Manhattan SATA 300 RAID PCI Express Card
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1. SATA 300 RAID PCI EXPRESS CARD USER MANUAL MODEL 160377 2 MANHATTAN MAN 160377 UM 1006 04 Thank you for purchasing the MANHATTAN SATA 300 RAID PCI Express Card Model 160377 Compliant with PCI Express 1 0a and SATA 1 0 specifications this card adds dual internal SATA 300 ports to connect data storage and other SATA peripheral devices and supports SATA 3 Gbps and RAID 5 data transter rates IMPORTANT Prior to PCI Express Card controller card installation read the SATA RAID 5 manual on the enclosed CD in the folder SATA PCle_Raid5_2Port Sil3132 Windows Gui lor RaidS SATA2_4Port SiI3124 Windows Gui This RAID manual has more information about RAID architecture features installation and settings plus management software for RAID 5 GUI graphical user interface After driver installation if desired install SATA RAID 5 GUI for RAID management Before SATA RAID 5 GUI installation you must remove all the existing SATA RAID GUI or Java SATA RAID GUI to ensure your new SATA RAID 5 GUI can work properly i e Starf Control Pane Add or Remove Programs Select all SATARaidN Remove RAID sets can be created and managed by either the BIOS utility setting or the SATA RAID 5 GUI setting under Windows For RAID building the BIOS utility allows random creation GUI just supports the building by sequential SATA Portl Port2 etc 2 4MANHATTAN INTRODUCTION This SATA 300 RAID PCI Express Card also known as a low prof2. ailure the replacement disk was previously part of a RAID set or used in another system it may have contlicting metadata specifically in reference to the drive connection information If so this will prohibit the RAID set from being either created or rebuilt For the RAID set to function properly this old metadata must be first overwritten with the new metadata To resolve this select Resolve Conflicts and the correct metadata including the correct drive connection information will be written to the replacement disk SOFTWARE INSTALLATION Windows 2000 XP 2003 Fresh Installation 1 Turn the system off Connect the hard drives to the PCI Express Card and insert the card into a PCI Express slot Turn the system back on 2 Put your Windows 2000 XP CD into the CD ROM DVD drive or put the 2000 XP boot diskette 1 in the floppy drive if your system cannot boot trom the CD 3 Press F for third party SCSI or driver installation at the beginning of text mode installation Press S when Setup asks if you want to specify an additional device and insert the driver CD Press Enter and select EXSATA PCle_Raid5_2Port SiI3132 Windows Driver 4 MANHATTAN Os Um Es Press Enter to continue with text mode setup Follow the Setup instructions to select your choice for partition and file system After Setup examines your disks it will copy tiles to Windows 2000 installation folders and restart the system The Setup program will
3. ard was installed correctly Veritying Controller Installation under Windows 2000 XP 2003 1 Right click on My Computer select Properties left click on the Hardware tab left click on the Device Manager button 2 Double click on SCSI and RAID Controllers It there is no yellow or 2 in front of Silicon Image Sil 3132 SoftRaid5 Controller the driver has started correctly 3 To view information about the devices attached to the card use the SilCtg Utility and click on the device from the list Update a New Driver on Windows 2000 XP 2003 with an Existing Driver 1 Right click on My Computer and select Properties Under the System Properties section click on the Hardware tab then on Device Manager Click SCSI and RAID Controller and right click on Silicon Image Sil 3132 SoftRaidS Controller 2 Click on Driver and Update Driver select Search for a suitable driver for my device Recommended Insert the driver CD Press Enter select ESATA PCle_Raid5_2Por Sil3132 WVindows Driver Click Next to complete the driver installation 4 MANHATTAN 3 The system will go through the enumeration process and install the driver At the end of the process click Yes to reboot your system it necessary 4 See Veritying Controller Installation Under Windows to verify the PCI Express Card was installed correctly a4 MANHATTAN SPECIFICATIONS Port Specifications Two internal SATA 300 ports Co
4. continue and finish the installation after restart Wait until Windows finishes installing devices regional settings networking settings components and the final set of tasks then reboot the system if it is required See Verifying Controller Installation Under Windows to verify the PCI Express Card was installed correctly Adding the Express Card to an Existing Windows 2000 XP 2003 Installation I PG SD J 6 Z Turn the system off Connect the hard drives to the PCI Express Card and insert the card into a PCI Express slot Turn the system back on During OS bootup Windows will display the Found New Hardware Wizard Click Next Select Search for a suitable driver for my device Recommended and Click Next _ Insert the driver CD in your CD ROM DVD drive check Specify a location uncheck the other boxes click Next type in EN if your CD ROM DVD is EN Click Browse Check a location e g ESATA PCle_Raid5_2Porf Sil3132 VWVindows Driver click Open then OK When the wizard indicates that it found a driver for the device click Next If the Digital Signature Not Found dialog appears click Yes to continue installing the driver 4 MANHATTAN 8 The wizard will now copy the required files to the system and start the driver When the wizard displays a completion dialog click Finish to exit the wizard 9 See Veritying Controller Installation Under Windows to verify the PCI Express C
5. entional Fdisk and Format steps as if you were installing a conventional hard drive Your RAID configuration is complete Proceed to Software Installation CON Os Orla CoN sO EN 2 4MANHATTAN 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 as if installing a conventional hard drive Your RAID configuration is complete Proceed to Software Installation Creating a Mirrored Striped Set RAID 10 1 As the BIOS boots press CTRL S or F4 to enter the RAID BIOS utility 2 Select Create RAID set Press F2 3 Select RAID 10 then press Enter 4 Select Auto configuration Press Enter 5 Press Y and then press ESC to exit the setup 6 Continue with conventional Fdisk and Format steps as if installing a conventional hard drive 7 Your RAID configuration is complete Proceed to Software Installation CON OOK w N 4 MANHATTAN Creating a 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 3 Select RAID 5 then press Enter 4 Select Auto Configuration Press Enter 5 Press Y to save your setting
6. ile PCI Express host adapter is a controller board that supports both low profile and regularsize PCI in one card The card can upgrade your desktop computer to a 2 port with a SATA 300 transfer rate of 3 Gbps and supports RAID 5 RAID 0 1 RAID O RAID 1 and JBOD features It accepts host commands through the PCI Express bus processes them and transfers data between the host and SATA 300 devices VWWhen connected to a SATA target device the card will take the data serialize it and output it for transmission over the SATA interface It can control four independent SATA channels each with its own SATA bus and will support one SATA device The card supports SATA 100 and 300 transter rates of 1 5 Gbps 3 Gbps It comes complete with drivers for Windows 2000 XP and Server 2003 RAID redundant array of independent disks greatly enhances two main areas of data storage performance and data integrity By using RAID O also known as Striping performance of sustained data transfer rates is greatly enhanced by simultaneously writing data to two three or tour drives The second benefit of RAID is data redundancy RAID 1 Mirroring writes identical data on two drives or sets of drives thus protecting the data from a disk failure If for any reason one drive were to fail your data is secure and available trom the mirrored second drive aA MANHATTAN FEATURES External SATA 300 eSATA connector 48 bits LBA can break capacity l
7. imit to support HDD larger than 137 GB Supports l lane 2 5 Gbps PCI Express Hotplug capability Supports SATA 300 transfer rate of 3 0 Gbps Fully compliant with SATA 1 0 specitications Supports two independent SATA channels Independent Link Transport and data FIFO Independent command fetch scatter gather and command execution Supports legacy Command Queuing LCG Supports Native Command Queuing NCQ Supports Nonzero offsets NCQ Supports Out of Order data delivery NCQ Supports FlS based switching with port multipliers 31 commands and scatter gather tables per port Two pin headers on board for LED connection Complete with drivers tor Windows 2000 XP Server 2003 Provides RAID O Striping RAID 1 Mirroring and RAID O 1 Mirrored Striping a4 MANHATTAN WHAT IS RAID RAID redundant array of independent disks technology manages multiple disk drives to enhance I O performance and provide redundancy in order to withstand the failure of any individual member without loss of data The following RAlD related terms are used in this manual Disk Striping RAID O Striping is a pertormance oriented non redundant data mapping technique 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 disks If a read failure occurs on one drive the system reads the data trom the other drive Mirro
8. mpliant with serial ATA 1 0 specitications 48 bit LBA supports HDD larger than 137 GB Supports two independent SATA channels Silicon serial controller Independent link transport and data FIFO and command fetch scatter gather and command execution Supports legacy command queuing CQ native command queuing NCQ nonzero offsets NCQ outotorder data delivery NCQ and FlS based switching with port multipliers 31 commands and scatter gather tables per port Dual 2 pin headers for LED indicator connections SaN Bus Specifications PCI Express xl Bus speed 2 5 Gbps e Compliant with PCI Express specifications 1 0a 2 4MANHATTAN System Requirements e Windows 2000 XP Server 2003 Vista e PCI Expressenabled system with an available Express Card slot e CD ROM drive Package Contents e SATA 300 RAID PCI Express Card xl lane e Regular and low protile brackets e User manual and driver CD 2 MANHATTAN BRA MANHATTAN BRINGING COMPUTERS IO LIFE www manhattan products com Are you completely satistied with this product Please contact your MANHATTAN dealer with comments or questions Copyright MANHATTAN All products mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners
9. red Striping RAID 0 1 or RAID 10 A Mirrored Striping Set provides the performance enhancements of Striping and the data availability and integrity of Mirroring VWhen data is written to a Mirrored Striped Set a second Mirrored virtual disk is created as well Parity RAID RAID 0 Parity or RAID 5 adas fault tolerance to Disk Striping by including parity information with the data It uses less capacity for protection and is the preferred method to reduce the cost per megabyte for larger installations Just a Bunch of Disks JBOD The JBOD is a virtual disk that can either be an entire disk drive or a segment of a single disk drive For this card the JBOD function only supports one disk a4 MANHATTAN BIOS INSTALLATION RAID SETTING Creating and deleting RAID sets is a function found in the BIOS basic integrated operating system During boot up the RAID setting message will appear and pause for a few moments to allow you to choose what to do This board will act as a normal non RAID card when BIOS is not configured for RAID Just proceed to Software Installation Creating Striped Sets RAID 0 As the BIOS boots press CTRL S or F4 to enter the RAID BIOS utility Select Create RAID set Press Enter Select RAID O then press Enter Select Number of hard drive Press Enter Select RAID size Press Enter Press Y fo save your settings Press CTRL E and then press Y to exit the setup Continue with conv
10. s Creating JBOD Sets 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 JBOD Single then press Enter A Select BOD Drives Press Enter 5 Select RAID size Press Enter Press Y to save your settings Creating a Spare Drive 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 Spare Drive then press Enter e 2 4MANHATTAN 4 Select Spare Drives Press Enter 5 Select RAID size Press Enter Press Y to save your settings 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 deleted is a Striped set then all of the data will be lost If the set being deleted is a Mirrored set then the data will remain intact and accessible on both drives Rebuilding Mirrored Sets RAID 1 1 After replacing the tailed hard drives boot the BIOS then press CTRL S or F4 to enter the RAID BIOS utility 2 Select Rebuild RAID 1 set Press Enter 3 Select Rebuild Hard Drive Press Enter 4 Answer Y to rebuild the Mirrored set of the hard drive 4 MANHATTAN EA Resolving Contlict When a RAID set is created the metadata written to the disk includes drive connection information primary and secondary If after a disk f
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