Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation and RAID Configuration
1.Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation (2)
1.1Serial ATA (SATA) Hard Disks Installation (2)
1.2Making An SATA Driver Diskette (3)
2.Guide to RAID Configurations (4)
2.1Introduction of RAID (4)
2.2RAID Configuration Precautions (6)
2.3BIOS Configuration Utility (7)
2.3.1Enter BIOS Configuration Utility (7)
2.3.2Create Disk Array (8)
2.3.3Delete Disk Array (13)
2.3.4Select Boot Array (14)
3.Installation of Windows 2000 / Windows XP (15)
1.Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation
1.1Serial ATA (SATA) Hard Disks Installation
This motherboard adopts VIA VT8237 southbridge chipset that
supports Serial ATA (SATA) hard disks. You may install SATA hard
disks on this motherboard for internal storage devices. This
section will guide you to install the SATA hard disks.
STEP 1:Install the SATA hard disks into the drive bays of your
chassis.
STEP 2:Connect the SATA power cable to the SATA hard disk.
STEP 3:Connect one end of the SATA data cable to the
motherboard’s SATA connector.
STEP 4:Connect the other end of the SATA data cable to the
SATA hard disk.
1.2Making An SATA Driver Diskette
If you want to install Windows 2000 or Windows XP on your
SATA HDDs, you will need to make an SATA driver diskette before you start the OS installation.
STEP 1:Insert the ASRock Support CD into your optical drive to boot your system. (Do NOT insert any floppy diskette
into the floppy drive at this moment!)
STEP 2:During POST at the beginning of system boot-up, press <F11> key, and then a window for boot devices
delete inselection appears. Please select CD-ROM as the boot
device.
STEP 3:When you see the message on the screen, “Do you
want to generate Serial ATA driver diskette [YN]?”,
press <Y>.
STEP 4:Then you will see these messages,
Please insert a diskette into the floppy drive.
WARNING! Formatting the floppy diskette will
lose ALL data in it!
Start to format and copy files [YN]?
Please insert a floppy diskette into the floppy drive, and
press <Y>.
STEP 5:The system will start to format the floppy diskette and
copy SATA drivers into the floppy diskette.
Once you have the SATA driver diskette ready, you may start to
install Windows 2000 / Windows XP on your system directly
without setting the RAID configuration on your system, or you
may start to use “VT8237 SATA RAID BIOS” to set RAID 0 / RAID 1 / JBOD configuration before you install the OS. You may also set
the RAID configuration by using “VIA RAID Tool” in Windows
environment. Please refer to the document in the Support CD,
“Guide to VIA RAID Tool”, which is located in the folder at the
following path:
.. \ VIA RAID Tool
RAID 1 (Data Mirroring)
RAID 1 is called data mirroring that copies and maintains an identical image of data from one drive to a second drive. It provides data protection and increases fault tolerance to the entire system since the disk array management software will direct all applications to the surviving drive as it contains a complete copy of the data in the other drive if one drive fails.
JBOD (Spanning)
A spanning disk array is equal to the sum of all drives. Spanning stores data onto a drive until it is full then proceeds to store files onto the next drive in the array. When any member disk fails, it will affect the entire array. JBOD is not really a RAID, and it does not support fault tolerance.

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