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DVPro High Performance Storage System User Manual

1. Sequential Read Ahead 8 Times IDPO FUA Mode Time Out for Retry Check Drive Delay Power on Wait Wait HDD Ready Check Cache Mode Nor mal v HDD Patrol Mode Auto Patrol Patrol Pace 30 Days Oycle Change Parameters Scroll to the parameter value you wish to change then click Change Parameters button to save the change BIOS CORPORATION 2 7 Setup Mode Array Parameters Setting A power recycle of the RAID storage is necessary to get into Setup mode Under Setup mode you can change all kinds of parameters for the controller Power on the RAID storage while holding both MODE and SELECT buttons about 3 seconds to enter Setup Mode LCD Display ARRAY PARAMETERS SETTING Launch the web browser with preset IP Address to connect to the management GUI lt Critical Parameters gt Click on Critical Parameters on main menu to enter Critical Parameters page DYPro 110 Windows Internet Explorer QG Ple Edt wew Favorites ravens deo overo nio BIOS Critical Parameters tor No Data Compatibility in these Parameters Logical Format Required after the Change Setup Mode DVPro T10 DVT10B3 2T10 Ver 1 32 Critical Parameters Banc Parameters Pacameters Nenwork Parameters Setup SNMP Setup Logged Data Update Change Password lt Critical Parameters Page gt
2. Full v Max 2TB Max 2TB 2 Max 2TB 3 Max 2TB 4 64GB All 64GB Max 2TB lt Parameter Example LUN Size gt Scroll to the parameter needed to be changed and click Change Parameters button to save it Reboot the RAID system to make new parameters effective Press MODE button at first time power on to initialize the RAID after the change Warnings Change of any critical parameters will result in whole data loss After change it is required to re create new partition and format the data volume lt Basic Parameters gt Click Basic Parameters on main menu to enter Basic Parameters page DVPro T10 Windows Internet Explore ajaj e 16850210 x d P Edt vew Fortes Help dee e Bowens 5 8 M Pues Syr Tooke e gt Setup Mode DVPro T10 DVT10B3 2T10 Ver 1 327 Basic Parameters 015 Pending An Y Additional Verity No Read afer Write M Enable v m Enable Y Mad Semp JGbps Y OP seme GKBICH Roses Data 5I2MB t Fan 3 Mode Single PowerwiboutFan 3 M haste Bini Change Parameters bare rene 12 Start Et lt Parameters gt DVT10B3 Choose the parameter from drag down menu for the change Press Change Parameters button to save it Then reboot the RAID system to reflect the change lt Network Parameters gt Click on Network Parameters on main menu to change Network Par
3. Volume label New Volume Y Perform a quick format Enable file and folder compression BIOS CORPORATION 10 When you ve verified that the settings are correct and there are no errors click Finish G New Simple Volume Wizard 11 The format will begin Completing the New Simple Volume Wizard You have successfully completed the New Simple Volume Wizard You selected the following settings Volume type Disk selected Disk 1 Volume size 1430781 MB Drive letter or path E File system NTFS Allocation unit size Default 4 gt gt 4 To close this wizard click Finish Close the Computer Management after the format has completed X You can use the disk now please remember the disk name you made 3 3 Other OSs Please refer to the user manual of associated vendors DVT10B3 Appexdix A MBR of different Operating Systems Since first LBA of LUN partition is not always aligned with data buffer size an unaligned LUN might impact the performance of data access Especially this happens on earlier Windows Operating Systems In LUN MODE setup parameter there are different offset option to adjust the alignment at LUN creation Please refer to below table for different combinations MBR GPT OS Note First LBA Alignment First LBA Alignment O Win7x64 206848 264192 Win7x86 206848 264192 WS2008R2 206848 264192 Vis
4. RAID MODE RAID 6 RAID mode selection supported RAID MODE are BIOS CORPORATION RAID 6 RAID 5 RAID 3 RAID 1 RAID 0 RAID 1 Three Drive RAID 10 Single Drive RAID 1 Three Drive means same data is written to three drives and read might be from any drive RAID10 works as a pair of Drive 0 1 Drive 2 3 Drive 4 5 etc DRIVE MODE 6 eDrive Mode Setup Setup number of drives in used Parameter Function DRIVE MODE 3 3 Disks DATA PARITY Mode DRIVE MODE 4 4 Disks DATA PARITY Mode DRIVE MODE 5 5 Disks DATA PARITY Mode DRIVE MODE 6 6 Disks DATA PARITY Mode DRIVE MODE 7 Below is for 10 drive model DRIVE MODE 8 DRIVE MODE 9 DRIVE MODE 10 Default eSector Size Setup SECTOR SIZE 12B 4KB 512B This is to setup sector size of disk For new Advanced Format HDD you need to set 4KB for better performance on sequential Write access Please check with your drive vendor for the sector size LUN SIZE Max 2TB eLUN Size Setup Parameter Function Configure all capacities to Single LUN size LUN SIZE i FULL Depend on host operating system LUN over 2TB size might not be recognized LUN SIZE One LUN only and size is set to 2TB as some Operating MAX 2TB systems only support less than 2TB LUN size LUN SIZE Two LUNs each with half of total capacities will be assigned 1 2 DIVISION LUN SIZE Setup one LUN as 64GB and the rest of all as 2 LUN or 2 64GB
5. 192 168 50 210 ENE amp DVPro T10 AAA BIOS Mail Parameters Sender Nane DVPro 192 168 50 210 _ Mail Address 1 test bios co jp DVPro T10 SMIP Server 1 255 255 255 255 E aeaa Mail Address 2 Eros DVTIOB3 2T10 Ver 1 32f SMIP Server 255 255 255 255 Dn Save Mail Parameters RAID Monitor Basic Parameters Event Level Critical Il Select Level T Send Test Mail Network Parameters Mail Setup SNMP Setup Logged Data lt Page for setup mail parameters gt Sender Address DVPro 192 168 50 210 Up to 63byte alphabet number _ E and is allowed Two byte characters such as Chinese are not allowed O Receiver Address test bios co jp Up to two receiver addresses are allowed For users who want to have more than 2 receivers you need to setup aliases on assigned email server Allowable characters are same as Sender address SMTP Server Address255 255 255 255 Setup IP Address of SMTP server IP of 255 255 255 255 will prohibit emails to be sent out 1 Directly setup the IP to SMTP server This is most effective way to issue email alert However Gateway address might be necessary if SMPT server is not within the same LAN domain See Basic Parameter Setup page At the same time this will expose the DVPro T10 to external network environment resulted in security issue 2 Assign local SMTP Server BIOS CORPORATION If there is no need for authentication you can forward
6. 6 4 Setup f email notlfiCatiOn z oe fitnt ne oh eng e E rc Pete 34 2 6 5 Mal Format tei Ee etg bete eie 35 2 6 6 Conditions of Mail Notification sese 36 267 SNMP Setup tela eol i peg i ERE Ie us e Teo Edu 36 2 6 8 Additional Parameters Setup enne nennen trn enne 38 2 7 Setup Mode Array Parameters Setting c cccccccesececeeeeceeeeeeeaeeeeeeeceeeesaaeeeeaaeseeeeeseaeeesaeeseneeeeaees 39 2 8 Host LAN Configuration cin a 44 2 8 1 P Setup for WindOWs neci eee eli e D dene aae e te i 44 2 8 2 IP Setup for LINUX iui n ER ero sia 46 2 8 3 J P Set p for MACOS ita i e e EN c e 47 Chapter 3 aed cet Lh 50 3 1 EIU atada Pi CORPER E Ee De hioc ez Roe NR HORE EIER den 50 3 2 WIDOOWS 7 2 niea tad tema ii 52 3 3 OERO rere peer 57 Appexdix A MBR of different Operating Systems 58 Appexdix B Error Message shown on LCD ssssssssssseeeeeeennenns 59 DVT10B3 Chapter 1 Outline Features e Support up to 10 Hot swap SATA HDD Hard Disk Drive e Support different RAID modes including RAID 6 RAID 5 RAID 3 RAID 1 RAID 0 RAID10 e Dual Host Interface eSATA3 6Gbps and USB 3 0 5Gbps e Original FPGA RAID 6 Engine with real time parity generation and high speed DMA switching e Spot error recovery greatly reduces HD
7. ALL LUN maximum is 2TB DVT10B3 64GB Max2TB LUN SIZE 256GB ALL 1TB ALL 2TB ALL Set up one LUN as 256GB 1TB or 2TB and the rest of all capacities as 2 LUN Note For LUN mapping to host port please refer to LUN MODE parameter for details LUN MODE Setup Parameter LUN DIRECT No BIAS LUN DIRECT No BIAS Function LUN Direct Both eSATA and USB3 host will be mapped to first LUN Default LUN SWAPPED No BIAS LUN SWAPPED First host will be mapped to eSATA and 2 LUN will be mapped to USB3 LUN DIRECT for MBR 1 Please refer to below explanation LUN SWAPPED for MBR 1 Please refer to below explanation LUN DIRECT for MBR 1 Please refer to below explanation LUN SWAPPED for MBR 1 Please refer to below explanation z Sector management of RAID are different between NO BIAS and for MBR 1 or 1 Depend on host OS used the beginng sector address of disk partition is different And the setting might affect the performance The setting should not be changed during operation and disk Format is necessary if changed Please refer to MBR related information in Appendix A eParity Stripe Width Setup Choose stripe width Parameter PARITY STRIPE 2MB DRIVE 1MB DRIVE 256KB DRIVE 128KB DRIVE PARITY STRIPE 2 MB DRIVE of RAID 5 6 LUN Function Setup stripe width of each drive channel When the host issues a command and the par
8. Primary partition Help More Actions TAE 2010 05 14 BIOS CORPORATION 6 The New Volume Wizard will load up so click Next New Simple Volume Wizard Welcome to the New Simple Volume Wizard This wizard helps you create a simple volume on a disk A simple volume can only be on a single disk To continue click Next 7 Choose the volume you want then click Next G New Simple Volume Wizard x Specify Volume Size Choose a volume size that is between the maximum and minimum sizes Maximum disk space in MB 1430781 Minimum disk space in MB 8 Simple volume size in MB Eu DVT10B3 8 Choose the driver letter you wish click Next Assign Drive Letter or Path For easier access you can assign a drive letter or drive path to your partition E Mount in the following empty NTFS folder Browse Do not assign a drive letter or drive path 9 Choose the proper formatting settings and To change allocation unit size from default to 16K is recommended for better performance click Next again Format Partition To store data on this partition you must format it first Choose whether you want to format this volume and if so what settings you want to use Do not format this volume 9 Format this volume with the following settings File system NTFS X econ
9. data retries within a certain disk or media or the time needed to write to another drive taking long then entire performance is slow down Transfer speed will suffer In this sense it is an early indication to warn for replacing slow drives The slow disk channel warning will be displayed on the LCD e Power On Standby Time Setup WAIT POWER ON E TIME 10S 15 5S 105 155 20S Sometimes drives not immediately accessible to host after power For this period specified the RAID controller will return to host access with such not ready status For example Not Ready is responded to Test Unit Ready command e Drive Ready Wait Time Setup HDD WAIT READY 1 MIN 3 MIN 5 MIN TIME 1 MIN m 2 Set up time to wait for Drive getting Ready Usually the drive is judged as DOWN if it is not ready after certain period after power on but some high speed and high capacity drive will need a longer period WAIT time to get ready e Cache Memory Check Timing Setup BIOS CORPORATION CHECK CACHE NORMAL FAST N NORMAL PRN This setting specifies the speed of the background cache memory check to take place at the system power on initialization If the cache memory onboard is large the check will take some time so if you wish to speed up the process please set this to FAST If set to NO no cache check will take place If you ll be doing mainly performance measurements then set this to NO for the purpose T
10. network in X 3 Enter sudo dhclient then press enter key Enter ifconfig to confirm changed IP address D BIOS CORPORATION 2 8 3 IP Setup for MAC OS X 1 Click System Preferences Personal MO B o Q Appearance Desktop amp Dock Expos amp International Security Spotlight Screen Saver Spaces Hardware Bluetooth CDs amp DVDs Displays Energy Keyboard amp Print amp Fax Sound Saver Mouse Internet amp Network ed MobileMe Network QuickTime Sharing System no O Accounts Date amp Time Software Speech Startup Disk Time Machine Universal Update Access Other globalSAN iSCSI 2 Click Network Icon Status Connected Ethernet 1 Connected Ethernet 1 is currently active and has the IP y Ethernet 2 address 192 168 50 51 Not Connected Buenas Lj Configure Y Using DHCP Using DHCP with manual address Using BootP FireWire IP Addres Inactive Create PPPoE Service Search Domains bios co jp B cick the tock o prevent further changes DVT10B3 3 Choose Configure option to Manually Location Automatic FH Ethernet 1 2 Connected 2 Status Connected Ethernet 1 is currently active and has the IP balls address 192 168 50 51 Not Connected Bluetooth Inactive UP Configure Manually a FireWire nf IP Address 192 168 50 25 Inactive 2 Subnet Mask 2
11. network information and set up connections Change adapter settings De e See full map Change advanced sharin jos T300 WIN7 Network Internet 95 a This computer View your active networks Connect or disconnect de Network Access type Internet Work network Connections Local Area Connection Change your networking settings ET Set up a new connection or network Setup a wireless broadband dial up ad hoc or VPN connection or set up a router or access point Connect to a network Connect or reconnect to a wireless wired dial up or VPN network connection Choose homegroup and sharing options amp Access files and printers located on other network computers or change sharing settings Troubleshoot problems Diagnose and repair network problems or get troubleshooting information 2 Navigate to Network and Internet gt Network and Sharing Center DVT10B3 BIOS CORPORATION Networking Sharing Connect using e Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethemet This connection uses the following items IV IE Client for Microsoft Networks 5 QoS Packet Scheduler a File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks Intemet Protocol Version 6 TCP IPv6 Intemet Protocol Version 4 TCP IPv4 Link Layer Topology Discovery Mapper 1 0 Driver Link Layer Topology Discovery Responder E NN Description Transmission Control Protocol Intemet Protocol The
12. 01 Data 1c04 0800 1 01 Or4C 0000 0001 8p89 3228 1210 1 01 1C1E 0000 0008 1C04 03D8 1 01 DVT10B3 2T10 OFAC 800C 1208 804E 3712 1712 FFF8 TFD2 FFF8 7EBA FFF8 7E3C FFFS 0168 0001 9BFD Ver 1 32f pe 7 Delay Count 0004 RAID Monitor Basic Parameters m Network Parameters Logged Data Login for Management Log data shows the historic events after power on First item top of the log table shows either the lapse of last log or the lapse time after power on Time is shown in Second by hexadecimal The checksum value on lt Logged data screen gt its right side is only for firmware identification It varies from each firmware version The number 0020 0022 has special meaning for email notification error See Setup of email notification section below for explanation The log is not intended to be examined by end users and should be reported to technical support staff DVT10B3 whenever it is required 2 6 3 Management Mode Login To configure Additional parameters email notification and SNMP traps you need to login to secured Management state Click Login for Management Mode on main menu T10 Windows Internet Explorer EIEIES Y 8119 Ys 293 Monitor Mode JN Windows Security DVPro T10 _ The server 192 168 50 210 at Login for Management Mode requires a username d ord DVT10B3 2T10 di Ve
13. 55 255 255 0 Router 192 168 50 88 DNS Server 192 168 50 88 Search Domains bios co jp id Click the lock to prevent further changes 4 Enter IP address and click Apply button to save it Make sure the address used here is not used by another device BIOS CORPORATION DVT10B3 Chapter 3 Format 3 1 Linux The section explains how to use with Linux for reference Please refer to Linux OS user guide for details 1 Login as Superuser Handling a disk is privileged function for Superuser only Please login as a Superuser or a k a root lt Host name gt login _root Password Last login XXX XXX XX XX XX XX root lt Host name root 2 Partition Creation and formatting fdisk command D start fdisk Example below is when DVPro T10 is recognized as dev sdb root sheep root fdisk dev sdb Creating partition Example below is when creating one partition takes whole disk spaces Command m for help n n fdisk command Command action e extended p primary partition 1 4 Partition number 1 4 1 First cylinder 1 182399 default 1 1 Last cylinder or size or sizeM or sizeK 1 182399 default 182399 182399 BIOS CORPORATION Command m for help P p fdisk command Disk dev sda 255 heads 63 sectors 120130 cylindersUnits cylinders of 16065 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System dev sdat 1 182399 1465119936 83 Linux Co
14. Cache size setup BIOS CORPORATION Write Pending Setup Write delay time setup Write verify setup Read ahead size setup 2 3 Introduction of Parameters Setup This section will explain the general parameters setup process To start with new configuration the system has to enter Parameter Setup mode Please press and hold both Mode and Select buttons for more than 3 seconds while turning on power The LCD should show message as below indicating the system in Parameter Setup mode ARRAY PARAMETERS SETTING You can then start to modify each parameter under this mode General usage of Buttons MODE Button To rotate among Parameter items SELECT Button Select the parameter for change eEnter Parameters Setting mode MODE Button SELECT Button Power On eRotate among Setup items MODE Button eSetup parameters SELECT Button By pressing MODE and SELECT button at the same time after modification the selected parameters will be written to internal non volatile memory then the change will be effective at next power on When you successfully change the parameter you will see POWER DOWN PLEASE Shutdown and power on or press SELECT button for 3 seconds If you power down before saving to memory the settings will be reverted to the way they were upon the last save e Saving the change DMODE SELECT Button Save Shutdown and power on or Press SELECTButton 3 sec e Cancel the change Power o
15. D error and rebuild probability e Automatic Rebuild at adjustable Rebuild Rate e Maintain same performance upon drive failure and little impact at recovery RAID 3 5 6 e LCD and keypad operation for status monitoring and system configuration e Web GUI status monitoring and system configuration Functions e Two independent or single LUN support for eSATA and USB e Configurable Write Cache Mode e Configurable Verify Mode e Data Read Ahead Size e Write Retry Mode e Buffer Segment Size Adjustment e Starting time of Retry e Sequential List Size e Time out Interval for Low Speed Drive Detection e Power On Standby time e Drive Ready Waiting Time e Cache Memory Check Interval e HDD Patrol Time and Mode lt Auxiliary Functions gt e Performance Data Transfer Speed Display on LCD e Event display on LCD eEmail Notification Support e Web based Status Monitor e SNMP notification BIOS CORPORATION Packing Contents DVT10B3 Storage sytesm AC Power Cord USB3 Cable 1 meter USB IF certified eSATA Cable 1 meter eSATA cable Screws 50 pcs of screws and Quick Installation Guide CD User manual this file Hardware Components lt Front View gt POWER ACCESS FAIL a O a BARRE DVT10B3 lt Rear View gt lt Side View gt BIOS CORPORATION Function Explanation POWER Switch Power ON OFF Switch BLUE Flash upon access Orange ON ind
16. DVPro High Performance Storage BIOS System User Manual SOF eSATA6G and USB3 HOST MODEL User Manual Version 1 0 Safety Warning In order to avoid injury to oneself please heed the following instructions m The following indications explain the degree of physical danger possible by ignoring the proper usage directions WARNING This symbol and waning is used to indicate sections that may result in a serious injury or even death This symbol and caution is used to indicate AN CAUTION sections that only pose a risk of minor injury or physical damage m The various types of warning symbols are listed in the following picture This symbol means that you should pay extra caution This symbol indicates something you absolutely must not do This symbol indicates something you must do BIOS CORPORATION Precautions This user manual contains features functions setup and warnings so please read this manual prior to use our product If any material in this manual is not clear please contact vender whom you purchased from The information in this manual is subject to change without prior notice It is prohibited to reproduce any part of this manual in any form or by any means without prior written permission of the manufacturer and the author Manufacturer assumes no liability or responsibility for any errors that may appear in this manual In case issue arised please contac
17. ELECT button then number will have number increase faster After setting up press MODE and SELECT at the same to save the change POWER DOWN PLEASE New IP address will not be effective till the unit reboot DVT10B3 2 6 1 Main Screen of Web GUI With power on and Ethernet connected launch the Internet browser with preset IP address lhttp lt IP Address The Web GUI will be displayed as below for Monitor Mode DVPro T10 Windows Internet Explorer PST B xl Es v E htto 192 168 50 210 811 x BIOS BIOS Disk Array Monitor r 5 gt T 666060808 r DVPro T10 Normal DVT10B3 2T10 Ver 1 32f Carrent Operating Mode RAID Mode 6 RAID Monitor Total Drives 10 See Cont Temp 43 4 deg C EE X 1 1 250 rpm Additional Parameters Fan 2 1 250 ipn ar Network Parameters p n _ Interval Bo Sec A a Change Refresh Interval Login for Management Mode The left hand side lists main menu items and the right side displays detail items or information associated with the selected menu item BIOS CORPORATION 2 6 2 Introduction of Monitor Mode DVPro Status Monitor Click RAID Monitor on main menu to check the enclosure status The refreshing interval can be changed by specifying the requested time and apply Change Refresh Interval Drive status is differentiated by color Recovering Not inst
18. S 258 108 58 18 0 18 DPO FUA DPO FUA BIT Disable ENABLE DISABLE Check Delay CHECK DRV DELAY TIME 1S 0 18 0 58 18 58 Power On Wait WAIT POWER ON TIME 5S 18 58 108 158 208 Wait Ready HDD WAIT READY TIME 1 MIN 1 MIN 3 MIN 5 MIN Sequential Ahead SEQUENTIAL READ AHEAD 8 TIMES 8 TIMES 16 TIMES 32 TIMES 2 TIMES 4 TIMES Check Cache CHECK CACHE NORMAL NORMAL FAST NO Auto Patrol AUTO HDD PATROL AUTO NO Patrol Wait Time SYSTEM PATROL 30 DAYS CYCLE WAIT 105 55 35 5 10 20 30 DAYS CYCLE Write Retry WRITE RETRY MODE NO WRITE RETRY WRITE RETRY Back Write Size WRITE BACK MAX SIZE 2MB CH 64KB 128KB 256KB 512KB 1MB 2MB 4MB Parity ENABLE PARITY ENABLE DISABALE Buffer Segment BUFFER SEGMENT SIZE 64KB CH 8KB CH 16KB CH 32KB CH 64KB CH Sequential List SEQUENTIAL LIST SIZE 8 8 16 32 64 128 Verify Wait VERIFY WAIT READ aft WRITE VERIFY WAIT READ aft WRITE VERIFY WAIT NO READ aft WRT NO VERIFY READ aft WRITE NO VERIFY NO READ aft WRT DVT10B3 Quick Overview of From Panel Button Operation DVPro series button operations can be summarized as below Item Operation Force Reset POWER ON Mute Buzzer Start Power ON Roll next item After parameter setup Change the setting After parameter setup dnjas Write the setting After parameter setup Cancel the change Pow
19. alled Verifying System Down DVPro T10 Windows Internet Explorer aaa o gt le 192 168 50 210 vlel x qu pi Edt Favorites Tools Favorites overo 10 ty 5 gt Pager Safety Tools gt BIOS BIOS Disk Array Monitor Monitor Mode 3 Bi B DVPro T10 Recovering 0 DVT10B3 2T10 Ver 1 32f Current Operating Mode RAID Mode 6 RAID Monitor Total Drives 10 Basic Parameters Cont Temp 42 0 deg C Additional Fan 1 1 212 rpm Parameters Fan 2 1 188 rpm Network Parameters Logged Data Inerval 30 Sec mU Change Refresh Interval Management Mode Done internet a R 100 4 Start O 47 PM Monitor mode can be used to check status only istead of chaning RAID parameters lt Basic Parameters gt Click on main menu Basic Parameters to show basic RAID parameters DVPro T10 Windows Internet Explorer lej x Go 8 http 192 168 50 210 BIOS Ser Monitor Mode DVPro T10 DVTIOB3 2T10 Ver 1 32f RAID Monitor 181149 Sowro T10 x mi Basic Parameters Disk Size 2 TB RAID Mode RAID 6 Active Drive Count 10 HDD LUN Size Full LUN Mode and Bias Direct Mode No Bias Parity Stripe Size 2MB Drive Physical Sector Size 512B eSaTA3 Host Enable 583 0 Host Enable Host Speed 6Gbps Native Command Queuing Read Priority R
20. ameters page Goer le Ple Wee Heb d E E Bowe rio 2 8 i Pep aleyo Th BIOS oF Setup Mode DVPro T10 DVT10B3 2T10 Ver 132 Critical Paruneters Basis Parameter Network Basic Paramcters lt Network Parameters Page gt After entering correct network information click Save Parameters button to save it Then reboot the RAID system to reflect the change BIOS CORPORATION lt Update Firmware gt Click on Update Firmware on main menu to update firmware fie Edt vew Favorites Took Hep de Favores Bowron BIOS Update Firmware i m MN oF Setup Mode Update Firmware DVPro T10 Browse DVT10B3 2T10 Ver 132f DVPro 110 Windows Internet Explorer DER GOs Dea 5 Edt vew Favorkes Toos Hep defenses de e Boo rio BIOS Flash PROM Write Started Please check LCD for result Setup Mode DVPro T10 DVT10B3 2T10 Ver 1 32f Critical Parameters Once firmware update is successfully started the screen will show Flash PROM Wriie Started and front LCD display will show following message lt DVPro T10 LCD Display Please Wait Firm Updating Firmware is being updated DVT10B3 Power off Now Firm Update OK Upon completion LCD message will show Power off Now Please reboot the system to make new firmware effec
21. arity while doing RAID 3 5 6 WRITE Therefore Write Cache is enabled in such situation This parameter defines the timing of flushing cache contents into disks Parameter WRITE MODE WAITING Function Under this setting the Write operation will not be acknowledged as Completed till data is written into disks This means no caching is used during data write The performance is slower compared to WRITE MODE PENDING mode READ speed is not affected Write Through BIOS CORPORATION Write command is acknowledged as Completed right after data Write Back WRITE MODE written into cache and cached data starts to be moved into disks BUFFERD at the same time After caching the first host WRITE the cache content will only be WRITE MODE flushed into disk if there is more than 0 1 sec host idle or cache PENDING threshold is met When doing sequential writes cache will be Default 0 1Sec filled by multiple write command and data can be written once to save total write time WRITE MODE PENDING Similar to PENDING 0 1 sec the wait interval is one second 1 Sec eVerify Mode Setup VERIFY WAIT READ aft WRITE Verify Mode allows you to setup the action for ATA WRITE VERIFY command No Verify will take WRITE VERIFY command as a simple WRITE without waiting verification to be completed Upon READ request after a WRITE command NO READ aft WRITE means to use cac
22. default wide area network protocol that provides communication across diverse interconnected networks 3 Choose Internet Protocol Version 4 TCP Ipv4 then click Properties button General You can get IP settings assigned automatically if your network supports this capability Otherwise you need to ask your network administrator for the appropriate IP settings Obtain an IP address automatically 9 Use the following IP address IP address 192 168 Subnet mask 255 255 Default gateway Obtain DNS server address automatically Use the following DNS server addresses Preferred DNS server Alternate DNS server Validate settings upon exit 4 Set Internet Protocol Properties First check use the following IO address Considering RAID IP ADDRESS is 192 168 50 210 set as follows IP address 192 168 50 XXX put unused address in place of XXX Subnet mask 255 255 255 0 Then click OK button Make sure the IP address used here is not used by another device or it may not work properly DVT10B3 EN C Windows system32 cmd exe J6CO5EQ5 5 Confirming the change 1 Start gt enter cmd exe to open command prompt window 2 Enter ipconfig renew 3 Enter ipconfig all Check if the IP Address has changed correctly 2 8 2 IP Setup for Linux 1 Open a Terminal Window 2 Enter ifconfig ethO 192 168 50 X Put IP that is not used in the current
23. ding Host bus parity error in middle of data out process Host bus parity error on data in phase Sequencer interrupt on Initiator error Data out transmission error detected abortion of condition check Data write recovered by retry Read error occurred on parity generation read operation Recovery was taken DVT10B3 RAID 6 NORMAL The retry mark is shown in front of NORMAL case Data in transmission error detected abortion of condition check Data read recovered by retry Data read recovered by Rewrite and Read Retry on Patrol operation How to use MODE and SELECTbutton While at READ or WRITE operation if Retry is occurred Drive access retry press SELECT button to bring up retry details Read Retry in Write Retry in CH Err Code x CH Err Code x HRead Retry in CH Err Code x Drive No Drive No Drive No Drive No Drive No Drive No Drive No Drive No Drive No Drive No If there is a Drive down error on LCD press SELECT button to see extra error information Channel Occur error x 1 drive number 1 drive fault reason Pressing MODE SELECT twice will clear retry mark but extra error information will be shown If same error occurred twice or more then the drive or host is considered as problematic
24. e as LUN Swapped First LUN will be mapped to eSATA and second LUN to USB3 For example users can create LUN Size as 64GB ALL A 64GB LUN will be mapped to eSATA and the rest of capacity will be mapped to USB3 host To use web based GUI connect Ethernet cable between LAN connector and host BIOS CORPORATION DVT10B3 Chapter 2 Setup and Monitor 2 1 Setup Overview To simplify the process of setup DVPro is designed to support all of setup options from front panel LCD and button operation The default RAID level is RAID6 for highest reliability To prevent malfunction parametners cannot be changed at normal operation mode Critical parameters include number of drive capacity and RAID mode should be set up before you started to work with the unit Default parameter if any is followed with sign 2 2 LCD Toggle rolling setup flowchart ARRAY PARAMETERS Initial Displa SETTING P l Disk Size Setup Hard Disk Capacity Setup l RAID MODE Setup RAID Mode Setup SECTOR SIZE Setup SECTOR size setup LUN SIZE Setup LUN size setup l LUN MODE Setup LUN mode setup Most of cases users do t d to ch th PASOS Parity STRIPE Size STRIPE size setup default setting Please make sure you understand the function SATA USB HOST Setup SATA USB host Enable Disable before making any change Recovery Rate Setup Recovery Rebuild rate setup Cache Size Setup
25. e disk to be initialized and move on to the formatting If DVPro T10 has capacity over 2TB in Volume then choose GPT Disk label here to able to use disk over 2TB Use the following partition style for the selected disks 9 MBR Master Boot Record GPT GUID Partition Table Note The GPT partition style is not recognized by all previous versions of Windows lt is recommended for disks larger than 2TB or disks used on Itanium based computers 5 Right click on the disk you wish to edit and click New Simple Volume File Action View Help 29 BE sS E 4 System Tools Task Scheduler gt E Event Viewer gt Shared Folders S Performance dl Device Manager amp Storage SP Disk Management Computer Management Local gt g Local Users and Groups b Ely Services and Applications Volume Layout Type C Simple Basic NTFS Cape Actions Healthy System Boot Page File Active Crash Dump Primary Partition 390 m _ Basic C 37261 GB 39 06 GB NTFS 33355 GB Online Healthy System Boot Page File Activ Unallocated Disk 1 Basic 13925GB 13972568 2 Online Unallocated New Simple V New Spanned Volume CD ROM O New Striped Volume DVD D New Mirrored Volume No Media New RAID 5 Volume Properties E Unallocated
26. ead Ahead Cache 64B Sequential List Size B Streams Write Cache Mode 0 1 Pending All Verify Mode Veri fy No Read after Write Write Retry Mode Enable Parity Check Enable Disk Speed 3Gbps Buffer Segment Size 64KkB CH Cache Size pine Power Unit Fan 3 Mode Single Power without Fan 3 A BIOS Monitor Mode DVPro 10 DVTIOB3 2T10 Ver 1 32f lt Basic parameter screen gt Additio nal Parameters Flush Cache Comma nd gnore Recover Pace D 1Sec Interval Wait Write Back Max 51 ze 4MB Chamnel Sequential Read Ahead B Times DPO FUA Mode Disable Time Out for Retry 5 Sec Check Drive Delay 1 Sec Power on Wait 5 Sec Wait HDD Ready 1 Min Check Cache Mode Fast HDD Patrol Mode Auto Patrol Patrol Pace 30 Days Cycle Fan Speed Temp 50 deg c a Go gt http 192 168 50 210 9 8 ko x lt Additional RAID parameters gt DVT10B3 lt Additional Parameters gt These are same to Background parameters of LCD operation Click on main menu Additional Parameters to show additional RAID parameters Additonal parameters can be changed after logging in Management Mode For details please refer to 2 7 BIOS CORPORATION lt Netw
27. effective for general random operation READ AHEAD 64 KB This will read ahead multiple pages following the current one Y This is effective for general sequential read Default READ AHEAD 256 KB Compared to 64KB one more page or 256KB will be prefetched depend on page size This is effective for sequentical access especially video data READ AHEAD 1 MB 1MB or multiple page read ahead depend on page size It will be effective if the data size is times of MBs READ AHEAD 4 MB 2 5 Product Information and Background Parameters 4MB size read ahead This might be effective if the application read directly block data without through file system IP address of GUI Fan speed control and other details for the system are called Background parameters on the contrast to RAID operational parameters described in section 2 4 You can change these parameters as described below from LCD operation panel Web UI is usually recommended for such requirement if accessible ps Please take a memo before you apply to change the default setting Default setting is always recommended unless there is special requirement for the change 2 5 1 Method to setup background parameters Please make sure you understand exactly the purpose that you are changing from the default parameters Product information will be shown first while you go through background parameter setting 1 Holding both the Mode and Select switch p
28. er Off during the parameter change Browse parameters During operation Press to roll to next parameters Check Error Status During operation cancel Cancel RETRY display During operation press twich Performance information After browing parameters press se to check each drive Cache Memory Confirmation Press after performance confirmation Slow Drive Confirmation SNES after cache confirmation PATROL Mode Change Auto Force No after slow drive confirmation switch among settings to set the change Address Confirmation MAC Address IP Address Address Mask Gate Way Address BIOS CORPORATION 2 6 Web based Monitor and Setup via Ethernet To monitor DVPro via Web management GUI you can connect Ethernet cable to a host computer Ethernet parameter must be configured correctly before launching a Web browser such as Internet Explorer To setup IP Address please follow steps below Setup Mode First press and hold both MODE and SELECT buttons at power on The system will enter Parameters Setup mode as shown on LCD display ARRAY PARAMETERS SETTING Default IP address The default IP address of the product is 192 168 50 210 IP Address 192 168 50 210 IP Address Setup Press SELECT then MODE to setup IP address Use SELECT button to change the number of each digit Press MODE for rolling to next field Hold S
29. failed and NORMAL host accessible Controller Dispatch Error occurred at starting Host access is disconnected Error Nesting Error dispatch function in dispatch upon all Controller errors routine Contact support for necessary actions Code ROM Error System Halted Flash EPROM check sum error System halted Usually happened on power on Work RAM Error System Halted Working area DRAM error System halted Divide or FPP or Invalid Code Err A zero denominator error SYSTEM Error not defined specifically INTERRUPT Error SYSTEM System break error SBI INT Occur SYSTEM Exception error occurred on RIE INT 0x000 scheduled command SYSTEM Address exception error AE INT 0x000 DVT10B3 Cache SYSTEM TRAP Error Buffer Manager Undefined Trap process error Cache buffer manager error Host access is disconnected Memory Error Queue Error upon all Cache errors Contact support for necessary actions Cache Buffer Error OXdHHHHHHE Access error while cache buffer check Buffer Size Data inconsistent while cache Error buffer check Buffer Manager Cache buffer manager error Link Error BIOS CORPORATION Extra error code shown on ONE DOWN SYSTEM DOWN Drive error Hardware Error Software Error IDE register read write U undefined command error disk dma time out no pend in exe auto E chip busy soft error bad block detec
30. ff while doing change DVT10B3 After a new configuration completed hold down the Mode button at next power on at the same time for system initialization Notice this will initialize controller based on configured parameters This action will force failed drive or rebuilding status to become Normal Please DO NOT do this if your system was in degraded mode and need to be recovered After power on LCD should show its RAID mode and Normal status RAID 6 NORMAL 2 4 RAID Operational Parameters This section explains each RAID parameter and the associated function of DVPro system Ps Please take a memo if you changed parameters different from its default value You can follow the method described on Parameter Confirmation section to read its value eDisk Size Setup DISK Size xxB This is to specify the capacity of the drive you want to use The size will be applied to all drives Usually the system was configured with exact drive size of inserted disks You should not change the drive size unless you want to reconfigure and change it Parameter Function Test 1GB Set DISK Size as 1GB Test only 120GB 160GB 250GB 400GB 500GB 750GB 1TB 2TB 3TB 4TB Set Disk Size as N CAUTION e Please do not change the default setting If actual drive size was smaller than setup value error such as TONE DOWN LJ SYSTEM DOWN LJ might happen and buzzer will be fired eRAID Mode Setup
31. he actual cache during operation will not be affected by this setting AUTO HDD PATROL Normally the surface scan of HDD will be executed in background not applicable for RAID 0 NO No Auto Patrol AUTO Auto Patrol On The surface scan will start from LBA 0 of the disk between host commands e HDD Patrol Mode Setup If there is any failure on read sector the recovery sector generated by other disks will be written to the disk for recovery Rewrite Function PATROL Mode can be changed during operation e Patrol Time Setup 10S 5S 3S 5 DAYS CYCLE 10 DAYS CYCLE 20 DAYS CYCLE 30 DAYS CYCLE SYSTEM PATROL 30 DAYS CYCLE This parameter is to specify the period of doing patrol You can setup 110S 15S 3S to perform one time patrol or you can setup 5 DAYS CYCLE 10 DAYS CYCLE 20 DAYS CYCLE 30 DAYS CYCLE to perform whole capacity patrol The length of one Patrol depends on this setting and the Buffer Segment Size Continuing to push MODE button will roll into RAID operational parameters DVT10B3 2 5 2 Parameter Confirmation Sometimes you will need to read and confirm the setup of current parameters then you can press both MODE and SELECT button on the front at the same time for this Firmware version will be shown at the beginning and the content can be rolled among by pusing MODE button BIOS CORPORATION Le lt Factory Default Setting gt This is a convenient form for cust
32. he longer retry processing on storage system e Sequential List Size Setup SEQUENTIAL LIST SIZE 8 8 16 32 64 128 This is to setup the number of Sequential access stream The system maintains a table of recording Sequential streams It depends on simultaneous number of sequential streams and size of cache memory e Sequential Read Ahead Multiplier Setup SEQUENTIAL READ 2 TIMES 4 TIMES 8 TIMES 16 TIMES AHEAD 8 TIMES 32 TIMES DVT10B3 One time data read size depends on the bigger value between READ Ahead Size parameter and access size multiplies this Sequential Read Ahead TIMES Cache memory will be quickly consumed if the large size is setup Usually the size should be set up small when host performance is low or vice versa e Cache Control Setup DPO FUA BIT ENABLE DISABLE ENABLE e This is to Enable or Disable the cache control flag of SCSI standard DPO Disable Page Out Depend on the execution of command DPO allows to discard the data in the cache by other commands FUA Force Unit Access During command execution it forces the drive access For details please refer to SCSI 2 standard e Slow Drive Detection Time Setup CHECK DRV DELAY TIME 1S NONE 0 15 0 58 15 5S This setting decides how long to wait for the drive response 0 1S1 0 5S are for testing This function does not work when the system is under NONE or TONE DOWN or SYSTEM DOWN If there is a certain process and it causes
33. hed content to respond a READ command after WRITE READ aft WRITE means cache data was disgarded and controller has to read data from disk Parameter VERIFY WAITRead aft Write Function The Write Verify command cannot be completed at the time data written into cache It has to wait till Verification completed And the written data in cache will be discarded The data will be read from the disk when a read request comes in The Write Verify command cannot be completed at the time data Default VERIFY written into cache It has to wait till Verification completed And NO READ aft WRT use the written data in cache for following READ command usage NO VERIFY Write Verify command is treated as Write without verification And Read aft Write the written data in cache will be discarded The data will be read from the disk when a read request comes in NO VERIFY Write Verify command is treated as Write without verification And NO READ aft use the written data in cache for following READ command WRITE usage eRead Ahead Setup READ AHEAD 64 KB This is to set size of data to prefetch into cache for read operation Parameter Function READ AHEAD 0 KB Do not do read ahead You might like to use this setting if read data is frequenty changed across different directories DVT10B3 READ AHEAD 8 KB The read ahead size is 8KB i e one page same as buffer segment size This might be
34. icates an error HDD A FAIL meet When TRAID x RECOVERING 0 shown on LCD the FAIL LED on LED UE means the HDD is under rebuilding POWER LED Power ON LED indicator ACCESS LED Host Access LED indicator FAIL LED A controller error LED indicator 1 Parameter Initialization Power on Initialization MODE Button 2 Configure parameters See Chapter 2 3 Stop buzzer alarm Buzzer stopped immediately by pushing one time D SELECT Button Setup Parameter LCD Display Message display perpen satos gr the system Show parameters while doing configuration 9 Power Input AC Inlet eSATAS Connector eSATA host connector 0 USB3 Connector USB3 host connector q2 Ethernet Port RJ45 Fast Ethernet port for Web GUI management 13 Fan Module Fan 1 Fan Module Fan 2 Drive Module Disk Drive module O to 9 Upper left one is number 0 and right is 1 o e Both eSATA and USB3 cannot be applied to same LUN at the same time For simulateneous usage of eSATA and USB3 two LUN mapping and SWAP mode should be configured DVT10B3 Connection lt Steps for eSATA connection gt 1 Basic connection eSATA or USB 3 gt Host Computer Connect eSATA Cable or USB3 cable from host to the system included in the package To use web based GUI connect Ethernet cable between LAN connector and host 2 Dual Connection Connect both eSATA and USB3 cables from host to the system Configure LUN size as any kind of two LUNs and LUN mod
35. ity is to be written the command is divided up into two or more operations A relatively big stripe width is setup to reduce the overhead of continuous operation Default 2 MB DRIVE BIOS CORPORATION The bigger size of stripe width faster transfer speed can be achieved for sequential read or write Usually 2 DRIVE setup will give a good performance but it depends on the host application eSetup of eSATA Host eSATA3 Host Enabled Parameter Function eSATAS Host Enabled eSATA3 Host Disabled Enable eSATA Host Channel Default Disable eSATA Host Channel USB3 Host Disabled Parameter Function USB3 Host Enabled USB3 Host Disabled eSetup of USB3 Host Enable USB3 Host Channel Disable USB3 Host Channel Default When both eSATA3 and USB3 hosts are enabled make sure LUN MODE set to Swapped eRecovery Rate Setup RECOVER RATE 5Min GB Recovery Rebuild operations utilize free time between host data access without interrupting the current host application Therefore data read write priority can be adjusted through different recovery rate setting User can choose the timing to execute recovery operations as below Parameter Function Recovery request will be processed immediately between host RECOVER WAIT commands Recovery will always be processed therefore host TIME 0 Sec access will be slow down Select this mode if you want the recovery have high p
36. mmand m for help W w fdisk command The partition table has been altered Calling ioctl to re read partition table Syncing disks WARNING If you have created or modified any DOS 6 x partitions please see the fdisk manual page for additional information 3 Formatting partition created mke2fs command root sheep root mke2fs dev sda1 mke2fs 1 29 24 Sep 2002 for EXT2 FS 0 5b 95 08 09 Filesystem label OS type Linux Block size 4096 log 2 Fragment size 4096 log 2 183140352 inodes 366279984 blocks 18313999 blocks 5 00 reserved for the super user First data block 0 11178 block groups 32768 blocks per group 32768 fragments per group 16384 inodes per group Superblock backups stored on blocks 32768 98304 163840 229376 294912 819200 884736 1605632 2654208 4096000 7962624 11239424 20480000 23887872 71663616 78675968 102400000 214990848 Writing inode tables done Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information done root sheep root 4 Mounting File system root sheep root mount dev sdb1 RAID DVT10B3 Idev sdb1 is Device partition you are mounting and RAID is the mount point 3 2 Windows 7 The section explains how to use with Windows 7 for reference Please refer to Windows 7 user guide for details 1 Confirm the connection Connect and power on DVPro T10 then starts with host computer Press the Start Button and right click on C
37. omer to record all parameters Parameter Default Notes Firmware Firm ware is Ver x xxx Change if firmware is upgraded Vendor ID Vender ID is BIOS Model No Product ID is DVT10B3 Vary as different models Serial No Serial No ID xxxxxxxx IP Address 192 168 50 210 Can be changed by SELECT Button Address Mask 255 255 255 0 Can be changed by SELECT Button SINGLE DRIVE RAID 1 RAID 0 2 RAID 1 3 RAID Vode RAID MODE Babs RAID 10 RAID 6 RAID 0 RAID 3 RAID 5 Drive Mode DRIVE MODE 10 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 for 10 drive model Sector Size 512B 512B 4K Flush Cache Enable FLUSH CACHE Enable Ignore SATA3 Host Enabled Enabled Disabled USB3 Host Disabled Enabled Disabled Disk Speed Disk Speed 3Gb s 3Gb s 6Gb s Disk Size DISK size Test1GB 120GB 160GB 250GB 400GB 500GB 750GB 1TB 2TB 3TB 4TB uNMODE uun DIRECT ne BIAS DEO DN BAS Cache Size CACHE SIZE 512 MB 64 MB 128MB 256MB 512MB LUN size FULL E Parity Stripe PARITY STRIPE 2 MB DRIVE 2 MB 1 MB 256 KB 128 KB Read Ahead READ AHEAD 64 KB 0 KB 8 KB 64 KB 256 KB 1 MB 4 MB Recover RATE 5Min GB TIME OSec TIME 0 1Sec TIME 1Sec TIME 10Sec 2Min GB 5Min GB 10Min GB 20Min GB WAITING BUFFERD PENDING 0 1Sec 1 Sec Write Mode WRITE ALL PENDING 0 1Sec ALL PENDING 0 1Sec 1Sec Retry Time RETRY MAXIMUM TIME 5
38. omputer Click on Manage Go to Device Manager Click on Disk Drives and confirm that the DVPro T10 has been registered File Action View Help 29510 amp Computer Management Local 4 System Tools Task Scheduler gl Event Viewer El Shared Folders Local Users and Groups 5 Performance Ey Device Manager 82 Storage f Disk Management Services and Applications um gt 19 12 RE 4 y T300 WIN7 Actions Computer B 4 Disk drives PUSS tl More Actions b ics BIOS BR256ES 2506 USB Device HDS724040KLSA80 ATA Device WS Display adapters E DVD CD ROM drives Floppy disk drives eB Floppy drive controllers 0 Human Interface Devices IDE ATA ATAPI controllers lt gt Keyboards n Mice and other pointing devices Monitors Network adapters 5 Other devices 1 Ports COM amp LPT D Processors M System devices Universal Serial Bus controllers X If you did not see DVPro T10 here please check below gt Is the host HBA recognized by OS or not Please consult with your HBA vendor if not gt Was DVPro T10 normally started and connected BIOS CORPORATION 2 Partition Creation and Formatting 1 Log into Windows 7 and click the Start then right click on Computer and click on Manage Getting Started m Connect to a Projector Remote Desktop Connection UD Sticky No
39. ork Parameters gt Click on main menu Network Parameters to show Network related parameters DVPro T10 Windows Internet Explorer g E 51 OO le 192 168 50 210 oz ts amp 1 x tnt ws i93 BIOS Network Parameters MAC Address 00 08 23 09 00 00 Monitor Mode IP Address 192 168 50 210 Net Mask 255 255 255 0 DVPro T10 Gate Way 155 255 255 255 Sender Name IDVPro amp 192 168 50 210 Mail Address 1 test bios co Ver 1 32f DEP SMIP Server 1 255 255 255 255 RAID Monitor Mail Address 2 SMIP Server 2 255 255 255 255 Basic Parameters Mail Level Critical Additional Parameters SNMP Trap Server 1 255 255 255 255 SNMP Trap Server 2 255 255 255 255 Network Parameters Trap Level Critical Logged Data Send Test Mail Login for Management 2 Mode z Send Test Trap lt Network related parameters screen gt Logged Data gt Click on main menu Logged Data to show Log data of the storage DVPro T10 Windows Internet Explorer 1 Go Ie 1 192 168 50 210 Pr Bl B pwrorio x 23 BIOS DVT10B3 2T10 Ver 1 32 Logged Data From Last Monitor Mode Log or 00000111 Seconds in Hex Check Sum 3B49 Reset DVPro T10 111 0000 0001 8025 276C 1707 8001 171F 8003 2760 1707 8005 2760 1707 FFFF 1910 Logged 1 01 1C1E 0000 0001 1 04 0800 1C01 OF4c 0001 8002 3928 1910 1 01 1 1 0000 00
40. ower up to enter Parameter Setting mode ARRAY PARAMETERS SETTING 2 Press the SELECT button instead of MODE to set up RAID operational parameters Firm ware is Ver x Xxx 3 Press the SELECTbutton Vender ID is BIOS Vendor ID will be displayed 4 Press the SELECTbutton Product ID is DVT10B3 Product ID will be displayed Firmware version will be displayed BIOS CORPORATION 5 Press the SELECTbutton Serial No ID XXXXXXXX Serial number of DVPro T10 will be displayed 6 Press the SELECTbutton End of Indicate the end of the fixed parameters Fixed Parameter Then if you press the Mode button now you will enter Background Parameter mode You can also get into Background Mode by pressing the Mode button during display on Firmware Version Vednor ID Device ID or Serial Number From here pressing the Mode button to roll among the background parameters e IP Address Setup IP Address 192 168 50 210 By pushing SELECTbutton the IP Address will be increased The longer you hold the SELECT button the faster the number is increased Push the MODE button to move to next field e Address Mask Setup Address Mask 255 255 255 0 This is to setup IP address mask same as IP setup e Parity Mode Setup ENABLE ENABLE DISABLE PARITY 3 Enable or Disable Cache memory parity Similar to ECC function e Maximum negotiatable speed of host channels Host Rate 6Gb s 3Gb s 6Gb s It is impor
41. r 1 32f Warning This server is requesting that your username and password be sent in an insecure manner basic authentication without a secure connection alias Remember credentials lt Pop window for User Name Password to enter Management mode gt Default password is passwd and leave user name empty gt change password refer to 2 7 Setup Change Password gt Switch to Management Mode by clicking on To Management Menu when Operation Mode Changed is pop up on right display panel as below screen shown BIOS CORPORATION DvPro 10 Windows Internet Explorer Je 81 Go v 8 ntto 192 168 50 210 PSA E x VY XD EE BIOS Operation Mode Changed To Management Menu g Management DVPro T10 DVTIOB3 2T10 Ver 1 32f RAID Monitor Basic Parameters E lt Page indicates Management mode gt User can configure EMAIL notification and SNMP setting also modifying Additional Parameters under Management mode DVT10B3 2 6 4 Setup of email notification Mail Setup Mail Setup It allows you to change email notification parameters and send a test email It is necessary to login to Management Mode or Parameter Setting Mode before you can make the change Click on Mail Setup from the main menu DVPro T10 Windows Internet Explorer E v 8 hio
42. rd box 6 digits 2 Click Change Password button to save the change Reboot the RAID system for change to take effect What if forgot my password User can setup a new password without inputting an old password Available functions for each Mode with WEB GUI Monitor Mode Management Setup Mode Mode Read Read Modify Read Modify Read Modify RAID Monitor Basic Parameters gt lt Additional Parameters Critical Parameters Network Parameters Mail Setup SNMP Setup Logged Data Update Firmware Login for Management Mode O O O X O X X O X O X x XXXXOO gt XxX gt xO xX Change Password Read You can see the items Modify You can modify the parameters or executes the operation 2 8 Host LAN Configuration 2 8 1 IP Setup for Windows ae Sticky Notes Q Snipping Tool Calculator E Ld Remote Desktop Connection A 7 ma rol Panel D Computer lh XPS Viewer De SE Windows Fax and Scan ETIN Change settings and customize the functionality of your computer Default Programs E Magnifier Help and Support gt All Programs A aN 1 Go to Start gt Control Panel Eri Sor Control Panel Network and Internet Network and Sharing Center Search Control Panel Control Panel Home View your basic
43. relay from DVPro T10 notification by setting up the local SMPT server For Windows OS you can setup IP address of DVPro T10 on SMPT which has the RELAY function Send Test Mail button By clicking on Send Test Mail button following the email setup you can send a test email to the receiver address for confirmation zB G RAE http 192 168 50 210 pr 214 B pvprot10 x A ok EE BIOS Send Test Mail Bad SMTP Server Address Management DVPro T10 DVT10B3 2T10 Ver 1 32f RAID Monitor Basic Parameters Additional Parameters lt A failed screen gt There will be Sending Test Mail shown on the screen indicating the email in transmission And the log will record a message if the test mail was sent out If the Send Test Main failed after retried an error log will be recorded 0020 SMTP was not found 0021 Gateway was not found 0022 SMTP did not respond It might take up to 10 minutes for the retrial if the mail could not be sent There might be cases which SMTP did respond but with wrong answer We suggest trying a different SMTP server under such situation 2 6 5 Mail Format The mail format is looked like below From DVPro 192 168 50 210 To test bios co jp Subject Alert from DVPro T10 Alert Condition of BIOS DVProxx xxx6 Ver x xxx Serial Number xxxxxxxx Alert Reason Test of Send Mail 1 From Mail sender this machine 2 To Receiver 3 Subject 4 Alert Condi
44. ries explained below Event Level Critical Select Level Critical Warning Notification Bil 3 Click after you choose level to test if it is succeeded or not DVT10B3 2 6 8 Additional Parameters Setup lt Additional Parameters gt In Management Mode click Additional Parameters on main menu to setup Additional Parameters Page DVPro T10 Windows Internet Explorer 1 xi go e http 192 168 50 210 p Ba 9 amp DvPro T10 x Ys 93 BIOS Additional Parameters Flush Cache Command ignore v Recover Pace 0 1Sec Interval Wait Y Management A Write Back Max Size 4MB Channel v DVPro T10 Sequential Read Ahead DVTIOB3 2T10 DPO FUA Mode Disable Ver 1 32f Time Out for Retry 5 Sec BAL Check Drive Delay 1Sec Power on Wait s Sec M Basic Parameters NN Wait HDD Ready 1 Min Ao Check Cache Mode Fast Network Parameters HDD Patrol Mode Auto Patrol Mail Setup Patrol Pace CT UAyS CYTE Fan Speed Temp 50 deg C lv SNMP Setup A 3 Change Parameters Logged Data lt Additional Parameters Page gt Parameter settings under additional parameters can be changed without effecting data on the RAID system Syne Cache Command Ignore Recover Pace 5 Min GB Rate Write Back Max Size 2MB Channel
45. riority DVT10B3 Continuous host commands will be processed first Recovery RECOVER operation will be taken care when the interval between host WAIT commands longer than 0 1 sec The following host command has TIME 0 1 Sec to wait till one recovery task completed except READ WRITE or READ Cache command which will be executed immediately RECOVER This can used when host access are not Cone WAIT The wait interval following the last host command is 1 sec On this mode the recovery operation will not be processed if the host TIME 1 Sec commands are continuous with less than 1 sec internal RECOVER Usually this should not be used WAIT Probably this mode can be applied if there is very little host TIME 10 Sec access RECOVER RATE This is to assign the recovery time for 1GB capacity despite of 2Min GB interval to wait between host commands Default 5Min GB There is possibility 1GB recovery cannot be completed 5Min GB 10Min GB within assigned interval 20Min GB eCache Size Setup CACHE SIZE 512MB As parameter is only for DEBUG usage Users should NOT alter this setting Parameter Function CACHE SIZE 64MB 128MB 256MB 512MB Cache Buffer Error will be shown if the selected cache size not matched the installed cache memory eWrite Cache Mode setup WRITE ALL PENDING 0 1Sec Default 512MB The controller needs more time than writing to single drive to generate p
46. rite Setup WRITE BACK MAX 64KB 128KB 256KB 512KB SIZE 2MB CH 1MB 2MB AMB Setup the size of data stored in cache for Sequential Wrtie When data size written to cache is bigger than the setup size data will be partitioned to parts e Write Retry Mode Setup BIOS CORPORATION WRITE RETRY NO WRITE RETRY MODE MODE WRITE RETRY MODE Enable or disable RETRY when an error is detected during RAID 3 5 write operation If NO WRITE RETRY MODE is set an error will move the DVPro T10 status to TONE DOWN e Numer of Power and Fan Setup Single Power with fan 3 Dual Power with fan 3 Single Power without fan 3 Dual Power without fan 3 Single Power Fan3 Setup number of Power good detection and fan detection This should not be altered unless reconfiguring the hardware on purpose e Buffer Segment Size Setup BUFFER SEGMENT SIZE 64KB CH 8KB CH 16KB CH 32KB CH 64KB CH Setup buffer segment size per drive channel This is the size of data block for one command For large sequential data access the bigger size can give better performance On the contrast for random access the smaller size can give better performance e Wait Time of Retry Setup RETRY MAXIMUM TIME 5S 258 105 5S 15 0 15 Setup the interval between drive time out and retry 151 10 151 is only for testing The actual processing time will take 2 or 3 times of the setting OS might need to setup a longer time out interval because of t
47. t us or vender whom you purchased from All trademarks stated in this manual belong to the properties of their respective owners DVT10B3 BIOS CORPORATION Table of Contents PECADOS dl 1 TAE DON A 3 Chapter QUINE ec inten 4 A TO 4 FUNCUONS PEE IA E AE a AO 4 Packing Contents ra tenera sita setate 5 a a a a a aaa a aA ss nnns innen 5 Connection cc E 8 Chapter 2 Setup and Monitor a ainda 10 2 1 OTEO E E A AE 10 2 2 LCD Toggle rolling setup 10 2 3 Introduction of Parameters Setup sss 11 2 4 RAID Operational Parameters 12 2 5 Product Information and Background Parameters sssssseeeeeeneennen 18 2 5 1 Method to setup background parameters esses 18 2 5 2 ACA 24 2 6 Web based Monitor and Setup via Ethernet sse nennen 27 2 6 1 Main Screen of Web 28 2 6 2 Introduction of Monitor MOde ooonnnccnnnnocccnnnnocccnnononccnnonorccnnn arc cnn nnne enne A nnn nennen 29 2 6 3 Management Mode 32 2
48. taSP 1x86 2048 264192 VistaSP 1x64 2048 264192 WS2008x86 2048 264192 WS2008x64 2048 264192 MBR 1 MBR 2 MBR 1 MBR 2 WinXPx86 63 N A MBR 1 MBR 1 MBR 2 WS2003R2x86 63 262178 WS2003R2x64 63 262178 WinXPx64 63 262178 O Aligned X Need Alignment BIOS CORPORATION Appexdix Error Message shown on LCD Category LCD Text Meaning Notes Drive Error RAID x One drive down and host To know exactly which drive ONE DRIVE DOWN accessible status is down please look up Drive Fault LED on system front panel Press SELECT can also see which drive is down RAID 6 Two driives down and host Same as above TWO DRIVE DOWN accessible status SYSTEM DOWN System not reliable anymore Same as above Press due to multiple driver down MODE button to mute buzzer RAID 10 Multiple drives down and host MULTIPLE DOWN accessible status Most Delay X is empty if there is no delay Channel x channel CH x RCV in PTR Drive x is recovered by rewrite YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY at Patrol scan on LBA yyyyyy Enclosure FANx STOP Fan x stopped and host Check user manual to know Error NORMAL accessible which fan is failed Press MODE button to mute buzzer FANx OVERFLOW Fan x speed is 90 000RPM ALL FAN STOP All fans stopped and host NORMAL accessible PSx DOWN Power Supply x failed and host Only for redundant PSU NORMAL accessible All POWER DOWN All Power modules
49. tant to note that the DVPro eSATA speed is not auto negotiable Most of eSATA rate of host computer is auto negotiable so this parameter has to be equal or smaller than the esata rate of host computer eNCQ MODE DVT10B3 NCQ MODE NO Priority NO Queuing Read Priority NO NO QUEUING Reorder Set up NCQ Native Command Queue support default is READ Priority Options are listed as below NO QUEUING No Queuing READ PRIORITY NCQ ON higher priority for READ command NO REORDER Queuing ON command executed as first in first out NO PRIORITY Queuing ON command executed as possible re order without special priority Native Command Queuing supports usually have dependancy on host Operating System and SATA Drive When any abnormal behavior encountered please set this parater to NO Queueing To support NCQ host has to set up operating mode of connecting sata port as AHCI mode eMaximum negotiatable speed of drive channels Disk Speed 3Gb s 3Gb s 6Gb s eFan speed control temperature Set up temperature criteria for fan speed control FAN SPEED TEMP 20 30 40 45 50 55 60 deg C 45 deg C nS When the detected temperature RAID Core chip is higher than the FAN SPEED TEMP the fan will be turned into high speed DVPro is shipped with 50 degree set in advance eFlush cache command setup Enable FLUSH CACHE Enable Ignore Enable or Disable FLUSH CACHE command function Default is Enable e Background W
50. ted uncorrectable error detected data transfer requested IDE drive busy in start ID not found data address mark not found Disk Time out in write sequence command aborted xX zli Time out to data shortage When 51 4 21 appended there is high ibility th ive is failed IDE drive ready time out is high possibility that drive is failed Please contact technical support before unable to find track 0 taking any action dummy busy time out or so disk not present in write Not Ready in Command other error capacity error Disk Not Ready in command begins lt lt gt disk not present in operation without write Extra information for Retry detection and Drive SENSE DATA A Retry mark will be displayed when retry was occurred Although DVPro T10 is designed to isolate a failed drive to avoid data corruption it is necessary to check drive for permanent failure or occasional failure by several retries on Write or Read A Retry mark canbe seenon RAID x Normal disaply if retries were performed While controller is at normal operation press MODE and SELECT button will allow you to check and clear the retry mark RAID 6 NORMAL __ The retry mark is shown after NORMAL case O Host write data transmission error Host bus parity error before data out process en
51. tes Q Snipping Tool al 5 Calculator iii e Paint 4 XPS Viewer 5 Map network drive z Disconnect network drive Windows Fax and Scan eum MEME Showon Desktop b uox amp Magnifier Help and Suppo pos gt AllPrograms Properties Search programs and files lala ol A um D 2 Click on Computer Management gt Storage gt Disk Management E Computer Management 7 7 mmm File Action Help es 289 009 8 8 Volume Layout Type File System Cp Cs C Simple Basic NTFS Healthy System Boot Page File Active Crash Dump Primary Partition 33 pick Management Computer Management Local 4 System Tools b Task Scheduler gt E Event Viewer gt B Shared Folders b HE Local Users and Groups b Performance 88 Device Manager 4 88 Storage 27 Disk Management gt Ey Services and Applications More Actions Basic C3 37261 GB 39 06 GB NTFS 33355 GB Online Healthy System Boot Page File Activ Unallocated DDisk 1 Unknown 1397 25 GB 1397 25 GB Not Initialized Unallocated Initialize Disk Offline Properties Help m Bl Unallocated Primary partition fale lola IE ess 3 Right click Not initialize disk DISK1 then click l Initialize Disk DVT10B3 4 Check th
52. tion of vendor name device name and version 5 Serial Number the serial number of this device 6 Alert Reason Cause of this email sent 2 6 6 Conditions of Mail Notification Under below conditions the mail will be sent One Drive Down Two Drives Down System Down 1 Drive failure DVT10B3 2 Completion of Drive Recovery 3 System Power Off 4 Fan is failed Recover Finished Power Unit Down Fan Unit Down If the event was remained the same email will be sent again upon the power recycling If there are more than two events happened at the same time only the first one will be sent 2 6 7 SNMP Setup Click SNMP Setup on Main Menu and follow below steps to configure SNMP DvPro T10 Windows Internet Explorer leal x So v 8 nu 192 168 50 210 2 z amp x PUOI EE BIOS SNMP Parameters fu SNMP Trap Server 1 255255255255 M SMP Trap Server 2 255 255 255255 DVPro 10 Save SNMP Parameters DVT10B3 2T10 Ver 221 Event Levell Criica _ T Setect eve BAD Basic Parameters T Network Parameters Mail Setup SNMP Setup Logged Data SNMP Setup screen 1 You can setup IP address of your SNMP server on SNMP Trap Server 1 2 If server is not located within LAN please input same IP address of your Gateway Click to save these IP BIOS CORPORATION addressed 2 Setup the level of status monitor There are a total of three catego
53. tive If the update process failed for any reason the following screen will be shown DVPro 110 Windows Internet Explorer Edt Favorites Tools Help ip Favores de E gt over no R mor Page Sdey Toob Gr BIOS File Format or Transmit Error OF Setup Mode DVPro T10 DVT10B3 2T10 Ver 1 32f Parameters Wrong firmware file or transmission error gt lt DVPro T10 LCD Display gt Error Retry Now Don t Power off Error has occurred during the process Warning Do not turn off RAID system at this point Instead retry again without rebooting the system If the process still failed please contact our support staff lt Change Password gt In Setup Mode click Change Password on main menu to enter Change Password page This allows you to change the password of Management Mode BIOS CORPORATION 2 DVPro 110 Windows Internet Explorer 6 S e 192 168 50 210 1 x JE File Edt View Favorites Tools Help de Favortes s E overo Tio a D 1 dd gt Page Safety Tools BIOS Change Password New Password Setup Mode Confirm Password 0 DVT10B3 2T10 Ver 132f Critical Parameters Basic Parameters Done Internet fa Rio d start T10 Windows Y firmerror Paint 2 5 5 ID05PM lt Change Password Page gt 1 Enter new password New Password and Confirm Passwo

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