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NVIDIA RAID ........................................................................................1

RAID Arrays ...............................................................................................................1

Install Hard Disks ....................................................................................................3

Basic Configuration Instructions ...........................................................................4

Setting Up the BIOS .................................................................................................5

Entering the RAID BIOS Setup ...............................................................................6

NVIDIA RAID Utility Installation ............................................................................ 10

Initializing and Using the Disk Array ................................................................... 13

Using The NVRAIDMAN Utility ............................................................................. 14

Win2K Limitation with Bootable RAID ................................................................ 20

SiIicon 3132 SATA RAID (optional)

Introduction ............................................................................................................ 22

Creating and Deleting RAID Sets ....................................................................... 22

Install Windows 2000/XP with RAID ................................................................... 28

Install RAID Driver................................................................................................. 28

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Page 1: ... Manual Edition V1 0 P N 91 187 NF4 7A 0E Trademarks All brand or product names mentioned are trademarks or registered trade marks of their respective holders PDF 文件使用 pdfFactory 试用版本创建 www fineprint com cn ...

Page 2: ...IA RAID Utility Installation 10 Initializing and Using the Disk Array 13 Using The NVRAIDMAN Utility 14 Win2K Limitation with Bootable RAID 20 SiIicon 3132 SATA RAID optional Introduction 22 Creating and Deleting RAID Sets 22 Install Windows 2000 XP with RAID 28 Install RAID Driver 28 Contents PDF 文件使用 pdfFactory 试用版本创建 www fineprint com cn ...

Page 3: ... 0 RAID 1 RAID 0 1 JBOD RAID 5 NVIDIARAID Advantages High data throughput 100 data redundancy Optimized for both 100 data redun dancy and performance Allows spare disks Combines and uses the capacity of odd size drives Fault tolerance and better utilization of disk space Drawbacks No fault tolerance Requires two drives for the storage space of one drive Requires two drives for the storage space of...

Page 4: ...other RAID solutions that limits the user to a dedicated RAID controller NVIDIA RAID software can use a drive on one RAID controller and another drive on a second RAID controller Morphing Morphing is the ability to convert from one RAID mode to another RAID mode This allows the user to upgrade their current disk or array for better performance higher security and increased capacity More importantl...

Page 5: ... STEP 5 Following step 1 2 3 4 to install the other SATA hard disks Install Parallel hard disks STEP 1 Setting one IDE hard disks as Master Slave mode STEP 2 Install the hard disks into one drive bay STEP 3 Connect one end of the IDE cable to the motherboard s one of IDE connectors STEP 4 Connect the other end of the IDE cable to the IDE hard disk STEP 5 Connect the power cable to the IDE hard dis...

Page 6: ...isk then reboot the computer 4 Run the Windows nForce Setup application and install the RAID driver 5 Initialize the NVRAID Array Bootable RAID Array 1 Choose the hard disks that are to be RAID enabled in the system BIOS 2 Specify the RAID level either Mirroring RAID 1 Striping RAID 0 Mirrored Strip ing RAID 0 1 Spanning JBOD or RAID 5 and create the desired RAID array 3 Boot from the Windows CD t...

Page 7: ...s to select the IDE Function Setup then press Enter 2 Use the arrow keys to select the RAID Configuration then press Enter 3 From the RAID Configuration window enabled the RAID Enable the other items would be light then you can enable the disk that you want to use as RAID disk 4 Press F10 to save the configuration and exit PDF 文件使用 pdfFactory 试用版本创建 ÆÆ www fineprint com cn ...

Page 8: ...ow Use the Define a New Array window to Select the RAID Mode Set up the Striping Block Specify which disks to use for the RAID Array Depending on the platform used the system have one or more channels In a typical system there are usually one controller and multiple channels and each channel have a slave and a master The channel controller master slave status of each hard disk is given in the Loc ...

Page 9: ...ster since there is a one to one connection between the drive and the controller Using the Define a New Array Window If necessary press the tab key to move from field to field until the appropriate field is highlighted Selecting the RAID Mode By default this is set to Mirroring Change to a different RAID mode press the down arrow keys until the mode that you want appears in the RAID Mode box eithe...

Page 10: ... to the Array Disks block by pressing the right arrow key The first disk in the list is moved and the next disk in the list is selected and ready to be moved 3 Continue pressing the right arrow key until all the disks that you want to use as RAID array appear in the Array Disks block Completing the RAID BIOS Setup 1 After assigning your RAID array mode press F7 The Clear disk data windows prompt a...

Page 11: ...t you have set up 3 Use the arrow keys to select the array that you want to set up then press Enter The Array Detail window appears 4 If you want to mark this disk as empty and wipe out all its contents then press C 5 At the prompt press Y to wipe out all the data otherwise press N 6 Press Enter again to go back to the previous window and then press Ctrl X to exit the RAID setup PDF 文件使用 pdfFactor...

Page 12: ...boot initialize the newly created array Installing theNVIDIARAIDSoftware Under Windows for Non bootableRAID Array This section describes how to setup the application and install the RAID software which will upgrade the Windows IDE driver and install the RAID driver 1 Start the nForce Setup program to open the NVIDIA Windows nForce Drivers page NVIDIA RAID Utility Installation PDF 文件使用 pdfFactory 试...

Page 13: ...DIA drivers 1 Insert the floppy that has the RAID driver press S then press Enter The Win dows Setup screen appears as below 2 Select NVIDIA RAID CLASS DRIVER required and then press Enter 3 Press S again at the Specify Devices required screen then press Enter 4 Select NVIDIA NForce Storage Controller and then press Enter The following Windows Setup screen appears listing both drivers PDF 文件使用 pdf...

Page 14: ...the installation you might be prompted to click Yes to install the RAID driver Click Yes as many times as needed in order to finish the installation This will not be an issue with a signed driver Note Each time you add a new hard drive to a RAID array the RAID driver will have to be installed under Windows once for that hard drive After that the driver will not have to be installed PDF 文件使用 pdfFac...

Page 15: ...ted will depend on your system and the unallocated partition is the total combined storage of two hard disks You must format the unallocated disk space in order to use it 3 Format the unlocated disk space Right click Unallocated space select New Partition and follow the wizard After the drive has been formatted it is ready for use 2 Follow screen instructions to install While finished the Computer...

Page 16: ...tion Setting Up a Spare RAID Disk View free and or dedicated free disks Designate a free disk to a particular array Rebuilding a RAID Array Rebuild a broken mirrored array Watch the progress of rebuilding of an array Viewing RAID Array Configurations To view your RAID configuration from Windows launch the NVIDIA RAID Manage ment utility by double clicking NVRAIDMAN that in the driver cd The RAID c...

Page 17: ...to boot the OS two hard drives are set up in a mirrored array and a fourth hard disk is set up as a free disk then if one of the mirrored array drives fails the free disk will be automatically assigned to the mirrored array to be used instead of the failed disk Dedicated Disk A dedicated free disk is a disk that is assigned to a RAID 1 or RAID 0 1 array and that disk is used by that array only whe...

Page 18: ...ecific array you must have at least one free disk and you must also have at least two RAID 1 or RAID 0 1 arrays created In this example there are four SATA drives and two PATA drives which are RAID enabled Four SATA drives are used to create two mirrored arrays while two PATA drives are used as free disks Step 1 Mark the Disk as a Free Disk 1 Enter the system BIOS setup and make sure that the driv...

Page 19: ...election page appears 4 From the RAID Array Selection page select one of the arrays from the list This is the array to which you want to allocate the dedicated free disk 5 Click Next The Completing the NVIDIA Spare Disk Allocation page appears 6 Click Finish Removing a Dedicated Disk Once a dedicated disk has been assigned to a particular array it can be removed at any time To remove the disk righ...

Page 20: ... disks 2 Right click on Mirroring The pop up menu appears 3 From the popup menu click Rebuild Array The NVIDIA Rebuild Array Wizard appears 4 Click Next The Disk Selection page appears 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 The array rebuilding starts after a few seconds and a smal...

Page 21: ...o RAID 0 and JBOD arrays Rebuilding applies to a degraded fault tolerant array You can rebuild a degraded mirrored array using any available Free Disk or Dedi cated Disk For example below picture shows a mirrored array using two 34 48 GB drives while having two Free Disks each 55 90 GB large To use one of these available free disks to rebuild your array follow the same steps as explained in Rebuil...

Page 22: ...0 as the system is rebooting to go into the RAID ROM The system directs you into the NVIDIA RAID Utility 7 Select Striping under RAID Mode Press TAB to go into the Free Disk menu You can use the Right Arrow key to add the desired disk 8 After that Press F7 to finish Select N NO when asked to Clear Disk Data 9 Then Press Ctrl X to exit The system reboots into Windows 2000 10 Install the NVIDIA nFor...

Page 23: ... must create a combination installation CD that includes Windows 2000 and SP3 or SP4 fixes integrated in To create the combination installation CD refer to the following website http www microsoft com windows2000 downloads servicepacks sp4 HFdeploy htm Note If the end user chooses not to install Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 or 4 RAID is still supported on Windows 2000 However the end user will not ...

Page 24: ...le drives RAID Mirroring enables users to enjoy the confidence of data availability regardless of a single disk failure as data is simultaneously written to two drives Standard with SATARaid software is a Graphical User Interface GUI that pro vides easy to use configurations for the different RAID Sets supported 2 Creating and Deleting RAID Sets SATA_5 SATA_6 Creating and deleting RAID sets is a f...

Page 25: ...llocate a legacy spare drive Rebuild RAID 1 Set is used to initiate the rebuild of a RAID 1 set after for example a drive in the Group has been replaced Resolve Conflicts is used to automatically find the member drives of a RAID set which has been disrupted physical drives swapped around for example and restore the Set to proper operation Low Level Format allows a single drive to have its data com...

Page 26: ... enter the Raid Configuration Utility Silicon Image The following screen menu appears 1 Switch the highlight bar to the Create RAID set and press the Enter key to create RAID set 2 Switch the highlight bar to the Striped Mirrored and press the Enter key to create RAID 0 1 PDF 文件使用 pdfFactory 试用版本创建 www fineprint com cn ...

Page 27: ...eady has been partitioned and has data stored on it and then a second disk is added for redundancy the data on the source drive can be copied to the destination drive so the disks are identical and all subsequent data will be written to both drives as a Mirrored set If however the source disk does not have data already stored on it there is no need for Disk Copy 4 The utility will ask Are You Sure...

Page 28: ... Deleting RAID set 1 To remove one or more RAID sets select Delete RAID set and press the Enter key 2 Select desired set and press Y when asked Are You Sure PDF 文件使用 pdfFactory 试用版本创建 www fineprint com cn ...

Page 29: ... in reference to the drive connection information If so this will prohibit the RAID set from being either created or rebuilt In order for the RAID set to function properly this old metadata must be first overwritten with the new metadata To resolve this select Resolve Conflict and the correct metadata including the correct drive connection information will be written to the replacement disk Low Le...

Page 30: ...a third party SCSI or RAID driver 4 Insert the previous floppy disk RAID driver installation disk 5 Press S to continue 6 Press Enter to continue 4 Install RAID Driver When you finish installing Operation System with RAID in order to enable RAID function you need to install RAID Driver Pls refer to Chapter 4 of motherboard user manaul for installation steps PDF 文件使用 pdfFactory 试用版本创建 www fineprint...

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