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NVIDIA RAID Installation Guide(17)

1. 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 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 For Windows Vista OS AMD64 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 HDD
2. daks to add to the new RAID array A Striping array requires 1 or more free hand disks Select the disk with data to preserve Select any one disk by diding on it Mame Chamel WOC WOSI0ID 60L545 Wot WOS00ID 60L545 Data from one of the selected daks can be preserved in the new array Fone of the disks in the new array has data you wish to save select it now Select the disk with data to preserve and click Next 24 Qptens for advanced users only If you are not sure check Newt to ship this page We higly recommend keeping default settings for the options below fF you want bo override the default settings you must first uncheck the Use Default Settings checkbox below To keep the default setings dick Next Use Default Settings Not ceang VER ma tahti mui Hha J des Master Boot Record Completing the NVIDIA MediaShield Setup Wizard This i the final step of the MeciaShesid Setup Wizard If no data is being preserved then the new array must be partifoned and formatted before it can ba used for storage Please refer to the secon on Disk Management in your system s Help and Support Center To create the array cick Finch 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
3. on Administrative Tools C Double click on Computer Management D Click on Disk Management The following screen is displayed 25 Se Gey he ama View Help es 7Papigrs bisai hren Boot Page Pile Active Comms Durg Dik songs batty Porra Partner basatia Prr Parise i Wri m md Appi m me JEN Ge AT IA Ge Baa Hee Sys paa Pape P p kins Hesiiy Parsat Pare ajai Prea etme a EE Uralcated Fomary peti 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
4. tosg Ramzozb a Stores Cat befracire te aa Cla Management Ch Sieh Feta and ppisti LE SLE hs Ansa ie Eyen fo Izda iPS Bh linabesle A cade F Follow the Wizard for setting up and formatting the partition Once that is done you can start using the 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 lentis NG For Aug NYa macs Meuk Ae W ea MTA Stuer pei Siete may i TBC Sala econdary Mate Hl Pula sy oem Hobudd Grr aL Shia Fi rocks bray E ekle Si cn Cruz ves g 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 NYLULA Delete array Wizard 5 tard sil gde yo through tha 296107 of 3 RAID alu cocmncur clck hest 17 B Click Next and the following screen shot will appear BVIDIA Colete Array Weard Completing the WV1IDLA Delete Array Wizare Tou havo sue ostah eomp kotod thz VIS Dokto array agd vag hose choses bo oeer he Gchoasrng AJU cera ALT FIRR E P rie sarar rir mish C Click Finish and the
5. AID 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 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 GO O O G Bi maser 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 disks MediaShield allows you to configure your disks to best meet fou hawe the folowing disks anvils Ha
6. F Back F7 Finish TAB Navigate Select ENTER Popup 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 Sirimni Stripimg Block Free Disks Array Disks OE EE OSE NAC Loc _ Disk Model LIM Maxt 6VY120M0 ESC Quit F Back F7 Finish TA B Navigate Select ENTER Popup NVIDIA RAID Utility Jan 12 2005 Define a New Array RAID Mode Striping Stripimg Block Free Disks Array Disks Loc Disk Model Name Loc Disk Model Name CC 11 M Maxtor 6Y120M0 ESC Quit F Back F7 Finish TAB Navigate T1 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 syst
7. NVIDIA RAID Installation Guide NVIDIA BIOS RAID Installation Guide 2 1 1 Introduction to RAID ccc cece ccc cence ceeceeeeeuees 2 1 2 RAID Configurations Precautions 0 ee ee 3 1 3 Installing Windows 2000 XP XP 64 bit Vista Vista 64 bit With RAID Functions 0eeeeeee 5 1 3 1 Installing Windows 2000 XP XP 64 bit With RAID FUNCTIONS cccecccecceceeeececeeeeeererseree D 1 3 2 Installing Windows Vista Vista 64 bit With RAID PUMCHONS E N AEA E A EE E TE EAN o 1A Create DISKAMaY oorarts case oy eens 8 NVIDIA Windows RAID Installation Guide 11 2 1 NVIDIA Windows RAID Installation Guide for Windows 2000 XP XP 64 bit Users ccc cece cece cece eens 11 2 2 NVIDIA Windows RAID Installation Guide for Windows Vista Vista 64 bit Users 2 0 00 c cece ccc cc cece eeeeeeeeeees 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
8. 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 RAID 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 cis into an existing RAID array The NVIDIA RAID solution allows you to rebuild a new mirrored data cooy whe the sveter ic vo and running without disrupting user and application accers to the date sat gt gt Rebuilding an array can take up to aday ta J complete This operation occurs in the background and will ret impeds your werk IF yeu need to shutdown the computer the rebuild wail continue where it left of f when you re
9. arrays If your motherboard is equipped with four 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 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 sof
10. ay with more disks select additional disks from the list H Click Next and the following screen shot will appear HWA Cruale Array Wizard Completing the YWIDIA Create Array Wirarid w2 hava sui ce side completed the YDIN eaa frat we corel Zglacmz a rad chee iA 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 A Click on Start gt Settings gt Control Panel 15 w Double click on Administrative Tools Double click on Computer Management Click on Disk Management The following screen is displayed 90 nm Computer Mamapement amA Buu Yew wid Heb gt cm bw g j Irem us El Eveul eccr Saeed Fy ders ME Lid thes z1 Gus Perlur ine boys n Aw gt I Cersi Wa ale oy Shur sige Penvebe Su age BR Cik Ealan s We Aa Se wiles aid Gpulie ti_is 152 32 JInallocazed Mo Icda lt I amp CLOT Oone 9B oma cater 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 Camputar Manapament E Fis Sru E wi do Help cm oer SC Paran oe Vasey vee Oa ama an Event eer Shaved o ders WS Loca Leet ent Gus Performance Logs Enz errs Cesl anata Sig
11. dures 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 screen will appear 12 MVIDIA Creale Array Wizard Welcome to the NWYIDIA Create Array Wier T agads gude y0 through ths eaten o a Tan aL ana covtirur elek hest WVIDIA Create Array Wizard RAD Ain wy Selechon F ese zalit the typa o7 RAID array 11 crete Sehat Ue appe I PAID aniay lu tsas 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 Aiay Selechinn l ezac gct tht ype o7 WALD ray rr crecte Sede Ure ape AP PADD anay lun cas RAIL Moga a nn Stripe 213 x crimi Panta F Click Next and the following screen shot will appear HVIDIA Creale Array Wizard Free Wisk odiccoon Select the cs to add he es PRAIL array Fr Diris Jianel Dirie TOMER An Pora Miss WE WOSSOSC OLFYS0 Seuaidare Maser A Iri pig aray riures dn wre Pree a disks G Select the two disks that you want to include in the stripe set 14 NVIDIA Create Array Wizard Cree hi Serr hann sclack thz ada to odd o2 the os HAL gras P S OC NCSS0SC OLFYI0 Secondary Mariat y To create a striped arr
12. em 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 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 Array List Boot Id Status Vendor Array Model Name m ss SS eS SS Ves 2 Healthy NVIDIA STRIPING 74 53G Ctrl X Exit N 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 dr
13. iver 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 NVRAIDMAN by clicking on Start Programs NVIDIA Corporation Mediashield Mediashield There is also a Mediashield shortcut on the desktop ka ge ne as tere i E Lsi Ih Wi dane Male Flaa E ig vrvthasttecengs z OJ nereta start Then below screen appears l1 CA NVIDIA Interface Channel Device 00 WOGBOGD O0FMAD Healthy 34 46GB SATA Primary Master aoc WOSSOGD O0FNAD Healthy 344968 SATA Secondary Master B Creating RAID Arrays This section includes examples of using NVRAIDMAN for creating RAID arrays If your motherboard is equipped with four SATA SATAII ports you may choose to use RAID O 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 proce
14. of different sizes the smaller capacity hard disk will be the base storage 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 O set is 120GB 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 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 in
15. on 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 4 Install Windows 2000 XP 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
16. rd Drive 1 7453685 Hard Drive 2 745368 Click Next and the following screen shot will appear 22 MVIDLA Media Shield Select a comiguraton that best suits your shorage needs Select one of the fodowing configurations Protection Ideal for storing music video pictures and other digital assets Total capacty 74 5368 Disk falure protection FULL Have your disks work together to provide maximum siorage capacity Tota capacty 19 0668 Disk falre protection NOME More infomation i Custom Additonal options for advanced users Spedfy settings such as RAID type and stripe size Select a configuration that best suits your storage needs It is recommended to select Custom Click Next Please select he type of RAID array io create Seect the type of RAID array to create seen 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 RAID Mode Stipe Sine 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 et e Select the
17. s 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 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 81 Copyright C 2004 NVIDIA Corp 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 Stripimg Block Optimal Free Disks Array Disks Loc Disk Mirroiin Loc Disk Model Name Stripe Mirroring Spanning L 1 M Maxt i jAdd ESC Quit
18. stall Before installing Windows 2000 to your system your Windows 2000 optical 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 Installati
19. start To conmbinue dick Next D Click Next The Disk Selection page appears HYIDIA Rebuild Array Wizard Disk Selechinn Soot a dak From eithr the RALI arr e ect meniber dek from ze bez WIL AVL SSULL ULAYA Imray Wo WEI NSR 1 04a Gernandars Plas E 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 19 NVIDIA Rebuild Array Wizard Completing the YYOL Keluli Array Wizard wzy have succesful completed thz MLL Heculs Aze Wa read u have rhasen ka tsh id thea bail ni g iss ETAC a PE E AAN hisi Tn the ba tmning RAM ave NvIDL4 PIRES 476 Tose indad a begin bidun Ur nisk clot Airis 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 R
20. tware 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 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 If you use two drives

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