Addonics Technologies ADS3GX4R5-E User's Manual
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1. Adds fault tolerant to disk striping by including parity information with the data Installation Software Installation Note Install the SATARAID5 array manager utility from the CD that came with your package first before installing the eSATA Host Controller From the CD start up menu select Auto Play gt SATA RAID Utilities gt Model ADS3GX4R5 E B Unzip the file on your drive Folder name is SATARAID5_Utility_3124 C On the GUI folder install 3124 W I32 R_15110 msi SATARAID5 software D E gt From the CD start up menu select SATA Adapters gt Model ADS3GX4R5 E Unzip the file on your drive Folder name is 3124r5 Hardware Installation fis Power off PC and remove its cover 2 Select an empty PCI or PCI X slot and insert the eSATA host controller 3 Makes sure to secure the bracket with a screw 4 Close the PC s cover Windows 2000 XP 2003 2008 Server Driver Installation 1 Turn computer ON When Windows boots up A New Hardware Found pops on the screen and the Addonics Serial ATA PCI Host Controller is identified At the Add New Hardware Wizard Window click Next Choose Select for the best driver for your devices and click Next Navigate to the folder where you extracted the 3124r5 driver If using a driver that has not been digitally signed by Microsoft you will be asked if you want to continue the installation Click Continue When the new hardware wizard has finish installi2. User Guide eSATA II RAID5 JBOD PCI X Controller ADS3GX4R5 E Specifications Chip Set Silicon Image Sil3124 Integrated Host Controller Interface PCI PCI X bus compatible VO Ports 4 eSATA ports Regulatory approvals FCC CE Features Supports Serial ATA Generation 2 transfer rate of 3 0 Gbps 300 Mb s Supports First Party DMA Commands for NCQ Native Command Queuing Supports 133 MHz PCI X with 64 bit data Supports RAIDO 1 5 and 10 using Silicon Image SATARAID5 Array Manager Supports individual drive mode Fully compliant with Serial ATA 1 0a and Serial ATA II Extensions to Serial ATA 1 0a Specifications revision 1 1 Hot plug capability Port Multiplier Compatible v7 1 11 Technical Support If you need any assistance to get your unit functioning properly please have your product information ready and contact Addonics Technical Support at Hours 8 30 am 6 00 pm PST Phone 408 453 6212 Email http www addonics com support query RAID Described Stripe RAID 0 Greatly increases the performance of data transfer by simultaneously writing data to 2 or more drives Mirror RAID 1 Duplicates or mirrors the data on both drives No data will be lost if one of the drives fails Mirror Striping RAID 1 0 Combined both Striping and Mirroring technologies to provide both the performance enhancements that come from Striping and the data availability and integrity that come from Mirroring Parity RAID 5
3. ng the Serial ATA card Click Finish to complete the installations akwN gt Confirming Serial ATA Driver Installation 1 Right click the My Computer icon and select Manage 2 Click Device Manager in the Menu Tree 3 Click the sign in front of SCSI controllers Silicon Image SoftRAID5 controller should appear Important Note To do a RAID SET with 4 SATA drives directly connected to the eSATA ports on the controller card you can press F4 or CTRL S from the boot up screen Read and follow the instruction inside the BIOS screen You can also install the SATA GUI utility Under Windows to monitor the RAID Set It is under the Utility section of the driver disc If you have a port multiplier PM with 5 drives and connect the PM to the eSATA controller card in the RAID BIOS of the eSATA controller card it will only display 1 drive and that is the drive connected to port 1 on the PM To see all 5 drives you would need to be inside the operating system disk utility
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