SiS 180 S-ATA User’s Manual
Quick User’s Guide
Version 0.1
Page 1: ...SiS 180 S ATA User s Manual Quick User s Guide Version 0 1...
Page 2: ...Copyright Trademarks SiS is a registered trademark of Silicon Integrated Systems Corp All brand or product names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders Revision...
Page 3: ...0 XP INSTALLATION 8 EXISTING WINDOWS 2000 XP INSTALLATION 9 CONFIRMING WINDOWS 2000 XP DRIVER INSTALLATION 9 Step 3 BIOS Utility Operation for RAID only 10 CREATING AN ARRAY FOR PERFORMANCE 11 CREATIN...
Page 4: ...Ultra ATA drives Separate timing control for two devices attached to one ATA channel Serial Ultra ATA RAID Interfaces The Serial Ultra ATA RAID is designed to provide a cost effective high performance...
Page 5: ...their PC The Serial Ultra ATA RAID offers RAID 1 mirroring for two drives to protect data Should a drive that is part of a mirrored array fail Serial Ultra ATA RAID technology uses the mirrored drive...
Page 6: ...nother 4 RAID 0 1 Also known as StripeMirror At least four hard drivers are required RAID 0 1 is a combination of RAID 0 and RAID 1 Data is striped into two drives then mirrored It provides high perfo...
Page 7: ...rongly recommend you should use DMA transfer mode 7 The recommended block size is 64K when creating RAID 0 and RAID 0 1 8 The best selecting sequence of creating RAID 0 1 is Primary Master 1 Secondary...
Page 8: ...al ATA Master 1 Serial ATA Master 2 1 V V X X 2 V X V X 3 V X X V 4 X V V X 5 X V X V 6 X X V V 7 V V V X 8 V V X V 9 V X V V 10 X V V V 11 V V V V V Install X Uninstall NOTE Storage Capacity the numb...
Page 9: ...ATA Master Ultra ATA Slave Serial ATA Master 1 Serial ATA Master 2 1 V V V V V Install X Uninstall NOTE Storage Capacity the capacity of the smallest drive in the disk array Working Speed the speed o...
Page 10: ...D Quick User s Guide 7 V Install X Uninstall NOTE Storage Capacity the number of hard drives times the capacity of the smallest drive in the disk array Working Speed the speed of the lowest drive in t...
Page 11: ...hen used with various operating systems Windows 2000 XP New Windows 2000 XP Installation The following details the installation of the drivers while installing Windows 2000 XP 1 Start the installation...
Page 12: ...been setup Remark If you would like to install windows to any RAID set you should create RAID from BIOS utility first and then follow the steps above Existing Windows 2000 XP Installation 1 Install th...
Page 13: ...booted with the SIS 180 and the drives installed the onboard BIOS will display the following screen 2 Press Ctrl S keys to display the SIS180 Utility Main Menu 3 Press R to display the RAID setup menu...
Page 14: ...h 1 2 3 or 4 drives To create an array for best performance follow these steps 1 Press A to create array 2 Press 2 and Enter to select Stripe 3 Press 1 7 keys and Enter to select Block Size Default 32...
Page 15: ...Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide 12 6 Press N and Enter to Create Stripe only If Press Y and Enter it will split the data on source disk to other disks 7 Press Q until escape the setup menu...
Page 16: ...ess Y and Enter to save changes 9 Once the array has been created you will need to FDISK and format the array as if it were a new single hard drive Creating a Mirror Array To create an Mirror array fo...
Page 17: ...Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide 14 2 Press 3 and Enter to select Mirror 3 Press 1 2 keys and Enter to select Transfer Mode Default DMA 4 Use to select disk and press Enter to select disk Q to exit...
Page 18: ...Quick User s Guide 15 5 Press N and Enter to Create Mirror only If Press Y and Enter it will Duplicate the data on source disk to mirror disk 6 Press Q until escape the setup menu 7 Press Y and Enter...
Page 19: ...Once the array has been created you will need to FDISK and format the array as if it were a new single hard drive Creating a JBOD Array To create an JBOD array follow these steps 1 Press A to create a...
Page 20: ...ick User s Guide 17 3 Press 1 2 keys and Enter to select Transfer Mode Default DMA 4 Use to select disk and press Enter to select disk Q to exit 5 Press Q until escape the setup menu 6 Press Y and Ent...
Page 21: ...y has been created you will need to FDISK and format the array as if it were a new single hard drive Creating a Stripe Mirror Array To create an Stripe Mirror array follow these steps 1 Press A to cre...
Page 22: ...uide 19 3 Press 1 7 keys and Enter to select Block Size Default 32K 4 Press 1 2 keys and Enter to select Transfer Mode Default DMA 5 Use to select disk and press Enter to select disk Q to exit 6 Press...
Page 23: ...Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide 20 7 Press Y and Enter to save changes 8 Once the array has been created you will need to FDISK and format the array as if it were a new single hard drive...
Page 24: ...ter installing the SiS RAID utility go to Start menu and choose Programs From the Programs menu choose SiS RAID Utility and click on SiSRaid 2 The SiS RAID Utility window opens as below The main inter...
Page 25: ...Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide 22 3 Click the tab configuration you can find three tabs Create Raid Delete Raid and Raid Recovery In the same way you can switch to different tabs by clicking on it...
Page 26: ...at the user can select JBOD RAID 0 RAID 1 and RAID 0 1 User can select any one array type to create a RAID set b Block Size If user selected RAID 0 and RAID 0 1 array types in the Array Type box the B...
Page 27: ...ode types that the user can select PIO and DMA User can select any one mode type to create a RAID set The default selection is DMA d Available Disks This pane will list out all the disks that can be u...
Page 28: ...e f Information This pane will show the information about creating a RAID set after clicking the button Create The information may be Please select the Raid Type first Please select the Mode Type firs...
Page 29: ...n Create Then a warning message will be popup Pay attention to the warning message and then click Yes button to finish the creation of JBOD array or click No button to cancel NOTE If the disk you sele...
Page 30: ...skip restarting NOTE New Setting will take effect after restarting only b To create a RAID 0 Stripe array follow these steps 1 Configuration Create Raid Raid Type RAID 0 2 From the drop down box Block...
Page 31: ...create a clean stripe array without any data on it Split data Boot from IDE Split operation will split data from source disk into all the selected disks In this operation the boot disk can t be place...
Page 32: ...n to cancel 8 When the operation is finished the restart warning message will be popup as well as JBOD array creation except for the operation Split boot OS into Raid0 Next you can click Ok button to...
Page 33: ...Source The first selected disk Target The second selected disk Create Only This operation will destroy all data on all the selected disks and create a clean mirror array without any data on it Create...
Page 34: ...Disks pane select the disk and click downward arrow icon or double click it to add the disk on the Selected Disks pane Please see the Performance hints and recommend setting section for best settings...
Page 35: ...Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide 32 Example Showing its information...
Page 36: ...Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide 33 Delete a Raid set a To delete a JBOD RAID0 or RAID1 array follow these steps 1 Configuration Delete Raid the following windows will appear...
Page 37: ...ble click the array You can get some information about the disk array 3 If you want to delete a disk array you selected you can highlight the disk array and then click the button Delete Then a warning...
Page 38: ...Configuration Delete Raid highlight the disk array in the Current RaidType pane and then click the Information button or double click the array You can get some information about the disk array The fo...
Page 39: ...which are the same with previous those will be popup 4 Or you can click the button Degrade to degrade RAID0 1 set to become a completed RAID0 set See below NOTE The degrading operation is workable onl...
Page 40: ...AID0 set exist a First you can click the button Available Raid to find whether any error Raid set existing See below Next highlight the error Raid set you want to recovery And you can click the button...
Page 41: ...ancel to give up this selection c When the Available Raid and Available Disk is finished you can click the button Start to start this operation And the button Start will become Pause Then you can clic...
