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3.6.2 COMBINE  (BIG) MODE

 

 

IMPORTANT: Before reconfiguring a volume, back up your data and delete previously defined 

partitions.

 

1. Turn on the power. 

 

 

 

2. Set the DIP switch position to COMBINE. 

 

 

 

3. Press the recessed Mode Change push-button. 

 

 

 

 

Ver. 071004 

AES-3502UE User’s Manual 

 

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Summary of Contents for AES-3502UE

Page 1: ...Storage Appliance AES 3502UE User s Manual...

Page 2: ...ON OFF 13 2 4 INSTALLING HOST BUS ADAPTER B4023CR ONLY 14 2 4 1 WINDOWS 2000 14 2 4 2 WINDOWS XP 32 64 BIT 16 2 4 3 WINDOWS VISTA 32 64 BIT 17 2 4 4 WINDOWS SERVER 2003 32 64 BIT 19 2 4 5 MACINTOSH O...

Page 3: ...3 6 2 COMBINE BIG MODE 30 3 6 3 STRIPING FAST MODE 31 3 6 4 MIRRORING SAFE MODE 32 4 PARTITIONING VOLUMES 34 4 1 PARTITION A VOLUME 34 4 1 1 WINDOWS SYSTEMS 34 4 1 2 MACINTOSH SYSTEMS 39 5 FAQ 42 AES...

Page 4: ...disk drives HDDs each Storage Appliance can manage as much as 2 000 gigabytes i e 2 terabytes of data depending on the capacity of the hard disk drives that are installed 1 2 PRECAUTION Please read t...

Page 5: ...throughput to the direct attached PC Support Disk COMBINE BIG allows the device to make any two drives same or different sizes appear as one large drive to the host for extra capacity Concatenation S...

Page 6: ...The virtual drives are called volumes The host operating system treats each volume as if it were a single physical drive This virtualization allows you to overcome restrictions that are imposed by phy...

Page 7: ...are concatenated into a single virtual volume in the Figure below with a storage capacity that is equal to the sum of each of the physical hard drives A and B It is also possible to create a COMBINE...

Page 8: ...he amount of storage capacity because all data must be stored twice The resulting storage capacity of the virtual MIRRORING volume will be equivalent to the size of one hard drive if both drives are t...

Page 9: ...Super VGA 800 x 600 or higher resolution display with at least 256 colors Mouse or compatible pointing device SATA connection Host Bus Adapter card controller number Sii3124 or Sii3132 and associated...

Page 10: ...ES 3502UE x 1 Power Adapter x 1 Power Cable x 1 Tool less Screw x 4 Setup and Installation Driver Repository CD x 1 USB 2 0 Cable x 1 eSATA Cable x 1 CFI B4023CR Only Sii3132 PCI Express 1X HBA x 1 CF...

Page 11: ...procedure to complete the HDD installation Unfasten the Tool less screws on the back panel Remove the upper chassis cover backwards and lifts it up Open the front door and install the HDDs in order f...

Page 12: ...per chassis cover than fasten the Tool less screws on the back panel 2 2 UNSTALLING HARD DISK DRIVE Please unfasten the Tool less screw Release the HDD from the 22 pin SATA connector by using the Tool...

Page 13: ...2 3 POWER ON OFF Push the power switch to position I to power on Push the power switch to position O to power off AES 3502UE User s Manual Ver 071004 13...

Page 14: ...LLING HOST BUS ADAPTER B4023CR ONLY 2 4 1 WINDOWS 2000 1 Click Next from the pop up window 2 Select Serch for a suitable driver for my device recommended than click Next Ver 071004 AES 3502UE User s M...

Page 15: ...3 Select CD ROM drives than click Next 4 Click Finish to complete installation AES 3502UE User s Manual Ver 071004 15...

Page 16: ...2 4 2 WINDOWS XP 32 64 bit 1 Select No not this time than click Next 2 Select Install the software automatically Recommended than click Next Ver 071004 AES 3502UE User s Manual 16...

Page 17: ...3 Click Finish to complete installation 2 4 3 WINDOWS VISTA 32 64 bit 1 Click Locate and install driver software recommended AES 3502UE User s Manual Ver 071004 17...

Page 18: ...2 Click Next for next step 3 Click Close to complete installation Ver 071004 AES 3502UE User s Manual 18...

Page 19: ...2 4 4 WINDOWS SERVER 2003 32 64 bit 1 Select No not this time than click Next 2 Select Install the software automatically Recommended than click Next AES 3502UE User s Manual Ver 071004 19...

Page 20: ...te installation 2 4 5 MACINTOSH OS X 1 Insert the Setup and Installation Repository Driver CD in the CD ROM drive 2 Double click on the Setup and Installation Repository Driver CD icon Ver 071004 AES...

Page 21: ...Pkg pkg file to begin the installation Located at E Driver SiI3132 Macintosh SiI3132_1 1 9u_SiI_Pkg pkg PS E CD ROM drive letter 4 Once started the following dialog screens will appear Click Continue...

Page 22: ...5 Read the Read Me file than click Continue 6 Read the Software License Agreement than click Continue Ver 071004 AES 3502UE User s Manual 22...

Page 23: ...7 Click Agree to continue the installation 8 Select a destination volume to install the software than click Continue AES 3502UE User s Manual Ver 071004 23...

Page 24: ...9 Click Install to begin the installation 10 Enter the Administrative Password for your system than click OK Ver 071004 AES 3502UE User s Manual 24...

Page 25: ...11 Click Close to complete the installation AES 3502UE User s Manual Ver 071004 25...

Page 26: ...f it becomes necessary to change the host connection between eSATA and USB the host computer system and the AES 3502UE should both be powered down prior to making the host connection change to avoid a...

Page 27: ...to avoid data corruption or loss care should be taken to ensure that the host system is not currently using any drive that is about to be hot unplugged When using a USB host connection the hard disk...

Page 28: ...as follows DESCRIPTION GREEN LED RED LED HDD Unplugged No Power Off Off HDD plugged Idle On Off HDD plugged Active On Blink On HDD Rebuild A Physical Partition is being Rebuild i e Mirroring Mode On...

Page 29: ...NT Before reconfiguring a volume back up your data and delete previously defined partitions 1 Turn on the power 2 Set the DIP switch position to STANDARD 3 Press the recessed Mode Change push button A...

Page 30: ...Before reconfiguring a volume back up your data and delete previously defined partitions 1 Turn on the power 2 Set the DIP switch position to COMBINE 3 Press the recessed Mode Change push button Ver 0...

Page 31: ...Before reconfiguring a volume back up your data and delete previously defined partitions 1 Turn on the power 2 Set the DIP switch position to STRIPING 3 Press the recessed Mode Change push button AES...

Page 32: ...Before reconfiguring a volume back up your data and delete previously defined partitions 1 Turn on the power 2 Set the DIP switch position to MIRRORING 3 Press the recessed Mode Change push button Ver...

Page 33: ...a while the MIRRORING mode will start to rebuilding depand on the capacity of HDD i e 35mins for two 80GB HDDs or 250mis for two 750GB HDDs Once the rebuilding has completed the HDD indicative LEDs wi...

Page 34: ...ined partitions 1 Right click the My Computer icon on your desktop and select Manage from the pop up window 2 Select Disk Management under Storage to open the Windows Disk Manager This example illustr...

Page 35: ...sic Disk Within a few seconds the disk should be marked as a Basic disk If a disk is marked Not Initialized right click the disk icon and select Initialize Disk An additional dialog box appears allowi...

Page 36: ...4 Click Next to start the Partition Wizard 5 Select the Primary or Extended option and click Next Ver 071004 AES 3502UE User s Manual 36...

Page 37: ...6 Specify the partition size By default the partition occupies the entire volume Click Next 7 Assign a drive letter or mount path and click Next AES 3502UE User s Manual Ver 071004 37...

Page 38: ...8 Name and format the partition and click Next 9 Review the file system settings and click Finish to create the logical partition Ver 071004 AES 3502UE User s Manual 38...

Page 39: ...nfiguring a volume back up your data and drag the old drive to the trash to un mount previously partition After you configure and partition the new volumes restore the backed up data to the new config...

Page 40: ...l hard drives connected to the CFI B4023UR CR 3 Select 1 Partition from the Volume Scheme drop down list 4 Enter a name for the volume in the Name field such as My BIG disk 5 Select Mac OS Extended jo...

Page 41: ...Disk Utility mounts the created partition and represents it with an icon on the desktop The icon is labeled with the partition name 9 Repeat steps 1 through 8 to partition any remaining disks you conf...

Page 42: ...r 2003 the dialog box appear Unfinished formatting Windows 2000 XP Vista Server 2003 can not format HDD over 32GB by FAT32 Please format by NTFS When using different capacity or brand HDD can we still...

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