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HighPoint RocketRAID 600L/600LS Series 

HighPoint 2nd Generation SATA 6Gb/s PCI-

E 2.0 RAID HBA’s

 

HighPoint’s

 

RocketRAID 600L/600LS Series HBA’s are the Industry’s

 

most affordable, high-performance, SATA 6Gb/s RAID 

HBA’s,

 and are 

ideal for desktop PC’s and workstations. These Second Generation

 

SATA 6Gb/s host controllers utilize a PCI-Express 2.0 host bus 
interface, HighPoint's Industry-proven RAID engine, and support a 
wide-range of single-disk and RAID configurations including 0, 1, 5, 10 
and JBOD. 

RocketRAID 600L/600LS HBA’s are fully backwards compatible with

 

SATA 3Gb/s devices, PCI-Express 1.0 and 2.0 motherboards, and are 
compliant with major PC operating systems including Windows 8, and 
7. Each RocketRAID 600L/600LS Series 

HBA’s

 directly supports up to 4 

SATA devices, and up to 20 when used in conjunction with port 
multiplier storage devices. For maximum performance, attach SATA 

hard drives and SSD’s directly to the RocketRAID 600L/600LS’s SATA

 

and eSATA ports. To maximize storage capacity, use the RocketRAID 
600L/600LS with port multiplier storage chassis and external disk 
enclosures. The HighPoint RAID Management Software provides a 
user friendly interface to create, manage and maintain your storage 
solutions. 

 

RocketRAID 600L Series HBA Family: 

 

RocketRAID 640L - 4 SATA ports 

 

RocketRAID 642L - 2 SATA ports and 2 eSATA ports 

 

RocketRAID 644L - 4 eSATA ports 

 

RocketRAID 644LS - 1 Mini-SAS port 

Summary of Contents for RocketRAID 600L

Page 1: ...1 RocketRAID 600L 600LS SATA 6Gb s PCI Express 2 0 RAID Host Adapters User s Guide Revision 1 20 Dec 20 2015 HighPoint Technologies Inc...

Page 2: ...5 3 RocketRAID 600L 600LS BIOS Setting Utility 10 5 3 1 BIOS Settings Overview 10 5 3 2 Using the BIOS Utility 11 5 3 3 BIOS Commands 11 5 3 4 Creating RAID Arrays 12 5 3 5 Delete Arrays 16 5 3 6 Add...

Page 3: ...and 2 0 motherboards and are compliant with major PC operating systems including Windows 8 and 7 Each RocketRAID 600L 600LS Series HBA s directly supports up to 4 SATA devices and up to 20 when used i...

Page 4: ...ting Alarm Buzzer alerts for drive array failure Advanced RAID Features RAID 0 1 5 10 50 JBOD Redundant RAID Configuration for Array availability RAID Initialization Types Background Foreground Quick...

Page 5: ...AID 642L 79mm x 67mm x 1 5mm 3 12 x 2 68 x 0 06 RocketRAID 644L 106mm x 79mm x 1 5mm 4 17 x 3 12 x 0 06 RocketRAID 644LS 79mm x 68mm x 1 5mm 3 12 x 2 68 x 0 06 EMI FCC Part 15 Class B and CE Thermal a...

Page 6: ...uick Installation Guide Low Profile Bracket RocketRAID 644LS 642L and 640L Two SATA 6Gb s cables RocketRAID 642L only four SATA 6Gb s cables RocketRAID 640L only 4 Hardware Description and Installatio...

Page 7: ...3 Installing the RocketRAID 600L 600LS Host Adapter Note Make sure the system is powered off before installing the RocketRAID host adapter The RocketRAID 600L 600LS series HBA may include both standar...

Page 8: ...IOS mode The RocketRAID 600L HBA has two BIOS modes Bootable BIOS This is the default BIOS mode and is required in order to boot from a drive or array hosted by the HBA Non Bootable This mode is used...

Page 9: ...r power down restart the system until the update is complete Doing so may damage the HBA Shutdown and reboot the system The HBA BIOS display should now be disabled and the system should boot directly...

Page 10: ...If any of the hard drive is not detected power down the system and check the power and cable connections Press Ctrl H key combination to access the RocketRAID 600L 600LS adapter s BIOS Utility 5 3 1 B...

Page 11: ...d command Esc Move back to the previous menu cancel the selected operation or exit the BIOS Utility 5 3 3 BIOS Commands Create This command is used to open the RAID Creation menu Delete This command w...

Page 12: ...RAID configuration information to the hard disks Select the Initialize command from the toolbar and press Enter key Highlight the target disks using the arrow keys and then press the Enter key A numer...

Page 13: ...ialogue box will appear Use the keyboard to input a new Array Name and press the Enter key Note The Array Name command is optional it is not necessary to name the array The array can be named at a lat...

Page 14: ...oard to input the amount of space in GB you wish to set aside for this particular array and press Enter key Note Multiple arrays can be created using the same set of hard disk drives The Capacity opti...

Page 15: ...ill show 2 options if create RAID 5 Background Initialize and No initialization Background initialization The RAID array is accessible while disk initialization is being performed A This option will d...

Page 16: ...rebuild Redundant RAID arrays RAID 1 5 10 in the case of disk failure As with creating RAID arrays disks must be initialized before they can be used as spares To set a hard disk to act as a Spare Dis...

Page 17: ...he motherboard BIOS instructs the card to act as the boot device Staggered Spin up The default value of this option is disabled Enabling this setting will instruct the card to power up the hard disks...

Page 18: ...0LS host adapter into the PC then boot up the Windows operating system 2 Windows will detect the RocketRAID 600L 600LS HBA and automatically search for the driver 3 If Windows is unable to locate the...

Page 19: ...essfully installed Click OK to reboot the system 11 After rebooting the system the RocketRAID 600L 600LS HBA will be recognized by Device Manager and listed under Storage Controllers Installing the dr...

Page 20: ...x64 according with your windows OS such as RR64xL Windows x64 6 Follow the Installation Wizard s prompts to continue the installation process 7 Windows should display the following entry after locati...

Page 21: ...1 Installing Uninstall the Web RAID Management Software Microsoft Windows Install the Web RAID Management Software 1 Extract the ZIP package Click the Setup exe icon to install the software 2 Follow...

Page 22: ...er to the online help of How to Use Web RAID Management Software https www highpoint tech com support and services 8 Customer Support Thank you for purchasing the RocketRAID 600L 600LS SATA 6Gb s RAID...

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