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Hardware Installation 

1.  Turn Off the power to your computer and any other connected 

peripheral devices. 

2.  Unplug the power cord form the back of the computer. 
3.  Remove your computer’s cover. 
4.  Remove the slot bracket from an available PCI slot. 
5.  To install the card, carefully align the card’s bus connector with 

the selected PCI slot on the motherboard. Push the board down 
firmly, but gently, until it is well seated. 

6.  Replace the slot bracket’s holding screw to secure the card. 
 

Device Connection 

The SATA 150 4-Channel PCI RAID Card is a four channel Serial ATA 
controller that supports up to four Serial ATA hard disk drives. It is 
recommended to use identical hard drives for all RAID configurations. 
1.  Install your hard disk drive(s) in chassis. 
2.  Connect the Serial ATA hard disk drive to the system power 

supply using the included Serial ATA power cable. 

3.  Connect one end of the Serial ATA cable to the hard disk drive. 
4.  Attach the other end of the Serial ATA cable to the Serial ATA 

controller on the SATA 150 4-Channel PCI RAID Card. 

5.  Follow the same instructions to connect up to four hard drives. 

Device connection is now complete. 

6.  Replace the computer cover and reconnect the power cord. 

 

Summary of Contents for DS-33102-1

Page 1: ...4 CHANNEL SATA PCI CONTROLLER User Manual DS 33102 1 ...

Page 2: ...mirroring RAID5 Parity RAID RAID 0 1 mirroring striping and Concatenation modes HDDs function normally when not in RAID sets Supports SATA up to 150MB Sec Supports Windows 2000 XP 2003 32 64 bit Vista 32 64bit Bus Interface PCI Bus 32 bit Connectors 4 x internal SATA connectors Package Contents 1 x SATA 150 4 Channel PCI RAID Card 1 x Driver CD 2 x SATA Data Cable 1 x Manual System Requirements Wi...

Page 3: ...The SATA 150 4 Channel PCI RAID Card is a four channel Serial ATA controller that supports up to four Serial ATA hard disk drives It is recommended to use identical hard drives for all RAID configurations 1 Install your hard disk drive s in chassis 2 Connect the Serial ATA hard disk drive to the system power supply using the included Serial ATA power cable 3 Connect one end of the Serial ATA cable...

Page 4: ... is 64k when selecting Auto configuration 1 As the BIOS boots press Ctrl S or F4 when prompted to enter the RAID BIOS 2 At the next screen select Create RAID Set then press Enter 3 Select RAID0 then press Enter 4 Select the number of drives then press Enter 5 Select Auto configuration then press Enter 6 Input the RAID size press Enter 7 When asked Are You Sure Y N press Y to accept 8 Press Ctrl E ...

Page 5: ...lect chunk size from 8k 16k 32k 64k or 128k then press Enter 7 Select the first drive press Enter 8 Select the second drive press Enter 9 If applicable select the 3rd and 4th drives pressing enter after each selection 10 Input the RAID size press Enter 11 When asked Are You Sure Y N press Y to accept 12 Press Ctrl E to exit the BIOS 13 When asked Are you sure to exit Y N press Y to exit and reboot...

Page 6: ... 9 Continue with FDISK and FORMAT steps as if you were installing a conventional hard drive For Existing Hard Drives with Data 1 As the BIOS boots press Ctrl S or F4 when prompted to enter the RAID BIOS 2 At the next screen select Create RAID Set then press Enter 3 At the next screen select RAID1 then press Enter 4 Select Manual configuration then press Enter 5 Select the Source drive press Enter ...

Page 7: ...ATARAID5 GUI while in Windows The steps below will guide you in rebuilding a failed mirror set 1 Replace the failed drive with one of equal or greater capacity then start the computer 2 During boot press Ctrl S or F4 to enter the RAID BIOS 3 Select Create RAID Set then press Enter 4 Select SPARE DRIVE then press Enter 5 Select the replacement drive then press Enter 6 When asked Are You Sure Y N pr...

Page 8: ...DISK and FORMAT steps as if you were installing a conventional hard drive Manual configuration 1 As the BIOS boots press Ctrl S or F4 when prompted to enter the RAID BIOS 2 At the next screen select Create RAID Set then press Enter 3 Select RAID10 then press Enter 4 Select the number of drives then press Enter 5 Select Manual configuration then press Enter 6 Select chunk size from 8k 16k 32k 64 or...

Page 9: ... Auto configuration recommended The default chunk size is 64k when selecting Auto configuration 1 As the BIOS boots press Ctrl S or F4 when prompted to enter the RAID BIOS 2 At the next screen select Create RAID Set then press Enter 3 Select RAID5 then press Enter 4 Select the number of drives then press Enter 5 Select Auto configuration then press Enter 6 Input the RAID size press Enter 7 When as...

Page 10: ...e from 8k 16k 32k 64 or 128k then press Enter 7 Select the first drive press Enter 8 Select the second drive press Enter 9 Select the third drive press Enter 10 If applicable select the 4th drive pressing enter after each selection 11 Input the RAID size press Enter 12 When asked Are You Sure Y N press Y to accept 13 Press Ctrl E to exit the BIOS 14 When asked Are you sure to exit Y N press Y to e...

Page 11: ...mber of drives then press Enter 5 Select the first drive press Enter 6 If applicable select the 2nd 3rd 4th drive pressing enter after each selection 7 When asked Are You Sure Y N press Y to accept 8 Press Ctrl E to exit the BIOS 9 When asked Are you sure to exit Y N press Y to exit and reboot 10 Continue with FDISK and FORMAT steps as if you were installing a conventional hard drive Deleting RAID...

Page 12: ...ct drive connection information will be written to the replacement disk Low Level Format Low Level Format is build into the RAID BIOS to make it more convenient to erase the entire contents of a hard disk drive including data drive and partition information The Low Level Format utility works on single hard drive only before the RAID set is configured Logical Drive Info This menu item allows the di...

Page 13: ... the location of the driver 6 Insert the floppy disk then press Enter 7 Select Silicon Image SiI 3114 SoftRaid 5 Controller for Windows 2000 then press Enter 8 Press Enter again to finish driver installation then follow the onscreen instructions to complete the Windows installation For An Existing Installation 1 Setup the RAID Array prior to driver installation and boot up to Windows 2 At Found Ne...

Page 14: ... the floppy disk then press Enter 7 Select Silicon Image SiI 3114 SoftRAID 5 Controller for Windows XP Server 2003 then press Enter 8 Press Enter to finish driver installation then follow the on screen instructions to complete the Windows installation Note If the Security Alert warning pops up click Yes Our driver has passed Microsoft compatibility testing this message appears during new installat...

Page 15: ...ocedure 3 Restart the computer when prompted by Windows installation 4 At the Windows Setup screen press F6 to install the RAID driver 5 When prompted press S to specify the location of the driver 6 Insert the floppy disk then press Enter 7 Select Silicon Image SiI 3114 SoftRAID 5 Controller for Windows XP Server 2003 then press Enter 8 Press Enter to finish driver installation then follow the on ...

Page 16: ...loppy disk for the driver installation To make this floppy disk copy the contents of the Driver Windows driver SIL3114_x86_15203 folder found on the driver CD onto a blank floppy disk then follow the directions below 1 Setup the RAID Array prior to Windows installation 2 Follow Microsoft s Windows installation procedure 3 Restart the computer when prompted by Windows installation 4 At the Windows ...

Page 17: ... disk copy the contents of the Driver Windows driver SIL3114_x64_15203 folder found on the driver CD onto a blank floppy disk then follow the directions below 1 Setup the RAID Array prior to Windows installation 2 Follow Microsoft s Windows installation procedure 3 Restart the computer when prompted by Windows installation 4 At the Windows Setup screen press Load Driver to install the RAID driver ...

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