ASRock P67 Extreme4 RAID Installation Guide
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- ASRock P67 Extreme4 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 1
2 2. Guide to RAID Configurations 3 2.1 Introduction of RAID 3 2.2 RAID Configuration Precautions 5 2.3 Installing Windows® 7 / 7 64-bit / VistaTM / VistaTM 64-bit / XP / XP 64-bit With RAID Functions 6 2.4 Setting the BIOS RAID Items 11 2.5 Configuring the Intel RAID BIOS 11 2.6 Deleting RAID - ASRock P67 Extreme4 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 2
1.1 Serial ATA (SATA) Hard Disks Installation Intel P67 chipset supports Serial ATA (SATA) hard disks with RAID functions, including RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10, RAID 5, and Intel Rapid Storage. Please read the RAID configurations in this guide carefully according to the Intel southbridge chipset that - ASRock P67 Extreme4 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 3
RAID controller supporting RAID 0 / RAID 1/ Intel Rapid Storage / RAID 10 / RAID 5 function with four independent Serial ATA (SATA) channels. This section will introduce the basic knowledge of RAID, and the guide to configure RAID 0 / RAID 1/ Intel Rapid Storage / RAID 10 / RAID 5 settings. RAID - ASRock P67 Extreme4 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 4
on each hard disk drive to create a virtual RAID 0 and RAID 1 sets. This technology also allows you to change the hard disk drive partition size without losing any data. RAID 10 RAID 10 is a striped configuration with RAID 1 segments whose segments are RAID 1 arrays. This configuration has the same - ASRock P67 Extreme4 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 5
. 3. Please verify the status of your hard disks before 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 - ASRock P67 Extreme4 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 6
Configuration. B. Set "SATA Operation Mode" to [RAID]. STEP 2: Make a SATA / SATAII Driver Diskette. 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 - ASRock P67 Extreme4 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 7
your system. After making a SATA / SATAII driver diskette and using "RAID Installation Guide" to set RAID configuration, you can start to install Windows® XP / XP 64-bit on your system. At the beginning of Windows setup, press F6 to install a third-party RAID driver. When prompted, insert the SATA - ASRock P67 Extreme4 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 8
motherboard or after downloading it from the Internet. This will add the Intel(R) Rapid Storage Console which can be used to manage the RAID configuration. 7. After setting up a "RAID hard drive when initiating the migration. 2. Boot Windows®, install the Intel(R) Rapid Storage Manager software - ASRock P67 Extreme4 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 9
optical 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 - ASRock P67 Extreme4 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 10
If you want to use "Intel Rapid Storage" in Windows® environment, please install SATA / SATAII drivers from the Support CD again so that "Intel Rapid Storage" will be installed to your system as well. 10 - ASRock P67 Extreme4 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 11
2.4 Setting the BIOS RAID Items After installing the hard disk drives, please set the necessary RAID items in the BIOS before setting your RAID configuration. Boot your system, and press key to enter BIOS setup utility. Highlight Advanced and press , then the main interface of BIOS setup - ASRock P67 Extreme4 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 12
key-in a unique name with 1-16 letters for your RAID volume then press . Volume0 Use the up or down arrow keys to select your desired RAID Level. You may select RAID0 (Stripe), RAID1 (Mirror), RAID 5, RAID 10, or Matrix Storage for your RAID level. Press , and then you can select Strip - ASRock P67 Extreme4 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 13
or down arrow keys to select the stripe size for your RAID 0 array then press .The available values range from 8 typical disk usage • 128 KB - performance disk usage After you set disk block size, press to set disk Capacity. Volume0 After setting up Capacity, please press . 13 - ASRock P67 Extreme4 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 14
Volume0 Press under the Create Volume item. The utility prompts a confirmation message as below. Volume0 Press to complete the setup of RAID. After the completion, you will see the detailed information about the RAID that you set up. 14 - ASRock P67 Extreme4 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 15
Please note that you are only allowed to create one RAID partition at a time under BIOS RAID environment. If you want to create extra RAID partition, please use the RAID utility under Windows environment to configure RAID functions after you install OS. 2.6 Deleting RAID Volume If you want to delete
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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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Guide to RAID Configurations
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Introduction of RAID
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RAID Configuration Precautions
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Installing Windows
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Setting the BIOS RAID Items
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Configuring the Intel RAID BIOS
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Deleting RAID Volume
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