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RAID User Guide

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V1.0 P/N: 91-187-C51-G0-0E

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Page 1: ...RAID User Guide Edition V1 0 P N 91 187 C51 G0 0E Trademarks All brand or product names mentioned are trademarks or registered trade marks of their respective holders...

Page 2: ...3 Basic Configuration Instructions 3 Setting Up the BIOS 4 Entering the RAID BIOS Setup 5 NVIDIA RAID Utility Installation 9 Initializing and Using the Disk Array 12 Using The NVRAIDMAN Utility 13 Wi...

Page 3: ...ation This results in excellent performance and good fault tolerance Level 5 is one of the most popular implementations of RAID Array RAID 0 RAID 1 RAID 0 1 RAID 5 Advantages High data throughput 1 0...

Page 4: ...are 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 upg...

Page 5: ...e RAID enabled in the system BIOS 2 Specify the RAID level either Mirroring RAID 1 Striping RAID 0 Stripe Mirroring RAID 0 1 or RAID5 and create the desired RAID array 3 Install the operating system o...

Page 6: ...Peripherals then press Enter 2 Use the arrow keys to select the RAID Config RAID Configuration then press Enter 3 From the RAID Config RAID Configuration window enabled the RAID Enable the other item...

Page 7: ...timal Understanding the Define a New Array Window 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 pla...

Page 8: ...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...

Page 9: ...om the Free Disks block 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...

Page 10: ...iew the RAID arrays that 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...

Page 11: ...t the PC 5 After the reboot initialize the newly created array Installing theNVIDIARAIDSoftware Under Windows for Non bootableRAID Array This section describes how to setup the application and install...

Page 12: ...reen to appear 3 Specify the NVIDIA 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 and then...

Page 13: ...ing the GUI portion of 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 wi...

Page 14: ...nt The actual disks listed 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 Form...

Page 15: ...striped RAID5 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...

Page 16: ...ks where one disk is used 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 wil...

Page 17: ...dedicated or reserve it for use by a specific 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 driv...

Page 18: ...k Next The RAID Array Selection 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...

Page 19: ...ed array and two free 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 ap...

Page 20: ...RAID 0 1 Rebuilding does not apply to RAID 0 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 Fo...

Page 21: ...s the System 6 Press F10 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 men...

Page 22: ...on disk size II The user 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 websit...