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Serial ATA RAID User’s Guide

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6. Installing Drivers and Software

To install drivers and software:

1. After computer restarts, insert cd in disk drive.

2. Double-click on 

Install 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 (RAID driver installation disk).

5. Press <S> to continue.

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Summary of Contents for RAID 91-187-U25-A2-0E

Page 1: ...RAID User Guide Edition V1 0 P N 91 187 U25 A2 0E Trademarks All brand or product names mentioned are trademarks or registered trade marks of their respective holders 2004 12 15 9 01 1...

Page 2: ...Creating and Deleting RAID Sets 18 6 Installing Drivers and Software 27 7 Creating Naming Partitions 29 8 Using Silicon Image SATA RAID GUI 32 ITE 8212F RAID 37 1 Introduction 37 2 Setting the BIOS R...

Page 3: ...ifferent RAID 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...

Page 4: ...ablility but 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...

Page 5: ...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...

Page 6: ...Down arrow keys 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...

Page 7: ...ed below The default selection is 128KB 16K_Best for sequential transfer 64K_Good general purpose strip size 128K_Best performance for most desktops and workstations e Press the Enter key after the Cr...

Page 8: ...sks you want 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 an...

Page 9: ...ion 4 Exit in main menu and press the Enter key to exit the 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 A...

Page 10: ...ress Enter to 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 fo...

Page 11: ...Enter key to 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...

Page 12: ...RAID 0 and RAID 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...

Page 13: ...type Member 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 d...

Page 14: ...delete the RAID volume in below screen 3 Press Y key to confirm the volume deletion and press N to cancel the operation when following information appears Note This operation will delete all the data...

Page 15: ...confirm the volume deletion press 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 installa...

Page 16: ...t the add on RAID installation disk into floppy disk drive following the on screen instructions and press Enter to continue 6 Select the right choice and press Enter to continue The choice is deter mi...

Page 17: ...e same as normal 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 d...

Page 18: ...ARAID5 both 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...

Page 19: ...drive 4 Setting the BIOS RAID items After installing the hard disk drives make sure to set the necessary RAID item in the BIOS before setting your RAID configuration To set the BIOS RAID items 1 Boot...

Page 20: ...sensitive help and status messages Physical Drive Information window displays the model number and capacities of the drives physically attached to the SATA host adapter Logical Drive Information wind...

Page 21: ...drives available 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 c...

Page 22: ...on your hard 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...

Page 23: ...y before completing 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...

Page 24: ...ned to the 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 d...

Page 25: ...cifically in 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 m...

Page 26: ...ware of this 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 un...

Page 27: ...nder Windows 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 sp...

Page 28: ...ve and it will 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...

Page 29: ...click on Install 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...

Page 30: ...Serial ATA RAID User s Guide 28 6 Press Enter to continue 7 Follow screen instructions to install the RAID drivers 2004 12 15 9 04 28...

Page 31: ...propriate operating system Windows XP 2000 2003 7 Creating Naming Partitions Windows XP 2000 2003 Operating System Before creating any partitions RAID sets must first be created dissolved by us ing th...

Page 32: ...ble disk space 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 Writ...

Page 33: ...ume label to 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 su...

Page 34: ...onfigures the 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...

Page 35: ...p window a popup 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 par...

Page 36: ...set different 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 te...

Page 37: ...o set the event 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...

Page 38: ...Serial ATA RAID User s Guide 36 Advanced Options The Advanced Options tab is used to control advanced features of the RAID driver By default all these advanced options are disabled 2004 12 15 9 04 36...

Page 39: ...Del during the Power On Self Test POST to enter the BIOS Setup Utility b From the Intergrated Peripherals Onboard Device menu in the BIOS set the IT8212F Controller item to RAID Mode c Save your chan...

Page 40: ...t or right arrow 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...

Page 41: ...12F Setup Utility 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 arr...

Page 42: ...ion allows you 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 ar...

Page 43: ...triped Mirrored 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 succ...

Page 44: ...us and the setting 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...

Page 45: ...sk into CD ROM and start up 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...

Page 46: ...select the RAID 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 densit...

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