ASRock K7Upgrade-600 RAID Installation Guide
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- ASRock K7Upgrade-600 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 1
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 3 2. Guide to RAID Configurations 4 2.1 Introduction of RAID 4 2.2 RAID Configuration Precautions 6 2.3 BIOS Configuration Utility - ASRock K7Upgrade-600 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 2
adopts VIA VT8237 southbridge chipset 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 - ASRock K7Upgrade-600 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 3
you may start to use "VT8237 SATA RAID BIOS" to set RAID 0 / RAID 1 / JBOD configuration before you install the OS. You may also set the RAID configuration by using "VIA RAID Tool" in Windows environment. Please refer to the document in the Support CD, "Guide to VIA RAID Tool", which is located in - ASRock K7Upgrade-600 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 4
of RAID This motherboard adopts VIA VT8237 south bridge chipset that integrates RAID controller supporting 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 - ASRock K7Upgrade-600 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 5
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 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. 5 - ASRock K7Upgrade-600 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 6
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 K7Upgrade-600 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 7
2.3 BIOS Configuration Utility 2.3.1 Enter BIOS Configuration Utility After the system powers on, the following information will appear on the screen. Press 'Tab' key to enter BIOS configuration utility. The main interface of BIOS configuration utility is as below: 7 - ASRock K7Upgrade-600 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 8
2.3.2 Create Disk Array 1. Within the main interface, use the up and down arrow key to highlight the Create Array command and press to call out the list of creation steps. 2. Highlight the Array Mode and press , then a list of array modes will appear. Just highlight the target - ASRock K7Upgrade-600 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 9
Drives". Select "Auto Setup" to allow BIOS to select the disk drives and create array automatically. Select "Select Disk Drives" to let user select the array drives manually. When using Select Disk Drives method, the channel column will be activated. Just highlight the target drives that you - ASRock K7Upgrade-600 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 10
Create RAID 0 If RAID 0 array is selected in step 2, user can also select a block size for the array. Use the arrow key to highlight the "Block Size" and press . Then the list of available - ASRock K7Upgrade-600 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 11
capacity of mirror drive must be greater or equal to the source drive; otherwise the RAID 1 can't be created and a error message will appear: "Error: mirror's size is smaller than source!!! Press ESC return". If user does not want to duplicate data, the data on the source and the mirror drive will - ASRock K7Upgrade-600 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 12
Create JBOD The data on disk drives will be destroyed if user uses "Auto Setup" to create a JBOD. However, you can reserve the data on the first disk drive of a JBOD the first disk drive and become free space. Expand Span (JBOD) Array function is not available if VT8237 only supports 2 SATA ports. 12 - ASRock K7Upgrade-600 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 13
2.3.3 Delete Disk Array User can delete a specific RAID that has been created. Following are the steps to delete a created disk array. 1. Use arrow key to highlight Delete Array item in main menu interface, and press . The channel column will be activated. 2. Use arrow key to highlight the - ASRock K7Upgrade-600 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 14
disk array. Use the arrow key to highlight the "Select Boot Disk" item then press . The channel column will be activated. Just use arrow key to highlight the target disk array then press . If user select a disk array that has a boot mark and press , then its boot setting will be - ASRock K7Upgrade-600 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 15
2000 or Windows XP, please insert Windows 2000 or Windows XP CD into the optical drive. Then remove the floppy diskette, and reboot the system. At the very beginning, you will see the message at the bottom of the screen, "Press F6 if you need to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver...." At this - ASRock K7Upgrade-600 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 16
versions of the SATA HDD drivers for you to install. Please use arrow keys to move the highlight bar to make your selection according to the OS you use. When the installation of the SATA HDD drivers is complete, please continue to follow the instructions of Windows 2000 or Windows XP for the proper
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Guide to SATA Hard Disks
Installation and RAID Configuration
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Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation
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Serial ATA (SATA) Hard Disks Installation
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Making An SATA Driver Diskette
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Guide to RAID Configurations
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Introduction of RAID
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RAID Configuration Precautions
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BIOS Configuration Utility
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2.3.1
Enter BIOS Configuration Utility
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Create Disk Array
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Delete Disk Array
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Select Boot Array
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Installation of Windows 2000 / Windows XP
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