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Guide to SATA Hard Disks

Installation and RAID Configuration

1.

Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation ............................ 2

1.1

Serial ATA (SATA) Hard Disks Installation ............... 2

1.2

Making a SATA Driver Diskette ................................ 3

2.

Guide to RAID Configurations ......................................... 4

2.1

Introduction of RAID ............................................... 4

2.2

RAID Configuration Precautions ............................ 6

2.3

BIOS Configuration Utility ....................................... 7

2.3.1

Enter BIOS Configuration Utility ................ 7

2.3.2

Create Disk Array ...................................... 9

Summary of Contents for K7NF2-RAID

Page 1: ...Installation 2 1 1 Serial ATA SATA Hard Disks Installation 2 1 2 Making a SATADriver Diskette 3 2 Guide to RAID Configurations 4 2 1 Introduction of RAID 4 2 2 RAID Configuration Precautions 6 2 3 BIOS Configuration Utility 7 2 3 1 Enter BIOS Configuration Utility 7 2 3 2 Create Disk Array 9 ...

Page 2: ...upports Serial ATA SATA hard disks with RAID functions including RAID 0 RAID 1 and JBOD You may install SATA hard disks on this motherboard for internal storage devices For SATA installation guide please refer to Serial ATA SATA Hard Disks Installation of User Manual in the support CD This section will guide you how to create RAID on SATA ports ...

Page 3: ...TA driver diskette YN press Y STEP4 Then you will see these messages Please insert a diskette into the floppy drive WARNING Formatting the floppy diskette will lose ALL data in it Start to format and copy files YN Please insert a floppy diskette into the floppy drive and press Y STEP5 The system will start to format the floppy diskette and copy SATA drivers into the floppy diskette Once you have t...

Page 4: ...rives 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 w...

Page 5: ...nt 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 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 r...

Page 6: ...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 exam...

Page 7: ... BIOS Setup Utility After the system powers on press F2 key to enter BIOS setup utility Highlight Advanced and press Enter then the main inter face of BIOS setup utility will appear Please set the option RAID Option Mode to Enabled Then enter RAID Disk Configuration BIOS SETUP UTILITY IDE Configuration Select Screen Select Item Change Option F1 General Help F10 Save and Exit ESC Exit v02 53 C Copy...

Page 8: ...ion Select Screen Select Item Change Option F1 General Help F10 Save and Exit ESC Exit v02 53 C Copyright 1985 2004 American Megatrends Inc Advanced SATA1 as RAID SATA2 as RAID Enabled Enabled Set SATA as RAID NVIDIA RAID IDE ROM BIOS 4 81 Copyright C 2004 NVIDIA Corp Detecting array Press F10 to enter RAID setup utility After the below window appears please press F10 to enter the NVIDIA RAID Util...

Page 9: ...opyright 1985 2004 American Megatrends Inc Advanced SATA1 as RAID SATA2 as RAID Enabled Enabled Set SATA as RAID NVIDIA RAID IDE ROM BIOS 4 81 Copyright C 2004 NVIDIA Corp Detecting array 0 Healthy NVIDIA RAID 0 74 54G Press F10 to enter RAID setup utility Then the below window appears After rebooting your computer wait until you see the RAID software prompting you to press F10 The RAID prompt app...

Page 10: ... Maxt Add Del Stripimg Block Array Disks Loc Disk Model Name Optimal ESC Quit F6 Back F7 Finish TAB Navigate Select ENTER Popup 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 ...

Page 11: ...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 1 Tab to the Free Disks section The first disk in the list is selected 2 Move it from the Free Disks block to the Array Disks block by pressing the right arrow key 3 Continue pressing the right arrow key until all the disks that you want to use as RAID array disks appea...

Page 12: ...n 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 M Master S Slave Controller Channel Typically channel 0 is used for ParallelATAdrives while channel 1 is u...

Page 13: ... 0 Healthy NVIDIA RAID 1 74 54G Press F10 to enter RAID setup utility Create RAID 1 Within RAID Disk Configuration use the up and down arrow key to highlight the target array mode that you want to create and press Enter to confirm the selection After rebooting your computer wait until you seee the RAID software prompting you to press F10 The RAID prompt appears as a part of the system POST and boo...

Page 14: ... Free Disks Loc Disk Model Name 1 0 M Maxt 6Y120M0 1 1 M Maxt 6Y120M0 Add Del Stripimg Block Array Disks Loc Disk Model ESC Quit F6 Back F7 Finish TAB Navigate Select ENTER Popup Optimal 8K 16K 32K 64K 128K Optim After you press F10 the NVIDIA RAID Utility Define a New Array window appears By default RAID Mode is set to Mirroring so you do not need to change it when setting up RAID 1 And the Strip...

Page 15: ... 1 1 M Maxtor 6Y120M0 Add Del Stripimg Block Array Disks Loc Disk Model Name Optimal ESC Quit F6 Back F7 Finish TAB Navigate Select ENTER Popup Mirroring NVIDIA RAID Utility Array List Ctrl X Exit Select B Set Boot N New Array ENTER Detail Boot Id Status Vendor Yes Array Model Name 2 Healthy NVIDIA MIRRORING 74 53G ...

Page 16: ...and boot process prior to loading the OS You have a few seconds to press F10 before the window disappears Then the below window appears BIOS SETUP UTILITY RAID Disk Configuration Select Screen Select Item Change Option F1 General Help F10 Save and Exit ESC Exit v02 53 C Copyright 1985 2004 American Megatrends Inc Advanced SATA1 as RAID SATA2 as RAID Enabled Enabled Set SATA as RAID NVIDIA RAID IDE...

Page 17: ...k F7 Finish TAB Navigate Select ENTER Popup NVIDIA RAID Utility Jan 12 2005 Define a New Array Spanning RAID Mode Free Disks Loc Disk Model Name 1 0 M Maxt 6Y120M0 1 1 M Maxt 6Y120M0 Add Del Stripimg Block Array Disks Loc Disk Model ESC Quit F6 Back F7 Finish TAB Navigate Select ENTER Popup Optimal 8K 16K 32K 64K 128K Optim After you press F10 the NVIDIA RAID Utility Define a New Array window appe...

Page 18: ...0 1 1 M Maxtor 6Y120M0 Add Del Stripimg Block Array Disks Loc Disk Model Name Optimal ESC Quit F6 Back F7 Finish TAB Navigate Select ENTER Popup Spanning NVIDIA RAID Utility Array List Ctrl X Exit Select B Set Boot N New Array ENTER Detail Boot Id Status Vendor Yes Array Model Name 2 Healthy NVIDIA SPANNING 74 53G ...

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