SATA RAID SOFTWARE to be used with the SiI 3112A User`s Manual
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1. 000 200 400 020 00 E SATARaid SATARaid Configuration Menu elg on the toobox in the tap left of GUI window on the cor dicio in bottom right of he computor screen wih other start up user may configure SATAR Including customizing the settings for SMTP E mal Noblicabon Event Level Log Fi and Popup sure The SMTP server is the server that is used to send emalis Normaly the network administra ior xnowe what vs name Both the and must be entered Email The curent SATARaid coniguration may be sent via emat Using the emal ub in the SATARad Configuration Meru the user may sat the defaut address and subject ine 1 here the configuration would be sent Thi however can be everidden at time of send Ing the amai NE ve den E Da Um eminere aa 0 Eran aman ans Coo Core SArARaid Notification When dieron of events occur SATARaid may bo configured 1o send sees to assigned ndidusl addresses Using te Notcalon tab mal addresses desired a eclva io may be entered Event Level There are diferent pos of e mai notifications that may2. upon the creation af the partion Choose wich ever drive lentar is ested ha possible value automatically entered amo the volume whatever is desired suggestions being something generc such as STRIPED SET ce something spect ic io use such as FINANCIAL CRITICAL MISCELLANEOUS ez then check ne box naxt to quick format Clk Next 8 The sth window is a summary window listing al of e selections made Cikk Finish Depending on the size of the disk tives Included in the partition the pation should change Unallocated to Healy wih ts and dive ater reported as wel iN a matter of minutes or Do not attempt cresta patton fr ne next disk unti disk curenty baing formated complete and raporte Healthy note that once the disk reports Healthy it appears in the listing in SECTION 1 wit al of its pert ment information wal 2 Repeat this procedure for the parition ofthe second and hird disk 3 Data Management window by clicking on the smali boxed X in the tap right comer of the window 4 on the Computer ion on the Desktop The thee new dives shoud now be vibe and Properly named Data may now be sored each af these disks i desired da m WET A soa SarARaid Windows NT Operating System Before creating any partons RAID sets must frst be cestedidesolved using the BIDS RAID Uta Once completed cortina boating Windows Once Windows i ru
3. be sent which set wah the Event Level tab The diferent levels Disabled No event logs be ser Informational The folowing eventa wii be sent intrmatonal T Wamings Warning The folowing events wil bo sent Errors The following events il be sent SMTP om Madero ele Log File Th log is used to store event information received fram al the Slicon Image RAID dr The og is a tox le can be viewed Wih Notepad or SATARaid Use Pe Log Fie tab whore na should be stored andthe of he as wel Audio The user may set dierent audio sers for the ferent levels of vents eure we mm 55 ste Poe meson es Em gsm amp Popup pum The popup window is a vsus notification that an vert occured The popup window canbe da i Malim or set 1 popup for only ceram event cT levels The levels sre Wo opio wi onse d Informational The popup window deployed or he Toteming intormatanai Fa Wink Ee ela Mose ise olin aon trn Tre paap nine Warning The popup window wi be for the folowing waning Errors
4. prope a old metadata must be frst overran with the new metadata To resolve tnis select Reach Confic and the correct metadata Including commi drive connection informaton wil be written t the replacement disk ST SarARaid 4 CREATING NAMING PARTITIONS lanagement window here ar enough Windows XP 2000 Windows NT Windows SATARaid Windows 2000 Operating System Before creating any partons RAID sets must frst be eesteddesoved using the BIOS RAID Onee completa continue basting Windows Once Windows is runing open the Disk Management window located at Control Pane Administrative Toce Computer Management Storage Disk Management Something similar to 1e folowing window shouid appear 73 Fest yn in SECTION fee SECTIONS re suas Bons dem mor SarARaid This window has three main sections SECTION 1 System Ising of ali formatted and availabie disks RAID Sets SECTION 2 Report of physical comecton f ska RAID Sas SECTION 3 Report of parition status dsk letter and volume name Initial Window n SECTION 2 every disk shouid report as Basie Disk Size the actual avallable disk space wil be reported here Instead of Basia di
5. wil probably appear Enter for yes SaTARaid The FDISK Options window appear The Curent Fixed D Deve normaly in order o cre he press Enter SaATARaid Je set at the disk needing 1o be parttioned Select 1 and press Enter am BE Is a neea ae al The flowing window w Ps SATARaid SaATARaid FDISK is now a logical drive SaTARaid REM Press Enter and he folowing Ps 21 lle 1 a drive eter size Press Ese SaTaRaid Aor restarting computer and booting Windows x double click onthe My Computer on each drive and select Format FULL format wii be accepted at this point Select enter the Label Name for the drive RAID set f desired and ick Once the dive has boon formated rapeat for each now drive The new drives should now be ready to be used 5 USING SILICON IMAGE SATARaid GUI Overview The GUI ofer the ihe to easly monitor your RAD Set lunch the GUL simply douti ciek on the located in the bottom ight hand comet of Desktop Ithe doss not appear the boron night hand com
6. SaTARaid SATA RAID SOFTWARE to be used with the Sil 3112A User s Manual October 01 2002 Revision 1 0 Silicon Image SArARaid Trademarks and Copyright E2002 Siicon mage Inc gt reserved Image tha Silicon mage logo SI and are trademarks or registered rademari of Soon image Inc in United Sales and other counties Other trademarks are property of her respective holders Copyright 2002 5 Image inc Al rights reserved image reserves the right to make changes to this manual and the fqupment described in hs manual wihout notice Sion Image has made reasonable efforts ensure Ihat the infomation in ts manua ie accurata and completa Image wil not be table however for any achricl or otonal errors omissions made in hs manual or no ental spacial consequential damage of whatsoever nature ruling from the turishing of ihis manual or operation and pacarmance ot in connection wih tis manual SarARaid OVERVIEW EI Product Over 1 RAD Explained 12 2 INSTALLING DRIVERS AND SOFTWARE Windows XP 2000 Operating System 21 Windows NT Operating System 21 Windows 8 Operating System 22 3 CREATINGIDELETING RAID SETS Creating RAID Sets E Deleting RAID Sets Er 4 CREATINGINAMING PARTITIONS Windows XP 2000 Operating System Windows Operating System 45 Windows 9Me Operating Sy
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8. er of e desktop find where appi salon vas saved and launch fom tere Upon launching GUI the t frst window which identies the computer running SATARaid shouid appear similar 10 the folowing Save configuration to button Contguration Tree About 2 EI Lan even ETE SaTARaid Pinay Secondary T Hem o Selecting aspect channel ether Primary or Secondary the flowing information ie reported n 8 ree aroman B Ree 7 uos pom EFA eles tae Sro ca ver kie ierit aet a 52 m ET SarARaid Selecting a speci drive reports al pertinent information to that dive including Configuration and Disk detfcaton iormaton Wee a EEUU Pod SS Piney m EI Finn GAT Esa Aimee tees EE Grav Daa Seat vt hk E Sioa UP E EE amp Selecting Sets the Sets in the configuration tree and provides information on RIO Version HES n B pease POTN Quse Secondary uso DES specife RAID set such as Se
9. installation Note Do NOT intl inthe Start Up folder Choose the Default folder normaly Accessories or Administrative Tool or some hing Windows 98 Me Operating System the instructions in each window using the driver instalation fles onthe provided floppy as necessary To instali he SATARad use Windows instale by performing following 1 computer restarts insert cd in disk drive 2 Doubie cick on Install exe 3 Falow onscreen instructions t complet installation Note Do NOT instal in the Start Up folder Choose the fier normaly Accessories or Administrative Tool or same thing SarARaid Creating and deleting RAID sets is a function found In tne BIOS During bootup the Yang message wil appear pausing for few moments o alow the user to choose what 1o An easy to use screen wil appear wih the choles in the top left Creste RAID Sat Delete RAD Set Rebuild RAD Set Contes Belon this wi be listed he drives curently installed on the system The top right half ot he sereen displays drectons and comments forthe user The bottom right half ists the command keys rows up and down are Select keya ESC takes user to the previous menu Enter selects the user s exis Creating RAID Sets SATARad supports wo drives creating RAID Sets simp
10. ld now appear Click 4 Cik Conti 5 Repeat tis stop for each disk 8 on the frst disk and select Mark Active T window wil appear stating that this vil iake pace on the next reboot Cick OK 8 Repeat this stap for aach disk 2 Close window Confrm saving changes Clk Yes 10 Disk Administrator wil raport that the disks were updated successful OK 11 Re open Disk Administrator 12 on the frst sk this should now be the Striped Set Select Format SarARaid Something simlar to the folowing window shouid appear pe 6 o deseri ad While Capacity can not be changed make sure that Flle System has NTFS selected don t Change Default Allocation Size snd since is the Stipes Set hati Being formatted enter Striped Set for Volume Label Make sure tht Quick Format is selected as he Format Option 15 Repeat this procedure for the other two disks but name them something eise 16 Close Disk Administrator and open My Computer con shouid be on Daskiop 17 The new disks should now appear in My Computer window 18 Close all windows and applications and Restart computer SaATARaid Windows 98 Operating System Windows 9x does not have a Disk Administrator Disk RAID sets using e BIOS RAID uly booting Windows 12 START but 2 Run Type tisk The window
11. le procedure 1 Select Create RAID Set 2 Choose ether a Siriped or RAID Select you want uly Auta Configure the RAID Set or if you want to manualy configure RAID Sat For Sipe Sets you can change chunk size Mirrored Sel you assign Which the Source and Target ves as as you want Disk Copy What is Disk Copy the disk assigned as the source disk already has been partion and has date stared on 1 and then second ds s added or redundancy fe data on the soures dewe can copied ta fne destination drive so the disks are dentia and ai subsequent data be writen o bah drives s sat however ha source disk does nol have data already sod On Ie there need for Disk 4 Theutity wil ask Are You Sure before completing the configuration SArARaid Deleting RAID Sets 1 Ta remove one or more RAD sets select Delete RAID Set 2 Select desired set and press when asked Are You Sure Resolving Conflict When RAID set is created the metadata writen to the disk includes drive connection Information Primary Chanel Secondary Chonnal afer a disk ate tho replacement disk was previously part RAID set ar used in another system 1 may have conficting metadata in reference to ho drive connection information is wil prohi RAID set being ater creto or n order the RAID set function
12. nning open the Disk Administrator window The Disk Administrator window is located at Siart Programs Disk Administrator Common Something simlar tothe folowing window shouid appear osom moa 4 Er etn LES SarARai However hs White Signature window may appear frst DINER IE EL 772 GFN apostles unc answer YES for each disk reported with no signature found Afterwards something simlar folowing shou appear Ver ene i ES SATARaid Button 1 opens the Disk Administrator Volumes window which ats the recognizable Volumes their capacity ae space type of format eie Button 2 opens the Disk Configuraten window shou above dealing al disks or RAID Ses parti ions and allows he suer to format each parition and volume Section 1 reports size af each disk or RAID Sel Section 2 reports on each pation and allows the user to format or delete partons Creating Partitions any disk besides tha SYSTEM DISK appear 1o be formated right lek on Pat parton Section 2 and NEVER CHANGE Select Delete DELETE THIS DISK OR PARTITION 2 al disks are reporting as Free Space htc on each parition and select Create 3 Primary Partition window shou
13. s ACPI and ATAIATAPIS m ASET RAID Explained RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks technology manages disk cres 1o enhance performance and provide redundnoy in er to the faure of any member without oss of data provides two RAID Set pes Striped RAID 0 and Mirrored RAID 1 Disk Striping RAID 0 Sting pefomance arenlad non redundant daa mapping technique While Siping 8 discussed as RAD Set typo tis actualy not provide fault tolerance Wih modam SATA ATA bus mas tering technology multiple IO operators can be cem emer aem ire ona writen ta one spe va to two and so forh Disk mirroring RAID 1 Disk mirroring creates an twn for a selected disk by having the ata simultaneously writan to two diska This redundancy provides instare taneous protection sgl disk ature Ia read taure occurs on one drive the system raada the data from other drive SarARaid Windows 2000 Operating System Tha located on the provided floppy dk Insert the dsk into the dsk drive and eck Browse Most floppy disk drives are confgurad as A Choose the A drive in your browser and the Sttarint forthe 3112A Select and ciek Open tat tne directiy isted in this window is A and click Now a windo
14. sk may also report as ether Unknown or Dynamic disk reports as Unknown right ick on the disk SECTION 2 and cick on Write Signature Atthis point a window wili appe Gow Make sura the box netto w h he question al Unknown disks may appear in ts win ioh checked then clk OK Tho disk should now report Basie disk repons as Dynami on SECTION 2 of that dis and cick on Return disk to Basic Wine seconds the disk shouid report as Basle Creating Partitions in SECTION 2 the dak order corresponds dra to the order the Sets appear in BIOS Therefore ho frst Unallocated Parton represents Set 1 and soon 12 At ihis point there shou be three diska with Unallocated partons Right cick on parton of the irst disk and eck on Crete Parton Tha Create Paton Waanf shouid appear 1 Tho fest window is an introductory window to tne Wizard Cick Next 2 The second window designates te parition as a primary pation Next 3 The thea window designates te parition siza Since this is a Striped RAID set utilizing 2 drives the siza ofthe partion should be approximately doubla the size of a single drive assuming al diska are af identical sio Click Next 4 The fourn window designates tne drive later af he pariton 5 The fith window allows the user to label volume name and choose the type of format ing to take
15. stem 5 USING SILICON IMAGE SATARald GUI E Overview E Configuration Window 57 TE 0 SIR SATARaid Product Overview image s SATARaic provides Serial ATA Sofware fia ry sg nr oman are keeping with the increasing perfomance demande computer systems by improving disk VO throughout and providing data accessibilty face of hard disk fures Wah the S 3112A Serial ATA host controller and SATARa1d bath of problems are solved RAID Stiping greatly improves hard disk lO performance by concurrentiy Striping data across pla drives RAID Miroring enables users to enjoy the confidence of data aval regalos at singe disk falure as data simultaneous writen 1o two drives Standard wie SATARald software is a Graphical User Iterace GUI that provides easy to use coni rans forthe diferent RAID Sets supported SATARaid Features TRAD Oana 1 Hot Spare and Orio Mirror System GUI Manitoring DispaysiogsiAlors Users to Vital RAID Set Information Manages RAID Set Funcions configures rebuilds stc RAID Set Accommodates Size HDDS HODs Function Normaly When Not in RAID Sets Adjustable Size for RAID Automateaty Selects Highest Avalabe Transfer Speed for AI ATA and ATAPI Devices Supports UDMA up to 15 AI UDMA and PIO Modes Up ta 2 SATA device
16. t 0 the type of RAID ee the number of members and SE ene Sar iue ty Ds Pak tees SL ST SATARaid Wes ae Wale rt Marber tho np dp e devcs ene The Devise Location refers to ow sach physical disk was reported in BIOS RAID The Members tab af this window reports device identification coresponding with the Information in the BIOS and he Siate of each device Besides reporting infomation the Members tab of a Mirored set allows the user to remove specie tive fom tht set as well as add designated Spare to a Mirored sel fat has experienced ature A driva can NOT be removed fom a set as this would destroy af data Note that a Mirrored Set f frs created Siate of tha destination ceva may report ae for as much as 30 00 minutes depending on he size ofthe disk SArARaid SMART and Cooliguration information as wall as identification aga provided foreach Set ust ene 2 BSeconcay Samy mee E wd ind len oret spare of be o iit p Wes ne ous tore Sie GR E ae a a
17. w verfyng that the Driver for the board has been property nsaled Cc Finish itis good to Restart the compu aftr an instalation When asked to do so Ck Yes To instali use Windows InstallShield by performing the fotowing 1 Atlar computer restarts insert od in disk drive 2 Double click on Install SATARald exe 3 Falow on screen instructions to complete installation Note Do NOT intl in the Start Up folder Choose the Defaut folder normaly Accessonas Administrative Tools or some hing semiar Windows NT Operating System The divers the provided dis the lappy in the disk drive and eck Have Disk The next window is asking for the locaton of the driver disk drives are configured as A To art cick Browse The naxt window verlies that the appropriate fle is located on Select Oemsetupinf and icx Open 1A should appear the window Cick The next window you to select which driver ta instal Only one driver should appear in this win dow Select 3112A Raid Controller and cick on OK tis aways good Restart computer afer an installation Click Yes SArARaid To install he SATARaid GUI use Windows instale by performing the folowing tar computer restarts insert in disk drive 2 Double click on Install SATARaid exe 3 onscreen instructions complete
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