ASRock K10N78-1394 RAID Installation Guide
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- ASRock K10N78-1394 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 1
5 1.3.2 Installing Windows Vista / Vista 64-bit With RAID Functions 7 1.4 Create Disk Array 8 2. NVIDIA Windows RAID Installation Guide 11 2.1 NVIDIA Windows RAID Installation Guide for Windows XP / XP 64-bit Users 11 2.2 NVIDIA Windows RAID Installation Guide for Windows Vista / Vista - ASRock K10N78-1394 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 2
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 CD or "Quick Installation Guide", you can start - ASRock K10N78-1394 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 3
stores data onto a drive until it is full then proceeds to store files onto the next is not really a RAID, and it does not support fault tolerance. RAID 5 RAID 5 stripes both data becomes 60GB, and the total storage capacity for this RAID 0 set is 120GB. 2. You may use two new drives, or - ASRock K10N78-1394 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 4
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. 4 - ASRock K10N78-1394 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 5
BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen IDE Configuration. B. Set the "SATA Operation Mode" option to [non-RAID]. STEP 2: Make a SATA / SATAII Driver Diskette. A. Insert the ASRock Support CD into your optical drive to boot your system. (There are two ASRock Support CD in the motherboard gift - ASRock K10N78-1394 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 6
STEP 4: 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 in the following path in the Support CD: .. \ RAID - ASRock K10N78-1394 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 7
, 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: (There are two ASRock Support CD in the motherboard gift box pack, please - ASRock K10N78-1394 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 8
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 before the window disappears. After you press , the NVIDIA RAID Utility - Define a New Array window appears. By default, RAID Mode is set to Mirroring, but please - ASRock K10N78-1394 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 9
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 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 - ASRock K10N78-1394 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 10
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. Healthy NVIDIA STRIPING 74.53G 10 - ASRock K10N78-1394 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 11
. Please follow the instructions below according to the OS you install. 2.1 NVIDIA Windows RAID Installation Guide for Windows 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 - ASRock K10N78-1394 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 12
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 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 - ASRock K10N78-1394 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 13
D. Click Next and the following screen shot will appear. 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 - ASRock K10N78-1394 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 14
F. Click Next, and the following screen shot will appear. G. Select the two disks that you want to include in the stripe set. 14 - ASRock K10N78-1394 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 15
To create a striped array with more disks, select additional disks from the list. H. Click Next and the following screen shot will appear. I. Click Finish and the following screen shot array has been created, it needs to be partitioned and formatted. A. Click on Start → Settings → Control Panel. 15 - ASRock K10N78-1394 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 16
striped array that was created earlier. To create a partition on it, right click on the Unallocated partition and select New Partition. 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 - ASRock K10N78-1394 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 17
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. - ASRock K10N78-1394 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 18
. 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 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 - ASRock K10N78-1394 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 19
D. Click Next. The Disk Selection page appears. 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 - ASRock K10N78-1394 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 20
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 - ASRock K10N78-1394 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 21
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 - ASRock K10N78-1394 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 22
Click "Create array". Then you can start to build up RAID. B. Creating RAID Arrays Click Next and the following screen shot will appear. 22 - ASRock K10N78-1394 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 23
Select a configuration that best suits your storage needs. It is recommended to select "Custom". Click Next. 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 - ASRock K10N78-1394 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 24
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, and click Next. Select the disk with data to preserve, and click Next. 24 - ASRock K10N78-1394 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 25
NVRAID Array Disks Now that the two-disk array has been created, it needs to be partitioned and formatted. A. Click on Start → Settings → 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 - ASRock K10N78-1394 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 26
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
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NVIDIA RAID Installation Guide
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NVIDIA BIOS RAID Installation Guide …………………….. 2
1.1 Introduction to RAID …………………………………….. 2
1.2 RAID Configurations Precautions ……………………… 3
1.3 Installing Windows XP / XP 64-bit / Vista / Vista 64-bit
With RAID Functions ……………………
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1.3.1 Installing Windows XP / XP 64-bit With RAID
Functions ……………………
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1.3.2 Installing Windows Vista / Vista 64-bit With RAID
Functions ……………………
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1.4 Create Disk Array ………………………………………… 8
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NVIDIA Windows RAID Installation Guide ………………… 11
2.1 NVIDIA Windows RAID Installation Guide for Windows
XP / XP 64-bit Users …………………………………….. 11
2.2 NVIDIA Windows RAID Installation Guide for Windows
Vista / Vista 64-bit Users ……………………………….. 21