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ACARD ATA-133

RAID

AEC-6880M

PCI-to-IDE ATA-133

RAID Controller for Macintosh

User’s Manual

Version:2.0

Summary of Contents for PCI-to-IDE ATA-133

Page 2: ...rks of ACARD Technology Corp IBM is a trademark of the International Business Machine Corporation Apple and the PowerMac Logo are registered trademarks of Apple Corpo ration All brand names and tradem...

Page 3: ...stallation 8 2 4 ACARD AEC 6880M cable power installation 10 2 5 Configuring ACARD AEC 6880M 11 Chapter 3 System Installation 12 3 1 Normal Mode Installation 12 3 1 1 Mac OS 9 x installation 12 3 1 2...

Page 4: ...nal G4 the improvement can be as high as 300 For PowerMac G4 ACARD AEC 6880M allows Mac to add more IDE drives or to use Hardware RAID by adjusting the easy RAID DIP Switch setting ACARD AEC 6880M ada...

Page 5: ...n 1 3 1 Packing List When you open the ACARD AEC 6880M cabinet please check the following things n One ACARD AEC 6880M n Two ATA 133 Cables n One Y splitter Power Cord n Two hard disk mounting kits an...

Page 6: ...y contains data or any version of Mac OS it is strongly recommended to back up the old data before installating the adapter The hard drive must be initialized first under the normal mode of ACARD AEC...

Page 7: ...IDE2 The Secondary IDE port For the hard drive s Jumper setting Master Slave refer to hard drive s Manual ATA 133 Cable Layout Connect to ACARD AEC 6880M Adapter IDE ports CN1 CN2 Connect to IDE hard...

Page 8: ...the instructions below to get the best performance Striping Mode n If two hard drives are in different storage capacity ACARD AEC 6880M will treat the smaller one as standard capacity and double the s...

Page 9: ...the same Master or Slave mode The two hard drives must connect with two indepen dent ATA 133 cables on ACARD AEC 6880M n For two pairs of mirroring connection using 4 HDDs the jumper setting on every...

Page 10: ...IDE connector on the IDE hard drive Step 2 Find out a color line of the internal IDE cable indicating pin 1of the connector Step 3 Connect the internal IDE cable to the IDE hard drive aligning with pi...

Page 11: ...ve set the DIP Switch 1 and 2 as OFF The default is OFF 2 Striping Mode RAID 0 RAID 0 is dedicated as a pair of hard drives that store striping data but appears as a single drive on the computer Set t...

Page 12: ...lation 3 1 1 Mac OS 9 x installation 1 Be sure the hardware is installed correctly 2 Insert Mac OS CD ROM to Macintosh 3 Power on Macintosh and press C key 4 Wait for Mac OS and the appearance of Mac...

Page 13: ...D AEC 6880M 7 Choose the hard drive connected to ACARD AEC 6880M then press Initialize button For more detailed information of Drive Setup refer to Mac OS manual 8 Start to install a new OS on the har...

Page 14: ...our Macintosh and press C key 4 After Mac OS X boots up select Installer from the top selection tools 5 Select Open Disk Utility to open it 6 Select the hard drive which you want to initialize and cho...

Page 15: ...15 ACARD AEC 6880M 8 Update your driver to version 1 5 1 which is on the support CD Note For more information about Mac OS X installation guide please refer to Mac OS X installation manual...

Page 16: ...window a new Un titled hard drive icon will appear For advanced Mac users find the system information under the Apple Logo pop up Then choose Apple System Profiler to find the informa tion Check the i...

Page 17: ...2 Under the Apple System Profiler you will see the System Profiler Choose Devices and Volumes to see the devices status Step 3 Under Devices and Volumes please choose PCI item You will find the SCSI c...

Page 18: ...new Un titled hard drive icon will appear For advanced Mac users find the system information under the Apple Logo pop up Then choose Apple System Profiler to find the informa tion Check the informati...

Page 19: ...19 ACARD AEC 6880M Step 2 Find the Application sign on the top of the screen and click it Step 3 Under the Application find out the Utilities item and click it...

Page 20: ...4 Under the Utilities you will see the Apple System Profiler Click on Apple System Profiler to see the devices status Step 5 Under Devices and Volumes please choose PCI item You will find the SCSI ca...

Page 21: ...e installation do the initialize under normal mode first then turn off the computer to set the DIP Switch as striping mode 3 2 1 Mac OS 9 x installation 1 Be sure the hardware is installed correctly 2...

Page 22: ...D AEC 6880M 7 Choose the hard drive connected to ACARD AEC 6880M then press Initialize button For more detailed information of Drive Setup refer to Mac OS manual 8 Start to install a new OS on the har...

Page 23: ...t skip the step otherwise RAID mode will be wrongly detected 4 After Mac OS X Boot up select Installer from the top selection tools 5 Select Open Disk Utility and open it 6 Select the hard drive which...

Page 24: ...24 ACARD AEC 6880M 8 Update your driver to version 1 5 1 which is on the support CD Note For more information about Mac OS X installation please refer to Mac OS X installation manual...

Page 25: ...window a new Untitled hard drive icon will appear For advanced Mac users find the system information under the Apple Logo Then choose Apple System Profiler to find the information Check the informati...

Page 26: ...ep 2 Under the Apple System Profiler you will see the System Profiler Choose Devices and Volumes to see the devices status Step 3 Under Devices and Volumes please choose PCI You will find the SCSI car...

Page 27: ...new Untitled hard drive icon will appear For advanced Mac users find the system information under the Apple Logo Then choose Apple System Profiler to find the information Check the information and se...

Page 28: ...ind the Application on the top of the screen and click it Step 3 Under the Application find out the Utilities and click it Step 4 Under the Utilities you will see the Apple System Profiler Click on it...

Page 29: ...29 ACARD AEC 6880M Step 5 Under Devices and Volumes please choose PCI You will find the SCSI card installation status...

Page 30: ...m monitors the RAID volume status A message will appear to inform you AEC 6880M RAID Utility must be used together with AEC 6880M firmware Ver 2 42 or later You may find them in ACARD Support CD Delet...

Page 31: ...array into a blank drive When a failed drive has been replaced with a new one as part of a mirror array the operation will be resumed Quick Erase It can erase the data on hard drive content quickly Pl...

Page 32: ...to the slot on the motherboard 4 Check all connectors and cables Check if internal IDE connector device power connector and cables are con nected well Cables are easily damaged because of improper fol...

Page 33: ...ort acard com http www acard com Model AEC 6880M F W Version System Configuration Computer CPU Memory SCSI adapter Other I O card Other Storage Device MAC OS version Hard Disk Configuration Problem De...

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