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Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide 

 

10 

Step 3. BIOS Utility Operation (for RAID 
only) 

 

Note: 

For the best performance and reliability, please read  “Performance 

Hints and Recommend Setting” section in 

Step 0 

1.  Boot your system. If this is the first time you have booted with the  SIS 

964 and the drives installed, the onboard BIOS will display the  
following screen. 

2.  Press <Ctrl-S> keys to display the SIS964 Utility Main Menu. 

3.  Press “R” to display the RAID setup menu below. This is the fastest 

and easiest method to creating your first array. 

 

 

 

Silicon Integrated Systems Corp. RAID Card BIOS Setting Utility 
1.00.0.XX 
(c) 2003-2006 Silicon Integrated Systems Corp. All Rights 
Reserved. 
 
 
Press <Ctrl><S> to run BIOS Setting Utility 
 

Summary of Contents for SiS 964

Page 1: ...SiS 964 S ATA User s Manual Quick User s Guide Version 0 1...

Page 2: ...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 3: ...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 4: ...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 5: ...hronously That is 100 duplication of data from one drive to another 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...

Page 6: ...decrease performance 5 Always use 80 conductor cables 6 We strongly 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 selecti...

Page 7: ...Serial 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...

Page 8: ...Mirroring Ultra 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 S...

Page 9: ...r s Guide 7 10 X V V V 11 V V V V 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...

Page 10: ...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 11: ...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 12: ...booted with the SIS 964 and the drives installed the onboard BIOS will display the following screen 2 Press Ctrl S keys to display the SIS964 Utility Main Menu 3 Press R to display the RAID setup menu...

Page 13: ...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 14: ...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 15: ...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 16: ...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 17: ...Serial ATA RAID 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...

Page 18: ...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 Creating a JBOD Array To create an JBOD array foll...

Page 19: ...Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide 17 2 Press 1 and Enter to select JBOD 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 20: ...up menu 6 Press Y and Enter to save changes 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 Creating a Stripe Mirror Array To create...

Page 21: ...e 19 2 Press 4 and Enter to select Strpie Mirror 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 pre...

Page 22: ...Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide 20 6 Press Q until escape the setup menu 7 Press Y and Enter to save changes...

Page 23: ...Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide 21 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 23 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: ...n Create Then a Create Stripe RaidSet dialog 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...

Page 32: ...otal disk numbers 6 Next you can click Cancel button to leave or click Ok button to continue after the operation being selected The differential warning messages will be popup following the differenti...

Page 33: ...te a RAID 1 Mirror array follow these steps 1 Configuration Create Raid Raid Type RAID 1 2 From the drop down box Mode Type select the mode type you want 3 From the Available Disks pane select the dis...

Page 34: ...cted The warning messages will be popup following the differential operations and the message is similar to JBOD array creation 6 When the operation is finished the restart warning message will be pop...

Page 35: ...least four hard disks 5 Click the tab Delete Raid you can find some panes and two buttons The RaidType meaning will show below Viewing the RaidType meaning General case RAID0 A B C D E Meaning RAID0 R...

Page 36: ...Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide 34 Example Showing its information...

Page 37: ...D RAID0 or RAID1 array follow these steps 1 Configuration Delete Raid the following windows will appear 2 Highlight the disk array in the Current RaidType pane and then click the Information button or...

Page 38: ...the selected disk array or click No to cancel 4 Next another message will be popup to tell user the setting of these disks have been changed and ask whether to restart the computer b To delete a RAID...

Page 39: ...e warning message 3 Next you can click the button Delete to delete this RAID0 1 array and all disk will become single disk Then some warning messages which are the same with previous those will be pop...

Page 40: ...OTE The recovering operation is workable only when error RAID1 set or error RAID0 1 set must at least an error RAID0 set exist a First you can click the button Available Raid to find whether any error...

Page 41: ...elect And you can click the button Ok to continue or click Cancel to give up this selection c When the Available Raid and Available Disk is finished you can click the button Start to start this operat...

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