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Serial ATA RAID User’s Guide

CONTENTS

Introduction ................................................................................................ 1

Features ....................................................................................................... 2

Support operating Systems ........................................................................ 2

KNOW HOW.......................................................................................... 3

PERFORMANCE HINTS AND RECOMMEND SETTING............. 3

Step 1. Hardware Setup ............................................................................. 4

HARD DRIVES SETUP ........................................................................ 4

FOR RAID 0 (STRIPING ARRAY) ............................................................... 4

FOR RAID 1 (MIRROR ARRAY).................................................................. 4

FOR JBOD (SPANNING ARRAY) ................................................................ 4

Step 2. Installing Software Drivers ........................................................... 5

WINDOWS XP/2000 .............................................................................. 5

NEW WINDOWS XP/2000 INSTALLATION................................................ 5

EXISTING WINDOWS XP/2000 INSTALLATION....................................... 6

CONFIRMING WINDOWS XP/2000 DRIVER INSTALLATION ................ 6

Step 3. BIOS Utility Operation.................................................................. 7

STARTING BIOS UTILITY ................................................................. 7

CREATE RAID .................................................................................... 10

CREATING A RAID 0 (STRIPE) ARRAY FOR PERFORMANCE ............ 10

CREATING A RAID 1 (MIRROR) ARRAY................................................. 14

CREATING A JBOD ARRAY ...................................................................... 18

DELETE RAID..................................................................................... 22

STARTING TO DELETE A RAID ARRAY ................................................. 22

Step 4. SiS964 RAID Utility ..................................................................... 25

STARTING TO USE SIS964 RAID UTILITY.................................. 25

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Page 1: ...SiS964 Silicon 3112A SATA RAID User s Manual User s Guide...

Page 2: ...Serial ATA RAID User s Guide Edition V1 0 P N 91 185 755 10 00 Trademarks All brand or product names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders...

Page 3: ...2 Installing Software Drivers 5 WINDOWS XP 2000 5 NEW WINDOWS XP 2000 INSTALLATION 5 EXISTING WINDOWS XP 2000 INSTALLATION 6 CONFIRMING WINDOWS XP 2000 DRIVER INSTALLATION 6 Step 3 BIOS Utility Opera...

Page 4: ...REATE RAID 28 VIEWING THE CREATE RAID 28 CREATE A RAID SET 30 ABOUT DELETE RAID 38 VIEWING THE RAIDTYPE MEANING 38 DELETE A RAID SET 39 ABOUT RAID RECOVERY 41 RAID RECOVERY OPERATION 41 SATA RAID Soft...

Page 5: ...ing RAID 1 and span JBOD With striping identical drives can read and write data in parallel to increase performance Mirroring increases read performance through load balancing and elevator sorting whi...

Page 6: ...ial ATA Serial ATA RAID drivers Support RAID function RAID 0 RAID 1 and JBOD Support bootable disk Windows based SiS RAID Utility software tool only support Windows XP and 2000 BIOS RAID Setting Utili...

Page 7: ...the RAID set crashes 3 RAID 1 Also known as Mirroring Two hard drives are required The goal of RAID 1 is to ensure data security Data is written to two or more drives synchronously That is 100 duplic...

Page 8: ...e lowest drive in the disk array For RAID 1 Mirror array Any of 2 SATA Hard disks would make a mirror system The South Bridge SiS964 SATA controller only supports combination 6 NOTE Storage Capacity t...

Page 9: ...rray For special occasions users can refer to the following sections with details on the SiS964 driver installation when used with Windows XP 2000 operating systems Windows XP 2000 New Windows XP 2000...

Page 10: ...he operation system has been setup Remark If you would like to install windows to any RAID sets you should create RAID from BIOS RAID setting Utility or SiS964 RAID Utility first and then follow the s...

Page 11: ...imary Master XXXXXXXXXX XXXXXMB UDMA X Secondary Master SATA Device Not Found RAID Information RAID Information includes some statements See below a No RAID Install Not any completed RAID exists b Rai...

Page 12: ...he SiS964 Utility Main Menu 3 Press R to display the RAID setup menu below This is the fastest and easiest method to create your first array The A and D key will appear randomly in the different condi...

Page 13: ...Serial ATA RAID User s Guide b No available disk existing but have RAID existing c Available disk is not enough to create RAID 9...

Page 14: ...1 Press A to start creating a RAID array 2 Press 2 and Enter to select RAID 0 3 You will have two selections to create a RAID 0 array The default value is 1 If you select 1 Auto Create you can create...

Page 15: ...ter to select Block Size Default 64K 5 Use to select disk and press Enter to select disk Q to exit When you press Enter on the disk you wanted the RAID Type will be changed from Single to RAID 0 And t...

Page 16: ...RAID User s Guide 6 Next you will see a message Split the SOURCE Disk x data to RAID disks Press N and Enter to create RAID 0 array only or press Y and Enter to split the data from source disk to othe...

Page 17: ...llowing frame will be shown 8 After all steps finished press Q until escape the setup menu and RAID 0 array will be shown on the top of the main frame 9 Press Q until exit this BIOS utility and the re...

Page 18: ...nd FORMAT the array as if it was a new single hard drive Creating a RAID 1 Mirror Array NOTE SiS964 enables users to create Mirror arrays with pair of drives only To create a Mirror array follow these...

Page 19: ...y faster and easier The result after creating will be shown on step 5 Besides you also can select 2 Manual Create see following steps 4 Use to select disk and press Enter to select disk Q to exit When...

Page 20: ...a message Duplicate the SOURCE Disk x data to RAID disks Press N and Enter to create RAID 1 array only or press Y and Enter to duplicate the data from source disk to mirror disk 6 Starting duplicatin...

Page 21: ...press Q until escape the setup menu and RAID 1 array will be shown on the top of the main frame 8 Press Q until exit this BIOS utility and the red message frame will show as the same as the creation o...

Page 22: ...to FDISK and FORMAT the array as if it were a new single hard drive Creating a JBOD Array NOTE SiS964 only supports 2 SATA drivers to create a JBOD array To create a JBOD array follow these steps 1 P...

Page 23: ...Create you can create a JBOD array faster and easier The result after creating will be shown on step 5 Besides you also can select 2 Manual Create see following steps 4 Use to select disk and press E...

Page 24: ...press Q until escape the setup menu and JBOD array will be shown on the top of the main frame 6 Press Q until exit this BIOS utility and the red message frame will show as the same as the creation of...

Page 25: ...Serial ATA RAID User s Guide 7 Once the array has been created you will need to FDISK and FORMAT the array as if it were a new single hard drive 21...

Page 26: ...RAID Starting to delete a RAID array 1 After enter the SiS964 Utility Main Menu press R to display the RAID setup menu below This is the fastest and easiest method to delete your first array 2 Press...

Page 27: ...he RAID array that you want to delete And a message Are you sure to delete this RAID will show on this frame 4 Press Y and Enter the deleting action finish And the RAID Type of all disk members of thi...

Page 28: ...Serial ATA RAID User s Guide 5 Press Q until escape the BIOS Utility and the red message frame will show on it 6 Press Y and Enter to save all changes 24...

Page 29: ...d Setting section in Step 0 2 This Utility only supports Windows XP 2000 Starting to use SiS964 RAID Utility 1 After installing the SiS RAID utility go to Start menu and choose Programs From the Progr...

Page 30: ...AID Utility as Step 3 The Help will show the help document to tell you how to use this RAID Utility and the About will show as Step 5 3 The SiS RAID Utility window opens as below The main interface ha...

Page 31: ...b to recovery this broken RAID 1 3 Click the button Help you can open a help document that tell you how to use this RAID utility 4 Click the button About you can find an about message It show that RAI...

Page 32: ...rray types that the user can select JBOD RAID 0 Stripe and RAID 1 Mirror User can select any one array type to create a RAID set b Block Size If user selected RAID 0 array type in the Array Type box t...

Page 33: ...select mode type There are two mode 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...

Page 34: ...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 first Please select the Block Size firs...

Page 35: ...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 selected has the ability of booting another...

Page 36: ...an get new setting Or click Cancel button to skip restarting b To create a RAID 0 Stripe array follow these steps NOTE You should use two SATA hard disks to create a RAID0 array 1 Configuration Create...

Page 37: ...log will be popup Note Source The first selected disk Target All other disks but first one Create Only This operation will destroy all data on all the selected disks and create a clean stripe array wi...

Page 38: ...ue after the operation being selected The differential warning messages will be popup following the differential operations If the operation is Create Only the warning messages are similar to JBOD arr...

Page 39: ...Stripe RaidSet dialog to stop this operation But this action will cause the data of the source disk broken And the following message will be popup to remind you 8 If the operation is Source is a boot...

Page 40: ...restarting the windows next time c To create a RAID 1 Mirror array follow these steps NOTE You should use two SATA hard disks to create a RAID1 array 1 Configuration Create Raid Raid Type RAID 1 2 Fr...

Page 41: ...y them onto the target disk OK Start the operation Cancel Cancel the operation Disk Copy Remaining Sector Show the remaining copying data 5 Next you can click Cancel button to leave or click OK button...

Page 42: ...button to start this duplicating action Don t restart your computer or it will cause the action fail 7 When the operation is finished the restart warning message will be popup as well as JBOD array c...

Page 43: ...mber of each disk in this Raid D E a Raid is correct B D C E b Raid is error D or E will show or In which the meaning of and will show below Delete a Raid set a To delete a JBOD RAID0 or RAID1 array f...

Page 44: ...f you want to delete a disk array you selected you can highlight the disk array and then click the button Delete Then a warning message will be popup and pay attention to the warning message You can c...

Page 45: ...elow Raid Recovery Operation NOTE The recovering operation is workable only when error RAID1 set exist a First you can click the button Available Raid to find whether any error Raid set existing See b...

Page 46: ...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 click the button Pause to pause the thread ope...

Page 47: ...users to enjoy the confidence of data availability regardless of a single disk failure as data is simultaneously written to two drives Standard with SATARaid software is a Graphical User Interface GUI...

Page 48: ...data simultaneously written to two disks This redundancy provides instantaneous protection from a single disk failure If a read failure occurs on one drive the system reads the data from the other dr...

Page 49: ...icon Image The following screen menu appears 1 Switch the highlight bar to the Create RAID set and press the Enter key to create RAID set 2 Switch the highlight bar to the Striped Mirrored and press t...

Page 50: ...on it and then a second disk is added for redundancy the data on the source drive can be copied to the destination drive so the disks are identical and all subsequent data will be written to both dri...

Page 51: ...Serial ATA RAID User s Guide Deleting RAID set 1 To remove one or more RAID sets select Delete RAID set and press the Enter key 2 Select desired set and press Y when asked Are You Sure 47...

Page 52: ...e conflicting metadata specifically 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 pr...

Page 53: ...ows InstallShield by performing the following 1 After computer restarts insert cd in disk drive 2 Double click on Install SATARaid exe 3 Follow on screen instructions to complete installation Note Do...

Page 54: ...Serial ATA RAID User s Guide 4 Insert the previous floppy disk RAID driver installation disk 5 Press S to continue 6 Press Enter to continue 50...

Page 55: ...p RAID1 function in Raid Configuration Utility Silicon Image 2 The remainder of the process is the same as installing WinXP with RAID0 Install Win2K With Silicon 3112A RAID0 The process is the same as...

Page 56: ...or the appropriate operating system The procedure for Windows 98 Me is significantly different from the others WindowsXP 2000 Windows XP 2000 Operating System Before creating any partitions RAID sets...

Page 57: ...isk 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 SECTION 2 and click on Write Signatur...

Page 58: ...Choose which ever drive letter is desired the lowest possible value is automatically entered name the volume whatever is desired suggestions being something generic such as STRIPED SET or something sp...

Page 59: ...ated in the bottom right hand corner of the Desktop and then clik open If the icon does not appear in the bottom right hand corner of the desktop find where the application was saved and launch from t...

Page 60: ...ide Selecting different component in the configuration tree provides specific information for that component such as the chip Selecting a specific channel either channel 0 or channel 1 the following i...

Page 61: ...Serial ATA RAID User s Guide Selecting a specific drive reports all pertinent information to that drive including Configuration and Disk Identification information Click here Click here 57...

Page 62: ...Serial ATA RAID User s Guide Click here Selecting Sets lists the Sets in the configuration tree and provides information on RIO Version 58...

Page 63: ...y selecting a specific RAID set such as Set 0 the type of RAID set the number of members and capacity is reported Click here Click here The Device Location refers to how each physical disk was reporte...

Page 64: ...drive from that set as well as add a designated Spare drive to a Mirrored set that has experienced a disk failure A drive can NOT be removed from a Striped set as this would destroy all data Note tha...

Page 65: ...r icon in the bottom right of the computer screen with other start up icons the user may configure SATARaid including customizing the settings for SMTP E mail Notification Event Level Log File Audio a...

Page 66: ...fault e mail address and subject line to where the configuration would be sent This however can be overridden at the time of sending the email Notification When different types of events occur SATARai...

Page 67: ...g events will be sent Informational Warnings Errors Warning The following events will be sent Warnings Errors Errors The following events will be sent Errors Log File The log file is used to store eve...

Page 68: ...p window can be disabled or set to popup for only certain event levels The different levels are Disabled No popup will occur Informational The popup window will be displayed for the following events I...

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