AMD RAID Installation Guide 1. AMD BIOS RAID Installation Guide …………………………………………………………………….. 2 1.1 Introduction to RAID ……………………………………………………………………………….. 2 1.2 RAID Configurations Precautions ………………………………………………………………… 3 1.3 Installing Windows OS With RAID Funtions .................................................………………… 3 1.4 2. 1.3.1 Installing Windows XP / XP 64-bit With RAID Funtions …………………………………. 3 1.3.2 Installing Windows 7 / 7 64-bit / Vista / Vista 64-bit With RAID Funtions ………..……..
1. AMD BIOS RAID Installation Guide AMD BIOS RAID Installation Guide is an instruction for you to configure RAID functions by using the onboard FastBuild BIOS utility under BIOS environment. After you make a SATA / SATAII driver diskette, press to enter BIOS setup to set the option to RAID mode by following the detailed instruction of the “User Manual” in our support CD or “Quick Installation Guide”, then you can start to use the onboard FastBuild BIOS utility to configure RAID. 1.
you create, manage, and delete a JBOD the same as a logical drive. You can designate from two to four physical drives with online capacity expansion. If you attach a single physical drive that was previously partitioned, RAIDXpert will recognize it as a JBOD. However, RAIDXpert does not allow you to create a single-drive JBOD. RAID Ready RAID Ready arranges individual physical drives the same as if they were attached to the PC’s motherboard controller.
1.3.1 Installing Windows XP / XP 64-bit With RAID Functions If you want to install Windows XP or Windows XP 64-bit on a RAID disk composed of 2 or more 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 the “SATA Operation Mode” option to [RAID]. STEP 2: Make a SATA / SATAII driver diskette. A. Insert the ASRock Support CD into your optical drive to boot your system. B.
1.3.2 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 a RAID disk composed of 2 or more SATA / SATAII HDDs with RAID functions, please follow below steps. STEP 1: A. Set up BIOS. Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY → Advanced screen →Storage Configuration. B. Set the “SATA Operation Mode” option to [RAID]. STEP 2: Use “RAID Installation Guide” to set RAID configuration.
Press keys, then the FastBuild Utility Main Menu appears. Press 2 on the Main Menu screen to display the Define LD Menu. Press the arrow keys to highlight a logical drive number you want to define and press to select it. The Define LD Menu for the logical drive number you selected will next appear.
Choose the RAID level you want. In the Define LD Menu section, press the spacebar to cycle through logical drive types, including RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID Ready, JBOD and RAID 10. WARNING!! While you are allowed to use any available RAID level for your bootable logical drive, it is recommended to use RAID 1 for most applications. Press the arrow key to move to Disk Assignments. Press the spacebar to toggle between N and Y for each available drive. Y means this disk drive will be assigned to the logical drive.
following the detailed instruction of the “User Manual” in our support CD or “Quick Installation Guide”. Two Logical Drives After selecting the logical drive in Disk Assignments as the above-mentioned procedures, press to allocate a portion of the disk drives to the first logical drive. Then please follow the steps below. 1. Enter the desired capacity (MB) for the first logical drive and press . The Define LD Menu displays again. 2.
3. Choose the RAID level and options for the second logical drive. Note that the disk drives in Channels 1 and 2 reflect smaller capacities because a portion of their capacity belongs to the first logical drive. In this example the disk drives in Channels 3 and 4 are not assigned to a logical drive. 4. Press to save your logical drive configuration. 5. Press to exit to the Main Menu. Press again to exit the Utility. 6. Press to restart the computer.
2. AMD Windows RAID Installation Guide AMD Windows RAID Installation Guide is an instruction for you to configure RAID functions by using RAIDXpert RAID management software under Windows environment. The RAIDXpert software offers local and remote management and monitoring of all AMD SB750 SATA logical drives that exist anywhere on a network.
7. When the Welcome screen appears, click the Next button. 8. When the License Agreement screen appears, click the “I accept the terms of the license agreement” option to proceed with installation. Then click the Next button to continue. Note: If you leave the “I do not accept the terms of the license” option selected, the installation will quit when you click Next. 9. When the Choose Install Folder screen appears, make your selection of a folder for the RAIDXpert applications you are installing.
If you want a different folder, type its location or click the Choose... button and select a new location. Click the Next button when you are finished. 10. When the Check HTTP SSL screen appears, you can choose External Security. An explanation follows. External SSL Security – Applies security to all connections involving the Internet or outside your company firewall. Security options are invisible to authorized users.
12. When the Install Complete screen appears, click the Finish button. 2.4 Logging into RAIDXpert Choose RAIDXpert in the Windows Programs menu. Or, log on manually with your browser: 1. Launch the Browser. 2. In the Browser address field, type the entry explained below. If you did not choose the External Security option during RAIDXpert installation, use the Regular connection. If you chose the External Security option during RAIDXpert installation, use the Secure connection. 2.
• Enter the Host PC’s IP address . . . . . . . . . . . .127.0.0.1 or localhost • Enter the Port number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :8443 • Add to launch RAIDXpert. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . /amd Together, your entry looks like this: https://127.0.0.1:8443/amd or https://localhost:8443/amd Note that the IP address shown above applies to a log-in at the Host PC. When you log in over a network, enter the Host PC’s actual IP address or hostname.
4. In the Select Drive Type screen, click the following option: • Free Drives – Select all Free (unassigned) physical drives The Select Drives screen appears. 5. Click the Next button. 6. If you want to split the capacity of your physical drives between two logical drives, enter the capacity for the first logical drive in the Logical Drive Size field. Or, to use the maximum capacity of the physical drives, check the Use Maximum Capacity box.
8. Click the Next button. The Assign a Name screen appears. 9. Enter a name for the logical drive in the field provided. 10. Click the Next button. The Final Settings screen appears. 11. RAID 0 and 10. Choose a Stripe Block Size from the dropdown menu. The choices are 64 and 128 KB. The Write Cache policy is None. You cannot change this setting. 12. RAID 0 and 1. Select a Gigabyte Boundary policy from the dropdown menu.
Before you can use your new logical drive, you must partition and format the logical drive using your PC’s operating system. 2.8 Connecting to RAIDXpert from the Internet The above instructions cover connections between the Host PC and other PCs using RAIDXpert over your company network. It is also possible to connect to a Host PC from the Internet. Your MIS Administrator can tell you how to access your network from outside the firewall.
