ASRock A330ION RAID Installation Guide
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- ASRock A330ION | RAID Installation Guide - Page 1
RAID Installation Guide 1. NVIDIA BIOS RAID Installation Guide 2 1.1 Introduction to RAID 2 1.2 RAID Configurations Precautions 3 1.3 Create Disk Array 4 2. NVIDIA Windows RAID Installation Guide 8 2.1 Introduction to RAID 8 2.2 RAID Configurations Precautions 9 2.3 Create Disk Array 10 1 - ASRock A330ION | RAID Installation Guide - Page 2
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 to enter BIOS setup to set the option to RAID mode by following the detailed instruction of the "User Manual" in our support - ASRock A330ION | RAID Installation Guide - Page 3
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 of different sizes, the smaller capacity hard disk will be the base storage size for - ASRock A330ION | RAID Installation Guide - Page 4
boot process prior to loading the OS. You have a few seconds to press before the window disappears. MediaShield ROM BIOS 10.0.0.35 Copyright (C) 2008 NVIDIA Corp. Detecting storage devices . . . 1 SATA_2 Slimtype DVD A DS8A3S Press F10 to enter RAID setup utility. - After you press , the - ASRock A330ION | RAID Installation Guide - Page 5
pressing the right-arrow key until all the disks that you want to use as RAID array disks appear in the Array Disks block. MediaShield BIOS Aug 18 2008 - Define a New Array - RAID Mode : Striped Free Disks Port Disk Model Capacity Stripimg Block : Optimal Array Disks Port Disk Model Capacity - ASRock A330ION | RAID Installation Guide - Page 6
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. MediaShield BIOS Aug 18 2008 - Array List - Boot Status Healthy Vendor NVIDIA Array Size STRIPE 931.52G [Ctrl-X]Exit [ ]Select [B]Set Boot [N]New Array [ENTER - ASRock A330ION | RAID Installation Guide - Page 7
"All Programs", "NVIDIA Corporation", "NVIDIA Control Panel", and then "Storage". You can review the RAID arrays that you have set up and start to use RAID function. If you want to install Windows® VistaTM / VistaTM 64-bit OS in RAID mode, please copy the RAID driver from our support CD to your USB - ASRock A330ION | RAID Installation Guide - Page 8
Windows RAID Installation Guide NVIDIA Windows RAID Installation Guide is an instruction for you to configure RAID functions under Windows environment. Please read this guide carefully and follow the instructions below to configure and manage RAID functions. This motherboard supports RAID / AHCI - ASRock A330ION | RAID Installation Guide - Page 9
2.2 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 of different sizes, the smaller capacity hard disk will be the base storage size for - ASRock A330ION | RAID Installation Guide - Page 10
.54 (C) Copyright 1985-2005, American Megatrends, Inc. After adjusting the system BIOS to RAID mode, reboot your system. 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 - ASRock A330ION | RAID Installation Guide - Page 11
Then, below screen appears. Migrate Array Wizard If you plan to install one more HDD, and build RAID 0 (Striping) or RAID 1 (Mirror) on the two HDDs you install. Please click "Migrate arry" to enter "NVIDIA Migrate Array Wizard" to set up the function. Click "Next" to continue. 11 - ASRock A330ION | RAID Installation Guide - Page 12
The following screen shot will appear. Select the RAID array from the list to migrate. And click "Next" to confirm. Select the RAID mode to migrate the array. You may select Striping (RAID 0) or Mirroring (RAID 1). Click "Next". 12 - ASRock A330ION | RAID Installation Guide - Page 13
Below screen appears so that you can view the details of your storage devices. Striping (RAID 0) Mirroring (RAID 1) 13 - ASRock A330ION | RAID Installation Guide - Page 14
, and rebuild the array to re-generate the lost data on the newly added drive. To rebuild an array, please click "Rebuild arry" to enter "NVIDIA Rebuild Array Wizard", and follow the instructions on the screen to configure the function. 14 - ASRock A330ION | RAID Installation Guide - Page 15
, please click "Synchronize arry" to enter "NVIDIA Synchronize Array Wizard", and follow the instructions on the screen to configure the function. If you want to install Windows® VistaTM / VistaTM 64-bit OS in RAID mode, please copy the RAID driver from our support CD to your USB flash. Therefore
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