Lindy 51127 Computer Hardware User Manual
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1. RAID set Press Enter 3 Select RAID 1 then press Enter 4 Select Auto configuration Press Enter 5 Press Y to save your settings 6 Press CTRL E and then press Y to exit the setup 7 Continue with conventional Fdisk and Format steps as if you are installing a conventional hard drive 8 Your RAID configuration is complete Please proceed to software installation section 3 3 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 config Press Enter 5 Press Y and then press ESC to exit the setup 6 Continue with conventional Fdisk and Format steps as if you are installing a conventional hard drive 7 Your RAID configuration is complete Please proceed to software installation section 3 4 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 3 Select RAID 5 then press Enter 4 Select Auto configuration Press Enter 5 Press Y to save your settings 3 5 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 4 Select JBOD Drives Press Enter 5 Select RAID size Press Enter 6 Press Y to save your settings 3 6 Creating Spare Drive 1 As the BI2. on the device side to access SATA Hard disk drive The board can be used to upgrade your desktop computer to have 4Ports Serial ATA Channels and support RAID 5 RAID 0 1 RAID 0 RAID 1 and JBOD features It accepts host commands through the PCI bus processes them and transfers data between the host and Serial ATA devices The board should be connected to SATA target device and will take the data serialize it and output it for transmission over the SATA interface The board can control four independent Serial ATA channels Each channel has its own Serial ATA bus and will support one Serial ATA device The board supports Serial ATA Generation 1 amp Generation 2 transfer rate of 1 5 Gbps 3Gbps It comes completely with drivers for Windows 2000 Windows XP Windows 2003 RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks greatly enhances two main areas of data storage performance and data integrity By using RAID 0 also known as Striping performance of sustained data transfer rates is greatly enhanced by simultaneously writing data to 2 3 or 4 drives The second benefit of RAID is data redundancy RAID 1 Mirroring writes identical data on two drives or sets of drives thus protecting the data from a disk failure If for any reason one drive were to fail your data is secure and available from the mirrored second drive 1 1 Features 1 1 1 PCI Interface e Compliant with PCI Specification revision 2 2 Integrated PCI DMA engines 64
3. INDY COMPUTER CONNECTION TECHNOLOGY 4Port Raid5 SATAII 3Gbps Multilane PCI X Card English User Manual LINDY No 51127 www LINDY com FE CE SO e LINDY ELECTRONICS LIMITED amp LINDY ELEKTRONIK GMBH FIRST EDITION June 2006 Important Message 1 Before controller card installation we recommend to study the PDF file of SATA Raid5 manual at enclosed CD folder Raid5 SATA2_4Port Sil3124 Windows Gui first This Raid manual has more information on Raid architecture Raid features Raid installation Raid setting and Management software for Raid5 GUI Graphical User Interface 2 After driver installation if you like you can install SATARaid5 GUI for Raid management Before SATARaid5 GUI installation you must remove all the existing SATARaid GUI or Java SATARaid GUI to ensure your new SATARaid5 GUI can work properly i e Start Control Panel Add or Remove Programs Select all SATARaid Remove 3 Raid sets can be created and managed by either the BIOS utility setting or the SATARAID5 GUI setting under Windows 4 For RAID creating BIOS utility allow the random creating but GUI just supports the building by sequential SATA Port1 Port2 Ports 1 Introduction This RAID SATA Il 3Gbps 4Ports PCI X Host Adapter is a PCI to 4Ports Serial ATA host controller board lt provides a 64bit 133 MHz PCI interface on the host side and four fully compliant Serial ATA Il 3Gbps ports
4. OS 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 4 Select Spare Drives Press Enter 5 Select RAID size Press Enter 6 Press Y to save your settings 3 7 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 3 8 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 3 Select Rebuild Hard Drive Press Enter 4 Answer Y to rebuild the Mirrored set of hard drive 3 9 Resolving Conflict When a RAID set is created the metadata written to the disk includes drive connection information Primary and Secondary If after a disk failure the 7e replacement disk was previously part of a RAID set or used in another system it may have conflicting metadata specifically in reference to the drive connection information If so this will prohibit the RAID set from being either created or rebuilt In order for the RAID set to function properly this old metadata must be first overwritten with the new metadata T
5. bit 133MHz fully compliant PCI host interface 1 1 2 High Speed Serial ATA Interface e Four high speed Serial ATA interface ports each supporting 1st generation amp 2 generation Serial ATA data rates 1 5Gbps 3Gbps 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 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 Fully compliant with Serial ATA specifications Supports Spread Spectrum in receiver 1 2 Package Contents RAIDS SATA Il 3Gbps 4Ports PCI Host Adapter e This Users Manual e Driver CD 2 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 member 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 is actually does not provide fault tolerance With modern SATA bus mastering technology multiple I O operations can be done in parallel enhancing performance Striping arrays use multiple d
6. ched to the controller use the SilCfg Utility and click on the device from the list 4 4 Update new driver on Windows 2000 XP 2003 with existing driver 1 Right click on My Computer and select Properties Under the System Properties section click on Hardware tab and then on Device Manager click SCSI and RAID Controller and right click Silicon Image Sil 3124 SoftRaid5 Controller 2 Click Driver Update Driver and select Search for a suitable driver for my device Recommended Insert the Driver CD Press Enter and select E Raid5 SATA2_4Port Sil3124 Windows Driver Click Next and complete the driver installation 3 System will go through the enumeration process and install the driver At the end of the process click Yes to reboot your system when necessary 4 See instructions in section 4 3 to verify controller was installed correctly This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules Operation is subject to the following two conditions 1 this device may not cause harmful interference and 2 this device must accept any interference received including interference that may cause undesired operations 10
7. isks 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 This redundancy provides instantaneous protection from a single disk failure If a read failure occurs on one drive the system reads the data from the other drive Mirrored Striping RAID 0 1 also known as RAID 10 A Mirrored 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 is written to different disks There are at least 3 members to a Parity RAID set The following example sd illustrates how the parity is rotated from disk to disk 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
8. o resolve this select Resolve Conflicts and the correct metadata including the correct drive connection information will be written to the replacement disk 4 Software Installation 4 1 Windows 2000 XP 2003 Fresh Installation 1 Power off the system Connect the hard drives to the controller card and insert the controller card into a PCI slot Power up the system 2 Put your Windows 2000 XP CD into the CD ROM DVD drive or the 2000 XP boot diskette 1 in the floppy drive if your system cannot boot from the CD 3 Press F6 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 E Raid5 SATA2_4Port Sil3124 Windows Driver 4 Press Enter to continue on with text mode setup 5 Follow the setup instructions to select your choice for partition and file system 6 After setup examines your disks it will copy files to Windows 2000 installation folders and restart the system The setup program will continue and finish the installation after restart 7 Waiting until Windows finishes installing devices regional settings networking settings components and final set of tasks reboot the system if it is required 8 See instructions in section 4 3 to verify controller was installed correctly 4 2 Adding the controller card to an existing Windows 2000 XP 2003 Installation 1 Power
9. off the system Connect the hard drives to the controller card and insert the controller card into a PCI slot Power up the system 2 During OS boot up Windows will display the Found New Hardware Wizard Click Next 3 Select Search for a suitable driver for my device Recommended and Click Next 4 Insert the Driver CD in your CD ROM DVD drive check Specify a location uncheck the other boxes click Next type in E If your CD ROM DVD is E Click Browse 5 Points specify a location example E Raid5 SATA2_4Port Sil3124 Windows Driver click Open then OK 6 When the wizard indicates that it found a driver for the device click Next 7 If the Digital Signature Not Found dialog appears click Yes to continue installing the driver 8 The wizard will now copy the required files to the system and start the driver After starting the driver the wizard will display a completion dialog click Finish to exit the wizard 9 See instructions in section 4 3 to verify controller was installed correctly 4 3 Verifying controller installation under Windows 2000 XP 2003 1 Right click on My Computer icon select Properties left click on Hardware tab and then on Device Manager button 2 Double click on SCSI and RAID Controllers If there is no yellow or in front of Silicon Image Sil 3124 SoftRaid5 Controller the driver is started correctly 4 To view information about the devices atta
10. requires a 50 increase The required capacity decreases as the number of disks in the group increases Just 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 JBOD function only supports one disk 3 BIOS Installation RAID Setting Creating and deleting RAID sets is a function found in the BIOS During boot up the RAID setting message will appear and pause for a few moments to allow the user to choose what to do This board will act as normal NON RAID card when BIOS not configured for RAID Just proceed to Software Installation section directly If you use traditional parallel ATA HDD make sure your hard drives be set up as master mode before the RAID setting 3 1 Creating Striped Sets RAID 0 1 As the BIOS boots Press CTRL S or F4 to enter the raid bios utility Select Create RAID set Press Enter Select RAID 0 then press Enter Select Number of hard drive Press Enter Select RAID size Press Enter Press Y to save your settings Press CTRL E and then press Y to exit the setup N O oO fF A WD N Continue with conventional Fdisk and Format steps as if you are installing a conventional hard drive 8 Your RAID configuration is complete Please proceed to software installation section 3 2 Creating Mirrored Sets RAID 1 1 As the BIOS boots Press CTRL S or F4 to enter the raid bios utility 26 2 Select Create
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