MSI P6ngml Manual

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B-2Introduction
System Requirement
Operating System Support
NVRAID supports the following operating systems:
Windows XP, Windows Vista
RAID Arrays
NVRAID supports the following types of RAID arrays described in this section:
RAID 0: RAID 0 defines a disk striping scheme that improves the disk read and write
times for many applications.
RAID 1: RAID 1 defines techniques for mirroring data.
RAID 0+1: RAID 0+1 combines the techniques used in RAID 0 and RAID 1 arrays.
RAID 5: RAID 5 defines...

B-3 nVidia RAIDRAID Configuration
Basic Configuration Instructions
The following are the basic steps for configuring NVRAID:
Non-Bootable RAID Array
1. Choose the hard disks that are to be RAID enabled in the system BIOS. (To enable
the SATA 0/ 1/ 2  Primary/ Secondary Channel in nVidia RAID Setup of Inte-
grated Peripherals in BIOS.)
2. Specify the RAID level, either Mirroring (RAID 1), Striping (RAID 0), Striping and
    Mirroring (RAID 0+1), RAID 5 or JBOD and create the desired RAID array.
3. Enter...

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B-4Understanding the “Define a 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 can have one or more channels. In a
typical system there is usually one controller and multiple channels, and each chan-
nel has 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...

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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 to [Mirroring]. To change to a different RAID mode, press the
down arrow key until the mode that you want appears in the RAID Mode box—either
[Mirroring], [Striping], [RAID5], [Spanning], or [Stripe Mirroring].
• Selecting the Striping Block Size
Striping Block size is given in kilobytes, and affects...

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B-6Completing the RAID BIOS Setup
1.After assigning your RAID array disks, press F7. The Clear disk data prompt
appears.
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.
3. Use the arrow keys to select the array that you want to set up, then press Enter.
The Array Detail window appears.
4....

B-7 nVidia RAIDInstalling Driver
Install Driver in Windows Vista / XP / 2000
† New Windows Vista / XP / 2000 Installation
The following details the installation of the drivers while installing Windows XP /
2000.
1.When you start installing Windows XP and older operating systems, you may
encounter a message stating, “Setup could not determine the type of one or
more mass storage devices installed in your system”. If this is the case, then
you are already in the right place and are ready to supply the...

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B-810.Press Enter to continue with Windows XP Installation. Be sure to leave the
floppy disk inserted in the floppy drive until the blue screen portion of Windows
XP installation is completed, then take out the floppy.
11.Follow the instructions on how to install Windows XP. After Windows XP is
completely installed, it is recommended that you install the the RAID manage-
ment tool.Important
Each time you add a new hard drive to a RAID array, the RAID driver will have
to be installed...

B-9 nVidia RAID
Installing the NVIDIA MediaShield Software Under Windows
(for Non-bootable RAID Array)
The existing Windows IDE Parallel ATA driver (as well as the Serial ATA driver if SATA
is enabled) must be upgraded to use the NVIDIA IDE Parallel ATA driver (as well as the
NV Serial ATA driver if SATA is enabled).
This section describes how to run the setup application and install the RAID software
which will upgrade the Windows IDE driver and install the RAID software.
1.Start the NVIDIA nForce...

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B-10Initializing and Using the Disk Array
The RAID array is now ready to be initialized under Windows.
1.Launch Computer Management by clicking “Start” --> “Settings” --> “Control Panel”
then open the “Administrative Tools” folder and double click on “Computer
Management”.
2.Click “Disk Management” (under the “Storage” section). The Initialize and Convert
Disk Wizards appears.
3.Click Next. The Select Disks to Initialize window appears. The disks listed depend
on how many arrays you...

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5.Check the disk in the list if you want to make the array a dynamic disk, then click
Next. The Completing the Initialize and Convert Disk Wizard window appears.
6.Click Finish. The “Computer Management” window appears.
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.
7.Format the unallocated disk space. Right click “Unallocated space”, select...