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Summary of Contents for EB400CR

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Page 3: ...A Disk Installation Error Bookmark not defined 2 3 Connecting Your EB400CR 15 Chapter 3 Configuration Utility 16 3 1 Install the Configuration Utility in Windows 17 3 2 Install the Configuration Utili...

Page 4: ...al photocopying recording or otherwise without the prior written consent Trademarks All products and trade names used in this document are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holde...

Page 5: ...witches are turned off Controller Configuration This Proavio EB400CR features a single RAID controller design Precautions Before removing the system from the shipping carton you should visually inspec...

Page 6: ...5 Accessories The following accessories are included with your EB400CR Item Description Power cable IEC eSATA cable USB 3 0 cable FireWire 800 IEEE 1394b cable Installation CD GUI...

Page 7: ...ion capabilities Easy in band system management Transparent data protection for all popular operating systems Real time drive activity and status indicators Powerful RAID Capabilities On board RAID co...

Page 8: ...rface SATA 3 Up to 6 0Gbps Hot swap Disk Drive Carriers Four 4 3 5 inch disk drive carriers Cooling Fan 1 Failed Drive Indicators Yes Failed Drive Auto Rebuild Yes Environment Monitor Yes Auto Spare S...

Page 9: ...k Drives Four 4 hot swap 6Gb s SATA III disk drives LCD Control Panel Back lit LCD control module for easy and quick configuration System Power LED Visual power status reference Fault LED Visual RAID...

Page 10: ...drive detected good RED Hard drive has failed OFF Hard drive not detected 1 2 1 2 LED Indicators Feature Function Fan Fail LED OFF Cooling fan is working properly RED Cooling fan has failed Over Temp...

Page 11: ...s eSATA port FireWire 800 1394b Two FireWire 800 1394b Cooling Fan Module One 8CM low noise hot swap cooling fan module Power Switch Mains power switch Power Input Standard IEC power input socket NOTE...

Page 12: ...ce by accumulating each individual hard disk performance However if any one hard disk gets defective information stored in this RAID 0 will become invalid The RAID subsystem will just make use of the...

Page 13: ...ction is similar to RAID 1 However all of the hard disks will be the mirrors For example in a four hard drives Clone environment data in each hard drive will be the same This mode is useful especially...

Page 14: ...rent hard drives The RAID controller will also make use of the same size disk space in each hard disk under RAID 3 RAID 5 condition Failure in a hard disk will cause the RAID controller to enter into...

Page 15: ...milar to RAID 0 in that it concatenates the capacity of all member drives The data is written linearly starting with the first disk drive When first disk drive becomes full the next disk drive is used...

Page 16: ...LCD control panel 2 1 Connecting Your EB400CR Please read this section carefully 1 Connect a USB cable eSATA or IEEE 1394 cable from your EB400CR to the corresponding port on your workstation NOTE Onl...

Page 17: ...he Host computer NOTE At least one disk drive must be installed in the EB400CR before creating a RAID set IMPORTANT When hard disks are inserted in the disk slots the first inserted hard disk is assig...

Page 18: ...e CD that comes with the unit into the CD ROM drive of your Windows host system Navigate to Raid Manager folder and open Windows AP x xx xx folder 2 To install the Configuration Utility in Windows ope...

Page 19: ...18 3 Click Install to begin the installation process 4 Click Finish to complete The application will be launched immediately...

Page 20: ...installation CD into the CD ROM drive of your Linux host system Copy the application files from CD RAID Manager Linux AP x xx xx Linux_Fedora or Linux_uBuntu subdirectory into a local directory 2 Go t...

Page 21: ...on Program the RAID management GUI will be displayed 3 3 Configuration Utility Mac OS 1 Insert the installation CD into the CD ROM drive of your Mac system Copy the application files from CD RAID Mana...

Page 22: ...21 After running the Application Program the RAID management GUI will be displayed...

Page 23: ...Viewer Displays important system event information Basic Raid Configuration Provides basic RAID configuration options This function will use all available disk drives Advanced Mode Icon Function Descr...

Page 24: ...Minimizes the RAID Manager window Close Window button Closes the RAID Manager window Note The RAID Manager is still running in the background after closing the window To exit right click the icon in...

Page 25: ...24 About button Displays software version...

Page 26: ...25 Alarm Buzzer Mute Click to mute the alarm buzzer...

Page 27: ...hree menu options that can be selected RAID and Disk Information Event Log and Basic Raid Configuration 4 1 1 RAID and Disk Information RAID and Disk Information provides information about RAID and di...

Page 28: ...ailed in a RAID Level with data redundancy The data is still accessible Broken One or more disk drives have failed in a RAID Level The number of allowable failed disk drives in a RAID set has been exc...

Page 29: ...lays disk drive model information Serial Number Displays disk drive serial number information Firmware Version Displays disk drive firmware information Capacity Displays disk capacity information Unre...

Page 30: ...formation This will show the System Information screen contains hardware information about the RAID system such as temperature fan speed and voltage levels 4 1 2 Event Log Viewer The System Event Log...

Page 31: ...ill clear the event log When the dialog box shown below is displayed select Yes to delete all event logs 4 1 3 Basic Raid Configuration Use this option to create a basic RAID configuration This functi...

Page 32: ...deleting the RAID will require the password to be entered Using a wrong password will not allow the RAID to be deleted The password can be up to 8 characters Basic Raid Configuration Buttons Apply Sa...

Page 33: ...confirmation message will be displayed Click OK 5 The RAID set has been created successfully The RAID volume will be immediately available to the Host Server 6 Check the new disk drive in your Host S...

Page 34: ...isk USB Device is displayed Example Connection via FireWire800 IEEE 1394b In Microsoft Windows under Device Manager the new disk drive Ext H W RAID IEEE 1394 SBP2 Device is displayed Example Connectio...

Page 35: ...34 4 2 Advanced Mode 4 2 1 Email Notification Configure your EB400CR to automatically send event notifications and warnings via email...

Page 36: ...esses are separated by Select event s for notification Tick the events which you want to be included in the list of events for email notification When selected events happen the email recipient s will...

Page 37: ...e RAID is selected the list of available RAIDs that can be deleted is displayed Create RAID Select the RAID Level from the list of options and select the disk drives in the right pane When the minimum...

Page 38: ...1 In the Configure RAID option select Create RAID 2 Select the RAID Level you want for the RAID 3 Select the disk drives you want to become member of the RAID 4 If you want security for the RAID enabl...

Page 39: ...RAID volume will be immediately available to the Host Server NOTE Any unreleased disk s will automatically become hot spare disk s The status of a hot spare disk will be shown as S0 for first host spa...

Page 40: ...the new disk drive Ext H W RAID5 USB Device is displayed Example Connection via IEEE 1394 In Microsoft Windows under Device Manager the new disk drive Ext H W RAID IEEE 1394 SBP2 Device is displayed...

Page 41: ...product name firmware version and flash version number Firmware Upgrade Buttons Browse Use this button to browse and select the firmware file After selecting the firmware file the Select Firmware box...

Page 42: ...h firmware upgrade 3 The firmware will be upgraded Click OK 4 Power cycle the EB400CR The new firmware will be loaded in the RAID controller For data security it is recommended to stop IO to the disk...

Page 43: ...the RAID after the preset time minutes the RAID will be in standby mode RAID Rebuild Priority Settings Use this option to set the RAID Rebuild Priority which is the amount of system resource allotted...

Page 44: ...n 1 LCD Display Back lit LCD display Provides easy to read system information 2 UP Arrow Button Multi Function Menu toggle UP button Disk drive select button 3 DOWN Arrow Button Menu toggle DOWN butto...

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