Serial ATA RAID User`s Guide
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1. Log File Specification 34 RAI D Manual p65 34 2004 12 15 9 04 Serial ATA RAID User s Guide Popup Tab SATARAID5 can be configured to notify the user of events using messages in popup windows Use the slider control to set the event level for popups to occur Error Level The following events will trigger a popup window Errors Warning Level The following events will trigger a popup window Warnings Errors Information Level The following events will trigger a popup window Informational Warnings Errors Disable All No events will trigger a popup window Configuration Screen xj Log File Popup Advanced Options Popup Window Information Popup window is a visual notification that an event has occurred The popup window can be disabled or set to pop up for only certain event levels Event Level Control Move the slider to set notification level Informational Warmin 3 Error Event Level The popup window will be displayed T Error when an ERROR eventis generated Disabled cancel 35 RAI D Manual p65 35 2004 12 15 9 04 Serial ATA RAID User s Guide Advanced Options The Advanced Options tab is used to control advanced features of the RAID driver By default all these advanced options are disabled Log File Popup Advanced Options Advanced Options Information This configuration panel allows users to control advanced features ofthe RAID2. x File Device RAID Group Window Legacy Support Help Eai Controller 0 a TTE A Device 1 Device 2 Device 3 Rebuild RAID Gr s Rg gt E volume 8 RG Popup Menu RAID Groups Window Controller Si3114 Link Status Up 32 RAI D Manual p65 32 2004 12 15 9 04 Serial ATA RAID User s Guide RAID Groups and Device Configuration Windows The RAID Groups window identifies SATA host adapters and configured RAID groups Selecting each RAID group in the RAID Groups window members con sisting of the RAID group will be highlighted in the Device Configuration window Right clicking on each node in the RAID Group window a popup menu will be displayed to let user select action to be performed for the selected controller or RAID group The Device Configuration window identifies all physical drives and their partitions A physical drive can be partitioned to several portions and each portion can be a RAID group member a spare drive or a virtual drive The following is another example of the main window showing different configuration One RAID 10 mirrored striped group one RAID 1 mirrored group and one global spare drive are configured fa SATARAIDS Array Manager 2N lO x File Device RAID Group Window Legacy Support Help Controller 0 E volume A RGO Volume B RG1 Device 0 Device 1 Device 2 Volume A RGO Volume A RGO Volume B RG1 Volume B RG1 10GB 1 0 GB 4 0 GB B Mirrored Striped Mirrored
3. 12 15 9 04 Serial ATA RAID User s Guide S Specify Additional Device ENTER Continue F3 Exit 6 Press lt Enter gt to continue C ENTER Select F3 Exit 7 Follow screen instructions to install the RAID drivers 28 RAI D Manual p65 28 2004 12 15 9 04 Serial ATA RAID User s Guide 7 Creating Naming Partitions The creating and naming of partitions is something done within the Windows operating system And while Windows XP 2000 2003 use the Disk Management window there are enough nuances that make it important to follow the procedure specifically for the appropriate operating system Windows XP 2000 2003 Computer Management 3 T ID xj tution view e s O0 a Volume ayo Type File Syste Status packy EISYSTEM DISK C Partition Basic FAT Healthy System 3 73 G5 z lt j disk o Basic 19 08 GB 19 06 GB Onine Unallocated disk 1 Basic 19 07 19 07 GB Online Unallocated disk 2 Basic 19 08 GB 19 08 GB Onine Unallocated SYSTEM DISK C 3 73 GB FAT Heakhy Sistem BB Undlecated I Primary Partion Windows XP 2000 2003 Operating System Before creating any partitions RAID sets must first be created dissolved by us ing the BIOS RAID Utility Once completed continue booting Windows Once Windows is running open the Disk Management window located at Control PanelAdministrative Tools Computer Management Storage gt Disk Management Something similar to
4. Device item form Integrated Peripherals menu 3 Switch the SATA Mode option to RAID 4 Save the BIOS setting and exit the BIOS setup program 4 RAID Configuration Utility A Setting RAID 0 a When the system powers on the following information will appear on screen Press the lt Ctrl I gt to enter RAID Configuration Utility At this moment press lt Ctrl gt lt I gt to enter Main Menu Tetel A 2 eee ess Accelerator RAID Option RON v4 8 8 621 Copyr ight E Za hial emali All Rights Reserved m 2 Delete car 3 r sists te Noa RAID 4 SISK VOLUME INFORMATION RAID Volumes None defined Physical Disks Port Drive Medel Serial Size TypevStatus Vol ID i HOC NDZO20JD 0AF HD MMAEH2657662 1865 308 Hon BALD Disk 2 HOC KHDZ2AJD GAF ND MMAEN2650075 186 368 Non BAID Disk RAI D Manual p65 3 2004 12 15 9 04 Serial ATA RAID User s Guide b Choose Create RAID Volume and press lt Enter gt to enter Press lt Tab gt to switch to RAID Level item and then use Up and Down arrow keys to select RAIDO Stripe pressing lt Enter gt confirms Intel R Application Accelerator RAID Option ROM v4 6 8 6211 Copyright C 2883 84 Intel Corporation All Rights Reserved CREATE VOLUME MENU Strip Size Capacity 0 0 GB Create Volume Enter a string between 1 and 16 characters in length that can be used to uniquely identify the RAID volune This nane is case sensitive and can not contain special character
5. Logical Drive window i RA D Manual p65 RAID Configuration Utility Silicon Image Inc Copyright C 2004 The drive letter might be changed Are You Sure Y N LOGICAL DRIVE Sil Raidi Set Maxtor 401 20H6 Th iSelect Menu ESC Previous Menu Enter Select Ctrl E Exit RAID Configuration Utility Silicon Image Inc Copyright C 2004 Low Level Pormat Logical Drive Info ThiSelect Mena ESC Previous Menu Enter Select Ctrl E Exit 24 24 2004 12 15 9 04 Serial ATA RAID User s Guide Low Level Formatting The Low Level Format menu selection allows the complete erasure of data ona hard drive This is not an action which typically needs to be performed as format ting the drive under Windows is usually Logical Drive Information sufficient to prepare the drive for use This menu item allows the display of the assignment of physical drives within a logical set RAID set RAID 1 spare or unassigned It is a display only function Use the up and down arrow keys to scroll between the drives in the Logical Drive Properties window Press the ESC key when done viewing logical drive information RAID Configuration Utility Create RAID set Resolve Conflicts Low Level Format ogical Drive Info RAID Configuration Utility Create RAID set Delete RAID set Rebuild Raidi set Resolve Conflicts Low Level Format Logical Drive Info o IC35LO20AVERO7 0 64K CURREHT 1
6. Next 7 The last window is a summary window listing all of the selections made After verifying that everything is correct click Finish The status of the newly created partition in the Disk Management window should change to Formatting and the percentage complete will be displayed Depend ing upon the size of the partition the format process may take several minutes When complete the status will change to Healthy and the name and drive letter will be updated Also note that once the disk reports Healthy it appears in the listing in SECTION 1 with all of its pertinent information as well 2 Repeat the above procedure as needed for any other partitions 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 new drives will be visible and properly named The new disks are available for use i RA D Manual p65 31 31 2004 12 15 9 04 ni pa Serial ATA RAID User s Guide 8 Using Silicon Image SATA RAID GUI Overview The SATARAID5 GUI Installation program configures the SATARAID5 GUI to auto matically start when Windows is started If the SATARAID5 GUI does not automati cally start or is closed by the user choose the SATARAID5 program from the Start Menu to launch the GUI The SATARAID5 GUI monitors the system s RAID Group The main window will display ig SATARAIDS Array Manager 5
7. Striped LI 4 40G Mirrored Mirrored Volume A RG0 1 0 GB Mirrored Striped Volume A RGO 1 0 GB Mirrored Striped Controller 813114 Link Status Up 33 RAI D Manual p65 33 2004 12 15 9 04 Serial ATA RAID User s Guide Configuration SATARAID5 configuration options include customization of the settings for Log File Popup and Advanced Options This command displays a dialog box to let user set different configurations for SATARAID5 with the following three tabs Log File Tab The log file is used to store event information received from all Silicon Image RAID drivers The log file is a text file and can be viewed with any text viewer Such as Notepad or with the Event Log window of SATARAID5 Use the Log File tab to set location and the desired filename for the log file Configuration Screen x Log File Information The log file is used to preserve events received from the RAID driver Contents of the log file can be viewed via the Event Log option of the Window menu The log file generation can be controlled via the radio buttons in the Log File Generation section of this screen The file name and location can be set in the Log File Specification section ofthis screen Contents of the log file can be purged into another file or permanently deleted via the Purge button in the Log File Specification section ofthis screen Log File Generation Disabled C Enabled
8. disk into Drive A Press ENTER when ready ENTER Continue ESC Cancel F Exit 6 Select the right choice and press lt Enter gt to continue The choice is deter mined by South Bridge an adapter nanafacturer u want from the following list or press ES ENTER Select F3 Exit 14 RAI D Manual p65 14 2004 12 15 9 04 Serial ATA RAID User s Guide 7 Press lt Enter gt to continue S Specify Additional Device ENTER Continue FaieExit 8 After this the installation steps are the same as normal setup methods No details are provided herein 6 Installing RAID Driver When you finish installing Operation System with RAID in order to enable RAID function you need to install RAID driver Please refer to Chapter 4 of motherboard user manual for installation steps 15 RAI D Manual p65 15 2004 12 15 9 04 Serial ATA RAID User s Guide Silicon 3114 SATA RAID optional 1 Introduction Silicon Image s SATARAID5 software provides Serial ATA RAID 0 Striping RAID 1 Mirroring RAID 5 Parity RAID RAID 10 Striping and Mirroring and JBOD just a bunch of disks functionality to enhance the industry s leading PCI to SATA host controller products Two major challenges facing the storage industry today are keeping pace with the increasing performance demands of computer sys tems by improving disk I O throughput and providing data accessibility in the face of hard disk failures while utili
9. driver Please consult manual tor information about each option WARNING Incorrect usage of some options could result in data loss Advanced Options Specification I Legacy Bootable Support I Delete Member Support M Advanced RAID Features M Resources Info Support 36 RAI D Manual p65 36 2004 12 15 9 04 ni pa Parallel ATA RAID User s Guide ITE 8212F RAID 1 Introduction The ITE 8212F IDE RAID controller supports RAID 0 RAID 1 RAID 0 1 and JBOD configurations Use the IT8212F BIOS Setup Utility or the ATA RAID Manager appli cation to configure a disk array 2 Setting the BIOS RAID items After installing the hard disk drivers make sure to set the necessary RAID items in the BIOS before setting your RAID configuration To set the BIOS RAID items a Boot the system and press lt Del gt during the Power On Self Test POST to enter the BIOS Setup Utility b From the Intergrated Peripherals gt Onboard Device menu in the BIOS set the IT8212F Controller item to RAID Mode c Save your changes and exit Setup 3 Entering the ITE 8212F Setup Utility To enter the ITE 8212F Setup Utility a Boot up your computer b The IT8212F controller scans for IDE devices attached on the IDE RAID ports When prompted press lt Ctrl F gt or lt Ctrl E gt to display the main menu of the utility c At the bottom of the screen are the navigation keys These keys allow you to move through and se
10. the following window should appear 29 RAI D Manual p65 29 2004 12 15 9 04 Serial ATA RAID User s Guide O Computer Management a tution yew e 9 Om _j Layo STEMDISK C Partition Basic FAT SECTION1 SYSTEM DISK C 3 73 GB FAT Heakhy System BB Unalecated I Primary Pattition 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 icon 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 window 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 30 RAI D Manual p65 30 2004 12 15 9 04 Serial ATA RAID User s Guide Creating Partitions In SECTION 2 the disk order corresponds d
11. the user wants to increase the default size BIOS will display a warning message in the help window and for user s response before changing the default size RAID Configuration Utility Silicon Image Inc Copyright C 2004 MAIN MENU HELP This set size has reached Delete RAID set reserved size If vou want Rebuild Raidi set to continue to increase Resolve Conflicts the set size vou may des Low Level Format troy the data on the disk Logical Drive Info Are you sure you want to increase the size Y N Please input the raid size J op PHYSICAL DRIVE LOGICAL DRIVE O IC35LO20AVERO7 0 196B Sil Raidi Set 1 Maxtor 4ROOOLS 7668 Reserved drives 3 Maxtor 4G120H6 11568 Thiselect Menu ESC Previous Menu Enter Select Ctrl E Exit 26 RAI D Manual p65 26 2004 12 15 9 04 l _ Serial ATA RAID User s Guide 6 Installing Drivers and Software To install drivers and software 1 After computer restarts insert cd in disk drive 2 Double click on Install SATARaid exe 3 Follow on screen instructions to complete installation Install Windows XP 2000 2003 with RAID 1 Setup the desired RAID mode in BIOS setup 2 Insert a WinXP installation CD 3 Press the lt F6 gt when the following pictures appear Press F6 if you need to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver 4 Insert the previous floppy disk RAID driver installation disk 5 Press lt S gt to continue 27 RAI D Manual p65 27 2004
12. 15 9 04 Serial ATA RAID User s Guide c You may see the RAID type Member Disk 0 1 in the main menu when you finished the setting steps Intel R Application Accelerator RAID Option ROM v4 6 8 6211 Copyright C 2883 84 Intel Corporation All Rights Reserved DISK VOLUME INFORMATION RAID Volumes ID Hane Level Strip Size Status Bootable 6 RAID_Volune RAIDE Stripe 120KB 188 868 Normal Yes 1 RAID Volumet RAIDI Mirror WA 136 368 Normal Yes Physical Disks Port Drive Model Serial Size Type Status Vol ID 1 WDC WDZ2Q BJD 88F KD WMAEHZ657662 186 36 Member Disk 1 2 MDC KDZABBJD GAF HD HMNAEHZGS6A S 106 3G Member Disk 6 1 t Select Note This operation will delete all the data from hard disk so please take care And our company will not be responsible for data lose and benefit damage caused 11 RAI D Manual p65 11 2004 12 15 9 04 Serial ATA RAID User s Guide D Delete RAID Volume 1 Select Delete RAID Volume in main menu and press lt Enter gt key 2 Press lt Del gt key to delete the RAID volume in below screen DELETE VOLUME MENU Ce Deleting a volume will destroy the volume data on the rivels amd cease ang mesder disks to becowe available as non RAID disks WARNING EXISTING DATA WITHIN THIS VOLUME WILL IE LOST AND MON RECOUERASLE 3 Press lt Y gt key to confirm the volume deletion and press lt N gt to cancel the operation when following information
13. Image Inc Copyright C 2004 HELP Press Enter to select a RAID set Tl Select Mena ESC Previous Menu Enter Select Ctrl E Exit Rebuild RAID 1 Set This menu selection is used to initiate the copying of data from an existing drive to a replacement drive that has been installed in a RAID 1 set after the failure of one of the members 1 Select Rebuild RAID1 set 2 Select the desired set and press Enter 3 Press Y when asked Are You Sure 4 The set will be rebuilt The status of the rebuild is displayed in the MAIN MENU window RAID Configuration Utility Silicon Image Inc Copyright C 2004 HELP Press Enter to select raidi set to rebuild Invalid Raid drive Tl Select Menu ESC Previous Menu Enter Select Ctrl E Exit 22 RAI D Manual p65 22 2004 12 15 9 04 Serial ATA RAID User s Guide Resolving Conflict When a RAID set is created the metadata written to the disk includes drive con nection information including the channel on the host adapter to which it is connected 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 correct this se
14. Maxtor 4ROSOLI 64K CURRENT 2 S T330013AS 64K CURRENT 3 Maxtor 461206 64K CURRENT Silicon Image Inc Copyright C 2004 HELP Press Enter and select logical drive to display information in detail LOGICAL DRIVE Sil RaidiO Set Silicon Image Inc Copyright C 2004 Press TL for logical drive information or press ESC to exit LOGICAL DRIVE Sil RaidiO Set 25 o RA D Manual p65 25 2004 12 15 9 04 Serial ATA RAID User s Guide Reserved Drive and Setting Size for RAID Set Spare Drive or JBOD Once a physical drive has been used to create a RAID set spare drive or JBOD by BIOS utility BIOS saves user selected set or drive size in the reserved area of the physical drive There is no way to remove the reserved area information even after the user deletes the set or drive For this reason after a set or drive is deleted BIOS recognizes the physical drive as a reserved logical drive and it will not report the drive to the system BIOS When user selects to create a RAID set spare drive or JBOD he or she has to select size for the set or drive BIOS will set a default size for it and user can use the f and keys to change the size If the physical drive has never been used to create a set or drive by the BIOS before the full size of the physical drive will be set as default size Otherwise BIOS will set default size to the size it saved in the reserved area of the physical drive before If
15. RAID User Guide Edition V1 0 P N 91 187 U25 A2 0E Trademarks All brand or product names mentioned are trademarks or registered trade marks of their respective holders RAI D Manual Preface p65 1 2004 12 15 9 01 Contents Intel ICH6R SATA RAID cc scccceeeeceeeseeecenseaeeeenseeeeensnaeeeensaeeeenseeeeenees 1 TS INTOGUCTION Waitin weit ee Sa A ei Bees i eed eed 1 2 Installing SATA Hard Disks ceceececeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeaeseeeeaeeeeeeeneeeaees 3 3 BIOS Configuratio Nan ae aa en oh Oat ni dee Gh nalone 3 4 RAID Configuration Utility eee eeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaeeeeetaeeeaeseeeeeeeeeeaees 3 5 Installing Windows 2000 XP with RAID 0 00 ee eeseeeneeseeeneeteneeeseeeenees 13 6 Installing RAID Driver narn ee eeeeeeseeeeeeeeneeeeaeeeseeeeseeeeaeeeeeeeeaeeseeeeeaeeeaees 15 Silicon 3114 SATA RAID scceeeeeceeeseeceeeseeeeennneeseenneeseeeneeseeesseeseeenaes 16 AeINtrOdUCHION 0c ns Skew edhe ie ee r 16 2 SATARAIDS FO atures siicicdss csc ca zecaceshi cs esceas lends escedsccaadesesantescpensedtsesiaaueesas 16 3 Installing Serial ATA SATA Nard disks e eeeeceeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeereeeeeneeens 17 4 Setting the BIOS RAID items oe eece ee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaeseeeeeeeeaeeeeeaeeeeas 17 5 Creating and Deleting RAID Sets cc eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeneeeeeeas 18 6 Installing Drivers and Software ecceceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeteeeeeeeas 27 7 Creating Naming Partit
16. RAID installation disk into floppy disk drive following the on screen instructions and press lt Enter gt to continue f Follow screen instructions to install the RAID drivers 43 RAI D Manual p65 43 2004 12 15 9 04 Parallel ATA RAID User s Guide 10 Installing RAID Driver When you finish installing Operation System with RAID in order to enable RAID function you need to install RAID driver Please refer to Chapter 4 of motherboard user manual for installation steps 11 Creating a RAID drive disk A floppy disk with the RAID driver is required when installing Windows 2000 XP operating system on a hard disk driver that is included in a RAID set We have offered a floppy on the package if the floppy has been missed or damaged you can make a floppy disk with the RAID driver by yourself To creat a RAID driver disk a Place the motherboard support CD in the optical drive b When the Drivers menu appears select the RAID driver disk you wish to create Browse the contents of the support CD to locate the driver disk utility IT8212F RAID Driver Disk ChipDrv IDE Floppy Disk c Insert a formatted high density floppy disk to the floppy disk driver d Copy all of the files under the Floppy Disk document to the floppy disk e After creating a RAID driver disk eject the floppy disk then write protect it to prevent computer virus infection 44 RAI D Manual p65 44 2004 12 15 9 04
17. TTA 3S0340 c Use the up or down arrow keys to select editable fields d Use the Space bar to change field values e Press lt Ctrl Y gt to save RAID array f Press lt Esc gt to exit 39 RAI D Manual p65 39 2004 12 15 9 04 L Parallel ATA RAID User s Guide 6 Deleting a RAID array This option allows you to delete an existing RAID arrays To delete a RAID array a From the IT8212F Setup Utility screen press lt 3 gt The following screen appears b Use the up or down arrow keys to select a RAID array then press lt D gt to delete c Press lt Esc gt to exit 40 RAI D Manual p65 40 2004 12 15 9 04 l I Parallel ATA RAID User s Guide 7 Rebuilding a RAID array This option allows you to reconstruct an existing RAID array This option applies only to RAID1 Mirrored or RAID 0 1 Striped Mirrored sets To rebuild a RAID array a From the IT8212F Setup Utility screen press lt 4 gt The following screen appears b Use the up or down arrow keys to select a RAID array then press lt Enter gt to rebuild The following screen appears c Use the up or down arrow keys to select a drive then press lt Enter gt Follow succeeding screen instructions d Press lt Esc gt to exit 41 RAI D Manual p65 41 2004 12 15 9 04 I Parallel ATA RAID User s Guide 8 Viewing your RAID card configuration This option allows you to see the controllers
18. and press Enter 3 Select spare drive from the physical drive list and press Enter 4 Select spare drive size with t and keys 5 After the spare drive size is set the message Are You Sure will display before completing the configuration Answer N to abort the creation of the spare drive or Y to proceed with the spare drive creation Creating JBOD Since BIOS no longer reports non RAID drives to the system BIOS if a non RAID boot drive or data drive is desired a JBOD can be created so BIOS will report it to the system BIOS 1 To create a JBOD Select Create RAID set 2 Select JBOD and press Enter 3 Select JBOD drive from the physical drive list and press Enter 4 Select JBOD size with t and keys 5 After the JBOD size is set the message Are You Sure will display before completing the configuration Answer N to abort the creation of the JBOD or Y to proceed with the JBOD creation 21 RAI D Manual p65 21 2004 12 15 9 04 Serial ATA RAID User s Guide Deleting RAID Groups Spare Drive and JBOD 1 To remove one or more RAID sets spare drives and JBODs select Delete RAID set 2 Select the desired item to delete from the logical drive list and press Enter 3 Press Y when asked Are You Sure 4 The drives will be returned to the selection of logical drives from which a new RAID set can be created RAID Configuration Utility Silicon
19. appears A Note This operation will delete all the data from hard disk so please take care And our company will not be responsible for data lose and benefit damage caused 12 RAI D Manual p65 12 2004 12 15 9 04 I Serial ATA RAID User s Guide E Reset RAID 1 Select Reset Disk to Non RAID in main menu and press lt Enter gt key to delete the RAID setting and remove all RAID structures from the drives 2 Press lt Y gt key to confirm the volume deletion press lt N gt to cancel the operation 5 Installing Windows 2000 XP with RAID 1 Setup the desired RAID mode in BIOS setup follow the above steps 2 Insert Operation System installation disk into CD ROM and start up the setup program 3 Press lt F6 gt when the following picture appears on screen Press P6 If yeu weed to install a third party SCSI or MAID driver 4 Press lt S gt key to specify additional equipment when below picture appears 13 RAI D Manual p65 13 2004 12 15 9 04 Serial ATA RAID User s Guide LSI adapters CD ROM drive se with Windows inclading e support disk from ness rage device ss storage j additional se with Windows ss ENTER SeSpecify Additional Device ENTERContinme F3 Exit 5 Insert the add on RAID installation disk into floppy disk drive following the on screen instructions and press lt Enter gt to continue Please insert the disk labeled Menufecterer sepplied her were support
20. ation To set the BIOS RAID items 1 Boot the system and press lt Del gt during the Power On Self Test POST to enter the BIOS Setup Utility 2 From the Integrated Peripherals gt Onboard Device menu item in the BIOS set the Sil3114 SATA Controller item to RAID Mode 3 Save your changes and Exit Setup 17 RAI D Manual p65 17 2004 12 15 9 04 Serial ATA RAID User s Guide 5 Creating and Deleting RAID Sets Creating and deleting RAID sets is a function found in the Raid Configuration Utility Silicon Image During booting up the following message will appear pausing for a few moments to allow the user to choose what to do Press lt Ctrl S gt or F4 to enter RAID utility The Main Menu in the upper left corner is used to choose the operation to be performed The selections are Create RAID Set Delete RAID Set Rebuild RAID1 Set Resolve Conflicts Low Level Format Logical Drive Info Help Window displays context sensitive help and status messages Physical Drive Information window displays the model number and capacities of the drives physically attached to the SATA host adapter Logical Drive Information window displays all logical drives connected to the controller The upper part lists RAID sets and JBOD drives reported to the system BIOS The lower part lists spare drives reserved drives conflict drives and invalid drives not reported to the system BIOS The bottom line of the display lists the currently acti
21. d For Mirrored Sets the Source and Target drives can be selected 5 If auto configuration is selected BIOS will select RAID member drives automati cally and the chunk size of Striped Sets is set to 64KB 6 Select RAID set size with t and keys RAID Configuration Utility Silicon Image Inc Copyright C 2004 HELP Press Enter to select the RaidSize T increment 16B raid size digecrement 16 raid size IC3S5LO20AVERO7 0 or 4h080L3 unes ST330013AS Maxtor 401206 11508 TL Select Menu ESC Previous Menu Enter Select Ctrl E Exit 7 After the RAID set size is set the message Are You Sure will display before completing the configuration Answer N to abort the creation of the new RAID set or Y to proceed with the RAID set creation 8 RAID sets can be created in both BIOS and in the SATARaid5 GUI If you have excess Capacity left on your hard drives after creating a RAID set in the BIOS you can later go to the SATARaid5 GUI to create additional logical drives that fully utilize the capacity on all your hard drives 20 RAI D Manual p65 20 2004 12 15 9 04 Serial ATA RAID User s Guide Creating Spare Drive If there is a RAID 1 set spare driver can be created The spare drive can be allocated to the RAID 1 set in the event of a failure of one of the drives in the RAID1 set 1 To create a spare drive for RAID 1 set Select Create RAID set 2 Select Spare Drive
22. elect c Choose which two hard disks you want to set RAID 1 from Disks item if you install three or more SATA hard disks Otherwise continue with the next step Using up or down arrow key to select the hard disk lt Space gt key to confirm and lt Enter gt key to finish the selection Intel R Application Accelerator RAID Option BOM v4 0 6 6211 Copyright C 2069 01 Intel Corporation All Rights Reserved t pa Name RAID Voluse RAID Level RAIDIOMirror i Fort Drive Model Serial Size States LOCLE Select the disks to ase for creating the volume Th Previows Mext SPACE Selects ENTER Select io Complete ee th Change TAB Mext ESC Previous Mem ENTER Select b The following information will appear on screen Press Enter to create the specified volume Press the lt Enter gt key again to confirm Serial ATA RAID User s Guide c In below screen press lt Y gt key to confirm your choice Are you sure you want to create this volume Y N d Select option 4 Exit in main menu and press the lt Enter gt key to exit the RAID configuration utility Press lt Y gt key to confirm the exit Note This operation will delete all the data from hard disk so please take care And our company will not be responsible for data lose and benefit damage caused RAI D Manual p65 rf 2004 12 15 9 04 Serial ATA RAID User s Guide C Setting RAID 0 1 a To utilize RAID 0 1 fu
23. ions cc eececeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeneeeeeneeeas 29 8 Using Silicon Image SATA RAID GUI eee eeceeeeeeeeeeeeeteeeeeeeeeeeeeeneeeeens 32 ITE 821 QF RAID ict eh a ee 37 We WtROCUGCTION eiir aa aa apana A ate aa a a EER A AA REEERE 37 2 Setting the BIOS RAID items oe eee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeeeaeeneeeas 37 3 Entering the ITE 8212F Setup Utility eceeeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeereeeees 37 4 Auto configuring a RAID array oo eee eeseeeeeeeneeeeeeeseeeeaeeeeaeeeeeeeateneeeeenees 38 5 Defining a RAID atta icici ceive eka leis a 39 6 Deleting amp RAID arty vs sarapi weld inate ein ee au 40 7 Rebuilding a RAID array oo eeeeeeseeseeeeneeeeeeeeeeteaeeeeaeeeeeeseaeeeeateneneeenees 41 8 Viewing your RAID Configuration 0 ee eeeeeeseeseeeeneeeenreeeeeeeeeeetensaeeenees 42 9 Installing Windows 2000 XP with RAID 0 00 cesses eeeeeeneeteteeneeeenees 43 10 Installing RAID Driver oo cee eeeeesseeeneeteeeeeeeeeeseeeeaeeseeeeaeessaeeeeeenaeeesas 44 11 Creating a RAID driver disk ccceceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeteaeeeeeeeeeeetnreeaee 44 RA D Manual Pref ace p65 2 2004 12 15 9 01 Serial ATA RAID User s Guide Intel ICH6R SATA RAID 1 Introduction RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks is a method of combining two hard disk drives into one logical unit The advantage of an Array is to provide better performance or data fault tolerance Fault tolerance is achieved through da
24. irectly to the order the Sets appear in the BIOS Therefore the first Unallocated Partition represents Set 1 and so on 1 At this point there should be two disks with Unallocated partitions Right click on the partition of the first disk and click on Creat Partition The Create Partition Wizard should appear 1 In this example there are two disks with unallocated partitions Right click on the partition of the first disk and click on Creat Partition 2 The Create Partition Wizard should appear The first window is an intro ductory window to the Wizard Click Next 3 The second window designates the partition type Choose primary parti tion and click Next 4 The third window designates the partition size Since this is a Striped RAID set utilizing 2 disk drives the size of the partition will be approximately twice the size of the smallest single disk drive Click Next 5 The fourth window designates the drive letter of the partition Change the drive letter if desired Click Next 6 The next window allows the volume label to be set and selection of the type of formatting to take place upon the creation of the partition Make sure the Format this partition radio button is selected Name the volume as de sired Suggestions are generic names such as STRIPED SET or something specific to use such as FINANCIAL CRITICAL MISCELLANEOUS etc It is recommended to use the default NTFS for the file system Click
25. lect Resolve Conflict and the correct metadata including the correct drive connection information will automatically be written to the replacement disk 1 Select Resolve Conflicts and press Enter RAID Configuration Utility Silicon Image Inc Copyright C 2004 HELP Nelp for resolving conflicts Thiselect Menu ESC Previous Menu Enter Select Ctrl E Exit 2 Select the Conflict entry in the Logical Drive Status window and press Enter RAID Configuration Utility Silicon Image Inc Copyright C 2004 MAIN HELP Create RAID set Press Enter to seleot Delete RAID set the set Logical Drive Info IC35L020AVER07 0 Sil Raidi Set Maxtor 4RO8OL3 Maxtor 46120H6 ST330013AS Tl Select Menu ESC Previous Menu Enter Select Ctrl E Exit 23 RAI D Manual p65 23 2004 12 15 9 04 3 Note that some conflict resolutions may result in the drive letter assignment changing for example the RAID set may have been drive D but after the conflict resolution it may become drive E Be aware of this when performing a conflict resolution To maintain the same drive lettering the SATA cables connected to the drives may need to be swapped or in the case of a SATA based removable drive unit the order of the drives within the chassis made need to be changed Press Y Serial ATA RAID User s Guide to accept the change and resolve the conflict 4 The conflict will be resolved The RAID Set will appear in the
26. lect from the menu options d Press the number of your selection or lt Esc gt to exit 37 RAI D Manual p65 37 2004 12 15 9 04 Parallel ATA RAID User s Guide 4 Auto configuring a RAID array This option allows you to select a supported RAID set for the utility to automatically configure To auto configure a RAID set a From the IT8212F Setup Utility screen press lt 1 gt The following screen appears b Use the left or right arrow keys or the space bar to select a RAID set As you select an option the screen displays the array configuration of the RAID based on the number of IDE devices installed c Press lt Ctrl Y gt to save your RAID set d Press lt Esc gt to exit Note There are five configurations supported Configurations Number of disks needed Disk Striping 2 3 4 Disk Mirroring 2 Disk Striping Mirroring 4 Disk Concatenation 2 3 4 None 1 2 3 4 38 RAI D Manual p65 38 2004 12 15 9 04 Parallel ATA RAID User s Guide 5 Defining a RAID array This option allows you to define supported RAID arrays To define a RAID set a From the IT8212F Setup Utility screen press lt 2 gt The following screen appears fivvoy Ho Array Mode rive Ho ize Nh Statu firvoy 1 Array lt Array 3 b Use the up or down keys or the space bar to select a RAID array then press lt Enter gt The following sub menu appears Channel I0 EE Pri O0 QUANTUM FIREBALL Sec D0 IBH D
27. mpany will not be responsible for data lose and benefit damage caused RAI D Manual p65 9 2004 12 15 9 04 Serial ATA RAID User s Guide D Setting Matrix RAID a Intel ICH6R chipset features a new RAID form named Matrix RAID a combina tion of RAID 0 and RAID 1 bringing you the best of both worlds b Follow Setting RAID 0 steps to set RAID 0 You should divide half capacity size or less for RAID 1 in Capacity item For example if the SATA hard disks total capacity is 300 GB divide 150 GB or less capacity for RAID 1 Intel R Aplis Accelerator RAID Option BOM v4 6 8 6211 2003 04 Inte All Rights Reserved CREATE VOLUME MENU fame RAID_Voleme RAID Level BAIDO Stripe Disks Select Disks Strip Size 126KB Capacity Sapes Create Volume HELP Enter the volume capacity The default value indicates the saxinum volume capacity esing the selected disks If less than the maximum capacity is chosen creation of a second volume is seeded to utilize the remaining space rhiChange TAD Mext ESC Previous Mema ENTER Select c Follow Setting RAID 1 steps to set RAID 1 Intel R Application Accelerator BAID Option ROM v4 6 8 6211 Copyright C 2083 64 Intel Corporation All Rights Reserved the di reance by acce MAIDICMirror cach disk This creates a volume pr ngle hard disk failure th Change TAB Next ESC Previoss Mema CENTER Select 10 RAI D Manual p65 10 2004 12
28. nction four SATA hard disks should be installed b Choose Create RAID Volume and press lt Enter gt to enter Press lt Tab gt to switch to RAID Level item and then use Up and Down arrow keys to select RAIDO Stripe pressing lt Enter gt confirms Intel R Application Accelerator RAID Option RON v4 8 8 6211 Copyright C 2883 04 Intel Corporation All Rights Reserved CREATE VOLUME MENU Nane RAID Level Disks Strip Size 128KB Capacity 0 0 GB Create Volume Enter a string between 1 and 16 characters in length that can be ased to uniquely identify the RAID volume This nane is case sensitive and can not contain special characters c Using up and down arrow keys to select two hard disks for RAID 0 lt Space gt key to confirm and lt Enter gt key to finish the selection in the Disks item Intel R Application Accelerator PAID Option BON v4 0 0 6211 Copyright C 2069 01 Intel Corporation All Rights Reserved Name RAID Volume RAID Level AATDOCStripe l Size Stetes 149 068 Mon TE 149 068 fo Select the disks to ase for creating the volume 1h Previows Mext SPACE Selects ENTER Selectiow Complete th Change TAB Mext 2SC Frevious Mem INTER Seleet d The following steps is the same as Setting RAID 0 RAI D Manual p65 8 2004 12 15 9 04 Serial ATA RAID User s Guide e Select RAID1 Mirror by using Up and Down arrow keys in RAID Level item after finished
29. resources each hard drivers status and the setting of the RAIDExpress 133 card You can also enable or disable the Auto rebuild function in this section To view your RAID configuration a From the IT8212F Setup Utility screen press lt 5 gt The following screen appears b Use the left or right keys or the space bar enable or disable the Auto rebuild item c Press lt Esc gt to exit 42 RAI D Manual p65 42 2004 12 15 9 04 Parallel ATA RAID User s Guide 9 Installing Windows 2000 XP with RAID a Setup the desired RAID mode in BIOS setup follow the above steps b Insert Operation System installation disk into CD ROM and start up the setup program c Press lt F6 gt when the following picture appears on screen Press F6 if you need to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver d Press lt S gt key to specify additional equipment when below picture appears or you h hosen to manually specify a ip will load support for the following mas torage device o specify additional SCSI adapters CD ROM drives or special disk controllers for use with Windows including those for which you have a device support disk from a mass storage device manufacturer press S If you do not have any device support disks from a mass storage 2 manufacturer or do not want to specify additional rage devices for use with Windows press ENTER S Specify Additional Device ENTER Continue F3 Exit e Insert the add on
30. s c Choose which two hard disks you want to set RAID 0 from Disks item if you install three or more SATA hard disks Otherwise continue with the next step Using up or down arrow key to select the hard disk lt Space gt key to confirm and lt Enter gt key to finish the selection Intel R Application Accelerator RAID Option BOM v4 0 0 6211 Copyright C 2660 64 Intel Corporation All Rights Reserved i _ Name RAID Volume AAID Level IETS i Select the disks to ase for creating the volume 1 Previous Mext SPACE Selects ENTER Selectiow Complete thlChasge TAB Mext ESC Previous Mem ENTER Seleet RAI D Manual p65 4 2004 12 15 9 04 Serial ATA RAID User s Guide d Use Up and Down arrow keys to select desired strip size when enter Strip Size menu The available values range from 4KB to 128KB The strip value should be based on the planned drive usage Some suggested selections are listed below The default selection is 128KB 16K_Best for sequential transfer 64K_Good general purpose strip size 128K_Best performance for most desktops and workstations Intel R Application Accelerator RAID Option RON v4 8 8 6211 Copyright C 2083 84 Intel Corporation All Rights Reserved CREATE ARRAY NENU J Hane RAID _Volenel PAID Level PAIDACStripe Disks Select Disks Strip Size Capacity 372 6 GB Create Volume Choose the strip value best suited to your RAID esage model The following are t
31. setting RAIDO Press the lt Enter gt key to make selecting Inte R Application Accelerator RAID Option BOM v4 6 6 6211 Copyright C 2683 84 Intel Corporation All Rights Reserved 1 ME MENU Nese RAID Uolusc BAID Level Disks elect Disk Strip Size NA Capacity 372 6 GB Create Volume I Choose the RAID level best suited to your usage sodel BAIDO Stripe Creates a volume where equal portions of the volume are spread across all the disks This creates a voleme with higher performance by accessing all disks at once RAIMI Mirror Creates a volume where a redusdast copy of the data is stored ow cach disk This creates a volume protected from a single hard disk failure thiChange TAB Next ESC Previous Menu ENTER Select f The following steps is the same as Setting RAID 1 g You may see the information in the main menu when you finished the setting steps MIN MERU 1 Create PAID Volume 2 Delete RAID Volume 3 Reset Disks to Now AniD DISKAGLUME ISFORMATION BAID Volumes D M Level Strip Size States Fontable 8 RAID_Volume AALDO Stripe 128KB 298 16GB tore Yes 1 RAID Volumet AAIDI Mirrer GA 149 668 Physical Disks Port Brive Model Size 8 ST3166623AS S 143 068 sk 1 S5T316062 3S Sx 149 00 Member Di J ST3160023AS 143 068 Mewber Disk 1 3 5T316082IAS SHH 149 063 Mester Disk 1 Note This operation will delete all the data from hard disk so please take care And our co
32. ta redundant operation where if one drives fails a mirrored copy of the data can be found on another drive This can prevent data loss if the operating system fails or hangs The individual disk drives in an array are called members The configura tion information of each member is recorded in the reserved sector That identi fies the drive as a member All disk members in a formed disk array are recog nized as a single physical drive to the operating system Hard disk drives can be combined together through a few different methods The different methods are referred to as different RAID levels Different RAID levels represent different performance levels security levels and implementation costs RAID 0 Striping RAID 0 reads and writes sectors of data interleaved between multiple drives If any disk member fails it affects the entire array The disk array data capacity is equal to the number of drive members times the capacity of the smallest member The striping block size can be set from 4KB to 128KB RAID 0 does not support fault tolerance RAID 1 Mirroring RAID 1 writes duplicate data onto a pair of drives and reads both sets of data in parallel If one of the mirrored drives suffers a mechanical failure or does not respond the remaining drive will continue to function Due to redundancy the drive capacity of the array is the capacity of the smallest drive Under a RAID 1 setup an extra drive called the spare drive can be a
33. ttached Such a drive will be activated to replace a failed drive that is part of a mirrored array Due to the fault tolerance if any RAID 1 drive fails data access will not be affected as long as there are other working drives in the array RAI D Manual p65 1 2004 12 15 9 04 _ Serial ATA RAID User s Guide RAID 0 1 RAID 0 1 is a combination of striping and mirroring This configuration provides optimal speed and reliablility but you need four SATA hard disks Matrix RAID Matrix RAID is a combination of RAID 0 and RAID 1 bringing you the best of both worlds You only need two SATA hard disks to utilize this function Advantages 1 Faster data transfer 2 Improve the safety and stability of data 3 Swift and easy management for volume of data RAI D Manual p65 2 2004 12 15 9 04 Serial ATA RAID User s Guide 2 Installing SATA Hard Disks STEP 1 Install two SATA hard disks into the drive bays at least STEP 2 Connect one end of the SATA data cable to the motherboard s one of SATA connectors STEP 3 Connect the other end of the SATA data cable to one SATA hard disk STEP 4 Connect one end of the second SATA data cable to the motherboard s the other of SATA connectors STEP 5 Connect the other end of SATA data cable to the other SATA hard disk 3 BIOS Configuration 1 Enter the BIOS setup program by pressing the lt Del gt key during the POST Power On Self Test 2 Select the OnChip IDE
34. ve command keys Up and Down arrows select the menu item or action ESC takes the user to the previous menu Enter selects the highlighted choice Ctrl E exits the utility Other keys may be active depending upon the currently selected action RAI D Manual p65 18 2004 12 15 9 04 Serial ATA RAID User s Guide Creating RAID Sets As previously discussed the Silicon Image SATA host adapter supports RAID 0 1 5 10 and JBOD configurations The selection of the RAID level to be used should be based upon factors including performance data security and number of drives available It is best to carefully consider the long term role of the system and plan the data storage strategy appropriately Silicon Image has made the creation of RAID sets very simple They can be cre ated either automatically or to allow the greatest flexibility manually 1 Select Create RAID set 2 Choose a RAID 0 Striped a RAID 1 Mirrored a RAID 5 Parity or a RAID 10 combination set RAID Configuration Utility Silicon Image Inc Copyright C 2004 TL Select Menu ESC Previous Menu Enter Select Ctrl E Exit Silicon Image Inc Copyright C 2004 Press Enter to automati cally create raid set Stripe size is 64K First drive is drive 0 Ti Select Mena ESC Previous Menu 19 RAI D Manual p65 19 2004 12 15 9 04 Serial ATA RAID User s Guide 4 lf manual configuration is selected the chunk size of Striped Sets can be selecte
35. ypical values 16KB Best for sequential transfers 64KB Cood general parpose strip size 128K8 Best performance for most desktops and workstations e Press the lt Enter gt key after the Create Volume prompt appears to create the array Press the lt Y gt key after the prompt to confirm this selection Are you sure you want to create this volume Y N f Select option 4 Exit in main menu and press the lt Enter gt key to exit the RAID configuration utility Press lt Y gt key to confirm the exit RAI D Manual p65 5 2004 12 15 9 04 RAI D Manual p65 6 2004 12 15 9 04 Serial ATA RAID User s Guide B Setting RAID1 a Select RAID1 Mirror by using Up and Down arrow keys in RAID Level item Press the lt Enter gt key to make selecting Intel R Application Accelerator RAID Option BOM v4 6 6 6211 Copyright C 2083 04 Intel Corporation fll Rights Reserved ME MENU I Meme RAID Uolusc BAID Level Disks Strip Size NAA Capacity 372 6 GB Create Volume I Choose the RAID level best suited to your usage sodel BADO Stripe Creates a volume where equal portions of the volume are spread across all the disks This creates a volese with higher performance by accessing all disks at ence RAID Mirror Creates a volume where a redusdast copy of the data is stored ow cach disk This creates a volume protected from a single hard disk failure th iChange TAB Mext ESC Previous Menu ENTER S
36. zing full disk capacity With Silicon Image Serial ATA host controller and SATARAID5 both of these problems are solved SATARAID5 software provides a Graphical User Interface GUI for easy to use configurations of the RAID Groups 2 SATARAID5 Features RAID 0 RAID 1 RAID 5 RAID 10 and JBOD Hot Spare and On line Rebuilding System GUI Monitoring Utility Displays Logs Alerts Users to Vital RAID Set Information Manages RAID Group Functions configures rebuilds etc Supports the ability to partition and map a segment of disk to a virtual LUN or disk HDDs Function Normally When Not in RAID Sets Adjustable Stripe Size for RAID 0 RAID 5 and RAID 10 Automatically Selects Highest Available Transfer Speed for All SATA Devices Supports Data transfer rate up to 150MB Sec Sil3114 Sil8124 1 and 300MB Sec Sil3124 2 Up to 4 SATA devices connected to a single controller ACPI SATA 1 0 Sil3114 Sii3124 1 and SATA 2 0 Sil3124 2 RAI D Manual p65 16 2004 12 15 9 04 Serial ATA RAID User s Guide 3 Installing Serial ATA SATA hard disks To install the SATA hard disk for a RAID configuration 1 Install the SATA hard disk into the drive bays 2 Connect the SATA signal cables 3 Connect a SATA power cable to the power connector on each drive 4 Setting the BIOS RAID items After installing the hard disk drives make sure to set the necessary RAID item in the BIOS before setting your RAID configur
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