ASRock N68-VGS3 FX RAID Installation Guide
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- ASRock N68-VGS3 FX | RAID Installation Guide - Page 1
NVIDIA RAID Installation Guide 1. NVIDIA BIOS RAID Installation Guide 2 1.1 Introduction to RAID 2 1.2 RAID Configurations Precautions 3 1.3 Installing Windows 7 / 7 64-bit / Vista / Vista 64-bit / XP / XP 64-bit With RAID Functions 5 1.3.1 Installing Windows XP / XP 64-bit With RAID Functions - ASRock N68-VGS3 FX | RAID Installation Guide - Page 2
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 tolerance to the entire system since the disk array management - ASRock N68-VGS3 FX | RAID Installation Guide - Page 3
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 database applications, enterprise resource planning, and other business systems. Use a minimum of three identical hard disk drives - ASRock N68-VGS3 FX | RAID Installation Guide - Page 4
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 - ASRock N68-VGS3 FX | RAID Installation Guide - Page 5
Mode" option to [IDE]. STEP 2: Make a SATA / SATAII driver diskette. Storage A. Insert the Support CD into your optical drive to boot your system. B. During POST at the beginning of system boot-up, press key, and then a window for boot devices selection appears. Please select CD-ROM as - ASRock N68-VGS3 FX | RAID Installation Guide - Page 6
Install Windows® XP / XP 64-bit OS on your system. You can start to install Windows® XP / 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 containing the NVIDIA® RAID driver. After - ASRock N68-VGS3 FX | RAID Installation Guide - Page 7
drive to boot your system, and follow the instruction to install Windows® 7 / 7 64-bit / VistaTM / VistaTM 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 - ASRock N68-VGS3 FX | RAID Installation Guide - Page 8
1.4 Create Disk Array Power on your system. After adjusting the system BIOS to RAID mode, the below window appears. After rebooting your computer, wait until you see the RAID software prompting you to press . The RAID prompt appears as a part of the system POST and boot process prior to loading - ASRock N68-VGS3 FX | RAID Installation Guide - Page 9
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 - ASRock N68-VGS3 FX | RAID Installation Guide - Page 10
. Depending on the platform used, the system can have one or more channels. In a typical system there is usually one adapter and multiple . 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 - ASRock N68-VGS3 FX | 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 N68-VGS3 FX | RAID Installation Guide - Page 12
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 NOTE: Under Windows XP OS, the connector naming on our motherboard is different - ASRock N68-VGS3 FX | RAID Installation Guide - Page 13
procedures 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. D. Click Next - ASRock N68-VGS3 FX | RAID Installation Guide - Page 14
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. 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 N68-VGS3 FX | RAID Installation Guide - Page 15
. 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 → Settings → Control Panel. 15 - ASRock N68-VGS3 FX | RAID Installation Guide - Page 16
B. Double click on Administrative Tools. C. Double click on Computer Management. D. Click on Disk Management. The following screen is displayed. 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 - ASRock N68-VGS3 FX | 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 N68-VGS3 FX | RAID Installation Guide - Page 18
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 - ASRock N68-VGS3 FX | 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 N68-VGS3 FX | RAID Installation Guide - Page 20
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 - ASRock N68-VGS3 FX | RAID Installation Guide - Page 21
in a short period of time. 2.2 NVIDIA Windows RAID Installation Guide for Windows 7 / 7 64-bit / 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 - ASRock N68-VGS3 FX | 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 N68-VGS3 FX | 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 N68-VGS3 FX | 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 N68-VGS3 FX | 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 N68-VGS3 FX | 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
7
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64-bit / Vista /
Vista 64-bit / XP
/ XP
64-bit With RAID Functions ……………………... 5
1.3.1
Installing Windows XP / XP 64-bit With
RAID Functions ……………………
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1.3.2
Installing Windows
7 / 7 64-bit /
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 ……………………
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2.2 NVIDIA Windows RAID Installation Guide for Windows
7 / 7 64-bit /
Vista / Vista 64-bit Users ………………
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