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Quick Installation Guide

Figure 1-1, ARC-1200 (2-port PCIe X1 SATA RAID Controller)

Connector

Type

Description

1.(J6)

Reserved

12-pin Box header

2.(J1)

Reserved

12-pin header

3.(J5)

Individual Fault LED header

4-pin header

4.(J4)

Individual HDD LED header

4-pin header

5.(J2)

Reserved

8-pin header

6.(SCN2)

SATA Port

SATA Connector

7.(SCN1)

SATA Port

SATA Connector

Table 1-1, ARC-1200 Connectors

2. Hardware Installation

2.1 Board layout

Summary of Contents for ARC-1200

Page 1: ...ARC 1200 2 Port PCIe x1 to SATA RAID Controller SATA RAID Cards Quick Installation Guide Version 1 1 Issue Date November 2008...

Page 2: ...es of their respective owners This manual contains materials protected under International Copyright Conventions All rights reserved No part of this manual may be reproduced in any form or by any mean...

Page 3: ...n 4 1 1 Overview 4 1 2 Package Contents 4 1 3 Features 4 2 Hardware Installation 6 2 1 Board layout 6 2 2 Installation 7 3 Support RAID Levels 16 3 1 RAID 0 16 3 2 RAID 1 16 3 3 JBOD 16 3 4 Single Dis...

Page 4: ...ets are not included 1 x PCIe x1 SATA RAID Controller in an ESD protective bag 2 x SATA interface cables one per port 1 x MCRAID Software Suite CD 1 x Quick Installation Guide Manual If any item is mi...

Page 5: ...SMTP support for email notification SNMP support for remote Manager RAID Management Field upgradeable firmware in flash ROM In Band Manager Web browser based McRAID Storage manager via Http Proxy Ser...

Page 6: ...J6 Reserved 12 pin Box header 2 J1 Reserved 12 pin header 3 J5 Individual Fault LED header 4 pin header 4 J4 Individual HDD LED header 4 pin header 5 J2 Reserved 8 pin header 6 SCN2 SATA Port SATA Co...

Page 7: ...off the computer and unplug the power cord s from the back of the power supply Remove the cover from the computer Step 2 Install the ARC 1200 SATA RAID Controller To install the ARC 1200 SATA RAID co...

Page 8: ...uter chassis Loading drives to the drive tray if cages are installed Be sure that the power is connected to either the Cage backplane or the individual drives Step 4 Connect the SATA cable The ARC 120...

Page 9: ...tronics logic is as below The following position layout is for ARC 1200 Individual LED indicator connector for each channel and Global LED indicator connector If the system uses only a single global i...

Page 10: ...hot swapped immediately When the HDD LED is illuminated and Fault LED is fast blinking 10 times sec that indicate there is rebuilding activity on the disk drive The following diagrams is the HDD LED...

Page 11: ...ed configuration options When starting a system with an SATA RAID controller installed it will display the following message on the monitor during the startup se quence after the system bios startup s...

Page 12: ...echnology Corporation RAID Controller Main Menu Raid Set Function Volume Set Function Physical Drives Raid System Function View System Events Clear Event Buffer Hardware Monitor System information Qui...

Page 13: ...isplay RAID set information move the mouse cursor to the desired raid set number then click it The RAID set information will be dis played To display volume set information move the mouse cursor to th...

Page 14: ...00 SATA RAID Cards User s Manual on the MCRAID Software Suite CD Step 11 Determining the Boot sequences The ARC 1200 SATA RAID controller is a bootable controller If your system already contains a boo...

Page 15: ...reware embedded SNMP community configuration first and install Areca SNMP extension agent in your server system If you need additional information about SNMP Operation and Installation refer to Append...

Page 16: ...any one disk drive fails due to a lack of redundancy the reliability of RAID Level 0 is less because the entire array will fail if any one disk drive fails 3 2 RAID 1 RAID 1 is also known as disk mirr...

Page 17: ...3 4 Single Disk Pass Through Disk Pass through disk refers to a drive that is not controlled by the RAID firmware and thus can not be a part of a RAID volume The drive is available to the operating s...

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