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Table of Contents

Configuring SATA Hard Drive(s) (Controller: Nvidia nForce 430) ...................................................... 2

(1) Installing SATA hard drive(s) in your computer ...................................................................... 2

(2) Configuring SATA controller mode and boot sequence in BIOS Setup .................................. 2

(3) Configuring RAID set in RAID BIOS ........................................................................................ 6

(4) Making a SATA controller driver disk ..................................................................................... 9

(5) Installing SATA controller driver during OS installation ......................................................... 11

(6) Configuring a bootable RAID array with Microsoft Windows 2000 ......................................14

Summary of content (16 pages)

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Table of Contents Configuring SATA Hard Drive(s) (Controller: Nvidia nForce 430) ......................................................2 (1) Installing SATA hard drive(s) in your computer ...................................................................... 2 (2) Configuring SATA controller mode and boot sequence in BIOS Setup .................................. 2 (3) Configuring RAID set in RAID BIOS ........................................................................................
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Ác Åé ¤¤ ¤å Configuring SATA Hard Drive(s) (Controller: Nvidia nForce 430) To configure SATA hard drive(s), follow the steps below: (1) Install SATA hard drive(s) in your system. (2) Configure SATA controller mode and boot sequence in BIOS Setup. (3)* Configure RAID set in RAID BIOS. (4) Make a floppy disk containing the SATA controller driver. (5) Install the SATA controller driver during OS installation.
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Ác Åé ¤¤ ¤å Step 2: If you do not create RAID, select Hard Disk Boot Priority under the Advanced BIOS Features menu. In the Hard Disk Boot Priority submenu, select the model of the SATA hard drive onto which you wish to install Microsoft Windows 2000/XP. You should see a screen similar to Figure 3 below. CMOS Setup Utility-Copyright (C) 1984-2005 Award Software Hard Disk Boot Priority 1. CH2 M. : 2. CH3 M. : 3.
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Step 3: To boot from Windows installation CD-ROM, set First Boot Device under the Advanced BIOS Features menu to CDROM (Figure 5).
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Ác Åé ¤¤ ¤å (3) Configuring RAID set in RAID BIOS Enter the RAID BIOS setup utility to configure a RAID array. Skip this step and proceed to Section 4 if you do not want to create RAID. Step 1: After the POST memory test begins and before the operating system boot begins, look for a message which says "Press F10 to enter RAID setup utility" (Figure 6). Hit the F10 key to enter the RAID BIOS setup utility. MediaShield IDE ROM BIOS 6.21 Copyright (C) 2005 NVIDIA Corp. Detecting array ...
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Step 5: Next, select the hard drives which you wish to be included in the disk array. The Free Disks section displays the information about the currently installed SATA hard drives. Press the TAB key to move to the Free Disks section. Select the target hard drives using the UP or DOWN ARROW key and use the RIGHT ARROW key to add the hard drives to the Array Disks section (Figure 8).
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Ác Åé After that, the Array List screen displaying the RAID array you created will appear (Figure 10). If you want to set the disk array as boot device, use the UP or DOWN ARROW key to select the array and press B. The Boot section will show Yes. ¤¤ ¤å MediaShield RAID Utility July 27 2005 - Array List Boot Id Status Vendor Array Model Name No 2 Healthy NVIDIA STRIPE 223.
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(4) Making a SATA controller driver disk To install Windows 2000/XP onto a SATA hard drive/RAID array on the nVIDIA nForce430 controller successfully, you need to install required driver for the SATA controller during OS installation. Without the driver, the hard drive/RAID array may not be recognized during the Windows setup process. First of all, you need to copy the driver for the SATA controller from the motherboard driver CD to a floppy disk. The instructions below explain how to copy the driver.
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Ác Åé Step 4: Double-click MENU.exe. An MS-DOS prompt screen similar to Figure 14 below will appear (Note). ¤¤ ¤å Figure 14 Step 5: Insert an empty floppy disk and select the nVIDIA Serial ATA driver by pressing the corresponding letter from the menu (for example, from the menu in Figure 14, press I to select nVIDIA C51 Series Raid (XP) if you wish to install Windows XP or press J to select nVIDIA C51 Series Raid (2K) if you wish to install Windows 2000).
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(5) Installing SATA controller driver during OS installation Now that you have prepared the SATA driver disk and configured BIOS settings, you are ready to install Windows 2000/XP onto your SATA hard drive with the driver. The following is an example of Windows XP installation. Step 1: Restart your system to boot from the Windows 2000/XP Setup disk and press F6 as soon as you see the "Press F6 if you need to install a 3rd party SCSI or RAID driver" message (Figure 15).
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Ác Åé ¤¤ ¤å Step 3: If Setup correctly recognizes the driver in the floppy disk, a controller menu similar to Figure 17 below will appear. Use the ARROW keys to select NVIDIA RAID CLASS DRIVER* (Figure 17) and press ENTER. Later, when a screen similar to Figure 18 appears, you must press S to select additional driver. The screen will return to previous screen as shown in Figure 17. Select NVIDIA nForce Storage Controller and press ENTER.
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Step 4: When the next screen (Figure 19) appears, press ENTER to continue the SATA driver installation from the floppy disk. Windows Setup Setup will load support for the following mass storage device(s): NVIDIA RAID CLASS DRIVER (required) NVIDIA nForce Storage Controller (required) * To specify additional SCSI adapters, CD-ROM drives, or special disk controllers for use with Windows, including those for which you have a device support disk from a mass storage device manufacturer, press S.
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Ác Åé ¤¤ ¤å (6) Configuring a bootable RAID array with Microsoft Windows 2000 Problem: Users cannot install Windows 2000 with Service Pack 2 (or previous versions) to a bootable RAID volume. There are two solutions to resolve this issue. Solutions 1: Use the NVRAID tool (nForce Driver Version 5.xx) to convert the boot volume to a RAID array. Here are the detailed step-by-step instructions: Step 1: Install Windows 2000 onto a selected hard drive.
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Step 3: After system restarts, press F10 to enter the NVIDIA RAID setup utility. Select Striping in the RAID Mode filed (Figure 23). Move to the Free Disks section with the TAB key. Select the desired disk and use the RIGHT ARROW key to add it to Array Disks menu. MediaShield RAID Utility July 27 2005 - Define a New Array RAID Mode: Striping Free Disks Loc Disk Model Striping Block: Optimal Array Disks Loc Disk Model Capacity 2.0.M 2.1.M [g] Add ST3120026AS ST3120026AS Capacity 111.78G 111.
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Ác Åé ¤¤ ¤å Step 5: Install the NVIDIA nForce Driver Package while in Windows 2000 and reboot the system. Go to START>Programs>Nvidia Corporation and select NVRAID manager. You should see the single disk RAID array (in striping mode) that was created from the boot disk. Select the single boot disk RAID Array by clicking on it. Select Convert Array under the System Tasks and select Next following the instructions. Select the desired type of RAID array you want to convert and then select Next.