5283 IDE controller chip that supports Serial ATA SATA hard disks You may install SATA hard disks on this motherboard for internal storage devices This section will guide you to install the SATA hard disks STEP 1 Install the SATA hard disks into the drive bays of your chassis STEP 2 Connect one end of the SATA data cable to the motherboard s primary SATA connector SATA1 STEP 3 Connect the other end of the SATA data cable to the primary SATA hard disk STEP 4 Connect one end of the second SATA data cable to the motherboard s secondary SATA connector SATA
7. RAID 1 Mirroring for Reliability Create JBOD for integrated Capacity Stripe Size Delete RAID Setting amp Partition Delete All RAID Setting amp Partition Rebuild RAID Array Select Boot Drive B Channel Master Channel 2 Master RAID Array A RAID Array B RAID Array C Drive Model Mode XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX Capacity XXXX XXXX www ali com tw Select Moving Cursor Select amp Finish Exit RAID Array Type Capacity RAID Type Stripe Size RAID Name 16 IISKock WWW Gsiock com STEP 3 Move the highlight bar to the item Create JBOD for integrated Capacity and press Enter key to activate it A flashing J cursor appears at the Drive Select Menu for you to choose the first drive for JBOD RAID BIOS Setup Utility c 2003 ALi Corporation www ali com tw Create RAID 0 Striping for Performance Create RAID 1 Mirroring for Reliability Stripe Size Delete RAID Setting amp Partition Delete All RAID Setting amp Partition Rebuild RAID Array Select Boot Drive Select JBOD Drives Drive Model Mode Capacity J B Channel 1 Master XXXX Channel 2 Master XXXX Capacity RAID Array A RAID Array B RAID Array C Select Moving Cursor Select amp Finish Exit RAID Array Type XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX RAID Type Stripe Size RAID Name STEP 4 Use lt Space gt key to choose the desired drive for JBOD array After you select the first dr
8. RAID Type Stripe Size RAID Name RAID Array A RAID Array B RAID Array C STEP 4 Use Space key to choose the desired drive for RAID O After you select the first drive for RAID 0 the S cursor will stop flashing and mark out the selected drive Then it appears another flashing cursor s for you to choose the second drive for RAID O RAID BIOS Setup Utility c 2003 ALi Corporation www ali com tw Create RAID 1 Mirroring for Reliability Create JBOD for integrated Capacity Stripe Size Select Delete RAID Setting amp Partition Moving Cursor Delete All RAID Setting amp Partition Select amp Finish Rebuild RAID Array Exit Select Boot Drive Select Stripe Drives Drive Model Mode Capacity RAID Array Type S B Channel 1 Master XXXX XXXX XXXX s Channel 2 Master XXXX XXXX XXXX Capacity RAID Type Stripe Size RAID Name RAID Array A RAID Array B RAID Array C IISKock WWW Gsiock com STEP 5 After two drives are properly assigned it will appear the following message Data on RAID Drives will be deleted Y N RAID BIOS Setup Utility c 2003 ALi Corporation www ali com tw Create RAID 1 Mirroring for Reliability Create JBOD for integrated Capacity Stripe Size Select Delete RAID Setting amp Partition Moving Cursor Delete All RAID Setting amp Partition Select amp Finish Rebuild RAID Array Exit Select Boot Drive Data on RAID drives will be deleted Y N Driv
9. Utility to set RAID 0 RAID 1 JBOD configuration before you install the OS IISRock www asrock com 2 Guide to RAID Configurations RAID 0 RAID 1 JBOD 2 1 Introduction of RAID This motherboard adopts ALi M5283 IDE controller chip that supports RAID 0 RAID 1 JBOD function with two independent Serial ATA SATA channels This section will introduce the basic knowledge of RAID and the guide to configure RAID 0 RAID 1 and JBOD settings 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 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 ar
10. amp Partition Moving Cursor Delete All RAID Setting amp Partition Select amp Finish Rebuild RAID Array Exit Select Boot Drive Drive Model Mode Capacity RAID Array Type BEEG Gan VEI XXXX XXXX Channel 2 Master XXXX XXXX XXXX Capacity RAID Type Stripe Size RAID Name RAID Array A XXXX JBOD 16K ALi RAID RAID Array B RAID Array C 19 MISRock WWW GSsiOCK com 3 Installation of Windows 2000 Windows XP If you want to install Windows 2000 or Windows XP on your system while you only have SATA HDDs on your system you will need to make an SATA driver diskette see page 2 to 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 If you want to use RAID function you need to set the RAID configuration see page 4 to page 19 before you install Windows 2000 Windows XP For the installation of the SATA drivers while installing Windows 2000 or Windows XP please follow the instruction below SIEP 1 Insert Windows 2000 or Windows XP CD into the optical drive STEP 2 Remove the floppy diskette and reboot the system When you start the installation press F6 once you see the message at the bottom of the screen Press F6 if you need to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver Press F6 if you need to install a third party SCSI or RAID driv
11. ation STEP 1 Boot up your computer STEP 2 Press Ctrl and lt A gt simultaneously to enter the main menu of ALi RAID BIOS Setup Utility RAID BIOS Setup Utility c 2003 ALi Corporation Create RAID 1 Mirroring for Reliability Create JBOD for integrated Capacity Stripe Size Delete RAID Setting amp Partition Delete All RAID Setting amp Partition Rebuild RAID Array Select Boot Drive B Channel Master Channel 2 Master RAID Array A RAID Array B RAID Array C Drive Model Mode XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX Capacity XXXX XXXX www ali com tw Select Moving Cursor Select amp Finish Exit RAID Array Type Capacity RAID Type Stripe Size RAID Name AiSRock WWW Gsiock com STEP 3 Move the highlight bar to the item Create RAID 0 Striping for Performance and press Enter key to activate it A flashing S cursor appears at the Drive Select Menu for you to choose the first drive for RAID O RAID BIOS Setup Utility c 2003 ALi Corporation www ali com tw Create RAID 1 Mirroring for Reliability Create JBOD for integrated Capacity Stripe Size Select Delete RAID Setting amp Partition Moving Cursor Delete All RAID Setting amp Partition Select amp Finish Rebuild RAID Array Exit Select Boot Drive Select Stripe Drives Drive Model Mode Capacity RAID Array Type S B Channel 1 Master XXXX XXXX XXXX ETE V EN T D 0004 XXXX XXXX Capacity
12. e Model Mode Capacity RAID Array Type S B Channel 1 Master XXXX XXXX XXXX s Channel 2 Master XXXX XXXX XXXX Capacity RAID Type Stripe Size RAID Name RAID Array A RAID Array B RAID Array C If you press Y some necessary information will be written to the drives and it will destroy the original data in the drives NSRockK WWW Gsiock com SIEP 6 After the RAID drives are created it will appear the following message Input RAID name 8 characters for you to key in a name for the newly created array The effective characters for an array name are 0 9 lt A gt lt Z gt a z Space key and underscore RAID BIOS Setup Utility c 2003 ALi Corporation www ali com tw Create RAID 1 Mirroring for Reliability Create JBOD for integrated Capacity Stripe Size Select Delete RAID Setting amp Partition Moving Cursor Delete All RAID Setting amp Partition Select amp Finish Rebuild RAID Array Exit Select Boot Drive Input RAID name 8 characters ALi RAID Drive Model Mode Capacity RAID Array Type S B Channel 1 Master XXXX XXXX XXXX s Channel 2 Master XXXX XXXX XXXX Capacity RAID Type Stripe Size RAID Name RAID Array A RAID Array B RAID Array C STEP 7 After the RAID array has been successfully created it will display the RAID array information at RAID Array List RAID BIOS Setup Utility c 2003 ALi Corporation www ali com tw Create RA
13. er 20 MISKock WWW GSiOCK com STEP 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 lt none gt To specify additional SCSI adapters CD ROM drives or special disk controllers for use with Windows including those for which you have a device support disk from a mass storage device manufacturer press S If you do not have any device support disks from a mass storage device manufacturer or do not want to specify additional mass storage devices for use with Windows press ENTER oecify Additional Device ENTER Continue F3 Exit STEP 4 Insert the SATA driver into drive A and press Enter Windows Setup Please insert the disk labeled Manufacturer supplied hardware support disk into Drive A x Press ENTER when ready ENTER Continue ESC Cancel F3 Exit 21 MSRock WWW GSiOCK com SIEP 5 Choose one of the following items M5283 SATA RAID Controller WinNT 4 0 M5283 SATA RAID Controller Win2000 M5283 SATA RAID Controller Windows XP and press Enter key Windows Setup You have chosen to configure aSCSI Adapter for use with Windows using adevice support disk provided by an adapte
14. ive for JBOD the J cursor will stop flashing and mark out the selected drive Then it appears another flashing cursor J for you to choose the second drive for JBOD RAID BIOS Setup Utility c 2003 ALi Corporation www ali com tw Create RAID 0 Striping for Performance Create RAID 1 Mirroring for Reliability Stripe Size Delete RAID Setting amp Partition Delete All RAID Setting amp Partition Rebuild RAID Array Select Boot Drive Select JBOD Drives Drive Model Mode Capacity J B Channel 1 Master XXXX J Channel 2 Master XXXX Capacity RAID Array A RAID Array B RAID Array C 17 Select Moving Cursor Select amp Finish Exit RAID Array Type XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX RAID Type Stripe Size RAID Name IISKock WWW Gsiock com STEP 5 After two drives are properly assigned it will appear the following message Data on RAID Drives will be deleted Y N RAID BIOS Setup Utility c 2003 ALi Corporation www ali com tw Create RAID 0 Striping for Performance Create RAID 1 Mirroring for Reliability Stripe Size Select Delete RAID Setting amp Partition Moving Cursor Delete All RAID Setting amp Partition Select amp Finish Rebuild RAID Array Exit Select Boot Drive Data on RAID drives will be deleted Y N Drive Model Mode Capacity RAID Array Type J B Channel 1 Master XXXX XXXX XXXX J Channel 2 Master XXXX XXXX XXXX Capacity RAID Type Stripe
15. r manufacturer Select the SCSI Adapter you want from the following list or press ESC to return to the previous screen M5283 SATA RAID Controller WinNT 4 0 M5283 SATA RAID Controller Win2000 M5283 SATA RAID Controller Windows XP ENTER Continue ESC Cancel F3 Exit STEP 6 Please wait until the Setup finishes loading driver files After setup recognizes the driver for M5283 and shows the following prompt you may press lt Enter gt to continue with the OS installation You may press lt S gt if you need to specify any additional devices to be installed or pressing lt F3 gt to exit the OS installation Windows Setup Setup will load support for the following mass storage device s M5283 SATA RAID Controller Windows XP To specify additional SCSI adapters CD ROM drives or special disk controllers for use with Windows including those for which you have a device support disk from a mass storage device manufacturer press S If you do not have any device support disks from a mass storage device manufacturer or do not want to specify additional mass storage devices for use with Windows press ENTER S Specify Additional Device ENTER Continue F3 Exit 22
16. ray management software will direct all applications to the surviving drive as it contains a complete copy of the data in the other drive if one drive fails MISRock www asiock com JBOD JBOD Just a Bunch of Drives is also called data spanning It will expands the capacity of your drive and results in a useable total capacity since it will make several hard disk types configured as a single hard disk and the hard drives are simply hooked up in series However JBOD will not increase any performance or data security 2 2 RAID Configurations Precautions 1 lt is recommended to use two new drives if you are creating a RAID 0 striping array for performance 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 fAiSRock WWW GSsiOCK com 2 3 RAID 0 Configuration This section will guide you to configure RAID 0 To set RAID O configuration please follow the instruction below to use ALi RAID BIOS Setup Utility for the setting of RAID O0 configur
17. up Utility c 2003 ALi Corporation Create RAID 0 Striping for Performance Create JBOD for integrated Capacity Stripe Size Delete RAID Setting amp Partition Delete All RAID Setting amp Partition Rebuild RAID Array Select Boot Drive Input RAID name 8 characters ALi RAID Drive Model Mode M B Channel 1 Master XXXX XXXX m Channel 2 Master XXXX XXXX www ali com tw Capacity XXXX XXXX Se Delect Moving Cursor Select amp Finish Exit RAID Array Type Capacity RAID Type Stripe Size RAID Name RAID Array A RAID Array B RAID Array C 13 AiSRock WWW Gsiock com STEP 7 Then you will see the following message Duplicate Data from M to m Y N that asks to do drive copy The source drive is indicated by M while the target drive is indicated by m in Drive Select Menu Pressing Y will duplicate the data in source drive to the target drive Make sure the source drive is the correct one If you press N it will create mirror only and the data is inconsistent in two drives RAID BIOS Setup Utility c 2003 ALi Corporation Create RAID 0 Striping for Performance Create JBOD for integrated Capacity Stripe Size Delete RAID Setting amp Partition Delete All RAID Setting amp Partition Rebuild RAID Array Select Boot Drive Duplicate Data from M to m Y N Drive Model Mode M B Channel 1 Master XXXX XXXX m Channel 2 Master XXXX XXXX www ali com tw Capacit
18. y XXXX XXXX Select Moving Cursor Select amp Finish Exit RAID Array Type Capacity RAID Type Stripe Size RAID Name RAID Array A RAID Array B RAID Array C The process status bar will show up during the duplication process 14 IISKock WWW Gsiock com STEP 8 After the RAID array has been successfully created it will display the RAID array information at RAID Array List RAID BIOS Setup Utility c 2003 ALi Corporation www ali com tw Create RAID 0 Striping for Performance Create JBOD for integrated Capacity Stripe Size Select Delete RAID Setting amp Partition Moving Cursor Delete All RAID Setting amp Partition Select amp Finish Rebuild RAID Array Exit Select Boot Drive Drive Model Mode Capacity RAID Array Type B Channel 1 Master XXXX XXXX XXXX Channel 2 Master XXXX XXXX XXXX Capacity RAID Type Stripe Size RAID Name RAID Array A gt XXXX 1 ALi RAID RAID Array B RAID Array C 15 fAiSRock WWW GSsiOCK com 2 5 JBOD Configuration This section will guide you to configure JBOD To set JBOD configuration please follow the instruction below to use ALi RAID BIOS Setup Utility for the setting of JBOD configuration STEP 1 Boot up your computer STEP 2 Press lt Ctrl gt and lt A gt simultaneously to enter the main menu of ALi RAID BIOS Setup Utility RAID BIOS Setup Utility c 2003 ALi Corporation Create
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