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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 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit / Vista /

Vista 64-bit With RAID Functions ……………………..... 5

1.3.1 Installing Windows 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit With

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

1.3.2 Installing Windows Vista / Vista 64-bit With RAID

Functions ……………………................................ 6

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

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

2.1 NVIDIA Windows RAID Installation Guide for Windows

2000 / XP / XP 64-bit Users ……………………………. 11

2.2 NVIDIA Windows RAID Installation Guide for Windows

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

Summary of Contents for N68-GS

Page 1: ...4 bit With RAID Functions 5 1 3 1 Installing Windows 2000 XP XP 64 bit With RAID Functions 5 1 3 2 Installing Windows Vista Vista 64 bit With RAID Functions 6 1 4 Create Disk Array 8 2 NVIDIA Windows...

Page 2: ...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...

Page 3: ...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 Precaution...

Page 4: ...AID 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 Ye...

Page 5: ...ATAII 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...

Page 6: ...according to the mode you choose and the OS you install 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 S...

Page 7: ...Ds 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 I...

Page 8: ...ew 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 Stripin...

Page 9: ...s 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...

Page 10: ...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 whil...

Page 11: ...there are different installation procedures Please follow the instructions below according to the OS you install 2 1 NVIDIA Windows RAID Installation Guide for Windows 2000 XP XP 64 bit Users A Enter...

Page 12: ...to create RAID arrays The RAID items which may be mentioned in this section are as below RAID 0 Striping RAID 1 Mirroring RAID 0 1 Stripe Mirroring JBOD Spanning RAID 5 In this section we take RAID 0...

Page 13: ...13 D Click Next and the following screen shot will appear E Click the RAID Mode list arrow and select Striping and leave the Stripe Size with its default value as shown in the following screen shot...

Page 14: ...14 F Click Next and the following screen shot will appear G Select the two disks that you want to include in the stripe set...

Page 15: ...and the following screen shot will appear I Click Finish and the following screen shot will appear The RAID 0 is created successfully C Initializing NVRAID Array Disks Now that the two disk array has...

Page 16: ...creen is displayed E 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 F Follow the...

Page 17: ...NVRAIDMAN application and right click on the RAID array that you want to delete assuming that you have a RAID array already created as shown in the following screen shot The above screen shot shows th...

Page 18: ...ies only to fault tolerant arrays such as RAID 1 RAID 0 1 as well as a RAID 5 For example assuming you have a three disk RAID 5 array and one of the drives fail then you need to replace the failed dri...

Page 19: ...19 D Click Next The Disk Selection page appears E 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...

Page 20: ...irrored array using any available Free Disk or Dedicated Disk G Synchronizing a RAID Array Synchronizing an array will force a rebuild of redundancy or parity The operation is applicable to any fault...

Page 21: ...llation 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 d...

Page 22: ...22 Click Create array Then you can start to build up RAID B Creating RAID Arrays Click Next and the following screen shot will appear...

Page 23: ...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 Striping RAID 0 If you plan to...

Page 24: ...e RAID Mode you are allowed to select the Stripe Size The default value of this item is 64K Then click Next Select the disks to add to the new RAID array and click Next Select the disk with data to pr...

Page 25: ...ps 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 A Click on Start Settings Control Panel B Double click...

Page 26: ...Right click on the unallocated partition and select New Simple Volume Follow the Wizard for setting up and formatting the partition Once that is done you can start using the newly created stripped arr...

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