MSI P6ngml Manual

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B-12Using the NVMediaShield Software
Accessing the Storage Page
To access the NVIDIA Control Panel Storage page:
1.Right-click the desktop and then click NVIDIA Control Panel from the pop-up
menu. The NVIDIA Control Panel - Select a Category page appears.Other icons may be present, such as Display, 3D Settings, and Video & Television.
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Using the Storage Page
From the Storage page, you can accomplish the following tasks:
•  Create an Array  
•  Delete an Array  
•  Rebuild an Array  
•  Synchronize an Array  
•  Designate a Spare Disk  
•  Remove a Spare  
•  Migrate an Array  
•  View Storage Information  
Create an Array
This option is available only if there are free disks that are RAID-enabled.
Click Create array to start the Create Array Wizard and then follow the instructions.
You can press F1 to access the online help that walks you through the Wizard with
step-by-step instructions.
Delete an Array
This option is available only if RAID arrays have been created.
Click Delete array to start the Delete Array Wizard and then follow instructions.
You can press F1 to access the online help that walks you through the Wizard with
step-by-step instructions.
Rebuild an Array
About Rebuilding
Rebuilding is the process of restoring data to a hard drive from other drives in the
array. For example, if you have a three disk RAID 5 array and one of the drives fails,
you will need to replace the failed drive with a new one, and rebuild the array to re-
generate the lost data on the newly added drive.
Rebuilding applies only to fault-tolerant arrays such as RAID 1, RAID 0+1, or RAID 5
Arrays.
Instructions
Click Rebuild array to start the Rebuild Create Array Wizard and then follow the
instructions.
You can press F1 to access the online help that walks you through the Wizard with
step-by-step instructions.
The rebuilding process takes some time to complete, and occurs in the background
so as not to affect the performance of the system.
Synchronize an Array
Synchronizing an array will force a rebuild of redundancy or parity. The operation
applies to any fault-tolerant array such as RAID 1, 0+1 and RAID 5.
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You can press F1 to access the online help that walks you through the Wizard with
step-by-step instructions.
Designate a Spare Disk
About Spare Disks
You can designate a hard drive to be used as a spare drive for a RAID 1, RAID 0+1
or RAID 5 array2. The spare drive can take over for a failed disk. MediaShield RAID
supports two types of spare drives:
Free Disk
A free disk is a disk that is not part of any RAID array, but can be used by any
available RAID 1, RAID 0+1, or RAID 5 array that requires another disk when one of
its disks crashes or becomes unusable. The process is automatic and requires no
user interaction.
Example: A system may have four hard disks where one disk is used to boot the OS,
two hard drives are set up in a mirrored array, and a fourth hard disk is set up as a
free disk. If one of the mirrored array drives fails, the free disk will be assigned
automatically to the mirrored array to replace the failed disk.
Dedicated Disk
A dedicated free disk is a disk that is assigned to a RAID 1, RAID 0+1, or RAID 5 array.
The dedicated disk is used by that array only when needed - for example, during a
system crash where a RAID mirrored drive is broken. The dedicated disk can be
used only by the array that it is assigned to and not by any other array, unlike a free
disk which can be used by any available RAID 1, RAID 0+1, or RAID 5 array.
To mark a disk as dedicated (reserve it for use by a specific array), you must have
at least one free disk and you must also have at least two RAID 1, RAID 0+1, or RAID
5 arrays created.
Requirements for Designating a Spare Disk
The Designate Spare option on the Storage page appears only if all the following
conditions are met.
 •There must be at least two fault tolerant arrays already created.
 •There must be at least one free disk with capacity equal to or greater than the
smallest disk in the given fault tolerant array.
For example, if a mirror array is created with disk capacities of 40 GB and 80
GB, there should be at least one free disk available of capacity equal to or
greater than 40GB to be used as a spare disk for that array.
Instructions
Click Designate spare to start the Designate Spare Wizard and then follow
instructions.
You can press F1 to access the online help that walks you through the Wizard with
step-by-step instructions.
Remove a Spare
The Remove spare option appears only if you have a a RAID array with a spare disk
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Click Remove spare to start the Remove Spare Wizard and then follow the
instructions.
You can press F1 to access the online help that walks you through the Wizard with
step-by-step instructions.
Migrate an Array
In a traditional RAID environment, when a user wants to change the current state of
a disk or a current array to a new RAID configuration, the process of reconfiguring
the new array involves multiple steps. The user must back up the data, delete the
array, re-boot the PC, and then reconfigure the new array.
MediaShield RAID allows the end user to change the current state of the disk or array
to another with a one-step process called Migrating. This section describes the
NVIDIA Migrating process and explains how to use Migrating to convert from one
RAID array type to another.
General Migrating Requirements
•The new array capacity must be equal to or greater than the previous array.
For example, it is possible to migrate from a RAID 1 array to a RAID 0 array as
long as the RAID 0 array is the same size as (or larger than) the RAID 1 array.
•The number of disks in the new array cannot be less than the number of disks in
the original array.
•You cannot migrate
- To or from a JBOD (Spanning) array  
- From RAID 1 to RAID 1  
- From RAID 0+1 to RAID 1  
- From RAID 5 to 1  
Migrating to an Array Larger Than 2 TB
Your disks must be partitioned using the GUID partition table (GPT) if you
plan to migrate to an array with greater than 2 TB storage.
If your original array is not a GPT disk and you expand your array’s capacity using the
migration feature to over 2 TB, you will not be able to access the additional storage
above 2 TB in the new array. To use the additional storage in this situation, back up
your data, repartition the array using GPT, then restore your data to the new volume.Important
Be sure to make the volume dynamic if you plan to have more than
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B-16RAID 0 m >= n2 
Number of RAID 0 disks must be equal to or greater than half the number 
of RAID 0+1 disks. RAID 1 
** Not a valid combination ** RAID 0+1 ** Not a valid combination ** RAID 0+1 
RAID 5 m >= (n/2 + 1) RAID 0 m >= n - 1 RAID 1 
** Not a valid combination ** RAID 0+1 
m >= 2 x (n -1) ; where m is an even number of disks. RAID 5 
RAID 5 
m >= n   Specific Morphing Requirements
The following table lists the disk requirements for a new RAID array for various
morphing combinations.From To New Array Disk Requirements RAID 0 m > n 
Number of disks in the new array must be greater than the original array. RAID 1 m =2, n =1 
RAID 1 array must include two disks, converted from a one disk RAID 0 
array. RAID 0+1 m >= 2 x n 
Number of RAID 0+1 disks must be equal to or greater than twice the 
number of RAID 0 disks. RAID 0 
RAID5 m >= n+1 RAID 0 No additional restrictions. RAID 1 ** Not a valid combination ** RAID 0+1 No additional restrictions. RAID 1 
RAID 5 
m >= 3 Instructions
Click Migrate array to start the Migrate Array Wizard and then follow instructions.
You can press F1 to access the online help that walks you through the Wizard with
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View Storage Information
•You can use the Storage page to view the following storage information about
the hard drives in your system:
 - Which RAID arrays are set up
 - The process state of each array
 - Which drives are configured for each RAID array in your system
 - Which drives are designated as free disks
 -Information about each drive, such as size and model
•You can also launch various Wizards-such as the Create Array Wizard, Delete
Array, and Migrate Array Wizard-from the list of links in the Related tasks
section of the side menu.
Instructions
Click View Storage Configuration to open the associated page.The View Storage Configuration page provides the following information:
•Name: Indicates the RAID array type and drive model information
•Status: Indicates the process state of the array.
For example, Healthy, Rebuilding, Initializing, Synchronizing, or Upgrad-
ing
•Capacity: Indicates the size of each hard drive.
For example, 110.00 GB
•Channel: Indicates the adapter and channel (SATA port) information for each
hard drive.
For example, 1.0. means the hard drive is attached to Adapter 1, Channel 0.
•Partitions: Indicates any partitions created on the selected array.7366v1.0-B_NVRAID.p65  2007/10/1, 下午 03:4417 
						

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							C-1 Dual Core CenterDual Core Center
Dual CoreCenter, the most useful and powerful utility
that MSI has spent much research and efforts to
develop, helps users to monitor or configure the hard-
ware status of MSI Mainboard & MSI Graphics card in
windows, such as CPU/GPU clock, voltage, fan speed
and temperature.
Before you install the Dual CoreCenter, please make
sure the system has meet the following requirements:
1. Intel Pentium4 / Celeron, AMD Athlon XP/ Sempron or
    compatible CPU with PCI Express slot.
2. 256MB system memory.
3. CD-ROM drive for software installation.
4. Operation system: Windows XP.
5. DotNet Frame Work 2.0Appendix C7366v1.0-C_dual core center.p65  2007/10/1, 下午 03:441 
						

							C-2MS-7366 MainboardActivating Dual Core Center
Once you have your Dual Core Center installed (locate the setup source file in the
setup CD accompanying with your mainboard, path: Utility --> MSI Utility --> Dual
Core Center), it will have an icon       in the system tray, a short cut icon on the
desktop, and a short cut path in your “Start-up” menu. You may double-click on each
icon to enable Dual Core Center.
short-cut icon in the system tray
short-cut path in the start-up menu
(path: Start-->Programs-->MSI-->
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Before using this utility, we have to remind you: only when installing the MSI V044
(V044 has to install with the version 8.26 or newer driver)/ V046 or V060 graphics
card can activate the full function of this utility. If you install a graphics card of other
brand, only hardware status of the MSI mainboard would be available.
Introduction:
Click each button appearing above to enter sub-menu to make further configuration
or to execute the function.
MBClick MB button to read current CPU temperature, FSB and CPU clock of
mainboard will show below.
VGAClick VGA button to read current GPU temperature, GPU clock and memory
clock of graphics card will show below.
DOTClick DOT button to enable or disable the Dynamic Overclocking Technology.7366v1.0-C_dual core center.p65  2007/10/1, 下午 03:443