Manuale d’uso / di manutenzione del prodotto N68-GS del fabbricante Asrock
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1 NVIDIA RAID Installation Guide 1. NVIDIA BIOS RAID Installation Guide …………………….. 2 1.1 Introduction to RAID ……………… …………………….
2 1. NVIDIA BIOS RAID Installation Guide NVIDIA BIOS RAID Installation Guide is an instruction for you to con figure RAID functions by using NVIDIA RAID Utility under BIOS environment.
3 RAID 0+1 (Stripe Mirroring) RAID 0 drives can be mirror ed using RAID 1 techniques, resulting in a RAID 0+1 solution for improved performance plus re siliency. The controller combines the performance of data striping (RAID 0) and the fault tolerance of disk mirroring (RAID 1).
4 3. Please verify the status of your ha rd disks before you set up your new RAID array. WARN ING!! Please backup y our data first before you create RAID functions. In the process you create RAID, the sy stem will ask if y ou w ant to “Clear Disk Data” or not.
1.3 Installing Windows ® 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit / Vista TM / Vista TM 64-bit With RAID Functions If you wa nt to install Windows ® 2000, Windows ® XP , Windows ® XP 64-bit, Windows ® Vista TM or Windows ® Vista TM 64-bit on your SA T A / SA T AII HDDs with RAID functions, plea se follow below procedures a ccording to the OS you install.
NOTE. If you install Windows ® 2000 / Windows ® XP / Windows ® XP 64-bit on IDE HDDs and want to manage (create, convert, delete, or rebuild) RAID functions on SA T A / SA T AII HDDs, you still need to set up “SA T A Operation Mode” to [RAID] in BIOS first.
NOTE. If you install Windows ® Vista TM / Windows ® Vista TM 64-bit on IDE HDDs and want to ma nage (create, convert, delete, or rebuild) RAID functions on SA T A / SA TAII HDDs, you still need to set up “SA T A Operation Mode” to [RAID] in BIOS first.
8 1.4 Create Disk Array Power on your system. After adjusting the system BIOS to RAID mode, the below window appears. After rebooting your computer, wait until you see the RAID soft ware prompting you to press <F10>. The RAID prompt appears as a part of the s ystem POST and boot process prior to loading the OS.
9 Striping block size is given in kilobytes, and affect how data is arranged on the disk. It is recommended to leave this value at the default Optimal, which is 64KB, but the values can be between 8KB and 128KB (8, 16, 32, 64, and 128KB). Then, you have to assign the disks.
10 After assigning your RAID array disks, press <F 7> to save your changes of RAID array disks. Depending on the platform used, the system can have one or more channels. In a typical system there is usually one adapter and multiple channels, and each channel has a slave and a master.
11 2. NVIDIA Windows RAID Installation Guide NVIDIA Windows RAID Installation Guide is an instruction for you to configure RAID functions by using NVIDIAMAN under Wi ndows environment. Please read this guide carefully and follow the instructions below to configure and manage RAID functions.
12 B. Creating RAID Arrays This section includes examples of using NVRAIDMAN for cr eating RAID arrays. If your motherboard is equipped wi th four SATA / SATAII ports, you may choose to use RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, JBOD, or RAID 5 function with your m otherboard according to the SATA / SATAII HDDs amount you install.
13 D. Click Next and the following screen shot will appear. E. Click the RAID Mode list arrow and select Striping, and leave the “Stripe Size” with its default value as shown in the following screen shot.
14 F. Click Next, and the following screen shot will appear. G. Select the two disks that you want to include in the stripe set..
15 To create a striped array with more disks, select additional disks from the list. H. Click Next and the following screen shot will appear. I. Click Finish and the follow ing screen shot will appear.
16 B. Double click on Administrative Tools . C. Double click on Computer Management . D. Click on Disk Management . The following screen is displayed. E. The 153.38 GB is for the two disk striped array that was created earlier. To create a partition on it, right click on the Unalloca ted partition and select New Partition.
17 D. Deleting a RAID Array NVRAIDMAN can be used to delete an Array. To d elete an Array, please do the following. A. Launch the NVRAIDMAN application and right click on the RAID array that you want to delete (assuming that you have a RAID arra y already created) as sho wn in the following screen shot.
18 B. Click Next and the following screen shot will appear. C. Click Finish and the array will be deleted and the following screen shot will appear showing all the free disks. A similar process can be applied to delet e any array created by NVIDIA RAID.
19 D. C lick Next. The Disk Selection page appears. E. 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.
20 F. Click Finish. F. More About Rebuilding Array s Rebuilding Occurs in the Background The rebuilding process takes some time to complete, and occurs in the background so as not to affect the performance of the s ystem.
21 NVRAIDMAN window indicates that the array is synchronizing. C. The synchronization process will start and it will be completed in a short period of time. 2.2 NVIDIA Windo ws RAID Installation Guide for Windows Vista / Vista 64-bit Users A. Enter Storage RAID driver is built in NVIDIA ALL in one driver provided in our support CD.
22 Click “Create array”. Then you can start to build up RAID. B. Creating RAID Arrays Click Next and the following screen shot will appear..
23 Select a configuration that best suits your storage needs. It is recommended to sel ect “Custom”. Click Next. Then, select the type of RAID array to create. You need to choose the RAID Mode first and click Next. Here we take Striping (RAID 0) for example to s how you how to use Storage to create Striping (RAID 0).
24 After you decide the RAID Mode, you a re allowed to select the Stripe Size. The default value of this item is 64K. Then click Next. Select the disks to add to the new RAID array, and click Next. Select the disk with data to preserve, and click Next.
25 Click Next to confirm that you agree to use the default settings for RAID configurations. Click Finish to complete the steps of creating RAID array. C. Initializing NVRAID Array Disks Now that the two-disk array has been created, it needs to be partitioned and fo rmatted.
26 Right-click on the unallocated partition and select New Simple Volume. Follow the Wizard for setting up and formatting the pa rtition. Once that is done, you can star t using the newly created stripped array.
Un punto importante, dopo l’acquisto del dispositivo (o anche prima di acquisto) è quello di leggere il manuale. Dobbiamo farlo per diversi motivi semplici:
Se non hai ancora comprato il Asrock N68-GS è un buon momento per familiarizzare con i dati di base del prodotto. Prime consultare le pagine iniziali del manuale d’uso, che si trova al di sopra. Dovresti trovare lì i dati tecnici più importanti del Asrock N68-GS - in questo modo è possibile verificare se l’apparecchio soddisfa le tue esigenze. Esplorando le pagine segenti del manuali d’uso Asrock N68-GS imparerai tutte le caratteristiche del prodotto e le informazioni sul suo funzionamento. Le informazioni sul Asrock N68-GS ti aiuteranno sicuramente a prendere una decisione relativa all’acquisto.
In una situazione in cui hai già il Asrock N68-GS, ma non hai ancora letto il manuale d’uso, dovresti farlo per le ragioni sopra descritte. Saprai quindi se hai correttamente usato le funzioni disponibili, e se hai commesso errori che possono ridurre la durata di vita del Asrock N68-GS.
Tuttavia, uno dei ruoli più importanti per l’utente svolti dal manuale d’uso è quello di aiutare a risolvere i problemi con il Asrock N68-GS. Quasi sempre, ci troverai Troubleshooting, cioè i guasti più frequenti e malfunzionamenti del dispositivo Asrock N68-GS insieme con le istruzioni su come risolverli. Anche se non si riesci a risolvere il problema, il manuale d’uso ti mostrerà il percorso di ulteriori procedimenti – il contatto con il centro servizio clienti o il servizio più vicino.
