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1. System to RAID 0 RAID 1 or RAID 5 If you have an existing RAID Ready system then you can use the following steps to perform a migration from a single non RAID configuration to a two drive RAID 0 RAID 1 configuration or three drive RAID 5 configuration To prepare for this you will need another SATA SATAII hard drive with a capacity equal to or greater than that currently being used as the source hard drive 1 Physically attach one additional SATA SATAII hard drive to the SATAII port not being used Note the serial number of the hard drive already in the system you will use this to select it as the source hard drive when initiating the migration 2 Boot Windows install the Intel R Rapid Storage Manager software if not already installed using the setup package obtained from a CD ROM or from the Internet This will install the necessary Intel Storage Utility and start menu links 3 Open the Intel Storage Utility from the Start Menu and select Create RAID volume from Existing Hard Drive from the Actions menu This will activate the Create RAID volume from Existing Hard Drive Wizard Click through the dialogs as prompted It s important to understand what will occur during the migration process because any data on the destination hard drive will be lost 4 Once the migration is complete reboot the system If you migrated to a RAID 0 volume use Disk Management from within Windows in order to partition and format t2. functions please follow below procedures according to the OS you install 2 3 1 Installing Windows XP XP 64 bit With RAID Functions If you want to install Windows XP XP 64 bit on your SATA SATAII HDDs with RAID functions please follow below steps STEP 1 Set up BIOS A Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen Storage Configuration B Set SATA Operation Mode to RAID STEP 2 Make a SATA SATAII Driver Diskette A Insert the Support CD into your optical drive to boot your system B During POST at the beginning of system boot up press lt F11 gt key and then a window for boot devices selection appears Please select CD ROM as the boot device C When you see the message on the screen Do you want to generate Serial ATA driver diskette YN press lt Y gt D Then you will see these messages Please insert a diskette into the floppy drive WARNING Formatting the floppy diskette will lose ALL data in it Start to format and copy files YN Please insert a floppy diskette into the floppy drive and press lt Y gt E The system will start to format the floppy diskette and copy SATA SATAII drivers into the floppy diskette STEP 3 Use RAID Installation Guide to set RAID configuration Before you start to configure the RAID function you need to check the installation guide in the Support CD for proper configuration Please refer to the document in the Support CD Guide to
3. Disks 125K 221 5 GRA Create Volume HELP Enter a sirmp between and 16 characters m lenpih that cam be used to uniquely idennty the RADD volume This name 19 case eemsinve mii can not contain special characters T Change TAB Next ESC Previous Menu ENTER Select In the Create Volume Menu under Name item please key in a unique name with 1 16 letters for your RAID volume then press lt Enter gt Intel R Application Accelerator ALD Option ROM v4 0 6180 CopyneleiC 2003 4 Intel Corporation All Rights Reversed CREATE VOLUME MENU Name Volumeo RAID Level RAMU Sirpe Thsks Simp Sire Capacity Select Disks 178KB 223 5 GB Create Volume HELP Choose the RAID level best suited to your usage model RAID Stuipe Creates a volume where equal portions of the volume ave spread across all the disks Thos creates a voluoe with ingles perionmance by accessing all drsks al once RAID Stupe Creates a volume where a recondant copy of the data 1s stored on each disk This creates a volume protected from a single hard disk failure T Change TAB Next ESC Previous Menu ENTER Select Use the up or down arrow keys to select your desired RAID Level You may select RAIDO Stripe RAID1 Mirror RAID 5 RAID 10 or Matrix Storage for your RAID level Press lt Enter gt and then you can select Strip Size 12 Intel R Application Accelerator RAID Option ROM v4 0 6180 Copyright C 2003 0
4. copy of the data in the other drive if one drive fails Intel Rapid Storage The Intel Rapid Storage technology supported allows you to create a RAID 0 and RAID 1 set using only two identical hard disk drives The Intel Rapid Storage technology creates two partitions on each hard disk drive to create a virtual RAID 0 and RAID 1 sets This technology also allows you to change the hard disk drive partition size without losing any data RAID 10 RAID 10 is a striped configuration with RAID 1 segments whose segments are RAID 1 arrays This configuration has the same fault tolerance as RAID 1 and has the same overhead for fault tolerance as mirroring alone RAID 10 achieves high input output rates by striping RAID 1 segments In some instances a RAID 10 configuration can sustain multiple simultaneous drive failure A minimum of four hard disk drives is required for this setup RAID 5 RAID 5 stripes both data and parity information across three or more hard disk drives Among the advantages of RAID 5 configuration include better HDD performance fault tolerance and higher storage capacity The RAID 5 configuration is best suited for transaction processing relational database applications enterprise resource planning and other business systems Use a minimum of three identical hard disk drives for this setup 2 2 RAID Configurations Precautions 1 Please use two new drives if you are creating a RAID 0 striping array for performa
5. 4 Intel Corporation All Rights Reversed CREATE VOLUME MENU Name Volume0 RAID Level RAIDO Strpe Disks Select Disks Strip Size Capacity 223 5GB Create Volume HELP Choose the RAID level best suited to your usage model The following are typical values 16KB Best for sequential transfers 64KB Good general purpose strip size 128KB Best performance for most desktops and workstations N Change TAB Next ESC Previous Menu ENTER Select If you selected RAID O Stripe use the up or down arrow keys to select the stripe size for your RAID O array then press lt Enter gt The available values range from 8 KB to 128 KB The default selection is 128 KB The strip value should be chosen based on the planned drive usage e 8 16 KB low disk usage e 64 KB typical disk usage e 128 KB performance disk usage After you set disk block size press lt Enter gt to set disk Capacity Intel R Appleatom Accelerator RA Optiron ROM wl 0 6180 Copynighi 2004 04 Intel Corperanen All Rights Reversed CREATE VOLUME MENT Name Volume0 RAID Level KAIN Stripe Disks Select Disks Sirp Sze 172 R Create Volume HELP Enier the volume capacity The default valwe mdbcales the mam volume capaaty using the selected disks IF leas than the maximum capacity is chosen creation of a second volume is needed to utilize the remaining space T Change TAB Next ESC Previeus Mema ENTER Select Aft
6. AID controller supporting RAID 0 RAID 1 Intel Rapid Storage RAID 10 RAID 5 function with four independent Serial ATA SATA channels This section will introduce the basic knowledge of RAID and the guide to configure RAID 0 RAID 1 Intel Rapid Storage RAID 10 RAID 5 settings RAID The term RAID stands for Redundant Array of 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 RAID set RAID 0 Data Striping RAID 0 is called data striping that optimizes two identical hard disk drives to read and write data in parallel interleaved stacks It will improve data access and storage since it will double the data transfer rate of a single disk alone while the two hard disks perform the same work as a single drive but at a sustained data transfer rate WARNING Although RAID 0 function can improve the access performance it does not provide any fault tolerance Hot Plug any HDDs of the RAID 0 Disk will cause data damage or data loss RAID 1 Data Mirroring RAID 1 is called data mirroring that copies and maintains an identical image of data from one drive to a second drive It provides data protection and increases fault tolerance to the entire system since the disk array management software will direct all applications to the surviving drive as it contains a complete
7. Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation and RAID Configuration 2 4 2 5 2 6 1 Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation 0 0 0 0 ee 2 1 1 Serial ATA SATA Hard Disks Installation 2 2 Guide to RAID Configurations ccccecccsssseeeeeeeeeeeeees 3 2 1 Introduction of RAID ce eceseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 3 2 2 RAID Configuration Precautions cceeee 5 2 3 Installing Windows 7 7 64 bit Vista Vista 64 bit XP XP 64 bit With RAID Functions 6 Setting the BIOS RAID Items ce eeeeeeeeees 11 Configuring the Intel RAID BIOS eee 11 Deleting RAID Volume cccccseeeeeceseeeeeeeeeees 15 1 Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation 1 1 Serial ATA SATA Hard Disks Installation Intel P55 chipset supports Serial ATA SATA hard disks with RAID functions including RAID 0 RAID 1 RAID 10 RAID 5 and Intel Rapid Storage Please read the RAID configurations in this guide carefully according to the Intel southbridge chipset that your motherboard adopts You may install SATA hard disks on this motherboard for internal storage devices For SATA installation guide please refer to Serial ATA SATA Hard Disks Installation of User Manual in the support CD This section will guide you how to create RAID on SATA ports 2 Guide to RAID Configurations 2 1 Introduction of RAID This motherboard adopts Intel southbridge chipset that integrates R
8. SATA Hard Disks Installation and RAID Configuration which is located in the folder at the following path RAID Installation Guide STEP 4 Install Windows XP XP 64 bit OS on your system After making a SATA SATAII driver diskette and using RAID Installation Guide to set RAID configuration you can start to install Windows XP XP 64 bit on your system At the beginning of Windows setup press F6 to install a third party RAID driver When prompted insert the SATA SATAII driver diskette containing the Intel RAID driver After reading the floppy disk the driver will be presented Select the driver to install according to the mode you choose and the OS you install After the installation of Windows XP XP 64bit OS if you want to manage RAID functions you are allowed to use both RAID Installation Guide and Intel Rapid Storage Information for RAID configuration Please refer to the document in the Support CD Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation and RAID Configuration which is located in the folder at the following path RAID Installation Guide and the document in the support CD Guide to Intel Rapid Storage which is located in the folder at the following path Intel Rapid Storage Information If you want to use Intel Rapid Storage in Windows environment please i install SATA SATAII drivers from the Support CD again so that Intel Rapid Storage will be installed to you
9. TI WIX 111 7GB Membe T Select ENTER Select Menu After the completion you will see the detailed information about the RAID that you set up 14 2 6 Please note that you are only allowed to create one RAID partition at a time under BIOS RAID environment If you want to create extra RAID partition please use the RAID utility under Windows environment to configure RAID functions after you install OS Deleting RAID Volume lf you want to delete a RAID volume please select the option Delete RAID Volume press lt Enter gt and then follow the instructions on the screen Intel R Application Accelerator RAID Option ROM v4_0 6180 Copyright C 2003 04 Intel Corporation All Rights Reversed MAIN MENU 1 Create RAID Volume 2 Delete RAID Volume 3 Reset Disks to Non RAID 4 Exit DISK VOLUME INFORMATION RAID Volumes ID Name Level Strip Size Status Bootable 0 RAID Volume0 RAID Stripe 128KB 223 5GB Normal Yes Physical Disks Port Driver Model Serial Size Type Status Vol ID 0 T3120026AS 3JT354CP 111 7GB 1 T3120026AS 3JT329IX 111 7GB TL Select ENTER Select Menu 15
10. er setting up Capacity please press lt enter gt 13 Intel R Application Accelerator RAID Option ROM w4 0 6180 Copyngbi C 2003 04 Intel Corporation All Righis Reversed CREATE VOLUME MENU Mamme RAID Level Disks Smp Size Capacity Volume RAIH Sipe Select Dasks 125KB 223 5 GB Create Volume HELP Press ENTER to Create the specified volume TL Change TAR Nexi ESC Previons Meni ENTER Seleci Press lt Enter gt under the Create Volume item The utility prompts a confirmation message as below InteR Application Accelerator RAID Option ROM v4 0 6180 Copynphbi C 2003 0 Intel Corporation All Righis Reversed CREATE VOLUME MENU Name Volume0 RAID Stripe Select Disks 178KB 773 3 GB Age you sure you wani to creal thes volume Y N Press ENTER to Create the specified volume T Change TAB Next ESC Previous Menu ENTER Select Press lt Y gt to complete the setup of RAID Intel R Application Accelerator LAID Option ROM v4 0 6180 Copyngho 2003 04 Intel Corperanon All Koghts Reversed MAIN MENU 1 Create RAID Volume 2 Delete RAID Volume 4 Reset Disks io Non RATD 4 Exil DISK VOLUME INFORMATION RAID Volumes TD Name Level Sirp Sire Siaias Bootable i RAID Volumet RALIN Strpe 178KB 229 508 Normal Yes Physical Disks Port Dover Mockel Serual ff Sacre Type Stains Vol ILY STU F0076A8 UTIICeP LW7GR Member Diskit 1 STS12IO026A5 3J
11. he empty space created when the two hard drive capacities are combined You may also use third party software to extend any existing partitions within the RAID volume 2 3 4 Installing Windows 7 7 64 bit Vista Vista 64 bit With RAID Functions If you want to install Windows 7 7 64 bit Vista Vista 64 bit on your SATA SATAII HDDs with RAID functions please follow below steps STEP 1 Set up BIOS A Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY gt Advanced screen Storage Configuration B Set SATA Operation Mode to RAID STEP 2 Use RAID Installation Guide to set RAID configuration Before you start to configure the RAID function you need to check the installation guide in the Support CD for proper configuration Please refer to the document in the Support CD Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation and RAID Configuration which is located in the folder at the following path RAID Installation Guide STEP 3 Install Windows 7 7 64 bit Vista Vista 64 bit OS on your system Insert the Windows 7 7 64 bit Vista Vista 64 bit optical disk into the optical drive to boot your system and follow the instruction to install Windows 7 7 64 bit Vista Vista 64 bit OS on your system When you see Where do you want to install Windows page please insert the ASRock Support CD into your optical drive and click the Load Driver button on the left on the botto
12. ility will appear Please set the option Configure SATA as to RAID Save your change before you exit BIOS setup Configuring the Intel RAID BIOS Reboot your computer Wait until you see the RAID software prompting you to press lt Ctrl l gt Intel R Application Accelerator RAID Option ROM v4 0 6180 Copynght C 2003 04 Intel Corporation All Rights Reversed RAID Volumes None Defined Physical Disks Port Driver Model Serial Size Type Status Vol ID 0 T3120026AS 33T354CP 111 7GB Non RAIDDisk 1 S T3120026AS 3JT329JX 111 7GB Non RAIDDisk Press to enter Configuration Utility Press lt Ctrl l gt Then the Intel RAID Utility Create RAID Volume window appears Intel R Applocaivon Accelerator RAID Optom ROM wil 06180 CopyngMi C 2005 04 Intel Corperstiion AN Rights Reversed MAIN MENT l Crente LAID Volume 2 Delete KAID Volume 3 Reset Disks to Non RAID 4 Exi DISK VOLUME INFORMATION RAID Volumes None Defined Pirysical Draks Port Driver Model Senal Size Type Status Vol LO 0 ST312002645 3IT354CP 111 7GB I RAD isk ST3120076AS SITI79IX 111 7G T Select ESC Exaut ENTER Select Menu Select the option Create RAID Volume and press lt Enter gt 11 Intel R Appleaton Accelerator FLAT Opioon ROM wl 0 6180 Copynphi C 2004 04 Intel Conporation All Roghis Reversed CREATE VOLUME MENU Name RALO Level Disks Strip Size Capacity Volume RAIDH Sipe Select
13. m to load the Intel RAID drivers Intel RAID drivers are in the following path in our Support CD 1386 For Windows Vista OS AMD64 For Windows Vista 64 bit OS After that please insert Windows Vista Vista 64 bit optical disk into the optical drive again to continue the installation After the installation of Windows 7 7 64 bit Vista Vista 64 bit OS if you want to manage RAID functions you are allowed to use both RAID Installation Guide and Intel Rapid Storage Information for RAID configuration Please refer to the document in the Support CD Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation and RAID Configuration which is located in the folder at the following path RAID Installation Guide and the document in the support CD Guide to Intel Rapid Storage which is located in the folder at the following path Intel Rapid Storage Information If you want to use Intel Rapid Storage in Windows environment please install SATA SATAII drivers from the Support CD again so that Intel Rapid Storage will be installed to your system as well 10 2 4 Setting the BIOS RAID Items 2 5 After installing the hard disk drives please set the necessary RAID items in the BIOS before setting your RAID configuration Boot your system and press lt F2 gt key to enter BIOS setup utility Highlight Advanced and press lt Enter gt then the main interface of BIOS setup ut
14. nce It is recommended to use two SATA drives of the same size If you use two drives of different sizes the smaller capacity hard disk will be the base storage size for each drive For example if one hard disk has an 80GB storage capacity and the other hard disk has 60GB the maximum storage capacity for the 80GB drive becomes 60GB and the total storage capacity for this RAID 0 set is 120GB 2 You may use two new drives or use an existing drive and a new drive to create a RAID 1 mirroring array for data protection the new drive must be of the same size or larger than the existing drive If you use two drives of different sizes the smaller capacity hard disk will be the base storage size For example if one hard disk has an 80GB storage capacity and the other hard disk has 60GB the maximum storage capacity for the RAID 1 set is 60GB S Please verify the status of your hard disks before you set up your new RAID 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 Yes and then your future data building will operate under a clean environment 2 3 Installing Windows 7 7 64 bit Vista Vista 64 bit XP XP 64 bit With RAID Functions If you want to install Windows 7 7 64 bit Vista Vista 64 bit XP XP 64 bit OS on your SATA SATAII HDDs with RAID
15. r system as well 2 3 2 Setting Up a RAID Ready System You can also set up a RAID Ready system with a single SATA SATAII hard disk A RAID Ready system can be seamlessly upgraded to RAID 0 RAID 1 or RAID 5 at a later date by using RAID migration feature of Intel Matrix Storage The following steps outline how to build an Intel RAID Ready system 1 Assemble the system and attach a single SATA SATAII hard drive 2 Set up system BIOS as step 1 of page 6 When done exit Setup 3 Make a SATA SATAII driver diskette as step 2 of page 6 Begin Windows setup by booting from the installation CD 4 At the beginning of Windows setup press F6 to install a third party RAID driver When prompted insert the SATA SATAII driver diskette containing the Intel RAID driver After reading the floppy disk the driver will be presented Select the driver to install according to the mode you choose and the OS you install 5 Finish the Windows installation and install all necessary drivers 6 Install the Intel R apid Storage software via the CD ROM included with your motherboard or after downloading it from the Internet This will add the Intel R Rapid Storage Console which can be used to manage the RAID configuration 7 After setting up a RAID Ready system as the above steps you can follow the procedures of the next section to migrate the system to RAID 0 RAID 1 or RAID 5 2 3 3 Migrating a RAID Ready
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