User manual GIGABYTE GA-K8NXP-SLI

[. . . ] If you do not want to create RAID, you may prepare only one hard drive. (d) Driver CD for your motherboard. (1) Installing SATA hard drive(s) in your computer Attach one end of the SATA signal cable to the rear of the SATA hard drive and the other end to available SATA port(s) on the motherboard. (If there are more than one SATA controller on your motherboard, you may check the name of the SATA connector to identify the SATA controller for the connector. For example, S_ATA1_SB/S_ATA2_SB is controlled by the SATA controller on South-Bridge. ) Then connect the power connector from your power supply to the hard drive. "*" Skip this step if you do not want to create RAID array on the SATA controller. [. . . ] 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 7). NVIDIA RAID Utility Nov 5 2004 - Define a New Array RAID Mode: Striping Striping Block: Optimal Free Disks Loc Disk Model Name Array Disks Loc Disk Model Name 2. 0. M 2. 1. M ST3120026AS ST3120026AS [g] Add [f ] Del [ESC] Quit [F6] Back [F7] Finish [TAB] Navigate [hi] Select [ENTER] Popup Figure 7 Step 6: Press F7 after selecting the target hard disks. A message which says "Clear disk data?" will appear. If you are sure to clear the data in the selected hard drives, press Y. (If the hard drives contain previously created RAID array, you need to press Y to clear the data from the hard drives. ) NVIDIA RAID Utility Nov 5 10 2004 - Define a New Array RAID Mode: Striping Striping Block: Optimal Free Disks Loc Disk Model Name Clear disk data ?Disks Array Loc Disk Model Name 1. 0. M [Y] YES [N] 1. 1. M NO [g] Add ST3120026AS ST3120026AS [f ] Del [ESC] Quit [F6] Back [F7] Finish [TAB] Navigate [hi ] Select [ENTER] Popup Figure 8 - 7 - SATA Hard Drive Configurations (nForce series) Ác Åé ¤¤ ¤å After that, the Array List screen displaying the RAID array you created will appear (Figure 9). 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. NVIDIA RAID Utility Nov 5 2004 - Array List Boot No Id 2 Status Healthy Vendor NVIDIA Array Model Name STRIPE 111. 79G [Ctrl-X] Exit [h i ] Select [B] Set Boot [N] New Array [ENTER] Detail Figure 9 To read more information about the RAID array, press ENTER to enter the Array Detail screen (Figure 10), where you should see detailed information about RAID mode, disk block size, disk model name, and disk capacity, etc. Array 2 : NVIDIA MIRROR 111. 79G - Array Detail RAID Mode: Striping Striping Width : 1 Striping Block: 64K Adapt 1 1 Channel 0 1 M/S Master Master Index 0 1 Disk Model Name ST3120026AS ST3120026AS Capacity 111. 79GB 111. 79GB [R] Rebuild [D] Delete [C] Clear Disk [ENTER] Return Figure 10 To delete the array, press D in the Array Detail screen. When the "Delete this array?" message appears, press Y to confirm or N to cancel. Press ENTER to return to the Array List screen. To exit the Nvidia RAID utility, press ESC in the main menu or Ctrl+X in the Array List screen. Now, you can proceed to install the SATA controller driver and operating system. SATA Hard Drive Configurations (nForce series) - 8 - (4) Making a SATA controller driver disk To install Windows 2000/XP onto a SATA hard drive/RAID array on the nVIDIA nForce4 Ultra/SLI 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. Step 1: Find an available system and insert the motherboard driver CD into the CD-ROM drive. The installation utility will appear automatically. Step 2: Go to My Computer and right-click the CD-ROM drive icon and select Open (Figure 11). Figure 11 Step 3: Go to the BootDrv folder and look for an executable program named MENU. exe (Figure 12). Figure 12 - 9 - SATA Hard Drive Configurations (nForce series) Ác Åé ¤¤ ¤å Step 4: Double-click MENU. exe. An MS-DOS prompt screen similar to Figure 13 below will appear (Note 1). Figure 13 Step 5: Insert an empty floppy disk and select the nVIDIA Series ATA driver by pressing the corresponding letter from the menu(Note 2) (for example, from the menu in Figure 13, press G to select nVIDIA Series ATA (XP) if you wish to install Windows XP or press I to select nVIDIA Series ATA (2K) if you wish to install Windows 2000). Then it will take about one minute to copy the SATA driver from the motherboard driver CD to the floppy disk. Step 6: Press 0 to exit when the procedure is complete. (Note 1): The name of the drivers in the menu might differ, depending on the version of your driver CD-ROM disk. The screen will return to previous screen as shown in Figure 16. [. . . ] 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. You are prompted to select the desired Free Disk(s) to add to the bootable RAID array. [. . . ]