MSI MS 7030 User Guide - Page 97
RAID Drives Management
View all MSI MS 7030 manuals
Add to My Manuals
Save this manual to your list of manuals |
Page 97 highlights
7030 ATX Mainboard RAID Drives Management There is an application called NVRAIDMAN which helps you perform the following tasks of nVDIA RAID. • Viewing RAID Array Configurations View an array configuration (mirrored, striped, mirror-striped, JBOD, or any supported combination) • Setting Up a Spare RAID Disk • View free and/or dedicated free disks • Designate a free disk to a particular array • Rebuilding a RAID Mirrored Array • Rebuild a broken mirrored array • Watch the progress of rebuilding an array Viewing RAID Array Configurations To view your RAID configuration from Windows, launch the NVRAID Management utility by double-clicking NvRaidMan.exe (the default location of NvRaidMan.exe is in \\nVidia\System\CK8S\Win2k-XP\IDE\WinXP of the setup CD accompanied with your mainboard). The RAID configuration information appears in the right-side pane, as shown below. MSI Reminds You... The information in the figures in this part may very from what it is shown in your system. NVRAID Mirrored Array The figure below shows an example of a two hard drive mirrored array using identical 55.90 GB IDE hard drives (ST360015A), where one drive is configured as Master and the other drive is configured as Slave. The total hard disk space used is 55.90 GB. (1.1 GB = 1,073,741,824 bytes) 5-12