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MS-7125 ATX Mainboard
RAID Drives Management
There is an application called NVRAIDMAN which helps you perform the following
tasks of nVDIA RAID.
• Viewing RAID Array Configurations
View an array configuration (mirrored, striped, mirror-striped, JBOD, or any sup-
ported combination)
• Setting Up a Spare RAID Disk
• View free and/or dedicated free disks
• Designate a free disk to a particular array
• Rebuilding a RAID Mirrored Array
• Rebuild a broken mirrored array
• Watch the progress of rebuilding an array
Viewing RAID Array Configurations
To view your RAID configuration from Windows, launch the NVRAID Management
utility by clicking Start-->Programs-->NVIDIA Corporation-->RAID Manager-->RAID
Manager (the default location of NvRaidMan.exe is in
\\nVidia\System\CK804\IDE\WinXP\raidtool or \\nVidia\System\CK804\ide\win2k\raidtool
of the setup CD accompanied with your mainboard).
The RAID configuration information appears in the right-side pane, as shown below.
MSI Reminds You...
The information in the figures in this part may very from what it is shown
in your system.
NVRAID Mirrored Array
The figure below shows an example of a two hard drive mirrored array using iden-
tical 55.90 GB IDE hard drives (ST360015A), where one drive is configured as
Master and the other drive is configured as Slave. The total hard disk space used is
55.90 GB. (1.1 GB = 1,073,741,824 bytes)
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