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1. eee Ea Mirrorina Healthy 34 48 amp of create Array a WDC WOD36UGD OCFNAD Healthy 34 48 GR SATA Primary Master mead WDC WOS60GD 00FM40 Healthy 344663 SATA Secondary Master Free Disk fea WDC WO 40GD OCFLA0 Healthy 69 2568 SATA Primary Master ea VDC WO 7406D 00FLA0 Healthy 69 2569 SATA Secondary Master 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 small pop up message appears towards the bottom right corner of the screen When the rebuilding pro cess is finished you will see the pop up box During the rebuilding process the NVIDIA RAID Management utility screen shows the status under the System Tasks and Details sections 18 More About Rebuilding Arrays e Rebuilding Occurs in the Background The rebuilding process takes some time to complete and occurs in the back ground so as not to affect the performance of the system e Rebuilding Applies Only to RAID 1 or RAID 0 1 Arrays Rebuilding an array works only when using RAID 1 and or RAID 0 1 Rebuilding does not apply to RAID 0 and JBOD arrays e Rebuilding applies to a degraded fault tolerant array You ca2. Deleting RAID set 1 To remove one or more RAID sets select Delete RAID set and press the lt Enter gt key LOGICAL DRIVE 4 Select Menu ESC Previous Menu Enter Select Ctrl E Exit 2 Select desired set and press Y when asked Are You Sure th Select Menu ESC Previous Menu Enter Select Ctrl EBs Exit 26 Resolving Conflict When a RAID set is created the metadata written to the disk includes drive connection information Primary Channel Secondary Channel If after a disk failure the replacement disk was previously part of a RAID set or used in another system it may have conflicting metadata specifically 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 Level Format Selecting this item will format your hard disk 27 3 Install Windows 2000 XP with RAID Setup the desired RAID mode in BIOS setup 2 Insert a WinXP installation CD 3 Press the lt F6 gt when the following words appear in screen Press F6 if you need to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver 4 Insert the previous floppy disk RAID driver installation disk 5 Press lt S
3. 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 then press F6 when the Windows Setup appears 4 Insert the RAID driver floppy to Install the nForce RAID driver 5 Initialize the NVRAID Array Setting Up the BIOS 1 Start up the computer then press Delete to enter the BIOS setup Use the arrow keys to select Integrated Peripheras then press Enter use the arrow keys to select the IDE Function Setup then press Enter a fs Setbap Pecos her iphbers ls SIRE Faection Setap Pree enter Them Help b Oubcerd rie eF Press Enter Oebowrd 1 0 Chip Setep Press Eater TieecMowe Ewter Select vP PN alee FOS Sewe ESC Cait Fl General Help PS Previous Vales F Fail Safe Pefsalis Fi Optinteed Befanlts ar gt LAS sf ip IDE Feectios Setap Oelhig IME Chanset LErab led Trimerg Master FIO ante Frimerg Slow Pia Lieta Prissrg Master ima Dieta Trimarg Slave Loe Diwta Oelhip IDE Chaupe li Emable Secowdary Master FDO Chaba Secondary live FDO Ciwba Secomary Marter UPPA Lita Secondary Slawe LUBRA L mbal IDE BHA Tramtfer Access Enabled Seria E n 1 Enabled Seria l wie 2 Emabled IME Frefetch Mede Emsk led Int piue noe TOT E D RAID Coar igurat
4. can be used by any available fault tolerant array while a dedicated disk can be used only by the array to which it is assigned e RAID Across PATA and SATA NVIDIA RAID can span across both Parallel ATA as well as Serial ATA controllers RAID operations can be performed on Parallel ATA hard drives Serial ATA hard drives or both Parallel and Serial ATA hard drives e Bootable RAID NVIDIA RAID can be configured in a way to make it bootable For example two hard drives can be configured as a bootable mirrored RAID array e RAID on Multiple Disk Controllers Unlike 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 e 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 importantly this is accomplished without having to go through multiple steps The morphing feature gives the user an upgradeable option to manage storage easily Hot Plug Array Hot plug with respect to RAID is the ability to add a disk to a system safely and without causing problems for the RAID software For example when a drive in a mirrored array fails a user can launch the Hot Plug Array Wizard which instructs the user as to when a drive can be added safely to the system As soon a
5. we WDC WDS60GD O0FNAQ Healthy 34 48 GB SATA Secondary Master S Mirroring Healthy 69 25 GB Se wOC WOT40GD O0FLA0 Healthy 569 2566 SATA Primary Master 4s WDC WOT40GD 00FLA0 Healthy 59 2565 SATA Secondary Master Free Disk 74 5566 FATA Secondary Master 74 553 G5 PATA Secondary slave 2 Select Designate Spare from the menu to launch the Spare Disk Allocation Wizard 3 Click 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 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 right click on the dedicated disk and select the option to remove it 17 Rebuilding a RAID Array Rebuilding is the process of recovering data from one hard drive to another All data is copied from one hard drive to another and then the data is synchronized between the two hard drives This applies only to RAID 1 as well as a RAID 0 1 arrays Rebuilding Instructions After creating a mirrored array you can rebuild the array using the following steps 1 Go to Windows and run the NVIDIA RAID Management utility Below picture shows an example of a system with one mirrored array and two free disks EA nVIDIA ny raid
6. D Config for the selected drive the one containing the Windows 2000 operating system Then press F10 to exit and save settings in the system BIOS This action reboots 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 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 nForce Driver Package while in Windows 2000 Then reboot the system 11 Go to START gt Programs gt NVIDIA Corporation and select NVRAID Manager You should see the single disk RAID array in striping mode that was created from the boot disk 12 Select the single boot disk RAID Array by clicking on it 13 Select Convert Array under the System Tasks The Convert Array wizard is displayed Then Select Next 14 Select the desired type of RAID array you want to convert Then Select Next 20 15 You are prompted to select the desired Free Disk s to add to the bootable RAID array Click Finish At this point NVRAID starts converting the single disk RAID array into a multi disk RAID array in a bootable format Note Conversion may take 1 2 hours depending on disk size ll The user must create a combination installation CD that includes Window
7. DMAN tasks in the following sections e Viewing RAID Array Configurations View an array configuration mirrored striped mirrored striped JBOD or any supported combination e Setting Up a Spare RAID Disk e View free and or dedicated free disks e Designate a free disk to a particular array e Rebuilding a RAID Array e Rebuild a broken mirrored array e 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 configuration information appears in the right side pane as shown in following picture gt GI NVIDIA BON OIE OED OL E TEE O EO Name Status Capacity Interface Channel Device I of Hot Plug Array Ma Mirroring Healthy 34 48 GB l of create Array ial WOC WD360GD 00FNA0 Healthy 34 48GB SATA Primary Master ied WOC WD360GD 00FNAO0 Healthy 34 48GB SATA Secondary Master Free Disk a WOC WD740GD 00FLA0 Healthy 69 2566 SATA Primary Master pea DC WD740GD 00FLA0 Healthy 69 25GB SATA Secondary Maste Details 14 Setting Up a Spare RAID Disk You can designate a hard drive to be used as a spare drive for a RAID 1 or RAID 0 1 array2 The spare drive can take over for a failed disk NVIDIA RAID supports two types of spare drives e Free Disk A free disk is a disk that is not part of any RAID array but can be us
8. RAID 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 Contents INV ET RUD cor ei ca en c c ace ca cae ceee 1 FMD VS Sarthe atte tectonic ances E AA A A A AA EAA 1 Stata DISKS raaa ETT TET ane snl icocees 3 Basic Configuration Instructions ices i cascta cela tacit ttc lactase iclade 4 Seting UD Re BIO ho Serenata ernrnreses perro er rerrerr er artrer err n recent erste tirtrn in nea rnereT erent 5 Entering the RAID BIOS Setup ccccccccccccsseeeeesssssseeeeeeeeeeeseeseeeeaesssseeeeeeeneees 6 NVIDIA RAID Utility Installation ccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeess 10 Initializing and Using the Disk Array cccccccsseeeeeeeeeeeeeeneeeeeeeeeeaeaeeeeeeeeesanaees 13 Using The NVRAIDMAN Utility cceceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeeeeeeeess 14 Win2K Limitation with Bootable RAID ccccececceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaeseeeeeeeeeeaaeees 20 Silicon 3132 SATA RAID optional WINES CURT CUI OI an esac fase etree share caste A sine toto AA E E E A EE 22 Creating and Deleting RAID Sets iste cee tie ates eters triers Brea 22 Install Windows 2000 XP with RAID 00 0 0 cccccccsssteseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseasaeeaeaeeeees 28 AeA RAO BD 39 peers er eee 28 NVIDIA RAID RAID Arrays This section describes the following types of RAID arrays that NVIDIA RAID supports e RAID O RAID 0 defi
9. ble RAID 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 Windows nForce Drivers Select Components Cheose the components Setup wil install Select the components you want to install clear the components you do rot wart to insall Desctipton V NVIDIA SMBus Driver J NVIDIA Ethernet Driver Z NVIDIA IDE Driver A NVIDIA Audio Driver chee Space Required on C SISTA Space Available on C 605230 K lt Back l Next gt Cancel 2 Select the modules that you want to install Select the relative options that you have configured 3 Click Next and then follow the instructions 4 After the installation is completed be sure to reboot the PC 5 After the reboot initialize the newly created array 10 Installing the RAID Driver for bootable RAID Array 1 After you complete the RAID BIOS setup boot from the Windows CD and the Windows Setup program starts 2 Press F6 and wait for the Windows Setup screen to appear Windows Setup De Setup could not determine the type of ona or more mass storage devices installed in your system or you have chosen to manually specify an adapter Currently Setup will load support for the following mass storage device s lt none gt To specify additional SCSI adapters CD ROM dri
10. ction found in the Raid Configuration Utility Silicon Image During booting up the following message will appear pausing for a few moments to allow the user to choose what to do Press lt Ctrl S gt or F4 to enter RAID utility An easy to use screen will appear with the following choices in the top left Create RAID Set Delete RAID Set Rebuild RAID Set Resolve Conflicts Low Level Format Logical Drive Info 22 Below this will be listed the drives currently installed on the system The top right half of the screen displays directions and comments for the user The bottom right half lists the command keys Arrows up and down are Select Keys ESC takes the user to the previous menu Enter selects the user s choice Ctrl E exits the utility Create RAID Group is used to create a new legacy RAID Set or for allocating legacy spare drives Delete RAID Group is used to delete a legacy RAID Set or to deallocate 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 completely wiped out Drives assigned to Sets or allocated as spares cannot be low level formatted Logical Drive Info shows the current conf
11. ed by any available RAID 1 or RAID 0 1 array that requires a particular disk when one of its disks crashes or becomes unusable The process is automatic and doesn t require any user interaction For example if you have a system with four hard disks 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 will be automatically assigned to the mirrored array to be used instead of the failed disk e 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 when needed for example during a system crash where a RAID mirrored drive is broken The dedicated disk can be used only by the array that it is assigned to and not by any other array unlike a free disk which can be used by any available RAID 1 or RAID 0 1 array Note You must have at least two RAID arrays to use this feature 15 Assigning a Free Disk To mark a disk as free or not a part of any array 1 Enter the system BIOS setup and make sure that the drive that you want to mark as free is RAID enabled 2 Enter the RAID BIOS and make sure that the drive is not part of any array if one exists 3 Boot into Windows and run the NVRAIDMAN program The drive appears under the Free Disk section Envor nvraid e Name Statue Capacity Interfaces Charnel D
12. evice Ea Miroring Healthy 34 48 of Create Array WDC WD3606D 00FNAG Healthy 3446 GB SATA Primary Master WDC WD360GD 00FNA0 Healthy 34 48 G SATA Secondary Master Free Disk fa WDC WD 40GD 00FL40 Healthy 69 2568 SATA Primary Master kavo WD 4UGD UUFLAU Hesithy 69 2568 SAIA secondary Master Details eS Assigning a Dedicated Disk To mark a disk as 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 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 drive that you want to mark as free is RAID enabled 2 Boot into Windows and run the NVRAIDMAN program If the disk is not part of any RAID array then it will appear under the Free Disk section of the RAID GUI 16 Step 2 Dedicate the Free Disk to an Array While running NVRAIDMAN dedicate a free disk to an array by doing the following 1 Right click one of the available free disks under the Free Disk section a NVIDIA zv raid x Name Status Copocity Intcrfocc Channel Device F Hot Plug Array S Mirruriny Healy 34 46 GB T Designate Spare Disk SF create Array WDC WD360GD 00FNAO Healthy 34 48 GB SATA Primary Master
13. ge and Akats A Deve rangs fs SAC OR ani ogaao ns Welcome to the Initialize and Convert Disk Wizard Ths wazeid helps youto mhelce reve diks end io cormet eniply basc dsk to dnamic dske Youcan wee dnant dake to crece sollwerebased MAID v imes that can be mercred a they canbe shiped o maned ecioss mips daks Toucen sko emend Soge dek ard spanned volumes watt haig to restart the corpulsi Site you convert a diuk to cdesamie you carol use Windows 2000 avi liter raaro 0 Windy on ary yma of thet disk To corms cick Nest Liao Type File system gt Sem us 4 EAPSCEY i PPS 30070 We Free 2 0 Paton Esse FAT Heskty a OMe Patbon Esse FAT Heskhy zow Lore Petoon bask Heskty Lesce 108 OS S Ci Portoon Pase FAT Heki rzon LYG e E Unstocated 9B Piney paidon 9 Etenied paion E Logor dive oh CON te h Computer Manage Feur tolerance te fic Iie 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 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 13 Using The NVRAIDMAN Utility About the NVIDIA RAID Management Utility The NVIDIA RAID software ships with an application called NVRAIDMAN This chapter describes the NVRAI
14. gt to continue _ 6 Press lt Enter gt 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 28
15. iate field is highlighted e 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 either Mirroring Striping Spanning Stripe Mirroring or RAID 5 e Selecting the Striping Block Size Striping Block size is given in kilobytes and affects how data is arranged on the disk It is recommended to leave this value at the default Optimal which is 32KB but the values can be between 4 KB and 128 KB e Assigning the Disks 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 To designate a free disk to be used as a RAID array 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 gt 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 NVIDIA RAID Utility Define a New Array GEULLE Mirroring Striping Block Optimal Free Disks Loc Disk Model Name ESC Quit F6 Back F7 Finish TAB Navigate Select ENTER Popup It shows that two disks have been assigned as RAID1 array d
16. iguration of each RAID set allocated spare and unallocated physical drive attached to the SATA host adapter 23 Creating RAID Sets SATA5 6 During the Power On Self Test POST press the lt Ctrl gt and lt S gt keys or lt F4 gt key simultaneously to 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 lt Enter gt key to create RAID set 2 Switch the highlight bar to the Striped Mirrored and press the lt Enter gt key to create RAID 0 1 RAIDS SPARE DRIVE CONCATENATION 24 3 Select if you want the utility to Auto Configure the RAID Set or if you want to manually configure the RAID Set For Striped Sets you can change the chunk size For Mirrored Sets you assign which is the Source and Target drives as well as if you want Disk Copy What is Disk Copy lf the disk assigned as the source disk already 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 before completing the configuration 5 Press the lt Y gt key then will creat the Raid 25
17. ish TAB Navigate mp Select ENTER Popup Understanding the Define a New Array Window Use the Define a New Array window to e Select the RAID Mode e Set up the Striping Block e 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 location columns of the Free Disks and Array Disks lists 1 0 M M Master S Slave 0 Channel dapter adapter 0 is used for PATA drives 1 and above is used for SATA drives In the example above 1 0 M means the hard drive is attached to Adapter 1 Channel 0 and the drive is set to Master The following is a list of all possible combinations Parallel ATA 0 0 M Adapter 0 Channel 0 Master 0 0 S Adapter 0 Channel 0 Slave 0 1 M Adapter 0 Channel 1 Master 0 1 8 Adapter 0 Channel 1 Slave Serial ATA 1 0 M Adapter 1 Channel 0 Master 1 1 M Adapter 1 Channel 1 Slave 2 0 M Adapter 2 Channel 0 Master 2 1 M Adapter 2 Channel 1 Slave Note There is no such thing as Slave drive in Serial ATA All drives are consid ered to be Master 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 appropr
18. isks in the figure above Completing the RAID BIOS Setup 1 After assigning your RAID array mode press F7 The Clear disk data windows prompt appears NVIDIA RAID Utility Define aNew Array eR sl Mirroring ntima Free Disks Loc Disk Model Name ESC Quit F6 Back F7 Finish TAB Navigate fp Select ENTER Popup 2 Press Y if you want to wipe out all the data from the RAID array otherwise press N You must choose Yes if the drives were previously used as RAID drives The Array List window appears where you can review the RAID arrays that you have set up NVIDIA RAID Utility Array List Array Mode Name No 2 Healthy NVIDIA MIRROR 7453G Ctr X Exit fw Select B Set Boot N New Array ENTER Detail 3 Use the arrow keys to select the array that you want to set up then press Enter The Array Detail window appears Array 2 NVIDIA MIRROR 74 56G Array Detail RAID Mode Mirroring Striping Width 1 Striping Block 32K Adapt Channel WS index Disk Model Name Capacity ST380023AS 74 56GB R Rebuid D Delete C Clear Disk Enter Return 4 lf you want to mark this disk as empty and wipe out all its contents then press 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 NVIDIA RAID Utility Installation Installing the NVIDIA RAID Software Under Windows for Non boota
19. lon IPress Exeter Item Help Dhee Rove Eober Select r PiL FD Melee Fi jawe ESC Exit Fi cecral Eclp Fo Previous Wa baecs F Fail Safe Defan lte Fi Detisized Befanlits 2 Use the arrow keys to select the RAID Configuration then press Enter Pomir AuardBlas GG Sestap tility PADS Cont igarstion RAID Enable Enatile ten Help EI ET bhctar Bits rr oeate IME Frimary Slave IRID Disaale DDE Secondary Master RADI Disaile DOE Secondary Slave PALDO 8 Dosaale SATA 1 Prieary RAI Pisal MTIR 1 Secondary ARID i ATR Primary RAND Dicasled CATR 2 Secondary GID E Theike EntercSelect e AL Fi Valis Fif Sase ES Exit Fi General Help PS Previous Values Pit Best Defaults 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 5 Entering the RAID BIOS Setup 1 After rebooting your PC wait until you see the RAID software prompting you to press F10 The RAID prompt appears as part of the system POST and boot process prior to loading OS 2 Press lt N gt and the NVIDIA RAID Utility Define a New Array window will appear The default RAID Mode is set to Mirroring and the default Striping Block is set to Optimal Cyt Mirroring Striping Block Free Disk Array Disks Loc Loc Disk Model Name RE C ESC Quit F6 Back F7 Fin
20. n 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 ae EA HVIDIA wVraid x Ee ee eT TW System Tasks Hot Pug Array a real Array a WO WOSBUGD OUPMA0 Healthy 34 4868 SATA Primary Master WDC WOS60GD 00FM40 Healthy 34 48 SATA Secondary Master Free Disk fea WOT WO740GD 00FL40 Healthy 69 2568 SATA Primary Master fea WOT WO 40GD O0FL40 Healthy 69 2565 SATA Secondary Master Details To use one of these available free disks to rebuild your array follow the same steps as explained in Rebuilding a RAID Array except when prompted to select a disk choose one of the two available free disks 19 Win2K Limitation with Bootable RAID In Windows 2000 Service Pack 2 or previous versions the end user cannot install this operating system to a bootable RAID volume There are two solutions to resolve this issue Il Use the NVRAID Tool to convert the boot volume to a RAID array Here are the detailed step by step instructions 1 Install Windows 2000 on a selected hard drive 2 Download and install Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 from Microsoft s website 3 Reboot the system press the DEL key as the system is rebooting to enter into the system BIOS 4 Select Integrated Peripherals gt RAID Config 5 Enable RAI
21. nes a disk striping scheme that improves the disk read and write times for many applications e RAID 1 RAID 1 defines techniques for mirroring data e RAID 0 1 RAID 0 1 combines the techniques used in RAID 0 and RAID 1 arrays e Spanning JBOD JBOD provides a method for combining drives of different sizes into one large disk e RAID 5 RAID 5 stripes both data and parity information across three or more drives Summary of RAID Configurations Array Advantages Drawbacks __ Hard Disks Fault Tolerance RAID 0 High data throughput No fault tolerance multiple RAID 1 100 data equires two drives for redundancy the storage space of one drive Optimized for both Requires two drives for 100 data redun the storage space dancy and of one drive the same performance Allowgas RAID level 1 spare disks Combines and uses Decreases performance multiple No the capacity of odd because of the difficulty size drives in using drives concurrently or to opti mize drives for different uses Fault tolerance and Decreased write perfor 3 Yes better utilization of mance due to parity disk space calculations Requires at reast three drives NVIDIA RAID offers the following additional features e Free Disk and Dedicated Spare Disk A Free Disk or Dedicated Disk can be automatically used in case one drive of a fault tolerant array fails NVIDIA RAID defines a fault tolerant array as either RAID 1 or RAID 0 1 A free disk
22. ress If you do net have any device support disks from a mass storage device manufacturer or do not want to specify additional mass storage devices for use with Windows press ENTER SeSpecify Additional Device ENTEReCont inue F3 Exit e eee 4 Press Enter to continue with operating system Installation Be sure to copy the files from the floppy is complete then take out the floppy 5 Follow the instructions on how to install operating system During 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 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 12 Initializing and Using the Disk Array The RAID array is now ready to be initialized under Windows 1 Launch Computer Management by clicking Start gt Settings gt Control Panel then open the Administrative Tools folder and double click on Computer Management Initialize and Convert Disk Wizard 2 Follow screen instructions to install While finished the ment window appears g Computes Maripernent von Phas as corpor Nanagamars Laced f E Sten tock Gi Evert Weve ky Shared Fojos Local Lees and Greape E GB ofw naco La
23. s 2000 and SP3 or SP4 fixes integrated in To create the combination installation CD refer to the following website http Awww microsoft com windows2000 downloads servicepacks sp4 HF deploy 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 be able to create a bootable RAID volume 21 Silicon 3132 SATA RAID optional 1 Introduction Silicon Image s SATARaid provides Serial ATA Software RAID including Strip ing and Mirroring to enhance the industry s first proven PCI to SATA host con troller product Two major challenges facing the storage industry today are keep ing pace with the increasing performance demands of computer systems by improving disk I O throughput and providing data accessibility in the face of hard disk failures With the Sil 3132 Serial ATA host controller and SATARaid both of these problems are solved RAID Striping greatly improves hard disk I O performance by concurrently Strip ing data across multiple 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 fun
24. s the drive is added the user can then finish running the RAID wizard and the drive becomes useable by the system Install Hard Disks Install SATA hard disks STEP 1 Install one SATA hard disk into one drive bay STEP 2 Connect one end of the SATA data cable to the motherboard s one of SATA connectors STEP 3 Connect the other end of the SATA data cable to the SATA hard disk STEP 4 Connect the power cable to the SATA hard disk 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 disk STEP 6 Following step 1 2 3 4 to install the other IDE hard disks Basic Configuration Instructions The following are the basic steps for configuring NVIDIA RAID Non 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 Stripe Mirroring RAID 0 1 Spanning JBOD or RAID 5 and create the desired RAID array 3 Install the operating system on one hard disk then reboot the computer 4 Run the Windows nForce Setup application and install the RAID driver 5 Initialize the
25. ves or special disk controllers for use with Windows including those for which you have a device support disk from a mass storage device manufacturer press S If you do not have any device support disks from a mass storage device manufaturer or do not want to specify additional mass storage devices for use with Windows press ENTER S Specify Additional Devices ENTER Continue F3 Exit 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 You have chosen to configure a SCSI Adapter for use with Windows using a device support disk provided by an adapter manufacturer Select the SCSI Adapter you want from the following list or press ESC to return to the previous screen 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 11 window TAAN Setup will load support for the following mass storage device s NVIDIA RAID CLASS DRIVER required NUIDIA NForce Storage Controller required To specify additional SCSI adapters CD ROM drives or special disk controllers for use with Windows including those for which you have a device support disk from a mass storage device manufacturer p
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