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1. lolx FDISK Options Current fixed disk drive 2 Choose one of the following Create DOS partition or Logical DOS Drive Set active partition Delete partition or Logical DOS Drive Display partition information Change current fixed disk drive Enter choice 1 Press Esc to exit FDISK The following window will appear 5 fdisk D gt You MUST restart your system for your changes to take effect Any drives you have created or changed must be formatted AFTER you restart Shut down Windows before restarting Press Esc to exit FDISK This window is a reminder to RESTART the computer Medley Manual Rev 1 1 Silicon Image 5 15 After restarting the computer and booting Windows 9x double click on the My Computer icon Right click on each new drive and select Format Only a FULL format will be accepted at this point Select Full Format enter the Label Name for the drive or RAID set if desired and click OK Once the drive has been formatted repeat for each new drive The new drives should now be ready to be used 5 16 m TG s rsmm n Medley Manual Rev 1 1 wan 6 USING SILICON IMAGE MEDLEY GUI Overview Medley provides the ability to Remove a member of a Mirrored or Mirrored Striped RAID set Rebuild a Mirrored RAID set use Spare Disk Drives to automatically rebuild a Mirrored RAID set save copy or send via e mail the current configuration To launch the GUI2. Warnings Errors Warning The popup window will be displayed for the following events Warnings Errors Errors The popup window will be displayed for the following events Errors 6 10 m SCCM raas SMTP E mail Configuration Menu Notification Event Level Log File Audio Popup Window Information The popup window is a visual notification that an event occurred This popup windows can be disabled or set to popup for only certain event levels Popup Window E vent Level Configuration i Move the slider to set event level for notification Informational The popup window will be doni i displayed for the following events Informational Warnings Errors Medley Manual Rev 1 1
3. LJ Primary partition Partition 2000 NTFS h Jn Vedley Manual Rev 1 1 watss Silicon Image m 5 5 However this Write Signature window may appear first Confirm No signature found on Disk D Writing a signature is a safe operation and will not affect your ability to access this disk from other operating systems such as DOS If you choose not to write a signature the disk will be marked OFF LINE and be inaccessable to the Windows NT Disk Administrator program Do you want to write a signature on Disk 0 so that Disk Administrator can access the drive If so answer YES for each disk reported with no signature found Afterwards something similar to the following should appear zi Disk Administrator Partition Tools View Options Help rm Button 1 A Button 2 E Disk Free Space 19540 MB 19540 MB Section 1 NTFS 13540 MB E Disk 2 Section 2 43375 MB 39875 M BH Primary partition Partition 2000 MB NTFS n Dl age n Medley Manual Rev 1 1 Button 1 opens the Disk Administrator Volumes window which lists the recognizable Volumes their capacity free space type of format etc Button 2 opens the Disk Configuration window shown above detailing all disks or RAID Sets parti tions and allows he suer to format and name each partition and volume Section 1 reports the size of eac
4. Medley Manual Rev 1 1 w Silicon Image m 6 1 By selecting each different component in the configuration tree provides specific information for that component such as the chip By selecting a specific channel either Primary or Secondary the following information is reported 6 2 SilCfg for Medley a FAE LELTSY14VRE PRSE Primary 8 Master 8 Slave 52 Secondary amp Master Slave E d Sets Set 0 Adapter SilCfg for Medley Chip Information Type 680 Version 0001 Driver Information Type RAID Status 0 Major Version 1 Minor Version 1 File Version 1 0 1 6 File Date Tue May 07 11 10 42 2002 PCI Information IRQ Bus 0 Device 10 FAE LELTSY14VRE 89 PCI 580U 0 OE 495 Master Slave 3 Secondary a Master amp Slave E d Sets G Set 0 w rm Oli age mss i Channel Addresses IDE Base 7800 Alt Base 02 Base 8800 Cable 80 pin Cable Y es Hot Swap Device After a device is added or removed click the refresh button to update the tree view Medley Manual Rev 1 1 Selecting a specific drive reports all pertinent information to that drive including Configuration and Disk Identification information SilCfg for Medley Hea n am FAE LELTSY14VRE B3 PCI 680U 0 Primary Disk Information
5. but when optimizing RAID sets it is best to use drives from different channels It is also helpful to know which drive is which if the disk drives are not all of equal size Disk Drive and Set Reporting Numbering Before creating or deleting Raid Sets it is also important to understand how each different piece of soft ware reports both the physical disk drives and Sets which could be either an independent drive or an actual RAID set consisting of two to four drives For example the BIOS and Medley reports the four physical disk drives as 0 3 while each Set is reported as 1 4 Set numbers are assigned in the RAID utility based on the assigned disk number of the physical drives with the lowest numbered drives being part of the lowest numbered sets For example if a striped set were created with drives 1 and 2 the sets would be the physical drive num ber is in the brackets Set 1 0 Manufacturer Model PM 19541 MB Set 2 1 2 Sil Striped Set PS 39081 MB Set 3 3 Manufacturer Model SS 19541 MB If another striped set were created with drives O and 3 it would be Set 1 0 3 Sil Striped Set PM 39081 Set 2 1 2 Sil Striped Set PS 39081 MB Windows on the other hand does not report the physical disk drives but only the Sets even if they are representing single independent disk drives However Windows calls the sets drives In other words it reports a RAID Set as a single drive
6. Creating Striped Sets RAID 0 Creating Mirrored Sets RAID 1 Creating a Mirrored Striped Set RAID 0 1 Deleting RAID Sets 5 CREATING NAMING PARTITIONS Windows 2000 Operating System Windows NT Operating System Windows 98 Me Operating System 6 USING SILICON IMAGE MEDLEY GUI Overview Medley Configuration Window ssI Medley Manual Rev 1 1 rw Silicon Image m 6 1 Medley Manual Revision History Revision 1 0 Initial release Revision 1 1 Addition of Sil 0680 information eie ji sU m Medley Manual Rev 1 1 aaa 1 OVERVIEW Product Overview Historically the cost of implementing RAID in the small office or home office environment has not been cost effective When first developed RAID was an acronym for Redundant Array of EN Inexpensive Drives Over time this changed to Redundant pm Array of Independent Disks as the more expensive SCSI disk drives with superior performance and capacity captured the dom inant share of the RAID market But as today s technology continues to change the performance capacity gap between RAID Software SCSI and ATA is quickly getting smaller With the increased per formance and capacity of ATA host controllers and drives the time is right to put ATA software RAID to work in the small office home office environment and Medley is just the software to do that Medley is an IDE ATA Software 0 1 RAID solution current
7. must be current 1 4 0 m wamanman Medley Manual Rev 1 1 fy Lf R D Softwar 1 To remove one or more RAID sets Press F1 and the following screen appears Enter the set number for the RAID set to be deleted Press ESC to exit Your selection 2 Choose the set number of the RAID set to be deleted Are you sure Y N 3 Answer Y to remove the RAID set If the RAID set being deleted is a Striped set then all of the data will be lost If the set being deleted is a Mirrored set then the data will remain intact and accessi ble on both drives Creating a Spare Drive ii d i ipio wi may pe NOTE The size of a valid spare drive must be equal i bids GUNS to or greater than the Mirrored set size spare which can automatically replace a failed drive 1 To create a spare drive press and the following screen appears Enter the drive number for the spare drive Press ESC to exit Your selection 2 Choose the drive number of the drive to be designated as a spare Are you sure Y N 3 Answer Y and the spare drive will be created and listed as the last Set Deleting a Spare Drive To delete a spare drive use the same procedure as deleting a RAID set q rm 8 Medley Manual Rev 1 1 w Eimsa Silicon Image m 4 9 Resolving Conflict When a RAID set is created the metadata written to the disk includes drive connection information
8. Primary Master Primary Slave Secondary Master Secondary Slave If after a disk failure the replacement disk was previously part of a RAID set or used in another system it may have conflicting metadata specifically in reference to the drive connection information If so this will prohibit the RAID set from being either created or rebuilt In order for the RAID set to function properly this old metadata must be first overwritten with the new metadata To resolve this press F4 and the correct metadata including the correct drive connection information will be written to the replacement disk 4 10 m M Silco nage snm Medley Manual Rev 1 1 aaa 5 CREATING NAMING PARTITIONS The creating and naming of partitions is something done within the Windows operating system And while Windows 2000 and Windows NT both use the Disk Management window there are enough nuances that make it important to follow the procedure specifically for the appropriate operating system The procedure for Windows 98 Me is significantly different than the others Windows 2000 Action View e gl Volume Layout Type File System Status Capacity F CSYSTEM DISK C Partition Basic FAT Healthy System 3 73 GB 2 4 lt Disk 0 Basic 19 08 GB 19 08 GB Online Unallocated lt SDisk 1 Basic 19 07 GB 19 07 GB 1 Online Unallocated Windows NT gno Taww P x Basic Partition Tools
9. View Options Help 19 08 GB 19 08 GB Online Unallocated lt SDisk 3 Basic SYSTEM DISK 3 73 GB 3 73 GB FAT Disk 0 Online Healthy System Free Space 19540 19540 CDRom D o de Disk 1 F Bl Unallocated J Primary Partition NTFS 19540 MB 13540 MB Iz Disk 2 Free Space 43975 43375 MB Windows 98 Me fdisk L Inl x Aw sz tie e ee Microsoft Windows 98 ary partition Fixed Disk Setup Program Microsoft Corp 1983 1998 2000MB NTFS FDISK Options Current fixed disk drive 1 Choose one of the following Create DOS partition or Logical DOS Drive Set active partition Delete partition or Logical DOS Drive Display partition information Change current fixed disk drive Enter choice 1 Press Esc to exit FDISK Dnm Medley Manual Rev 1 1 w Silicon Image m 5 1 Windows 2000 Operating System Before creating any partitions RAID sets must first be created dissolved using the BIOS RAID Utility Once completed continue booting Windows Once Windows is running open the Disk Management window located at Control Panel Administrative Tools Computer Management Storage Disk Management Something similar to the following window should appear 5 2 Computer Management 3 LIBI Action View Volume ayout File System Status em ASTSTEM DISK C Partition Basic FAT Healthy
10. be Log File Audio Popp viewed with Notepad or Medley Use the Log Log File Information File tab to set where the log file should be stored The log is used to store event received from all the SII and the name of the file as well IDE drivers The logfile can be viewed with Notepad or the event property page of the GUI Disable Log File Enable Log File Nene Cie J Location e Audio Configuration Menu The user may set different audio alerts for the different levels of events Log File Audio SMTP Email Notification Event Level Audio Notification Information Audio notification is use to alert the system administrator or user that an event occurred Audio Notification Configuration Select the sound to play by clicking the browse button or click the disable button for no sound notification Informational Event Disabled Browse Disable Warning Event Dae Error Event Dedi Medley Manual Rev 1 1 Silicon Image O O Popup The popup window is a visual notification that an event occurred The popup window can be dis abled or set to popup for only certain event levels The different levels are Disabled No popup will occur Informational The popup window will be displayed for the following events Informational
11. connector is indicated on the board Pin 1 on the drive cable is indicated by a colored stripe 5 Power up computer 6 Install the applicable device driver and Windows RAID monitoring utility or utility When finished the system will prompt To finish setting up your new hardware you must restart your computer When this prompt appears select Yes The system will restart at this time NOTE This board has not been certified for FCC EU or UL s Manual Rev 1 1 watss Silicon Image m X 22 1 Installing the Sil 0649 Evaluation Board Medley Software RAID requires the PCI 649 chip to be installed either on the computer s motherboard or on an independent board installed in a PCI slot To install the board 1 Power down the computer system 2 Confirm that the jumpers on the add in board are set properly JP JPO JP1 JP2 JP3 JP4 JP5 JP6 JP7 JP8 In Out In Out In Out In Out Out Out In Out Out Jumper Setting Description for 649 Non IDE Device with 0104h at PCI config IDE Device with 0101h at PCI config IDE channels 0 and 1 Mode is fixed IDE channels 0 and 1 Mode is programmable IDE channels 0 and 1 Power up mode is Native IDE channels 0 and 1 Power up mode is Legacy Disable IDE channel 0 Enable IDE channel 0 Enable IDE channel 1 Disable IDE channel 1 This jumper is not valid anymore It changes to TEST1 p
12. of whatever size the RAID Set reports In Windows the number ing of each set drive will differ depending on which operating system is being used as well as other devices currently installed on the computer It will almost always be different than that reported in the BIOS or Medley However THE ORDER of the sets reported in the BIOS and Medley will be maintained in Windows such that Set 1 in the BIOS will be the first drive reported in any of the Windows operating systems Set 2 will always be the second drive and so forth An s Medley Manual Rev 1 1 watss Silicon Image m A um Creating Striped Sets As the BIOS boots the following message will appear pausing for a few moments to allow the user 1 4 2 to choose what to do Press F3 to enter RAID utility Press F3 If this is the first time opening the BIOS utility or if no RAID sets exist something similar to the fol lowing screen will appear note that in this example FOUR disk drives have been installed to be used as RAID sets Primary Channel Drive Number 0 Manufacturer Drive Number 1 Manufacturer Secondary Channel Drive Number 2 Manufacturer Drive Number 3 Manufacturer Manufacturer Manufacturer Manufacturer Manufacturer F1 to delete RAID set F2 to create RAID set F3 to create spare drive F4 to resolve conflicts lt ESC gt to exit RAID configuration utility The top third reports individual disk info
13. set the number of members and SilCfg for Medley Bea a Selecting Sets lists the Sets in the configuration tree and provides information on RIO Version FAE LELTSY14VRE B3 PCI 680U 0 3 Primary a Master Slave Sy Secondary 95 Master E Slave dE Set capacity is reported 6 4 SilCfg for Medley a Set Control RIO Version Major Minor Array Conflicts Conflict No FAE LELTSY14VRE B3 PCI 680U 0 Sy Primary amp Master Slave 3 Secondary amp Master 89 Slave B di Sets c ERE Set Number 0 Sil RAID 1 Set Type Mirrored Set State Online Members 2 Location Primary Master Meta Version 2 00 156333 MB Capacity smmmmmus MEDII age n re a Medley Manual Rev 1 1 SilCfg for Medley a 22 FAE LELTSY14VRE Set Members SMART Configuration Identify Data B 6800 0 343 Primary Master To add a device to this set simply drag the desired device Member Information a Slave that is under a Bus tree item into this page If the Set can accept the device it will be added to the list below 3 Secondary The Device Location refers to how each physical disk was reported in the BIOS RAID utility D Mast To remove a member from a set highlight the member and M click the remove button 89 Slave Sets State Rebuild 6 S
14. simply double click on the Medley icon located in the bottom right hand corner of the Desktop If the Medley icon does not appear in the bottom right hand corner of the desktop find where the application was saved and launch from there Upon launching the GUI the the first window which identifies the computer running Medley should appear similar to the following the Sil 0680 and Sil 0649 screens will look alike except for the name of the chip Save configuration to a file button Copy configuration to clip board Configuration Tree Help on Medley SiIC 4 fo a ON FAE LELTSY14VRE Computer Events M 8 PCI 680U 0 3 Primary amp Master Slave 3 Secondary amp Master aE Slave Sets G Set 0 The Events tab reports logged events Send configuration by e mail About Medley System Information Version Windows NT Version Number 5 1 Service Pack Service Pack 0 Computer Information Name FAE LELT5Y14VRE Computer Events List of Events Events If a spare has been created then this icon will appear SilCfg for M dley Hae p K AFAELELT5 14vRE 3 BY PCI 680 0 Sy Primary ep Paster D ave 06 2002 10 10 44 SilCfg Event Logger Started 06 June 2002 10 10 44 SilCfg Event writer starting up 06 2002 10 21 04 SilCfg Event Logger Started O6June 2002 10 21 04 SilCfg Event writer starting up
15. will always choose a 64k chunk size as the default and will always use drives from different channels if possible Like the rest of the utility if Auto Configure is selected simply follow the prompts given Medley Manual Rev 1 1 Alicon age rra 4 3 um Choose the chunk size desired for example press 6 for 64K chunk size Once done the follow ing screen appears Enter the total number of drives in RAIDO set A Striped set must have between 2 and 4 drives as members Choose the number of drives and the following screen appears for example choose 2 NOTE The TOTAL size of a Striped set is the size of the smallest drive multiplied by the number of drives included in the set Enter the first drive number in Striped set Choose which drives to be used in Striped set For optimal throughput choose drives from both channels Primary and Secondary After entering the first drive for example choose 0 the fol lowing screen appears Enter the second drive number in Striped set Enter the second disk drive number for example press 2 After all drives for the Striped set are entered the following screen appears Are you sure Y N 10 Enter Y to create Striped set The following screen appears 4 4 Primary Channel Drive Number 0 Manufacturer Model 19541 MB Drive Number 1 Manufacturer Model 19541 MB Secondary Channel Drive Number 2 Manufacturer Model 19541 MB Drive Number 3 Man
16. 19541 as there is only half the available space of the com bined disks since the second half is used for mirroring The brackets around the drive numbers in a Mirrored set represent different drives statuses such as 1 3 1 3 1 3 1 represents the status of drives 1 and 3 as current represents the status of drive 1 as current and drive 3 as rebuild represents the status of drive 1 as current and drive 3 as dropped represents the status of drive 1 as current and drive 1 s mirror as missing In other words represents a drive in a current status represents a drive in a rebuild status represents a drive in a dropped status For a valid Mirrored set at least one drive must be in current status Therefore each of the four Mirrored sets listed above are all valid 4 6 SCO MUn u t Medley Manual Rev 1 1 Creating a Mirrored Striped Set 1 To create a Mirrored Striped RAID set press F2 A Mirrored Striped set needs all four disk drives The following screen appears Primary Channel Drive Number 0 Manufacturer Model 19541 MB Drive Number 1 Manufacturer Model 19541 MB Secondary Channel Drive Number 2 Manufacturer Model 19541 MB Drive Number 3 Manufacturer Model 19541 MB Set 1 0 Manufacturer Model PM 19541 MB Set 2 1 Manufacturer Model PS 19541 MB Set 3 2 Manufacturer Model SM 19541 MB Set 4 3 Manufacturer M
17. MAN 300649 000 Medley ATA RAID SOFTWARE to be used with the Sil 0680 amp Sil 0649 User s Manual June 28 2002 Revision 1 1 silicon Image Trademarks and Copyright 2001 Silicon Image Inc All rights reserved Silicon Image the Silicon Image logo Sil Sil 0680 and Medley are trademarks or registered trade marks of Silicon Image Inc in the United States and other countries Other trademarks are property of their respective holders Copyright 2002 Silicon Image Inc All rights reserved Silicon Image reserves the right to make changes to this manual and the equipment described in this manual without notice Silicon Image has made all reasonable efforts to ensure that the information in this manual is accurate and complete Silicon Image will not be liable however for any technical or editorial errors or omissions made in this manual or for inci dental special or consequential damage of whatsoever nature resulting from the furnishing of this manual or operation and performance of equipment in connection with this manual 2 Sl age m nant Medley Manual Rev 1 1 wan TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 OVERVIEW Product Overview RAID Explained 2 INSTALLING PCI 680 BOARD 3 INSTALLING DRIVERS AND SOFTWARE Windows 2000 Operating System Windows NT Operating System Windows 98 Me Operating System 4 CREATING DELETING RAID SETS Disk Drive and Set Reporting Numbering
18. S partition or Logical DOS Drive 2 Set active partition 3 Delete partition or Logical DOS Drive 4 Display partition information 5 Change current fixed disk drive Enter choice 1 Press Esc to exit FDISK The following window will appear Create DOS Partition or Logical DOS Drive Current fixed disk drive 2 Choose one of the following 1 Create Primary DOS Partition 2 Create Extended DOS Partition 3 Create Logical DOS Drive s in the Extended DOS Partition Enter choice 1 Press Esc to return to FDISK Options Select 2 to create an extended partition and press Enter mn Medley Manual Rev 1 1 Silicon Image The following window will appear Create Extended DOS Partition Current fixed disk drive 2 Verifying drive integrity complete _ Once the percentage counter reaches 100 the following window will appear lolx Create Extended DOS Partition Current fixed disk drive 2 Total disk space is 29306 Mbytes 1 Mbyte 1048576 bytes Maximum space available for partition is 29298 Mbytes 100 Enter partition size in Mbytes or percent of disk space 2 to create an Extended DOS Partition 29298 Press Esc to return to FDISK Options This window explains how much space will be available in the partition Press Enter 5 12 Silicon Image Medley Manual Rev 1 1 This window shows that the partition has been created Press Esc Create Extended DOS Partition Curre
19. System 3 73 GB SECTION 1 ZPDisk 0 SECTION 2 Qnline lt 1 ee Basic 19 07 GB 19 07 GB SECTION 3 Online us allocated 19 08 GB Unallocated Disk 3 Basic SYSTEM DISK 3 73 GB 3 73 GB FAT Online Healthy System SjcbRom 0 CDRom D Online Bl Unallocated Primary Partition Silicon II Oe w nn as a Medley Manual Rev 1 1 This window has three main sections SECTION 1 System listing of all formatted and available disks RAID Sets SECTION 2 Report of physical connection of disks RAID Sets SECTION 3 Report of partition status disk letter and volume name Initial Window In SECTION 2 every disk should report as Basic Disk Size the actual available disk space will be reported here Online Instead of Basic a disk may also report as either Unknown or Dynamic If the disk reports as Unknown right click on the disk SECTION 2 and click on Write Signature At this point a window will appear with the disk in question all Unknown disks may appear in this win dow Make sure the box next to each disk is checked then click OK The disk should now report as Basic If a disk reports as Dynamic right click on SECTION 2 of that disk and click on Return disk to Basic Within seconds the disk should report as Basic Creating Partitions In SECTION 2 the disk order corresponds directly to the order t
20. acturer Model 19541 MB Set 1 lt 0 2 gt lt 1 3 gt Sil Mirrored Striped PM 39081 Press F1 to delete RAID set Press F2 to create RAID set Press F3 to create spare drive Press F4 to resolve conflicts Press lt ESC gt to exit RAID configuration utility As with Mirrored sets the brackets around the drive numbers in a Mirrored set represent different drives statuses such as 0 2 1 35 0 2 1 3 gt 0 2 1 3 0 2 lt 0 2 0 25 0 2 0 2 In other words represents a drive in a current status represents a drive in a rebuild status represents a drive in a dropped status represents the status of all four drives as current represents the status of drives 0 2 and 1 as rebuild and drive 3 as current represents the status of drives 0 and 2 as current and drives 1 and 3 as rebuild represents the status of drives 0 2 and 1 as current and drive 3 as rebuild represents the status of drives 0 2 and 1 as current and drive 3 as dropped represents the status of drives 0 and 2 as current and drives 1 and 3 as dropped represents the status of drives 0 2 and 1 as current and drive 2 s mirror missing represents the status of drives 0 and 2 as current but their mirrors missing In order for a Mirrored Striped set to be valid at least one of the striped sets must have both drives in current status In other words the example above either 0 2 must be current or 1 3
21. and MS DOS In addition disk utilities that were not designed explicitly for the FAT32 file system will not be able to work with this disk If you need to access this disk with other operating systems or older disk utilities do not enable large drive support Do you wish to enable large disk support YZH Press Enter for yes Rm Medley Manual Rev 1 1 w a Silicon Image m 5 The FDISK Options window will appear Microsoft Windows 98 Fixed Disk Setup Program CC Copyright Microsoft Corp 1983 1998 FDISK Options Current fixed disk drive 1 Choose one of the following Create DOS partition or Logical DOS Drive Set active partition Delete partition or Logical DOS Drive Display partition information Change current fixed disk drive Enter choice 1 Press Esc to exit FDISK The Current Fixed Drive will be the System Drive normally C In order to create partitions the fixed drive needs to be changed Select 5 and press Enter Change Current Fixed Disk Drive Mbytes Free Usage 814 1002 814 29306 29306 z 8 1002 1 MByte 1048576 bytes Enter Fixed Disk Drive Number 1 3 Press Esc to return to FDISK Options Enter the disk number to partition and press Enter 5 10 Silicon Image Medley Manual Rev 1 1 With the Current fixed drive set at the disk needing to be partitioned Select 1 and press Enter FDISK Options Current fixed disk drive 2 Choose of the following 1 Create DO
22. ce drive included in the set Enter the second drive number destination drive in Mirrored set 5 Enter the second drive for example enter 3 The following screen appears Do you want to copy from the source to destination drive Y N What does this question mean If the disk assigned as the source disk already has been parti tioned and has data stored on it and then a second disk is added for redundancy the data on the source drive can be copied to the destination drive so the disks are identical and all subsequent data will be written to both drives as a Mirrored set If however the source disk does not have data already stored on it answer N 6 After answering the following screen appears Auto Rebuild enabled Y N Are you sure Y N LIA mr Medley Manual Rev 1 1 wara Silicon Image m 4 5 7 Answer Y to create Mirrored set The following screen appears Primary Channel Drive Number 0 Manufacturer Model 19541 MB Drive Number 1 Manufacturer Model 19541 MB Secondary Channel Drive Number 2 Manufacturer Model 19541 MB Drive Number 3 Manufacturer Model 19541 MB Set 1 0 2 Sil Striped set PM 39081 MB Set 2 1 3 Sil Mirrored set PS 19541 MB Press F1 to delete RAID set Press F2 to create RAID set Press F3 to create spare drive Press F4 to resolve conflicts Press lt ESC gt to exit RAID configuration utility Note that the size of the RAID set is still
23. d Maxtor 4G150J8 F d Slave Serial Number 3 Secondary G8000000 amp Master Slave Firmware Version Sets ATA Version ATA ATAPI 5 Set 0 Nonremovable Current Mode UDMA 6 Bytes Interrupt Look ahead Enabled Write cahe Enabled Capacity 156334 MB Device Smart Configuration Identify Data SMART Information Support Yes Device Smart Configuration Identify Data Enabled Yes Status Threshold OK D 0 1 2 3 5 45 0000 0040 3 c837 0010 0000 0000 00 dedos rss 0008 0000 0000 3847 3030 3030 3030 20 Current Mode UDMA 6 0016 2020 2020 2020 2020 0003 1000 00 0024 384b 3931 304b 6144 7478 7266 34 Mode After Reboot EER 0032 3036 384a 2020 2020 2020 2020 20 Spare Diive after reboot 0040 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 20 P 0048 0000 200 4000 0200 0000 0007 Only hard disk can be configurated as a spare 0056 OOS 10 OOfh 0110 Off ooi 0064 0003 0028 0078 0078 0078 0000 OO 0072 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0080 007e 0018 7 69 409 4003 7 69 Ocl 0088 407f 0000 0000 0000 0000 603b 0096 0000 0000 0000 0000 7400 1315 woo ANNAN 02000 Ammo ANNM noo noo lt TIT gt NOTE SMART support is not enabled with Version 1 0 of Medley GUI oe i Medley Manual Rev 1 1 Silicon Image m 6 3 By selecting a specific RAID set such as Set 0 the type of RAID
24. e board has been has been properly installed when the computer is powered on the OS will automatically search for new devices When the new board is found a window will appear asking if you will want to load a new driver Click Yes and a window requesting the specific driver will appear The driver is located on the provided floppy disk Insert the floppy disk into the floppy disk drive and click Browse Most floppy disk drives are configured as A Choose the A drive in your browser and the PnP680r sys file for the Sil 0680 or PnP649r sys file for the Sil 0649 should appear Select the file and click Open Verify that the directly listed in this window is A and click OK Now a window verifying that the new Driver for the board has been properly installed Click Finish It is always good to Restart the computer after an installation When asked to do so Click Yes To install Medley use Windows InstallShield by performing the following After computer restarts insert floppy disk in floppy disk drive Double click on My Computer Double click on 3 1 2 Floppy A Double click on Install SilConfig exe Follow on screen instructions to complete installation Note Do NOT install in the Start Up folder Choose the Default folder normally Accessories or Administrative Tools or some thing similar Qvi O IS Windows NT Operating System Windows NT does not have an automatic Find Device setting and so after the operating
25. enu SMTP The SMTP server is the server that is used to Log File Audio Popup send e mails Normally the network administra SMTP Email EventLevel tor knows what this name is Both the name and domain must be entered SMTP Information SMTP server is the server that is use to send e mails Contact your network administrator to find out the name of this server Be sure to Include the name and domain Example server company com SMTP Configuration SMTP Server dr ai ee EAE Configuration Menu E Mail The current Medley configuration may be sent Log mug Popup via e mail Using the e mail tab in the Medley SMTP Email Notification Eventlevel Configuration Menu the user may set the E mail information default e mail address and subject line to where The e mail address and subject are use when sending the the configuration would be sent This however Medley configuration by e mail Both can be overriden at can be overridden at the time of sending the the point when the configuration is sent email E mail Configuration E mail Address E mail Subject SilCfg Configuration information from s Medley Manual Rev 1 1 w a Silicon lmage m 6 7 Notification When different types of events occur Medley Configuration Manu may be configured to send notices to assigned individual e mail addresses Using the Notification tab all e ma
26. et 0 Seconda Current PrimaryM Current The Members tab of this window reports the device identification corresponding with the information in the BIOS and the State of each device Besides reporting information the Members tab of a Mirrored set allows the user to remove a specific drive from that set as well as add a designated Spare drive to a Mirrored set that has experienced a disk failure A drive can NOT be removed from a Striped set as this would destroy all data If more than one set exists clicking on each Set in the Configuration Tree provides specific information for that Set Note that when a Mirrored Set is first created the State of the destination drive may report as Rebuild for as much as 30 90 minutes depending on the size of the disk Medley Manual Rev 1 1 M Alicon age 6 5 SMART and Configuration information as well as Data Identification is again provided for each Set 6 6 SilCfg for Medley a FAE LELT5Y14VRE 89 6800 0 Primary a Master Slave 3 Secondary Master 89 Slave Sets d Set 0 SilCfg for Medley Baa a Set Members SMART Configuration Identify Data a SMART Information Support Yes Enabled Yes Status Threshold OK Hot Spare and Auto Rebuild When enabled a hot spare will automaticly be added to this set and a rebuild started when a member is dropped Only valid for mirrored se
27. h disk or RAID Set Section 2 reports on each partition and allows the user to format or delete partitions Creating Partitions 1 10 11 12 13 If any disk besides the SYSTEM WARNING Be sure to identify the System Disk that DISK appear to be formatted right which has the Operating System installed on it This click on that partition Section 2 and disk should always report correctly NEVER CHANGE select Delete OR DELETE THIS DISK OR PARTITION Once all disks are reporting as Free Space right click on each partition and select Create A Create Primary Partition window should now appear Click OK Click Confirm Repeat this step for each disk Now right click on the first disk and select Mark Active A window will appear stating that this will take place on the next reboot Click OK Repeat this step for each disk Close window Confirm saving changes Click Yes Disk Administrator will report that the disks were updated successfully Click OK Re open Disk Administrator Right click on the first disk this should now be the Striped Set Select Format n Medley Manual Rev 1 1 w a Silicon Image m 5 7 Something similar to the following window should appear Format E i x Capacity Unknown capacity Y File System NTFS Allocation Unit Size Default allocation size Volume Label Format Options n Enable Compression es 14 While Capacity ca
28. he Sets appear in the BIOS Therefore the first Unallocated Partition represents Set 1 and so on 1 Atthis point there should be three disks with Unallocated partitions Right click on the partition of the first disk and click on Create Partition The Create Partition Wizard should appear 1 The first window is an introductory window to the Wizard Click Next 2 The second window designates the partition as a primary partition Click Next 3 The third window designates the partition size Since this is a Striped RAID set utilizing 2 disk drives the size of the partition should be approximately double the size of a single disk drive assuming all disks are of identical size Click Next 4 The fourth window designates the drive letter of the partition q rm 8 Medley Manual Rev 1 1 w Eimsa Silicon Image m 5 3 5 The fifth window allows the user to label the volume name and choose the type of format ting to take place upon the creation of the partition Choose which ever drive letter is desired the lowest possible value is automatically entered name the volume whatever is desired suggestions being something generic such as STRIPED SET or something specif ic to use such as FINANCIAL CRITICAL MISCELLANEOUS etc then check the box next to quick format Click Next 6 The sixth window is a summary window listing all of the selections made Click Finish Depending on the size of the disk drive
29. il addresses desired to receive the notices may be entered E mail Notification Information E mail notification is use to send an e mail to each address in the list for each event received from the driver The event subject will be the subject of each e mail sent Log File Audio 4 SMTP Email Notification EventLevel Subject Event from system SII Z5460MT3LAS Address List Add Remove Event Level Configuration Menu There are different types of e mail notifications that may be sent which are set with the Event Logfile Ei Level tab The different levels are SMIG Email Notification Event Level Event Level Information Disabled No event logs will be sent The event level sets which level of event logs are sent by e mail Informational The following events will be sent Informational Warnings Errors Event Level Configuration Move the slider to set event level for notification Warning The following events will be sent Warnings Errors Disabled No event logs will be sent Errors The following events will be sent Errors 68 www Silicon Image m Medley Manual Rev 1 1 aE Log File Configuration Menu The log file is used to store event information received from all the Silicon Image IDE RAID SMTP E mail Notification Eventlevel drivers The log file is a text file and can
30. in Remove R41 Chip IO space access is disabled but can be enabled Chip IO space access is enabled and cannot be disabled Do not overwrite System ID Subsystem Vendor ID at PCI RESET Replace SID SVID with Sil values at PCI RESET Disable RAID BIOS PCI Scan for attached devices Enable RAID BIOS PCI Scan for attached devices 3 Insert the board into a PCI slot that supports bus master DMA Refer to Figure 1 Your computer s manual should identify the bus master slots 2 2 age Medley Manual Default In Out Rev 1 1 roc 4 Connect your Ultra IDE drives to the board Align pin 1 on the a Bus drive cable to pin one on the board s primary or secondary eo D acum Master IDE connector Pin 1 the primary and secondary IDE con a m PCI Slot nector is indicated on the board Pin 1 on the drive cable is indicated by a colored stripe 5 Power up computer 6 The system will prompt To finish setting up your new hard ware you must restart your computer When this prompt 7 Figure 1 appears select Yes The system will restart at this time Board Installation NOTE This board has not been certified for FCC EU or UL oLQ OQ m Medley Manual Rev 1 1 wsw lt r aIr Silicon Image m 2 3 l 2 4 SCO lage wr Medley Manual Rev 1 1 aaa 3 INSTALLING DRIVERS AND SOFTWARE Windows 2000 Operating System After th
31. ls or something similar DU N Windows 98 Me Operating System With the board newly installed as Windows 98 Me boots the New Device will be detected and the Add New Hardware Wizard window will appear Follow the instructions in each window using the driver installation files PnP680r mpd or PnP649r mpd on the provided floppy disk as necessary To install the Medley GUI use Windows InstallShield by performing the following After computer restarts insert floppy disk in floppy disk drive Double click on My Computer Double click on 3 1 2 Floppy A Double click on InstallSilConfig exe Follow on screen instructions to complete installation Note Do NOT install in the Start Up folder Choose the Default folder normally Accessories or Administrative Tools or some thing similar aARON gt 1 3 2 m a s Medley Manual Rev 1 1 aaa 4 CREATING DELETING RAID SETS Creating and deleting RAID sets is a function found in the BIOS During bootup the following message will appear pausing for a few moments to allow the user to choose what to do Press F3 to enter RAID utility In order to properly prepare and maintain a storage system the user needs to be aware of which drive was installed as the Primary Master Primary Slave Secondary Master and Secondary Slave Identifying these drives will not only be useful because they are reported in order in the BIOS as well in Medley
32. ly available with the Sil 0680 and the Sil 0649 The Sil 0680 is a PCI to ATA 100 host controller which is PCI 2 2 compliant and can transfer data up to the maximum of 133MB per second while the Sil 0649 is a PCI to ATA 100 host controller which is PCI 2 1 compliant and can transfer data up to the maximum of 100MB per second Key features of both include two independent channels for ATA interface and 3 3V operation with 5V tolerant I Os The Sil 0680 has support for all existing PIO and UDMA timing modes and is available in a 144 Pin LQFP low profile quad flat package The Sil 0649 offers support for both native and legacy mode and pin to pin compatibility with the Sil 0648 Ultra ATA 66 offering and is available in a 160 Pin TQFP thin quad flat package Medley greatly enhances two main areas of data storage performance and data integrity By using RAID 0 also known as Striping performance of sustained data transfer rates is greatly enhanced by simultaneously writing data to 2 3 or 4 drives The second benefit of RAID is data redundancy RAID 1 Mirroring writes identical data on two drives or sets of drives thus protecting the data from a disk failure If for any reason one drive were to fail your data is secure and available from the mirrored second drive For the best of both worlds performance and data redundancy you can use RAID 0 1 that combines the performance increase of RAID 0 with the data availability of RAID 1 Medley sup por
33. n not be changed make sure that File System has NTFS selected don t change Default Allocation Size and since it is the Striped Set that is being formatted enter Striped Set for Volume Label Make sure that Quick Format is selected as the Format Option 15 Repeat this procedure for the other two disks but name them something else 16 Close Disk Administrator and open My Computer icon should be on Desktop 17 The new disks should now appear in My Computer window 18 Close all windows and applications and Restart computer 58 Dl TE Medley Manual Rev 1 1 aaa Windows 98 Me Operating System Windows 9x does not have a Disk Administrator or Disk Management window Instead after creating RAID sets using the BIOS RAID utility and booting Windows start fdisk by gt Click on the START button Select Run Type fdisk Click OK The following window will probably appear fdisk Of x Your computer has a disk larger than 512 MB This version of Windows includes improved support for large disks resulting in more efficient use of disk space on large drives and allowing disks over 2 GB to formatted as a single drive IMPORTANT If you enable large disk support and create any new drives on this disk you will not be able to access the new drive s using other operating systems including some versions of Windows 95 and Windows HT as well as earlier versions of Windows
34. nt fixed disk drive 2 Partition Status Type Volume Label Mbytes System 1 EXT DOS 29298 UNKNOWN Extended DOS Partition created Press Esc to continue FDISK is now creating a logical drive fdisk Auto Create Logical DOS Drive s in the Extended DOS Partition No logical drives defined Verifying drive integrity 12 complete Once the percentage counter reaches 100 the following window appears mn sapaqa Ta Medley Manual Rev 1 1 Silicon Image Once again this window reports size Create Logical DOS Drive s in the Extended DOS Partition No logical drives defined Total Extended DOS Partition size is 29298 Mbytes 1 MByte 1048576 bytes Maximum space available for logical drive is 29298 Mbytes 100 Enter logical drive size in Mbytes or percent of disk space 2 29298 Press Esc to return to FDISK Options Press Enter and the following window appears Create Logical DOS Drive s in the Extended DOS Partition Dry Volume Label Mbytes System Usage D 29298 UNKNOWN 1002 All available space in the Extended DOS Partition is assigned to logical drives Press Esc to continue This window now shows the drive and its drive letter and size Press Esc 5 14 Silicon Image Medley Manual Rev 1 1 If another drive RAID set needs to be partitioned repeat the process starting by changing the fixed disk drive Press 5 If done press Esc NES
35. odel SS 19541 MB Press F1 to create Striped set Press F2 to create Mirrored set Press F3 to create Mirrored Striped set Press ESC to exit Your selection 2 Choose F3 and the following screen appears Select the chunk size to be used in RAIDO set A Auto COnfigure 0 1 1 2k 2 4k 3 8k 4 16k 5 32k 6 64k 7 128k 8 256k 9 5M Your selection 3 Choose desired chunk size The following screen appears Enter the first source drive number in Mirrored Striped set 4 To optimize throughput have both the total capacity of the source drives must be LESS THAN OR EQUAL TO the total capacity of the destination drives for example choose 0 The following screen appears Enter the second source drive number in Mirrored Striped set 5 For example choose 2 The following screen appears Enter the first destination drive number in Mirrored Striped set n mr Medley Manual Rev 1 1 wara Silicon Image m 4 7 um 6 For example choose 1 The following screen appears Enter the second destination drive number in Mirrored Striped set 7 For example choose 3 The following screen appears Are you sure Y N 8 Enter Y to create Mirrored Striped set The following screen appears Primary Channel Drive Number 0 Manufacturer Model 19541 MB Drive Number 1 Manufacturer Model 19541 MB Secondary Channel Drive Number 2 Manufacturer Model 19541 MB Drive Number 3 Manuf
36. rmation The middle third reports Set information The bottom third provides function information The name of the manufacturer and model number should actually appear Also the size of each drive set appears in this example these are 20GB drives with 19541MB space available SS Mu ilin UGE mus n Medley Manual Rev 1 1 4 5 Press F2 to create a RAID set The following screen appears Primary Channel Drive Number 0 Manufacturer Drive Number 1 Manufacturer Secondary Channel Drive Number 2 Manufacturer Drive Number 3 Manufacturer Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 0 1 2 3 Manufacturer Manufacturer Manufacturer Manufacturer Model Model Model Model Model Model Model Model Press F1 to create Striped set Press F2 to create Mirrored set Press F3 to create Mirrored Striped set Press ESC to exit Your selection Choose which type of RAID set to create pM lt PS gt lt SM gt lt SS gt 19541 19541 19541 19541 19541 19541 19541 19541 If a Striped Set is desired press F1 The following screen appears Select the chunk size to be used in RAIDO set A Auto Configure 9 5M Your selection MB MB MB MB MB MB MB MB 1 1 2k 2 4k 3 8k 4 16k 5 32k 6 64k 7 128k 8 256k What is Auto Configure Auto Configure allows the Medley to choose the chunk size and drives to be used in the desired RAID set It
37. rotection from a single disk failure If a read failure occurs on one drive the system reads the data from the other drive Mirrored Striping RAID 0 1 also known as RAID 10 A Mirrored Striped Set does just what it says combining both Striping and Mirroring technologies to pro vide both the performance enhancements that come from Striping and the data availability and integrity that comes from Mirroring When data is written to a Mirrored Striped Set instead of creating just one virtual disk as Striping would do a second Mirrored virtual disk is created as well 1 2 m ws lt age s m nu Medley Manual Rev 1 1 2 INSTALLING THE Sil 0680 and Sil 0649 BOARDS Installing the Sil 0680 Evaluation Board Medley Software RAID requires the Sil 0680 chip to be installed either on the computer s motherboard or on an independent board installed in a PCI slot To install the board 1 Power down the computer system 2 Confirm that the jumpers on the add in board are set properly JP Jumper Setting Description for 680 Default In BARS Disable JPO Out BAR5 Enable Qu In 1 Out Device always RAID class In Bus 3 Insertthe board into an available PCI slot Master lt PCI Sot 4 Connect your hard disk drives to the board Align pin 1 on the drive cable to pin one on the board s primary or secondary IDE connector Pin 1 on the primary and secondary IDE
38. s included in the partition the partition should change from Unallocated to Healthy with its name and drive letter reported as well in a matter of minutes or less Do not attempt to create a partition for the next disk until the disk currently being formatted is complete and reports Healthy Also note that once the disk reports Healthy it appears in the listing in SECTION 1 with all of its perti nent information as well 2 Repeat this procedure for the partition of the second and third disk 3 Close the Data Management window by clicking on the small boxed X in the top right corner of the window 4 Click on the My Computer icon on the Desktop The three new drives should now be visible and properly named Data may now be stored to each of these disks if desired 5 4 s Dl age M Medley Manual Rev 1 1 aaa Windows NT Operating System Before creating any partitions RAID sets must first be created dissolved using the BIOS RAID Utility Once completed continue booting Windows Once Windows is running open the Disk Administrator window The Disk Administrator window is located at Start Programs Disk Administrator Common Something similar to the following window should appear zi Disk Administrator Partition Tools View Options Help rm E Disk 0 Free Space 19540 MB 19540 E Disk 1 NTFS 19540 MB 19540 MB I Disk 2 43375 MB E Disk 3
39. system boots click on the Start button located at the bottom left hand corner of the Desktop select Settings and then Control Panel Find and click on the SCSI Adapters Click Add The next window is asking for the location of the driver to be installed Since the driver is on the provid ed floppy disk insert the floppy in the floppy disk drive and click Have Disk The next window is asking for the location of the driver Most floppy disk drives are configured as A To verify click on Browse An s Medley Manual Rev 1 1 watss Silicon Image m 3 The next window verifies that the appropriate file is located on A Select the Oemsetup inf and click Open A should appear in the window Click OK The next window allows you to select which driver to install Only one driver should appear in this win dow Select Sil 0680 Ultra133 Raid Controller or Sil 0649 Ultra100 Raid Controller and click on OK It is always good to Restart the computer after an installation Click Yes To install the Medley GUI use Windows InstallShield by performing the following After computer restarts insert floppy disk in floppy disk drive Double click on My Computer Double click on 3 1 2 Floppy A Double click on InstallSilConfig exe Follow on screen instructions to complete installation Note Do NOT install Medley in the Start Up folder Choose the Default folder normally Accessories or Administrative Too
40. ts RAID levels 0 1 and 0 1 Two major challenges facing the storage industry today are improving disk I O throughput to keep pace with the increasing performance demands of the computer and providing data accessibility in the face of hard disk failures Medley addresses both of these concerns in a straightforward easy to use way An s Medley Manual Rev 1 1 watss Silicon Image m RAID Explained RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks RAID technology manages multiple disk drives to enhance I O performance and provide redundncy in order to withstand the failure of any individual member without loss of data Medley provides three RAID Set types Striped RAID 0 Mirrored RAID 1 and Mirrored Striped RAID 0 1 Disk Striping RAID 0 Striping is a performance oriented non redundant data mapping technique While Striping is discussed as a RAID Set type it is actually does not provide fault tolerance With modern ATA bus mastering tech nology multiple I O operations can be done in parallel enhancing performance Striping arrays use multiple disks to form a larger virtual disk This figure shows a stripe set using three disks with stripe one written to disk one stripe two to disk two and so forth Strip 0 Disk Mirroring RAID 1 Disk mirroring creates an identical twin for a selected disk by having the data simultaneously written to two disks This redundancy provides instan taneous p
41. ts and mirrored striped sets Disabled Apply FAE LELT5Y14VRE 89 6800 0 3 Primary 25 Master Slave 8 Secondary a Master Slave dE Sets Set 0 SVC age mss n Set Members SMART Configuration Identify Data D 0000 0008 0016 0024 0032 0040 0048 0056 0064 0072 0080 0088 0036 an 0040 0000 0000 3030 5320 2020 0000 003 0003 0000 007 407 0000 1 0000 0000 2020 7465 2020 200 fc10 0078 0000 0018 0000 0000 2 c837 0000 0000 2020 2020 2020 4000 006 0078 0000 TcB3 0000 0000 onn 3 0010 0000 0000 6953 2020 2020 0200 0110 0078 0000 4109 0000 0000 AA 4 0000 0000 0003 2049 2020 2020 0000 6500 0078 0000 4003 0000 6500 eoo 5 0000 0000 1000 4152 2020 2020 0007 1315 0000 0000 7c69 603b 1315 00 oot 00 44 20 98 20 Sift oot oot oot Ocl ene Medley Manual Rev 1 1 Medley Configuration Menu By clicking on the toolbox icon in the top left of the Medley GUI window or right clicking on the conduc tor icon in the bottom right of the computer screen with other start up icons the user may configure Medley including customizing the settings for SMTP E mail Notification Event Level Log File Audio and Popup Configuration M
42. ufacturer Model 19541 MB Set 1 0 2 Sil Striped set PM 39081 MB Set 2 1 Manufacturer Model PS 19541 MB Set 3 3 Manufacturer Model SS 19541 MB Press F1 to delete RAID set Press F2 to create RAID set Press F3 to create spare drive Press F4 to resolve conflicts Press lt ESC gt to exit RAID configuration utility sse OIl age us Medley Manual Rev 1 1 Creating Mirrored Sets 1 To create a Mirrored set at the opening screen press F2 The following screen appears Press F1 to create Striped set Press F2 to create Mirrored set Press F3 to create Mirrored Striped set Press ESC to exit Your selection 2 Mirrored set uses 2 disk drives To create a Mirrored set press F2 The following screen appears Set up Mirrored set Do you want automatic set up No copy operation Y N 3 If you want the Mirrored set created automatically press Y and follow directions If you wish to enter each drive and all pertinent information press N The following screen appears Enter the first drive number source drive in Mirrored set 4 n a Mirrored set the source drive needs to be EQUAL TO OR SMALLER than the destination drive For optimal performance the source drive and destination drive should be from different channels After entering the source drive for example enter 1 the fol NOTE The TOTAL size of a Mirrored set is the size lowing screen appears of the sour
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