ASRock P55 Extreme4 Marvell SATA3 RAID Installation Guide
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- ASRock P55 Extreme4 | Marvell SATA3 RAID Installation Guide - Page 1
Marvell SATA3 RAID Installation Guide Overview The Marvell RAID Utility (MRU) is a browser-based graphical user interface (GUI) tool for the Marvell RAID adapter. It supports IO Controllers (IOC) and RAID-On-Chip (ROC) Controllers. RAID technology allows you to create arrays and virtual disks using - ASRock P55 Extreme4 | Marvell SATA3 RAID Installation Guide - Page 2
Installation Insert ASRock support CD to the optical drive. Click "Install all" or "Marvell SATA3 Driver". The system will start to auto-install Marvell SATA3 driver. Click "Next" at the welcome screen. 2 - ASRock P55 Extreme4 | Marvell SATA3 RAID Installation Guide - Page 3
The End User License Agreement (EULA) window appears. Read the EULA. Select "I accept" and click "Next" to continue. Select the options you want for custom installation. Click "Next". 3 - ASRock P55 Extreme4 | Marvell SATA3 RAID Installation Guide - Page 4
Choose Install Location window appears. For an alternative location, click "Browse", and then select your desired location. Click "Install". The software has been installed to your system. Click "Finish" to close the wizard. d 4 - ASRock P55 Extreme4 | Marvell SATA3 RAID Installation Guide - Page 5
Restart your system. You will find the "Marvell RAID Utility" icon on the Windows task bar. 5 - ASRock P55 Extreme4 | Marvell SATA3 RAID Installation Guide - Page 6
Launching the MRU in the Browser After installing your MRU software, you can access and control both local and remote adapters using the browser GUI. For remote access, you need to know the IP address of the system with the remote adapter. For the MRU to function properly in the browser, Active - ASRock P55 Extreme4 | Marvell SATA3 RAID Installation Guide - Page 7
Local Adapter You can access and control local adapters using the MRU Browser GUI. This section describes the procedure to launch the GUI on Windows. You can use the desktop shortcut and the system tray icon to launch the MRU in your default browser. When launched, your default browser opens and - ASRock P55 Extreme4 | Marvell SATA3 RAID Installation Guide - Page 8
Login Screen When you first start the MRU, you are prompted for a username and password. MRU user accounts and their permissions follow the OS user accounts and their permissions. Only user accounts with administrator privileges have access to all permissions. Non-administrator users have view-only - ASRock P55 Extreme4 | Marvell SATA3 RAID Installation Guide - Page 9
Create RAID Click "Operation". Click "Create VD". Double-click the HDDs that you want to create RAID. Select the RAID level. 9 - ASRock P55 Extreme4 | Marvell SATA3 RAID Installation Guide - Page 10
Key-in the RAID name. Click "Submit". RAID function is created successfully. You can see the information on this page. 10 - ASRock P55 Extreme4 | Marvell SATA3 RAID Installation Guide - Page 11
For the further information or questions, please click the "Help" icon the right-top of the screen. 11 - ASRock P55 Extreme4 | Marvell SATA3 RAID Installation Guide - Page 12
Marvell RAID ROM Besides Marvell SATA3 RAID utility, you can also use Marvell RAID ROM to configure RAID functions. First of all, you need to make a SATA3 driver diskette. Press + during the POST to enter Marvell BIOS Setup screen. In Marvell BIOS Setup screen, select free disks to create - ASRock P55 Extreme4 | Marvell SATA3 RAID Installation Guide - Page 13
Use space bar to select the free disks to be used in the array. Press . Select the RAID level. Press to confirm. 13 - ASRock P55 Extreme4 | Marvell SATA3 RAID Installation Guide - Page 14
The pop-up message will ask if you want to create this virtual disk. Choose "Yes". Then below screen appears. 14 - ASRock P55 Extreme4 | Marvell SATA3 RAID Installation Guide - Page 15
In the exit message, the system will ask "Do you want to exit from Marvell BIOS Setup?" Choose "Yes". You will see the information of RAID you create. Here we take RAID 1 for example. The Status shows "Functional" now, which means RAID 1 is created successfully. 15 - ASRock P55 Extreme4 | Marvell SATA3 RAID Installation Guide - Page 16
drive from other drives in the array. For example, assuming you have a two disk RAID 1 array, and one of the drives fail, then you need to replace the failed this case, the free disk is PD 0.) Then follow the instructions on the screen to rebuild. The system will start to rebuild your lost data to
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Marvell SATA3 RAID Installation Guide
Overview
The Marvell RAID Utility (MRU) is a browser-based graphical user interface (GUI)
tool for the Marvell RAID adapter. It supports IO Controllers (IOC) and
RAID-On-Chip (ROC) Controllers. RAID technology allows you to create arrays and
virtual disks using one or more physical disk drives in combination in order to
achieve increased disk fault tolerance and improved performance.
The Marvell RAID adapter supports the following RAID levels:
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RAID 0
(striping). Multiple drives can read and write data in parallel to increase
performance.
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RAID 1
(disk mirroring). Two disks mirrored to each other.