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User Guide

Storage Tower V

(ST55HPMXU)

Summary of Contents for ST55HPMXU

Page 1: ...ning properly please have your product information ready and contact Addonics Technical Support at Hours 8 30 am 6 00 pm PST Phone 408 453 6212 Email http www addonics com support query v8 1 11 T E C H N O L O G I E S www addonics com User Guide Storage Tower V ST55HPMXU ...

Page 2: ...w the hard drives into the optional mounting brackets or slide in 5 25 devices into the tower Other types of enclosures like the 5SA disk array can also be mounted Mounting one 5SA disk array and another one 3SAdisk array allows you to mount a maximum of 8 SATA drives Step 2 Using 3 5 SATA Hard Disk Drives Connect the internal SATA data cable to the data port of the hard drive then connect the 15 ...

Page 3: ...ode Raid Mode 1 2 3 4 5 Individual Drive Factory Default OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF ON ON ON OFF OFF ON OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF ON ON OFF ON ON OFF OFF ON OFF OFF OFF ON ON 0 1 and 10 3 5 Clone Large RAID Setting Button Dip Switch eSATA Host Port Port 5 SATA Port 2 SATA Port 1 SATA Port 0 SATA Port 3 SATA Port 4 Drive activity LED Jumper Block J1 Error LED Jumper Block J3 Floppy Power...

Page 4: ...dual drive mode is ENABLED M0 M2 Note When the default factory RAID setting is used independent drive configuration and optical drive are supported only when connecting to controllers with Silicon Image Sil3124 Sil3132 chip set or controllers that are Port Multiplier PM compatible Simultaneous DVD writing was tested using the Nero Burning Rom LED Pin Header J1 Drive Activity LED P5 Activity LED fo...

Page 5: ...port HPM XU using DIP switch Recommended to be used on operating system without JMicron HW RAID Manager support like Linux Mac Solaris Windows users can also use the procedure below Note Steps A to D need to be performed each time the raid mode is modified a Set the DIP switch to factory default setting b Press the RAID setting button with a ball point pen c While pressing the RAID setting button ...

Page 6: ...ABLED EZ function is DISABLED 1 2 3 4 5 SW1 BZS EZ M2 M1 M0 RAID 0 Mode 1 2 3 4 5 SW1 BZS EZ M2 M1 M0 Clone Mode 1 2 3 4 5 SW1 BZS EZ M2 M1 M0 RAID 1 RAID 10 Mode 1 2 3 4 5 SW1 BZS EZ M2 M1 M0 Large Mode 1 2 3 4 5 SW1 BZS EZ M2 M1 M0 RAID 3 Mode 1 2 3 4 5 SW1 BZS EZ M2 M1 M0 Individual Drives Mode 1 2 3 4 5 SW1 BZS EZ M2 M1 M0 RAID 5 Mode OFF OFF ON ON ON OFF OFF ON ON OFF OFF OFF ON OFF OFF OFF O...

Page 7: ...is connected to an eSATA host controller card on the RAID BIOS the raid array will display as Addonics H W RAID0 if setup as a RAID0 array k If booted into Windows in Disk Drives under Device Manager the raid array will display as Addonics H W LARGE if setup as a LARGE array l Once raid array is verified you can set the buzzer either ON or OFF 1 2 3 4 5 SW1 BZS EZ M2 M1 M0 RAID 1 RAID 10 Mode 1 2 ...

Page 8: ...a 2 drive RAID1 with spare Drives connected to SATA ports 1 4 belong to the active RAID1 array and drive connected to port 5 is the spare B When will rebuild action start When the raid fails and EZ is enabled the HPM XU will automatically rebuild the RAID group using the spare When the raid fails and EZ is disabled the HPM XU will NOT rebuild the raid group unless you install a good drive to repla...

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