ASROCK 775Twins-HDTV Quick guide

Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation and
RAID Configuration
1. Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation …………….. 2
1.1 Serial ATA (SATA) Hard Disks Installation ……2
1.2 Making An SATA Driver Diskette ………………2
2. Guide to RAID Configurations
(RAID 0 / RAID 1 / JBOD) …………………………. 4
2.1 Introduction of RAID …………………………… 4
2.2 RAID Configuration Precautions……………… 5
2.3 RAID 0 Configuraion …………………………… 6
2.4 RAID 1 Configuration …………………….…….10
2.5 JBOD Configuration ……………………………16
3. Guide to Windows 2000 /
Windows XP Installation ………………………….. 20

1. Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation
1.1 Serial ATA (SATA) Hard Disks Installation
This motherboard adopts ALi M5283 IDE controller chip that supports Serial ATA
(SATA) hard disks. You may install SATA hard disks on this motherboard for internal
storage devices. This section will guide you to install the SATA hard disks.
STEP 1: Install the SATA hard disks into the drive bays of your
chassis.
STEP 2: Connect one end of the SATA data cable to the
motherboard’s primary SATA connector (SATA1).
STEP 3: Connect the other end of the SATA data cable to the
primary SATA hard disk.
STEP 4: Connect one end of the second SATA data cable to the
motherboard’s secondary SATA connector (SATA2).
STEP 5: Connect the other end of the SATA data cable to the
secondary SATA hard disk.
STEP 6: Connect the SATA power cable to the SATA hard disk.
1.2 Making An SATA Driver Diskette
If you want to install Windows 2000 or Windows XP on your system while you only
have SATA HDDs on your system, you will need to make an SATA driver diskette
before you start the OS installation.
STEP 1: Insert the ASRock Support CD into your optical drive to
boot your system. (Do NOT insert any floppy diskette into
the floppy drive at this moment!)
STEP 2: During POST at the beginning of system boot-up, press
<F11> key, and then a window for boot devices selection
appears. Please select CD-ROM as the boot device.
STEP 3: When you see the message on the screen, “Do you want
to generate Serial ATA driver diskette [YN]?”, press <Y>.
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STEP 4: 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 <Y>.
STEP 5: The system will start to format the floppy diskette and
copy SATA drivers into the floppy diskette.
Once you have the SATA driver diskette ready, you may start to
install Windows 2000 / Windows XP on your system directly
without setting the RAID configuration on your system, or you may
start to use “ALi RAID BIOS Setup Utility” to set RAID 0 / RAID 1 /
JBOD configuration before you install the OS.
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2. Guide to RAID Configurations (RAID 0 / RAID 1 / JBOD)
2.1 Introduction of RAID
This motherboard adopts ALi M5283 IDE controller chip that supports RAID 0 / RAID 1
/ JBOD function with two independent Serial ATA (SATA) channels. This section will
introduce the basic knowledge of RAID, and the guide to configure RAID 0, RAID 1,
and JBOD 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.
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 copy of the data in the other drive if
one drive fails.
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JBOD
JBOD (Just a Bunch of Drives) is also called data spanning.
It will expands the capacity of your drive and results in a
useable total capacity since it will make several hard disk
types configured as a single hard disk, and the hard drives
are simply hooked up in series. However, JBOD will not
increase any performance or data security.
2.2 RAID Configurations Precautions
1. It is recommended to use two new drives if you are creating a
RAID 0 (striping) array for performance.
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.
3. Please verify the status of your hard disks before you set up
your new RAID array.
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2.3 RAID 0 Configuration
This section will guide you to configure RAID 0. To set RAID 0 configuration, please
follow the instruction below to use “ALi RAID BIOS Setup Utility” for the setting of
RAID 0 configuration.
STEP 1: Boot-up your computer.
STEP 2: Press <Ctrl> and <A> simultaneously to enter the main
menu of “ALi RAID BIOS Setup Utility”.
RAID BIOS Setup Utility (c) 2003 ALi Corporation www.ali.com.tw
Create RAID 1 Mirroring for Reliability
Create JBOD for integrated Capacity
Stripe Size
Delete RAID Setting & Partition
Delete All RAID Setting & Partition
Rebuild RAID Array
Select Boot Drive
SPACE
ENTER
ESC
: Select
: Moving Cursor
: Select & Finish
:Exit
Create RAID 0 Striping for Performance
B Channel 1 Master
Channel 2 Master
:XXXX
:XXXX
Drive Model
XXXX
XXXX
Mode Capacity RAID Array/Type
XXXX
XXXX
Capacity RAID Type Stripe Size RAID Name
RAID Array A
RAID Array B
RAID Array C
:
:
:
16K
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STEP 3: Move the highlight bar to the item “Create RAID 0 Striping
for Performance” and press <Enter> key to activate it. A
flashing “S” cursor appears at the Drive Select Menu for you
to choose the first drive for RAID 0.
RAID BIOS Setup Utility (c) 2003 ALi Corporation www.ali.com.tw
Create RAID 1 Mirroring for Reliability
Create JBOD for integrated Capacity
Stripe Size
Delete RAID Setting & Partition
Delete All RAID Setting & Partition
Rebuild RAID Array
Select Boot Drive
SPACE
ENTER
ESC
: Select
: Moving Cursor
: Select & Finish
:Exit
Create RAID 0 Striping for Performance
S B Channel 1 Master
Channel 2 Master
:XXXX
:XXXX
Drive Model
XXXX
XXXX
Mode Capacity RAID Array/Type
XXXX
XXXX
Capacity RAID Type Stripe Size RAID Name
RAID Array A
RAID Array B
RAID Array C
:
:
:
16K
Select Stripe Drives
STEP 4: Use <Space> key to choose the desired drive for RAID 0.
After you select the first drive for RAID 0, the “S” cursor will
stop flashing and mark out the selected drive. Then it
appears another flashing cursor, “s”, for you to choose the
second drive for RAID 0.
RAID BIOS Setup Utility (c) 2003 ALi Corporation www.ali.com.tw
Create RAID 1 Mirroring for Reliability
Create JBOD for integrated Capacity
Stripe Size
Delete RAID Setting & Partition
Delete All RAID Setting & Partition
Rebuild RAID Array
Select Boot Drive
SPACE
ENTER
ESC
: Select
: Moving Cursor
: Select & Finish
:Exit
Create RAID 0 Striping for Performance
S B Channel 1 Master
s Channel 2 Master
:XXXX
:XXXX
Drive Model
XXXX
XXXX
Mode Capacity RAID Array/Type
XXXX
XXXX
Capacity RAID Type Stripe Size RAID Name
RAID Array A
RAID Array B
RAID Array C
:
:
:
16K
Select Stripe Drives
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STEP 5: After two drives are properly assigned, it will appear the
following message, “Data on RAID Drives will be deleted
(Y/N) ?”
RAID BIOS Setup Utility (c) 2003 ALi Corporation www.ali.com.tw
Create RAID 1 Mirroring for Reliability
Create JBOD for integrated Capacity
Stripe Size
Delete RAID Setting & Partition
Delete All RAID Setting & Partition
Rebuild RAID Array
Select Boot Drive
SPACE
ENTER
ESC
: Select
: Moving Cursor
: Select & Finish
:Exit
Create RAID 0 Striping for Performance
SBChannel1Master
s Channel 2 Master
: XXXX
: XXXX
Drive Model
XXXX
XXXX
Mode Capacity RAID Array/Type
XXXX
XXXX
Capacity RAID Type Stripe Size RAID Name
RAID Array A
RAID Array B
RAID Array C
:
:
:
16K
Data on RAID drives will be deleted (Y/N) ?
If you press <Y>, some necessary information will be
written to the drives, and it will destroy the original data in
the drives.
WARNING!!
Before you create RAID 0, please make sure the
data in the selected drives is no longer in use.
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STEP 6: After the RAID drives are created, it will appear the following
message “Input RAID name (8 characters): ” for you to key in
a name for the newly created array. The effective characters
for an array name are <0>-<9>, <A>-<Z>, <a>-<z>, <Space>
key, and underscore.
RAID BIOS Setup Utility (c) 2003 ALi Corporation www.ali.com.tw
Create RAID 1 Mirroring for Reliability
Create JBOD for integrated Capacity
Stripe Size
Delete RAID Setting & Partition
Delete All RAID Setting & Partition
Rebuild RAID Array
Select Boot Drive
SPACE
ENTER
ESC
: Select
: Moving Cursor
: Select & Finish
:Exit
Create RAID 0 Striping for Performance
S B Channel 1 Master
s Channel 2 Master
:XXXX
:XXXX
Drive Model
XXXX
XXXX
Mode Capacity RAID Array/Type
XXXX
XXXX
Capacity RAID Type Stripe Size RAID Name
RAID Array A
RAID Array B
RAID Array C
:
:
:
16K
Input RAID name (8 characters) : ALi_RAID
STEP 7: After the RAID array has been successfully created, it will
display the RAID array information at RAID Array List.
RAID BIOS Setup Utility (c) 2003 ALi Corporation www.ali.com.tw
Create RAID 1 Mirroring for Reliability
Create JBOD for integrated Capacity
Stripe Size
Delete RAID Setting & Partition
Delete All RAID Setting & Partition
Rebuild RAID Array
Select Boot Drive
SPACE
ENTER
ESC
: Select
: Moving Cursor
: Select & Finish
:Exit
Create RAID 0 Striping for Performance
B Channel 1 Master
Channel 2 Master
: XXXX
: XXXX
Drive Model
XXXX
XXXX
Mode Capacity RAID Array/Type
XXXX
XXXX
Capacity RAID Type Stripe Size RAID Name
RAID Array A
RAID Array B
RAID Array C
: XXXX
:
:
16K
016K
ALi_RAID
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2.4 RAID 1 Configuration
This section will guide you to configure RAID 1. To set RAID 1 configuration, please
follow the instruction below to use “ALi RAID BIOS Setup Utility” for the setting of
RAID 1 configuration.
STEP 1: Boot-up your computer.
STEP 2: Press <Ctrl> and <A> simultaneously to enter the main
menu of “ALi RAID BIOS Setup Utility”.
RAID BIOS Setup Utility (c) 2003 ALi Corporation www.ali.com.tw
Create RAID 1 Mirroring for Reliability
Create JBOD for integrated Capacity
Stripe Size
Delete RAID Setting & Partition
Delete All RAID Setting & Partition
Rebuild RAID Array
Select Boot Drive
SPACE
ENTER
ESC
: Select
: Moving Cursor
: Select & Finish
:Exit
Create RAID 0 Striping for Performance
B Channel 1 Master
Channel 2 Master
:XXXX
:XXXX
Drive Model
XXXX
XXXX
Mode Capacity RAID Array/Type
XXXX
XXXX
Capacity RAID Type Stripe Size RAID Name
RAID Array A
RAID Array B
RAID Array C
:
:
:
16K
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