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C h a p t e r 6 : R A I D c o n f i g u r a t i o n

6.1

Setting up RAID

The motherboard comes with the following RAID solutions:

PVL-D/2U/SCSI model

• A d a p t e c

A d a p t e c

AIC-7902W SCSI RAID

AIC-7902W SCSI RAID controller supports SCSI hard disk

drives and RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 0+1 configurations.

6.1.1

RAID definitions

R A I D 0

(Data striping) optimizes two identical hard disk drives to read and

write data in parallel, interleaved stacks. Two hard disks perform the same
work as a single drive but at a sustained data transfer rate, double that of a
single disk alone, thus improving data access and storage. Use of two new
identical hard disk drives is required for this setup.

RAID 1

(Data mirroring) copies and maintains an identical image of data from

one drive to a second drive. If one drive fails, the disk array management software
directs all applications to the surviving drive as it contains a complete copy of
the data in the other drive. This RAID configuration provides data protection and
increases fault tolerance to the entire system. Use two new drives or use an
existing drive and a new drive for this setup. The new drive must be of the same
size or larger than the existing drive.

R A I D 0 + 1

R A I D 0 + 1 is

data striping and data mirroring combined without parity

(redundancy data) having to be calculated and written. With the RAID 0+1
configuration you get all the benefits of both RAID 0 and RAID 1 configurations.
Use four new hard disk drives or use an existing drive and three new drives for
this setup.

J B O D

(Spanning) stands for J u s t a B u n c h o f D i s k s

J u s t a B u n c h o f D i s k s

J u s t a B u n c h o f D i s k s and refers to hard

disk drives that are not yet configured as a RAID set. This configuration stores
the same data redundantly on multiple disks that appear as a single disk on
the operating system. Spanning does not deliver any advantage over using
separate disks independently and does not provide fault tolerance or other
RAID performance benefits.

If you want to boot the system from a hard disk drive included in a created
RAID set, copy first the RAID driver from the support CD to a floppy disk
before you install an operating system to the selected hard disk drive.
Refer to Chapter 6 for details.

7902 HostRAID doesn’t support PAE Mode under Windows 2000 Server
SP4, due to Adaptec driver limitation.