User manual AOPEN MK86L

[. . . ] MK86-N / MK86-L / MK86-1394 Online Manual MK86-N / MK86-L / MK86-1394 DOC. NO. : MK86L-OL-E0310A 1 MK86-N / MK86-L / MK86-1394 What's in this manual Online Manual MK86-N / MK86-L / MK86-1394. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 What's in this manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 You Must Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] RAID 1 increases cost as it takes twice as much hard drives to build our arrays. Block 2 Block 3 Block 1 Online Manual Block 1 Block 2 Block 3 Block 4 Block 5 Block 6 Block 7 Mirroring Block 4 Block 5 Block 6 Block 7 Block 8 Block 1 Block 2 Block 3 Block 8 Logical Drive Block 4 Block 5 Block 6 Block 7 Block 8 Physical Disks 63 MK86-N / MK86-L / MK86-1394 Striping with Mirroring (RAID 0+1) Online Manual As the name would suggest, RAID 0+1 is striping and mirroring combined. This RAID combines the best of both RAID 0 and RAID 1. It takes a Disk stripe using two disks, and mirrors it to another set of disks for fault tolerance. Data is stripped across several disks, each disk has partner with exactly the same data on it. You get the benefits of fast data access as in RAID 0, with the fault tolerance of RAID 1. This configuration provides optimal speed and reliability. You need double the number of disks as a RAID 0, half for each side of the mirror. At least 4 hard disks are needed while performing RAID 0+1. There are other RAID configurations in addition to those described here, but these are the types most commonly used in the industry. Block 1 Block 2 Block 3 Block 1 Block 3 Block 5 Block 1 Block 3 Block 5 Block 7 Mirroring Striping Block 4 Block 5 Block 6 Block 7 Block 8 Logical Drive Block 7 Block 2 Block 4 Block 6 Block 8 Block 2 Block 4 Block 6 Block 8 Mirroring Physical Disks 64 Physical Disks MK86-N / MK86-L / MK86-1394 JBOD ( Ju st a Bu nc h o f Disks ) Online Manual JBOD combines multiple drives into one larger logical one, which is recognized by the operating system as a single drive. Although it doesn't provide data integrity advantages as RAID levels 0 and 1 have, it can be very helpful for users dealing with extremely large file sizes such as animation or digital editing files. Block 1 Block 2 Block 3 Block 4 Block 5 Block 6 Block 7 Block 8 Block 1 Block 2 Block 3 Block 4 Block 5 Block 6 Block 7 Block 8 Block 1 Block 2 Block 3 Block 4 Block 5 Block 6 Block 7 Block 8 Block 1 Block 2 Block 3 Block 4 Block 5 Block 6 Block 7 Block 8 Striping Physical Disks Logical Drive 65 MK86-N / MK86-L / MK86-1394 HDD Ca pac it y of RAI D Le ve ls Striping / Span (RAID 0) Online Manual Striping with Mirroring (RAID 0 +1) Striping Physical Disks Physical Disks 40 GB 40 GB Logical Drive 80 GB Physical Disks 40GB Physical Disks 40 GB Mirroring Mi r ro r i ng ( R A ID 1) Logical Drive 80 GB Physical Disks Physical Disks 40 GB 40 GB Logical Drive 40 GB Physical Disks 40GB Physical Disks 40 GB Striping 66 MK86-N / MK86-L / MK86-1394 Online Manual P H O E N I X- AW A RD B I O S System parameters can be modified by going into BIOS Setup menu, this menu allows you to configure the system parameters and save the configuration into the 128 bytes CMOS area, (normally in the RTC chip or in the main chipset). The Phoenix-Award BIOSTM that installed in the Flash ROM of the motherboard is a custom version of an industry standard BIOS. The BIOS provides critical low-level support for standard devices such as hard disk drives, serial and parallel ports. AOpen's R&D engineering team had optimized most BIOS setting of this motherboard. But, the default setting of BIOS still can't fine-tune the chipset controlling entire system. Hence, the rest of this chapter is intended to guide you through the process of configuring your system using setup. Currently there are two kinds of beep sound when system fails to boot at POST. The first type of beep sound consists of a single long beep and two short beeps, indicating a video error has failed BIOS from initializing video screen for displaying any additional information. The 2 type of beep sound is a single long beep that beeping repeatedly, signaling a DRAM error has occurred. You may look over the indicated error according to different beep significances. To enter to BIOS setup menu, press <Del> when POST (Power-On Self Test) screen is shown on your monitor. nd Note: Because the BIOS code is the most often changed part of the motherboard design, the BIOS information contained in this manual may be different with actual BIOS that come with your motherboard. 67 MK86-N / MK86-L / MK86-1394 How To Use Phoenix-AwardTM BIOS Setup Program Online Manual Generally, you can use the arrow keys to highlight items that you want to choose, then press <Enter> key to select, and use the <Page Up> and <Page Down> key to change setting value. You also can press <F1> key for help and press <Esc> key to quit Phoenix-AwardTM BIOS setup program. [. . . ] For example: Part No. Serial No. Part No. Serial No. P/N: 91. 88110. 201 is part number, S/N: 91949378KN73 is serial number. 119 MK86-N / MK86-L / MK86-1394 Mo de l na m e a n d B IO S v ers i o n Online Manual Model name and BIOS version can be found on upper left corner of first boot screen (POST screen). 01. 2003 AOpen Inc. Award Plug and Play BIOS Extension v1. 0A Copyright © 2003, Award Software, Inc. MK86-L is model name of motherboard, R1. 02 is BIOS version. 120 MK86-N / MK86-L / MK86-1394 Online Manual Pr o d uc t R e g is t r at i o n Thank you for choosing AOpen product. AOpen encourages you to spend few minutes in completing the following product registration. To register your product will ensure the high quality of services from AOpen. [. . . ]