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PCI-to-SATA

RAID

Controller AEC-6896S/6896

User’s Manual

Release: April 2003

Version 1.0

Summary of Contents for AEC-6896S

Page 2: ...Microsoft and the Windows Logo are the registered trademarks and Windows is the trade mark of Microsoft Corporation All brands and trademarks are the properties of their respective owners This manual...

Page 3: ...f Functions 11 3 1 1 Set RAID Modes 11 3 1 2 Build Mirror Disk 12 3 1 3 Quick Erase Disk 12 3 1 4 RAID Mode Help 12 3 1 5 Card Information 12 3 1 6 Set Boot Disk 12 3 2 Setting of RAID Mode 12 3 2 1 S...

Page 4: ...File 26 5 2 2 Action 26 5 2 3 Option 26 5 2 4 About 26 5 2 5 System Info 27 5 2 6 Event Log 27 5 2 7 Array Management 27 Chapter 6 Troubleshooting 28 Appendix A About RAID 29 A 1 RAID 0 Striping 29 A...

Page 5: ...ons 1 2 Features n An add on PCI to SATA controller n Data transfer rate up to 266MB s n Supports up to 4 Serial ATA hard drives n Supports a large hard drive over 137GB n Hardware RAID 0 1 0 1 and JB...

Page 6: ...Manual 6 1 4 Package When you open the package please examine the following items n AEC 6896S or AEC 6896 1 n Serial ATA Cable 4 n User s Manual n ACARD Support CD 1 n Power Cord for Serial ATA hard...

Page 7: ...m power has been off 2 Open the housing of PC 3 Insert AEC 6896 into an available PCI slot firmly 4 Screw AEC 6896 onto the housing 5 Connect AEC 6896 to the Serial hard drive with a Serial ATA cable...

Page 8: ...al ATA cable 2 Connect the converter to the IDE hard drive 3 Connect the large 4 pin power cord to the hard drive and the small 4 pin one to the converter However if your hard drive is a Serial one pl...

Page 9: ...the connectors are easily damaged 2 4 Compatibility AEC 6896 is particularly designed for DMA hard drive and has been fully tested with the hard drives available in laboratory It supports various ATA...

Page 10: ...ediately behind the figure of motherboard The figure indicates your BIOS version hard drive information RAID status etc Figure 3 1 Please press Ctrl F1 or F10 simultaneously to enter BIOS Setup Utilit...

Page 11: ...build or change RAID mode on any array Move cursor to Set RAID Mode then press Enter and Array 0 to Array 7 will appear There are four RAID and one normal non RAID modes for selection once you press...

Page 12: ...selection 3 1 5 Card Information This function indicates the I O address ROM address and IRQ number currently used by AEC 6896 3 1 6 Set Boot Disk This function lets you select a hard drive or an arr...

Page 13: ...Purple items are used in another array After selecting the hard drive press Esc to return to the dialog box of Set RAID Mode and continue 3 2 1 Stripe Mode This mode needs a pair of hard drives at le...

Page 14: ...en will prompt you to use Build Mirror Disk in BIOS to rebuild Please notice that if you connect the newly removed hard drive back to AEC 6896 in the channel display area at the bottom of BIOS screen...

Page 15: ...are ATA ones you are sug gested to set the disk jumper as CS Besides you have to select stripe block size too 3 2 4 JBOD Mode This mode means to add all selected hard drives and make them become a bi...

Page 16: ...6896 The second method is to boot from AEC 6896 4 1 In Win 2000 XP Please follow the steps given below to install the driver of AEC 6896 1 After installing AEC 6896 boot the computer and enter Window...

Page 17: ...ndows XP will require the driver s location Select Include this location in the search 4 Select Browse to find the driver s directory of AEC6896 inf such as A WinXP Figure 4 2 5 After the wizard finds...

Page 18: ...AEC 6896S 6896 Manual 18 6 Click Continue Anyway to continue the installation Figure 4 4 7 Follow the directions The system will complete the setup automatically Figure 4 5...

Page 19: ...AEC 6896S 6896 Manual 19 8 After setup please boot the system again and click My Computer Figure 4 6 9 Find View system information and double click it Figure 4 7...

Page 20: ...20 10 In System Properties click Hardware and then Device Manager 11 Under SCSI and RAID Controllers double click ACARD AEC 6896 PCI RAID Controller to see if the card has been installed successfully...

Page 21: ...s S and put the driver disk into floppy drive 5 The installation program will load the driver of AEC 6896 And you can select the hard drives or array into which you intend to install the OS Then follo...

Page 22: ...d drives connected to AEC 6896 2 Boot again and format the newly created partition 3 Boot the system again Place the original CD of 9X ME into CD ROM and begin installing the OS 4 Click My Computer Co...

Page 23: ...fd0 After this the AEC 68x5 driver will be loaded when linux is booted c Rebbot Linux system d Don t forget to mount drives before using them 2 Intall a new system into Hard Drives connected to AEC 6...

Page 24: ...nstaller Boot Options And type linux dd to install linux to a specific device c Press Yes There are drivers for Linux on the Devices dialog box d Insert the AEC 68x5 Driver disk into floppy drive and...

Page 25: ...ing anew 5 1 Install the Utility Please follow the three steps to install the utility 1 Place the CD containing the driver of AEC 6896 into CD ROM 2 Click Utility install IDE RAID Utility and AEC 68X5...

Page 26: ...It is used to refresh the screen that is to display anew the status of all RAIDs 5 2 3 Option Click Option to find Preference and Mail Notification Setup The former lets you set the speed of screen r...

Page 27: ...However in the beginning there is no record 5 2 7 Array Management Click Array Management to find a more user friendly interface than BIOS Through the interface you can set or change your RAID easily...

Page 28: ...power cord s connectors are loose or if the watt of power supply is not sufficient 2 Inspect if the jumper settings on the hard drives are all CS or Master or Single drive 3 Inspect if AEC 6896 is fi...

Page 29: ...oned to the number of hard drives More hard drives mean more read write heads and therefore the speed is quicker Though RAID 0 is quick in read write speed it has no data redundancy and accordingly ha...

Page 30: ...even number Its calculation of capacity is the same as RAID 1 A half of the capacity is used for backup It takes the smallest hard drive capacity as the calculation basis For example four 100GB hard d...

Page 31: ...000 NT XP into a hard drive with ACARD con troller you need a floppy disk containing the controller s driver to boot the hard drive Please follow the steps below to make an ACARD controller s driver d...

Page 32: ...AEC 6896S 6896 Manual 32 3 Under the Driver folder find your controller s model number For example AEC 6880 s driver is Driver IDE AEC6880V1 3...

Page 33: ...C 6896S 6896 Manual 33 4 Choose the driver folder and right click Send to 3 5 floppy Meanwhile insert an empty disk into floppy drive 5 Now use the driver disk to boot the hard drive and install the O...

Page 34: ...n the hard drive 2 Disk QErase Quickly erase the contents of the hard drive Please beware that the data on the partition will be completely erased 3 Disk Format Format the partition 4 Disk Diagnose De...

Page 35: ...www acard com Model AEC 6896 6896S F W Version System Configuration Motherboard BIOS version SCSI adapter Chipset Memory Display card Other I O card OS version Hard Disk Configuration Hard Disk Model...

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