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1. As the BIOS boots press CTRL S or F4 to enter the RAID bios utility Select Create RAID set Press F2 Select RAID 10 then press Enter Select Auto configuration Press Enter Press Y and then press ESC to exit the setup Continue with conventional Fdisk and Format steps to prepare the hard drives o N ap ON Your RAID hardware configuration is complete Proceed to software installation section Creating Parity RAID RAID 5 1 As the BIOS boots Press CTRL S or F4 to enter the RAID bios utility 2 Select Create RAID set Press Enter 8 Select RAID 5 then press Enter 4 Select Auto configuration Press Enter 5 Press Y to save your settings Creating JBOD Sets 1 As the BIOS boots Press CTRL S or F4 to enter the RAID bios utility Select Create RAID set Press Enter Select JBOD Single then press Enter Select JBOD Drives Press Enter Select RAID size Press Enter Press Y to save your settings oar WO ND Creating Spare Drive 1 As the BIOS boots Press CTRL S or F4 to enter the RAID bios utility Select Create RAID set Press Enter Select Spare Drive then press Enter Select Spare Drives Press Enter Select RAID size Press Enter Press Y to save your settings aa WD DY Deleting RAID Sets 1 As the BIOS boots Press CTRL S or F4 to enter the RAID bios utility 2 Select Delete RAID set Press Enter 3 Answer Y to remove the RAID set If the RAID set being
2. Installation eTe G RAID 5 eSATA 3Gbps 2 external port Low profile PCI Express card GlCe702S3R5W6 PART NO M0557 Table of Contents Caution 4 Introduction 6 Features 7 Package Contents 8 What Is RAID 9 Installation Procedure 12 Software Installation 19 Verifying Controller Installation 22 Federal Communications Commission 23 FCC Statement CE Statement 25 Limited Warranty 26 Contact 27 e Before installation of the controller card we recommend that users study this manual first This RAID manual has more information on RAID architecture RAID features RAID installation RAID settings and Management software for the RAIDS GUI Graphical User Interface e Windows Device Manager cannot recognize hard drives without the correct RAID settings in place e The working data on your existing hard drive may NOT work when you migrate it to a RAID Host Card configuration e After driver installation you can install the SATARAID5 GUI for RAID management Before the SATARAID5 GUI installation you must remove all existing SATARAID GUls or Java SATARAID GUI to ensure your new SATARAID5 GUI works without issues e RAID sets can be created and managed by either the BIOS utility setting or the SATARAIDS GUI setting under Windows e lf you re using a used hard drive with the RAID5 card you must perform the Delete RAID Set under he BIOS settings The reason this is necessary is because the used hard drive has system data o
3. Double click on SCSI and RAID Controllers en If there is no yellow P or in front of the 5 B Datat cts IEEE 17 Das host controles Silicon Image Sil 3132 SoftRaid5 Controller the driver is functioning properly 22 Federal Communications Commission FCC Statement Federal Communications Commission FCC Statement 15 21 You are cautioned that changes or modifications not expressly approved by the part responsible for compliance could void the user s authority to operate the equipment 15 105 b This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device pursuant to part 15 of the FCC rules These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation This equipment generates uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions may cause harmful interference to radio communications However there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver 23 Connect the equipmen
4. Gather Tables per Port Two Pin headers on board for LED connection Completely with drivers for Windows 2000 Windows XP and Windows Server 2008 Provides RAID 0 Stripping to greatly increase the performance of data transfer by simultaneously writing data to 2 drives Provides RAID 1 Mirroring to protect the data from a disk failure by writing identical data on 2 drives e RAID 0 1 Mirrored Stripping combine both Striping and Mirroring technologies to provide both the performance enhancements that come from Striping and the data availability and integrity that comes from Mirroring Package Contents RAID5 SATA II 83Gbps 2Port PCI Express Host Adapter Low PCI Bracket Quick Start Guide Driver CD What Is RAID RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks RAID technology manages multiple disk drives to enhance I O performance and provide redundancy in order to withstand the failure of any individual drive without loss of data Disk Striping RAID 0 Striping is a performance oriented non redundant data mapping technique While Striping is discussed as a RAID Set type it actually does not provide fault tolerance With modern SATA bus technology multiple I O operations can be done in parallel enhancing performance Striping arrays use multiple disks to form a larger virtual disk Disk Mirroring RAID 1 Disk mirroring creates an identical twin for a selected disk by having the data simultaneously written to two disk
5. deleted is a Striped then all of the data will be lost If the set being deleted is a Mirrored set then the data will remain intact and accessible on both drive sets Rebuilding Mirrored Sets RAID 1 1 After replacing the failed hard drives boot the BIOS Press CTRL S or F4 to enter the RAID bios utility 2 Select Rebuild RAID 1 set Press Enter 8 Select Rebuild Hard Drive Press Enter 4 Answer Y to rebuild the Mirrored set of hard drive Software Installation Windows XP Fresh Installation ti Power off the system Insert the controller card into a PCI slot and connect the hard drives o the controller card Power up the system Put your Windows XP CD into the CD ROM DVD drive Press F6 for third party SCSI or driver installation Press S when setup asks if you want o specify an additional device Press Enter and select CD Drive Letter SATA PCle_ Raid5_2Port Sil3132 Windows Driver 4 Press Enter to continue 5 Follow the setup instructions to select your choice for partitions and the file system After setup examines your disks it will copy files to the Windows installation folders and restart the system The setup program will continue and finish the installation after restart Wait until Windows finishes installing devices regional settings networking settings and components Reboot the system if it is stated as a requirement Windows XP Existing Installation 1 Power o
6. ff the system Insert the controller card into a PCI slot and connect the hard drives to the controller card Power up the system Thiz wizard helps pou install softmaqoe for RAID Contclier 2 During OS boot up Windows will display Q ioe cone sik aa iatoten CO the Found New Hardware Wizard Click Next 3 Select Install from a list or specific location Advanced and Click Next What do you word the weard to do O ratal te software asomatcaly Reconeended ratal bom a kt oF spectic beaien Advanced Oek Nest to continue 20 4 Insert the Driver CD in your CD ROM DVD drive check Specify a location Completing the Hardware Update uncheck the other boxes click Next lt Wizard type in your CD ROM DVD Drive Letter The wizard has Frithed instalirg the sofas for and Click Browse G Sees 5 Specify the following location CD Drive Letter SATA PCle_Raid5_2Port Sil3132 Windows Driver Select Open then click OK When the wizard indicates that it found a driver for the device click Next Oo N The wizard will now copy the required files to the system After installation the wizard will display a completion dialog click Finish to exit the wizard 21 Verifying Controller Installation 1 Right click on the My Computer icon and select Properties Left click on the Hardware tab then select the Device Manager button 2
7. function found in the BIOS During boot up the RAID setting message will appear and pause for a few moments to allow the user access to its settings The board will act as a normal NON RAID card when the BIOS does not have it configured for RAID If you re using traditional parallel ATA HDDs make sure your hard drives are set to master mode before accessing the RAID settings Creating Striped Sets RAID 0 1 As the BIOS boots Press CTRL S or F4 to enter the RAID bios utility 2 Select Create RAID set Press Enter 3 Select RAID 0 then press Enter 4 Select the Number of hard drives Press Enter Select RAID size Press Enter Press Y to save your settings Press CTRL E and then press Y to exit the setup Continue with conventional Fdisk and Format steps to prepare the hard drives OoOOAN ODD Your RAID hardware configuration is complete Proceed to software installation section Creating Mirrored Sets RAID 1 As the BIOS boots Press CTRL S or F4 to enter the RAID bios utility Select Create RAID set Press Enter Select RAID 1 then press Enter Select Auto configuration Press Enter Press Y to save your settings Press CTRL E and then press Y to exit the setup Continue with conventional Fdisk and Format steps to prepare the hard drives ON OA FP WBN Your RAID hardware configuration is complete Proceed to software installation section 15 Creating a Mirrored Striped Set RAID 10
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9. n it which may cause recognition issues when configuring it for use with the RAIDS card e RAID 0 and RAID1 setups require at least 2 drives with RAIDS requiring 3 drives and RAID10 requiring 4 drives e lf one hard drive only make sure to have Concatenate or Contiguous setting e The setting of Raid O 1 10 5 and JBOD will appear on screen accordingly and automatically when Port Multiplier and multiple Drives be connected Introduction The Low Profile PCI Express Host Adapter allows support for both Low profile PCI and standard size PCI connections The card offers the option of upgrading your desktop with a 2 port Serial ATA II transfer rate of up to 3 Gb s The board allows you the options of setting up RAID 5 RAID 0 1 RAID O or RAID 1 as well as JBOD within your system External SATA II eSATA Connector 48 bits LBA can Break Capacity Limit to Support HDD larger than 137GB Supports 1 lane 2 5Gbps PCI Express Hot plug capability Supports SATA II transfer rate of 3 0Gbps Fully compliant with Serial ATA 1 0 specifications Supports two independent Serial ATA channels Independent Link Transport and data FIFO Independent command fetch scatter gather and command execution Supports Legacy Command Queuing LCQ Supports Native Command Queuing NCQ Supports Non zero offsets NCQ Supports Out of order data delivery NCQ Supports FlS based switching with Port Multipliers 31 Commands and Scatter
10. s This redundancy provides instantaneous protection from a single disk failure If a read failure occurs on one drive the system simply reads the data from the other drive Mirrored Striping RAID 0 1 also known as RAID 10 A Mirrored Striping Set does just what it says combining both Striping and Mirroring technologies to provide both the performance enhancements that come from Striping and the data availability and integrity that comes from Mirroring When data is written to a Mirrored Striped Set instead of creating just one virtual disk as Striping would do a second Mirrored virtual disk is created as well Parity RAID RAID 5 Parity or RAID 5 adds fault tolerance to Disk Striping by including parity information with the data Parity RAID dedicates the equivalent of one disk for storing parity stripes The data and parity information is arranged on the disk array so that parity references are written to different disks There are at least 3 members to a Parity RAID set Parity RAID uses less capacity for protection and is the preferred method to reduce the cost per megabyte for larger installations Mirroring requires 100 increase in capacity to protect the data whereas the above example only requires a 50 increase The required capacity decreases as the number of disks in the group increases Just a Bunch of Disks JBOD Contiguous JBOD also known as Contiguous means a logical drive that can either be an entire disk drive or a
11. segment of a single disk drive For this card the JBOD function only supports one disk JBOD here is a Contiguous configuration option when using the Create RAID Group within the SATARAIDS Manager Utility Installation Procedure Power down the computer system nsert the Host card into an available bus slot Power on the computer system nstall drivers for the device Remove all existing SATARAID GUls or Java SATARAID GUIs to ensure your new SATARAIDS GUI installs and functions properly nstall the SATARAIDS GUI ako s 6 7 Power down the computer system once again 8 Connect Hard Drives to the proper SATA Ports 9 Power on the computer system once again 1 O If you connect any used HDDs to the SATA Ports Press CTRL S or F4 and delete any RAID settings that may be on the drives when using the BIOS boot method 11 Use the SATARAID5 Manager GUI to configure your RAID settings If using 1 Disk please select Concatenate or Contiguous settings only If using 2 Disks do NOT select Parity RAID or Mirrored Stripe settings If using 3 Disks do NOT select the Mirrored Stripe setting 12 Open Task Manager to make sure the RAID setup is completed RAIDS can take hours to complete please be aware of these time requirements 13 Use Device Manager for hard disk initialization partition and formatting within Windows BIOS RAID Settings Creating and deleting RAID sets is a
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