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RAID User Guide

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Page 2: ...ons 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 Win2K Limitation with Bootable RAI...

Page 3: ...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 0 d a t a redundancy Optimized f...

Page 4: ...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...

Page 5: ...S 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 on one hard disk then reboot the...

Page 6: ...se 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 items would be light then you can ena...

Page 7: ...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 platform used the system have one or...

Page 8: ...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...

Page 9: ...rray 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 t...

Page 10: ...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 pr...

Page 11: ...alize 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 upg...

Page 12: ...IA 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 press Enter 3 Press S again at th...

Page 13: ...lation 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...

Page 14: ...epend 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...

Page 15: ...e 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 Viewi...

Page 16: ...t 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 t...

Page 17: ...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 drives which are RAID enabled Two SA...

Page 18: ...age 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 S...

Page 19: ...ght 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 yo...

Page 20: ...ly 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 For example below picture shows a m...

Page 21: ...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 ke...

Page 22: ...eate 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 windows...