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RAID User Guide

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V1.1 P/N: 91-187-925-00-1E

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Page 1: ...D User Guide Edition V1 1 P N 91 187 925 00 1E Trademarks All brand or product names mentioned are trademarks or registered trade marks of their respective holders ＲＡＩＤＭａｎｕａｌＰｒｅｆａｃｅｐ６５ 2005 1 21 10 34 1 ...

Page 2: ...Sets 17 5 Installing Drivers and Software 26 6 Creating Naming Partitions 28 7 Using Silicon Image SATA RAID GUI 31 ITE 8212F RAID optional 36 1 Introduction 36 2 Setting the BIOS RAID items 36 3 Entering the ITE 8212F Setup Utility 36 4 Auto configuring a RAID array 37 5 Defining a RAID array 38 6 Deleting a RAID array 39 7 Rebuilding a RAID array 40 8 Viewing your RAID configuration 41 9 Install...

Page 3: ... levels represent different performance levels security levels and implementation costs RAID 0 Striping RAID 0 reads and writes sectors of data interleaved between multiple drives If any disk member fails it affects the entire array The disk array data capacity is equal to the number of drive members times the capacity of the smallest member The striping block size can be set from 4KB to 128KB RAI...

Page 4: ...you need four SATA hard disks Matrix RAID Matrix RAID is a combination of RAID 0 and RAID 1 bringing you the best of both worlds You only need two SATA hard disks to utilize this function Advantages 1 Faster data transfer 2 Improve the safety and stability of data 3 Swift and easy management for volume of data ＲＡＩＤＭａｎｕａｌｐ６５ 2005 1 21 10 29 2 ...

Page 5: ...tors STEP 5 Connect the other end of SATA data cable to the other SATA hard disk 3 BIOS Configuration 1 Enter the BIOS setup program by pressing the Del key during the POST Power On Self Test 2 Select the OnChip IDE Device item form Integrated Peripherals menu 3 Switch the SATA Mode option to RAID 4 Save the BIOS setting and exit the BIOS setup program 4 RAID Configuration Utility A Setting RAID 0...

Page 6: ...eys to select RAID0 Stripe pressing Enter confirms c Choose which two hard disks you want to set RAID 0 from Disks item if you install three or more SATA hard disks Otherwise continue with the next step Using up or down arrow key to select the hard disk Space key to confirm and Enter key to finish the selection ＲＡＩＤＭａｎｕａｌｐ６５ 2005 1 21 10 29 4 ...

Page 7: ...tial transfer 64K_Good general purpose strip size 128K_Best performance for most desktops and workstations e Press the Enter key after the Create Volume prompt appears to create the array Press the Y key after the prompt to confirm this selection f Select option 4 Exit in main menu and press the Enter key to exit the RAID configuration utility Press Y key to confirm the exit WARNING ALL DATAON SEL...

Page 8: ... to set RAID 1 from Disks item if you install three or more SATA hard disks Otherwise continue with the next step Using up or down arrow key to select the hard disk Space key to confirm and Enter key to finish the selection b The following information will appear on screen Press Enter to create the specified volume Press the Enter key again to confirm ＲＡＩＤＭａｎｕａｌｐ６５ 2005 1 21 10 29 6 ...

Page 9: ... RAID configuration utility Press Y key to confirm the exit Note This operation will delete all the data from hard disk so please take care And our company will not be responsible for data lose and benefit damage caused WARNING ALL DATAON SELECTED DISK WILL BE LOST Are you sure you want to creat this volume Y N ＲＡＩＤＭａｎｕａｌｐ６５ 2005 1 21 10 29 7 ...

Page 10: ... enter Press Tab to switch to RAID Level item and then use Up and Down arrow keys to select RAID0 Stripe pressing Enter confirms c Using up and down arrow keys to select two hard disks for RAID 0 Space key to confirm and Enter key to finish the selection in the Disks item d The following steps is the same as Setting RAID 0 ＲＡＩＤＭａｎｕａｌｐ６５ 2005 1 21 10 29 8 ...

Page 11: ...o make selecting f The following steps is the same as Setting RAID 1 g You may see the information in the main menu when you finished the setting steps Note This operation will delete all the data from hard disk so please take care And our company will not be responsible for data lose and benefit damage caused ＲＡＩＤＭａｎｕａｌｐ６５ 2005 1 21 10 29 9 ...

Page 12: ...AID 1 bringing you the best of both worlds b Follow Setting RAID 0 steps to set RAID 0 You should divide half capacity size or less for RAID 1 in Capacity item For example if the SATA hard disks total capacity is 300 GB divide 150 GB or less capacity for RAID 1 c Follow Setting RAID 1 steps to set RAID 1 ＲＡＩＤＭａｎｕａｌｐ６５ 2005 1 21 10 29 10 ...

Page 13: ... Disk 0 1 in the main menu when you finished the setting steps Note This operation will delete all the data from hard disk so please take care And our company will not be responsible for data lose and benefit damage caused ＲＡＩＤＭａｎｕａｌｐ６５ 2005 1 21 10 29 11 ...

Page 14: ...nfirm the volume deletion and press N to cancel the operation when following information appears Note This operation will delete all the data from hard disk so please take care And our company will not be responsible for data lose and benefit damage caused ALL DATAIN THE VOLUME WILL BE LOST Are you sure you want to delete volume RAID VOLUME1 Y N ＲＡＩＤＭａｎｕａｌｐ６５ 2005 1 21 10 29 12 ...

Page 15: ...s N to cancel the operation 5 Installing Windows 2000 XP with RAID 1 Setup the desired RAID mode in BIOS setup follow the above steps 2 Insert Operation System installation disk into CD ROM and start up the setup program 3 Press F6 when the following picture appears on screen 4 Press S key to specify additional equipment when below picture appears Are you sure you want to reset RAID data on select...

Page 16: ...on disk into floppy disk drive ICH6R S ATA RAID Driver floppy following the on screen instructions and press Enter to continue 6 Select the right choice and press Enter to continue The choice is deter mined by South Bridge ＲＡＩＤＭａｎｕａｌｐ６５ 2005 1 21 10 29 14 ...

Page 17: ...mal setup methods No details are provided herein 6 Installing RAID Driver When you finish installing Operation System with RAID in order to enable RAID function you need to install RAID driver Please refer to Chapter 4 of motherboard user manual for installation steps ＲＡＩＤＭａｎｕａｌｐ６５ 2005 1 21 10 29 15 ...

Page 18: ...of these problems are solved SATARAID5 software provides a Graphical User Interface GUI for easy to use configurations of the RAID Groups 2 SATARAID5 Features RAID 0 RAID 1 RAID 5 RAID 10 and JBOD Hot Spare and On line Rebuilding System GUI Monitoring Utility Displays Logs Alerts Users to Vital RAID Set Information Manages RAID Group Functions configures rebuilds etc Supports the ability to partit...

Page 19: ...ATA host adapter Logical Drive Information window displays all logical drives connected to the controller The upper part lists RAID sets and JBOD drives reported to the system BIOS The lower part lists spare drives reserved drives conflict drives and invalid drives not reported to the system BIOS The bottom line of the display lists the currently active command keys Up and Down arrows select the m...

Page 20: ...able It is best to carefully consider the long term role of the system and plan the data storage strategy appropriately Silicon Image has made the creation of RAID sets very simple They can be cre ated either automatically or to allow the greatest flexibility manually 1 Select Create RAID set 2 Choose a RAID 0 Striped a RAID 1 Mirrored a RAID 5 Parity or a RAID 10 combination set 3 Select Automati...

Page 21: ...ard drives after creating a RAID set in the BIOS you can later go to the SATARaid5 GUI to create additional logical drives that fully utilize the capacity on all your hard drives 4 If manual configuration is selected the chunk size of Striped Sets can be selected For Mirrored Sets the Source and Target drives can be selected 5 If auto configuration is selected BIOS will select RAID member drives a...

Page 22: ...ompleting the configuration Answer N to abort the creation of the spare drive or Y to proceed with the spare drive creation Creating JBOD Since BIOS no longer reports non RAID drives to the system BIOS if a non RAID boot drive or data drive is desired a JBOD can be created so BIOS will report it to the system BIOS 1 To create a JBOD Select Create RAID set 2 Select JBOD and press Enter 3 Select JBO...

Page 23: ...selection of logical drives from which a new RAID set can be created Rebuild RAID 1 Set This menu selection is used to initiate the copying of data from an existing drive to a replacement drive that has been installed in a RAID 1 set after the failure of one of the members 1 Select Rebuild RAID1 set 2 Select the desired set and press Enter 3 Press Y when asked Are You Sure 4 The set will be rebuil...

Page 24: ... reference to the drive connection information If so this will prohibit the RAID set from being either created or rebuilt In order for the RAID set to function properly this old metadata must be first overwritten with the new metadata To correct this select Resolve Conflict and the correct metadata including the correct drive connection information will automatically be written to the replacement ...

Page 25: ... when performing a conflict resolution To maintain the same drive lettering the SATA cables connected to the drives may need to be swapped or in the case of a SATA based removable drive unit the order of the drives within the chassis made need to be changed Press Y to accept the change and resolve the conflict 4 The conflict will be resolved The RAID Set will appear in the Logical Drive window ＲＡＩ...

Page 26: ...is usually sufficient to prepare the drive for use Logical Drive Information This menu item allows the display of the assignment of physical drives within a logical set RAID set RAID 1 spare or unassigned It is a display only function Use the up and down arrow keys to scroll between the drives in the Logical Drive Properties window Press the ESC key when done viewing logical drive information ＲＡＩＤ...

Page 27: ...ll not report the drive to the system BIOS When user selects to create a RAID set spare drive or JBOD he or she has to select size for the set or drive BIOS will set a default size for it and user can use the and keys to change the size If the physical drive has never been used to create a set or drive by the BIOS before the full size of the physical drive will be set as default size Otherwise BIO...

Page 28: ...ll SATARaid exe 3 Follow on screen instructions to complete installation Install Windows XP 2000 2003 with RAID 1 Setup the desired RAID mode in BIOS setup 2 Insert a WinXP installation CD 3 Press the F6 when the following pictures appear 4 Insert the previous floppy disk Sil3114 S ATA RAID Driver floppy 5 Press S to continue ＲＡＩＤＭａｎｕａｌｐ６５ 2005 1 21 10 29 26 ...

Page 29: ...RAID User s Guide 27 6 Press Enter to continue 7 Follow screen instructions to install the RAID drivers ＲＡＩＤＭａｎｕａｌｐ６５ 2005 1 21 10 29 27 ...

Page 30: ...erating system Windows XP 2000 2003 6 Creating Naming Partitions Windows XP 2000 2003 Operating System Before creating any partitions RAID sets must first be created dissolved by us ing the BIOS RAID Utility Once completed continue booting Windows Once Windows is running open the Disk Management window located at Control Panel Administrative Tools Computer Management Storage Disk Management Someth...

Page 31: ...e will be reported here Online Instead of Basic a disk may also report as either Unknown or Dynamic If the disk reports as Unknown right click on the disk icon SECTION 2 and click on Write Signature At this point a window will appear with the disk in question all Unknown disks may appear in this window Make sure the box next to each disk is checked then click OK The disk should now report as Basic...

Page 32: ... be set and selection of the type of formatting to take place upon the creation of the partition Make sure the Format this partition radio button is selected Name the volume as de sired suggestions are generic names such as STRIPED SET or something specific to use such as FINANCIAL CRITICAL MISCELLANEOUS etc It is recommended to use the default NTFS for the file system Click Next 7 The last window...

Page 33: ... SATARAID5 GUI to auto matically start when Windows is started If the SATARAID5 GUI does not automati cally start or is closed by the user choose the SATARAID5 program from the Start Menu to launch the GUI The SATARAID5 GUI monitors the system s RAID Group The main window will display ＲＡＩＤＭａｎｕａｌｐ６５ 2005 1 21 10 29 31 ...

Page 34: ...pup menu will be displayed to let user select action to be performed for the selected controller or RAID group The Device Configuration window identifies all physical drives and their partitions A physical drive can be partitioned to several portions and each portion can be a RAID group member a spare drive or a virtual drive The following is another example of the main window showing different co...

Page 35: ...t configurations for SATARAID5 with the following three tabs Log File Tab The log file is used to store event information received from all Silicon Image RAID drivers The log file is a text file and can be viewed with any text viewer such as Notepad or with the Event Log window of SATARAID5 Use the Log File tab to set location and the desired filename for the log file ＲＡＩＤＭａｎｕａｌｐ６５ 2005 1 21 10 ...

Page 36: ...ent level for popups to occur Error Level The following events will trigger a popup window Errors Warning Level The following events will trigger a popup window Warnings Errors Information Level The following events will trigger a popup window Informational Warnings Errors Disable All No events will trigger a popup window ＲＡＩＤＭａｎｕａｌｐ６５ 2005 1 21 10 29 34 ...

Page 37: ...AID User s Guide 35 Advanced Options The Advanced Options tab is used to control advanced features of the RAID driver By default all these advanced options are disabled ＲＡＩＤＭａｎｕａｌｐ６５ 2005 1 21 10 29 35 ...

Page 38: ...press Del during the Power On Self Test POST to enter the BIOS Setup Utility b Set IT8212F Controller item to RAID Mode in Integrated Peripherals of BIOS setup c Save your changes and exit Setup 3 Entering the ITE 8212F Setup Utility To enter the ITE 8212F Setup Utility a Boot up your computer b The IT8212F controller scans for IDE devices attached on the IDE RAID ports When prompted press Ctrl F ...

Page 39: ...ow keys or the space bar to select a RAID set As you select an option the screen displays the array configuration of the RAID based on the number of IDE devices installed c Press Ctrl Y to save your RAID set d Press Esc to exit Note There are five configurations supported RAID Type RAID 0 RAID 1 RAID 0 1 JBOD IDE Configurations Disk Striping Disk Mirroring Disk Striping Mirroring Disk Concatenatio...

Page 40: ...ity screen press 2 The following screen appears b Use the up or down keys or the space bar to select a RAID array then press Enter The following sub menu appears c Use the up or down arrow keys to select editable fields d Use the Space bar to change field values e Press Ctrl Y to save RAID array f Press Esc to exit ＲＡＩＤＭａｎｕａｌｐ６５ 2005 1 21 10 29 38 ...

Page 41: ...u to delete an existing RAID arrays To delete a RAID array a From the IT8212F Setup Utility screen press 3 The following screen appears b Use the up or down arrow keys to select a RAID array then press D to delete c Press Esc to exit ＲＡＩＤＭａｎｕａｌｐ６５ 2005 1 21 10 29 39 ...

Page 42: ...d sets To rebuild a RAID array a From the IT8212F Setup Utility screen press 4 The following screen appears c Use the up or down arrow keys to select a drive then press Enter Follow succeeding screen instructions d Press Esc to exit b Use the up or down arrow keys to select a RAID array then press Enter to rebuild The following screen appears ＲＡＩＤＭａｎｕａｌｐ６５ 2005 1 21 10 29 40 ...

Page 43: ...ting of the RAIDExpress 133 card You can also enable or disable the Auto rebuild function in this section To view your RAID configuration a From the IT8212F Setup Utility screen press 5 The following screen appears b Use the left or right keys or the space bar enable or disable the Auto rebuild item c Press Esc to exit ＲＡＩＤＭａｎｕａｌｐ６５ 2005 1 21 10 29 41 ...

Page 44: ...p the setup program c Press F6 when the following picture appears on screen d Press S key to specify additional equipment when below picture appears e Insert the add on RAID installation disk IT8218F IDE RAID Driver into floppy disk drive following the on screen instructions and press Enter to continue f Follow screen instructions to install the RAID drivers ＲＡＩＤＭａｎｕａｌｐ６５ 2005 1 21 10 29 42 ...

Page 45: ...ID driver disk you wish to create Browse the contents of the support CD to locate the driver disk utility IT8212F RAID Driver Disk ChipDrv IDE Floppy Disk c Insert a formatted high density floppy disk to the floppy disk driver d Copy all of the files under the Floppy Disk document to the floppy disk e After creating a RAID driver disk eject the floppy disk then write protect it to prevent computer...

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