ASRock ALiveDual-eSATA2 RAID Installation Guide
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- ASRock ALiveDual-eSATA2 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 1
Windows RAID Installation Guide 10 2.2.1 NVIDIA Windows RAID Installation Guide for Windows 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit Users 10 2.2.2 NVIDIA Windows RAID Installation Guide for Windows Vista / Vista 64-bit Users 18 3. JMicron RAID Installation Guide ...22 3.1 JMicron BIOS RAID Installation Guide - ASRock ALiveDual-eSATA2 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 2
Creating RAID from Existing Disk 30 3.2.1.3 Deleting RAID 30 3.2.1.4 Rebuilding RAID 31 3.2.1.5 Auto-Resynching RAID 31 3.2.2 JMicron Windows RAID Installation Guide for Windows Vista / Vista 64-bit Users 32 3.2.2.1 Create RAID 32 3.2.2.2 Create RAID from Existing Disk 35 3.2.2.3 Remove RAID - ASRock ALiveDual-eSATA2 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 3
to NVIDIA / JMicron RAID Installation Guide This motherboard is equipped with 2 SATA connectors supported by NVIDIA nForce3 250 south bridge chipset, which support RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1, JBOD) functions, and 2 SATAII connectors supported by JMicron JMB363 chipset, which support RAID (RAID 0, RAID - ASRock ALiveDual-eSATA2 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 4
" option to [RAID]. If you plan to install Windows 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit on JMicron SATAII ports with RAID functions, please set the "PCIE-SATAII Operation Mode" option to [RAID]. STEP 2: Make a SATA / SATAII driver diskette. A. Insert the ASRock Support CD into your optical drive to boot your - ASRock ALiveDual-eSATA2 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 5
, if you want to manage RAID functions, please refer to the Windows RAID installation guide part of this document for details. NOTE2. If you want to use "NVIDIA RAID Tool" in Windows environment, please install SATA drivers from the Support CD again so that "NVIDIA RAID Tool" will be installed to - ASRock ALiveDual-eSATA2 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 6
functions by using NVIDIA RAID Utility under BIOS environment. After you make a SATA 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 to use NVIDIA - ASRock ALiveDual-eSATA2 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 7
the entire array. JBOD is not really a RAID, and it does not support fault tolerance. 2.1.2 RAID Configurations Precautions 1. Please use two new drives if Power on your system. After adjusting the system BIOS to RAID mode, the below window appears. After rebooting your computer, wait until you - ASRock ALiveDual-eSATA2 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 8
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 ALiveDual-eSATA2 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 9
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 9 - ASRock ALiveDual-eSATA2 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 10
installation procedures. Please follow the instructions below according to the OS you install. 2.2.1 NVIDIA Windows RAID Installation Guide for Windows 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit Users A. Enter NVIDIAMAN RAID driver is built in NVIDIA ALL in one driver provided in our support CD. After you finish the - ASRock ALiveDual-eSATA2 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 11
to the system BIOS and make sure that the drives that you want to use are RAID enabled. 2. Boot to Windows and launch the NVRAIDMAN application. 3. Create Array and the following screen will appear. 4. Click Next and the following screen shot will appear. 5. Click the RAID Mode list arrow and select - ASRock ALiveDual-eSATA2 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 12
6. Click Next, and the following screen shot will appear. 7. Select the two disks that you want to include in the stripe set. 12 - ASRock ALiveDual-eSATA2 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 13
To create a striped array with more disks, select additional disks from the list. 8. Click Next and the following screen shot will appear. 9. Click Finish and the following screen shot will appear. The RAID 0 is created successfully. C. Initializing NVRAID - ASRock ALiveDual-eSATA2 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 14
5. 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 select New Partition. 6. Follow the Wizard for setting up and formatting the partition. Once that is done, you can start using the newly created - ASRock ALiveDual-eSATA2 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 15
then the data is synchronized between the two hard drives. After creating a mirrored array, you can rebuild the array using the following steps: 1. Go to Windows and run the NVIDIA RAID Management utility. 1. Go to Windows and run the NVIDIA RAID Management utility. 15 - ASRock ALiveDual-eSATA2 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 16
2. Right-click on Mirroring. Then the popup menu appears. 3. From the popup menu, click Rebuild Array. The NVIDIA Rebuild Array Wizard appears. 4. Click Next. The Disk Selection page appears. 16 - ASRock ALiveDual-eSATA2 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 17
5. 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. 6. Click Finish. More About Rebuilding Arrays - Rebuilding Occurs in the Background The rebuilding process - ASRock ALiveDual-eSATA2 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 18
2.2.2 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 RAID array. Please enter Storage by - ASRock ALiveDual-eSATA2 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 19
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 ALiveDual-eSATA2 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 20
Select the disks to add to the new RAID array, and click Next. Select the disk with data to preserve, and click Next. Click Next to confirm that you agree to use the default settings for RAID configurations. 20 - ASRock ALiveDual-eSATA2 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 21
Click Finish to complete the steps of creating RAID array. C. Initializing NVRAID Array Disks Now that the two-disk array has been created, it needs to be partitioned and formatted. 1. Click on Start → Settings → Control Panel. 2. Double click on Administrative Tools. 3. Double click on Computer - ASRock ALiveDual-eSATA2 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 22
refer to JMicron RAID installation guide part, including JMicron BIOS RAID installation guide and JMicron Windows RAID installation guide. 3.1 JMicron BIOS RAID Installation Guide You are allowed to configure RAID functions under BIOS environment. 3.1.1 Enter BIOS Configuration Utility After the - ASRock ALiveDual-eSATA2 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 23
When you push "Create RAID Disk Drive" item to enter RAID selection menu, you can use to select RAID mode. There are three RAID modes that are RAID 0, RAID 1, and JBOD. 23 - ASRock ALiveDual-eSATA2 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 24
Then you can select HDDs to create RAID. Entering "Select Disk Drives" item, use to choose the HDDs you want to select. After selecting HDD to create RAID. You can choose Block Size from 4K to 128K Bytes in RAID Mode. 24 - ASRock ALiveDual-eSATA2 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 25
setting will be ignored and RAID is not created. All original data in HDD List of RAID will be damaged after you enter key to create RAID. 3.1.3 member of another RAID originally. Facing this kind of condition, JMB36X RAID BIOS provides you to convert Broken RAID HDD into non-RAID mode. Once - ASRock ALiveDual-eSATA2 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 26
your mirror raid drive has lost each other, the Option ROM gives users an method to solve this problem. You can choose one of the members of Mirror drive as source disk. And then try to you to rebuild Mirror drive. The bottom of the window will show the achieved percentage of scheduled progress. 26 - ASRock ALiveDual-eSATA2 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 27
, there are different installation procedures. Please follow the instructions below according to the OS you install. 3.2.1 JMicron Windows RAID Installation Guide for Windows 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit Users 3.2.1.1 Creating RAID JMRaidTool supports the creation of RAID 0 (Stripe), 1 (Mirror), and JBOD - ASRock ALiveDual-eSATA2 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 28
Key-in the name of the raid array. Select the RAID type. 28 - ASRock ALiveDual-eSATA2 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 29
Select the block size. Select hard disks and then press "Next" button. 29 - ASRock ALiveDual-eSATA2 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 30
created raid array will be displayed in the window. 3.2.1.2 Creating RAID from Existing Disk JMRaidTool supports the RAID creation from the existing disk. Create RAID from Existing Disk" button. Then follow the instruction shown on the windows. The procedures are similar to the steps of creating RAID - ASRock ALiveDual-eSATA2 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 31
Right-click the name of the disk array that you want to delete and then a popup menu exclamation mark on the RAID. Users could use a new and robust disk to rebuild the RAID. Right-click the name of the raid array you want to rebuild and then a popup menu will appear. Users could select the "Rebuild - ASRock ALiveDual-eSATA2 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 32
, JMRaidTool application will auto-resynchronize the raid when the disk is plugged again. 3.2.2 JMicron Windows RAID Installation Guide for Windows Vista / Vista 64-bit Users 3.2.2.1 Create RAID JMRaidTool supports the creation of RAID 0, 1, JBOD. Left-click the "Create Raid" button. Press the "Next - ASRock ALiveDual-eSATA2 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 33
Select the RAID type. Select the block size (The block size is selectable only with RAID 0 configurations). 33 - ASRock ALiveDual-eSATA2 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 34
Press the "Next" button to continue creating RAID. Select hard disks and press the "Next" button. Press the "Finish" button. 34 - ASRock ALiveDual-eSATA2 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 35
of the created disk array displays in the window. 3.2.2.2 Create RAID from Existing Disk You can "Create RAID from Existing Disk" icon on the toolbar. Then follow the instructions on the screen. 3.2.2.3 Remove RAID Right-click the name of the disk array you want to delete and the "Remove" menu - ASRock ALiveDual-eSATA2 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 36
Rebuild RAID RAID 1 can be rebuilt while RAID 0 and JBOD cannot be rebuilt. Right-click the name of the disk array you want to rebuild and the "Rebuild" menu will appear. Then follow the instructions on the screen. After rebuild function, system will need to reboot. After rebooting, we can safely
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NVIDIA / JMicron RAID Installation Guide
1. Introduction to NVIDIA / JMicron RAID Installation Guide ………………………………………………………………………. 3
1.1 Installing Windows 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit / Vista / Vista 64-bit With RAID Functions ……………………………. 4
1.1.1 Installing Windows 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit With RAID Functions ………………………………………. 4
1.1.2 Installing Windows Vista / Vista 64-bit With RAID Functions ………………………………………….. 5
2. NVIDIA RAID Installation Guide ……………………………………………………………………………………………………. 6
2.1 NVIDIA BIOS RAID Installation Guide ………………………………………………………………………………… 6
2.1.1 Introduction of RAID ………………………………………………………………………………………… 6
2.1.2 RAID Configuration Precautions …………………………………………………………………………... 7
2.1.3 Create Disk Array ……………………………………………………………………………………………. 7
2.2 NVIDIA Windows RAID Installation Guide …………………………………………………………………………….. 10
2.2.1 NVIDIA Windows RAID Installation Guide for Windows 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit Users ……………….. 10
2.2.2 NVIDIA Windows RAID Installation Guide for Windows Vista / Vista 64-bit Users …………………... 18
3. JMicron RAID Installation Guide …………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 22
3.1 JMicron BIOS RAID Installation Guide …………………………………………………………………………………. 22
3.1.1 Enter BIOS Configuration Utility ……………………. ……………………………………………………... 22
3.1.2 Create RAID Disk Drive ……………………………………………………………………………………… 22
3.1.3 Delete RAID Disk Drive ……………………………………………………………………………………… 25
3.1.4 Revert HDDs to non-RAID ………………………………………………………………………….……….. 25