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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 XP / XP 64-bit / Vista / Vista 64-bit

With RAID Functions ……………………....................... 5

1.3.1 Installing Windows XP / XP 64-bit With RAID

Functions ……………………................................ 5

1.3.2 Installing Windows Vista / Vista 64-bit With RAID

Functions ……………………................................ 7

1.4 Create Disk Array ………………………………………… 8

2. NVIDIA Windows RAID Installation Guide ………………… 11

2.1 NVIDIA Windows RAID Installation Guide for Windows

XP / XP 64-bit Users …………………………………….. 11

2.2 NVIDIA Windows RAID Installation Guide for Windows

Vista / Vista 64-bit Users ……………………………….. 21

1. NVIDIA BIOS RAID Installation Guide

NVIDIA BIOS RAID Installation Guide is an instruction for you to configure RAID

functions by using NVIDIA RAID Utility under BIOS environment. After you make a

SATA / SATAII driver diskette, press <F2> 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 RAID Utility to configure

RAID.

This section includes examples of using NVRAID RAID Utility for creating RAID arrays.

If your motherboard is equipped with six SATA / SATAII ports, you may choose to use

RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, JBOD, or RAID 5 function with your motherboard

according to the SATA / SATAII HDDs amount you install. Please refer to the RAID

functions your motherboard provides in advance and follow the instruction in this

section to create RAID arrays.

1.1 Introduction to RAID

The term “RAID” stands for “Redundant Array of Independent Disks”, which is a

method combining two or more hard disk drives into one logical unit. For optimal

performance, please install identical drives of the same model and capacity when

creating a RAID set.

RAID 0 (Data Striping)

RAID 0 is called data striping that optimizes two identical hard disk drives to read and

write data in parallel, interleaved stacks. It will improve data access and storage since

it will double the data transfer rate of a single disk alone while the two hard disks

perform the same work as a single drive but at a sustained data transfer rate.

WARNING!!

Although RAID 0 function can improve the access performance, it does not provide any fault

tolerance. Hot-Plug any HDDs of the RAID 0 Disk will cause data damage or data loss.

RAID 1 (Data Mirroring)

RAID 1 is called data mirroring that copies and maintains an identical image of data

from one drive to a second drive. It provides data protection and increases fault

tolerance to the entire system since the disk array management software will direct

all applications to the surviving drive as it contains a complete copy of the data in

the other drive if one drive fails.

RAID 0+1 (Stripe Mirroring)

RAID 0 drives can be mirrored using RAID 1 techniques, resulting in a RAID 0+1

solution for improved performance plus resiliency. The controller combines the

performance of data striping (RAID 0) and the fault tolerance of disk mirroring

(RAID 1). Data is striped across multiple drives and duplicated on another set of

drives.

JBOD (Spanning)

A spanning disk array is equal to the sum of all drives. Spanning stores data onto a

drive until it is full then proceeds to store files onto the next drive in the array. When

any member disk fails, it will 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 more hard disk drives.

Among the advantages of RAID 5configuration include better HDD performance, fault

tolerance, and higher storage capacity. The RAID 5 configuration is best suited for

transaction processing, relational database applications, enterprise resource planning,

and other business systems. Use a minimum of three identical hard disk drives for this

setup.

1.2 RAID Configurations Precautions

1. Please use two new drives if you are creating a RAID 0 (striping) array for

performance. It is recommended to use two SATA drives of the same size. If

you use two drives of different sizes, the smaller capacity hard disk will be

the base storage size for each drive. For example, if one hard disk has an

80GB storage capacity and the other hard disk has 60GB, the maximum

storage capacity for the 80GB-drive becomes 60GB, and the total storage

capacity for this RAID 0 set is 120GB.

2. You may use two new drives, or use an existing drive and a new drive to

create a RAID 1 (mirroring) array for data protection (the new drive must be

of the same size or larger than the existing drive). If you use two drives of

different sizes, the smaller capacity hard disk will be the base storage size.

For example, if one hard disk has an 80GB storage capacity and the other

hard disk has 60GB, the maximum storage capacity for the RAID 1 set is

60GB.

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 then your future data building will operate under a

clean environment.

1.3 Installing Windows®XP / XP 64-bit / VistaTM / VistaTM 64-bit

With RAID Functions

If you want to install Windows®XP, Windows®XP 64-bit, Windows®VistaTM or Windows®

VistaTM 64-bit on your SATA / SATAII HDDs with RAID functions, please follow below

procedures according to the OS you install.

1.3.1 Installing Windows®XP / XP 64-bit With RAID Functions

If you want to install Windows®XP / Windows®XP 64-bit on your SATA / SATAII HDDs

with RAID functions, please follow below steps.

STEP 1: Set Up BIOS.

A. Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen IDE Configuration.

B. Set the “SATA Operation Mode” option to [IDE].

STEP 2: Make a SATA / SATAII driver diskette.

A. Insert the ASRock Support CD into your optical drive to boot your system.

B. During POST at the beginning of system boot-up, press <F11> key, and

then a window for boot devices selection appears. Please select CD-ROM

as the boot device.

C. When you see the message on the screen, “Generate Serial ATA driver

diskette [YN]?”, press <Y>.

D. Then you will see these messages,

Please choose:

1. Generate AHCI Driver diskette for WindowsXP/XP64

2. Generate RAID Driver diskette for WindowsXP

3. Generate RAID Driver diskette for WindowsXP64

4. Exit

Reboot system now

Press any key to continue

Please insert a floppy diskette into the floppy drive. Select your required

item on the list according to the mode you choose and the OS you install.

Then press any key.

E. The system will start to format the floppy diskette and copy SATA / SATAII

drivers into the floppy diskette.

If you want to enable Hot Plug function on eSATAII ports but you install OS

on IDE HDD, please skip step 1 and 2.

STEP 3: Set Up BIOS.

Please follow step 1 to set up the BIOS option “SATA Operation Mode” to [RAID].

Please select A and B for Windows®XP / XP 64-bit in RAID mode. (There are two RAID

drivers needed for RAID mode, you have to select them separately. Please specify the

first RAID driver and then specify again for the second one.)

NOTE. If you install Windows®XP / Windows®XP 64-bit on IDE HDDs and want to manage

(create, convert, delete, or rebuild) RAID functions on SATA / SATAII HDDs, you still

need to set up “SATA Operation Mode” to [RAID] in BIOS first. Then, please set the

RAID configuration by using the Windows RAID installation guide part of the

document in the following path in the Support CD:

.. \ RAID Installation Guide

A. NVIDIA RAID Driver (required)

B. NVIDIA nForce Storage Controller (required)

STEP 4: Use “RAID Installation Guide” to set RAID configuration.

Before you start to configure RAID function, you need to check the RAID installation

guide in the Support CD for proper configuration. Please refer to the BIOS RAID

installation guide part of the document in the following path in the Support CD:

.. \ RAID Installation Guide

STEP 5: Install Windows®XP / XP 64-bit OS on your system.

After step 1, 2, 3, you can start to install Windows®XP / Windows®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 reading the floppy disk, the drivers will be presented. Select the drivers

to install. The drivers are as below:

1.3.2 Installing Windows®VistaTM / VistaTM 64-bit With RAID

Functions

If you want to install Windows®VistaTM / Windows®VistaTM 64-bit on your SATA / SATAII

HDDs with RAID functions, please follow below steps.

STEP 1: Set Up BIOS.

A. Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen IDE Configuration.

B. Set the “SATA Operation Mode” option to [RAID].

STEP 2: Use “RAID Installation Guide” to set RAID configuration.

Before you start to configure RAID function, you need to check the RAID installation

guide in the Support CD for proper configuration. Please refer to the BIOS RAID

installation guide part of the document in the following path in the Support CD:

.. \ RAID Installation Guide

STEP 3: Install Windows®VistaTM / VistaTM 64-bit OS on your system.

Insert the Windows®VistaTM / Windows®VistaTM 64-bit optical disk into the optical drive

to boot your system, and follow the instruction to install Windows®VistaTM / Windows®

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 left on the bottom to load the NVIDIA®RAID drivers. NVIDIA®RAID

drivers are in the following path in our Support CD:

.. \ I386 \ Vista32_RAID (For Windows®VistaTM OS)

.. \ AMD64 \ Vista64_RAID (For Windows®VistaTM 64-bit OS)

After that, please insert Windows®VistaTM / Windows®VistaTM 64-bit optical disk into

the optical drive again to continue the installation.

NOTE. If you install Windows®VistaTM / Windows®VistaTM 64-bit on IDE HDDs and want to

manage (create, convert, delete, or rebuild) RAID functions on SATA / SATAII HDDs,

you still need to set up “SATA Operation Mode” to [RAID] in BIOS first. Then, please

set the RAID configuration by using the Windows RAID installation guide in the

following path in the Support CD:

.. \ RAID Installation Guide

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 <F10>. The RAID prompt appears as a part of the system POST and boot

process prior to loading the OS. You have a few seconds to press <F10> before the

window disappears.

After you press <F10>, the NVIDIA RAID Utility - Define a New Array window

appears. By default, RAID Mode is set to Mirroring, but please set it to Striping if you

want to create RAID 0. And the Striping Block is set to Optimal as default. We take

RAID 0 for example to show you how to use NVRAID RAID Utility to create RAID 0

(Striping). If you plan to use NVRAID RAID Utility to create other RAID arrays, the

operation procedures are similar to the steps of creating RAID 0.

Striping block size is given in kilobytes, and affect how data is arranged on the disk. It

is recommended to leave this value at the default Optimal, which is 64KB, but the

values can be 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 Disks section. The first disk in the list is selected.

B. Move it from the Free Disks block to the Array Disks block by pressing the

right-arrow key.

C. Continue pressing the right-arrow key until all the disks that you want to use

as RAID array disks appear in the Array Disks block.

After assigning your RAID array disks, press <F7> to save your changes of RAID array

disks.

Depending on the platform used, the system can have one or more channels. In a

typical system there is usually one adapter and multiple channels, and each channel

has a slave and a master. The adapter / channel / master / slave status of each hard

disk is given in the Loc (location) columns of the Free Disks and Array Disks lists. For

example:

1 . 0 . M

1: Channel - Typically, channel 0 is used for Parallel ATA drives while channel 1

is used 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.

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