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PDC20319

SATA

RAID

ONTROLLER

SER

ANUAL

Version 1.3

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Page 1: ...PDC20319 SATARAIDCONTROLLER USER MANUAL Version 1 3...

Page 2: ...suse of this or any other Promise Technology product Notice Although Promise Technology has attempted to ensure the accuracy of the content of this manual it is possible that this document may contain...

Page 3: ...te the FastBuild Setup Menu 12 Use the Main Menu 12 Create an Array Automatically 13 Optimize Array for 13 Use a Hot Spare Drive 15 Create Multiple Arrays 15 View Drive Assignments 16 Create an Array...

Page 4: ...dows NT4 0 Installation 37 Remove Driver from Windows NT4 0 37 Chapter 5 Disk Array Concepts 39 About the PDC20319 SATA RAID Controller 39 About the BIOS 39 FastBuild Auto Menu Setup 39 Reserve Sector...

Page 5: ...ves and it supports Striping RAID 0 Identical drives can read and write data in parallel to increase performance Mirroring RAID 1 Mirroring increases read performance through load balancing and elevat...

Page 6: ...network Windows based GUI provides email notification of all major events alarms memory cache management logging for NT 2000 servers array maintenance rebuild and access to all components in array se...

Page 7: ...verall system performance Independent data channels for Serial ATA drives Drives can multiply their data transfer performance when striped together and each drive uses a separate data channel PCI Plug...

Page 8: ...bility Complies with SATA Specification 1 0 Provides full compatibility with first generation Serial ATA hard drives Compliant with PCI Bus Master standard PCI Bus Master support Provides 32 bit I O a...

Page 9: ...oices After that follow the steps for the array you want to create 1 Boot your system If this is the first time you have booted with the PDC20319 SATA RAID Controller and drives installed the Promise...

Page 10: ...a Striped RAID 0 array PDC20319 enables you to create striped arrays with 1 2 3 or 4 drives These arrays have no fault tolerance To create an array for best performance follow these steps 1 Press the...

Page 11: ...ress the Spacebar to choose Security under the Optimize Array for section 2 Press Ctrl Y to Save your selection 3 The window below will appear Do you want the disk image to be duplicated to another or...

Page 12: ...a bootable Mirrored RAID 1 array on your PDC20319 SATA RAID Controller do NOT connect the hard drive to the Controller yet You MUST install the Windows NT4 2000 or XP driver software first to this dri...

Page 13: ...Press Ctrl Y to Save selection and start duplication The following progress screen will appear Start to duplicate the image Do you want to continue Yes No Y Continue N Abort 6 Select Y to continue If...

Page 14: ...page 19 in this Manual Follow these steps 1 Press the Spacebar to choose Security under the Optimize Array for section 2 Press Ctrl Y to Save your selection 3 The window below will appear Do you want...

Page 15: ...creen showing the card s BIOS version and status of the array The array status consists of five possible conditions Functional Synchronizing Rebuilding Critical and Offline Functional The array is ope...

Page 16: ...ess 1 6 to Select Option ESC Exit To create a new array automatically follow the steps under Creating Arrays Automatically on page 17 Promise recommends this option for most users To manually create a...

Page 17: ...y 2 xx c 2002 2005 Promise Technology Inc Auto Setup Options Menu Optimize Array for Performance Auto Setup Configuration Mode Stripe Spare Drive Count 1 Drives used in Array 2 Array Disk Capacity siz...

Page 18: ...for data security The storage capacity equals one half the number of drives times the capacity of the smallest drive in the disk array Note Under the Security setting the PDC20319 SATA RAID Controller...

Page 19: ...und without the need to restart the system At a later time the failed drive can be physically disconnected from the Controller and an extra drive added in its place to function as the spare drive Impo...

Page 20: ...provided the free drive s capacity is equal to or larger than the smallest array member Unassigned drives are not accessible by the OS The menu also displays the data transfer mode that relates to spe...

Page 21: ...r conventional controller performance depending on the drive type At a later time you can add a second drive to the array and recreate the array to support RAID 1 mirroring Note For most installations...

Page 22: ...del Assignment 1 SEAGATE S380023AS Y 2 SEAGATE S380023AS Y 3 SEAGATE S380023AS N 4 SEAGATE S380023AS N Keys Available Up Down ESC Exit Space Select Ctrl Y Save Select Stripe Block For RAID 0 and RAID...

Page 23: ...be 80 5 GB and the replacement drive can be 80 3 since both are rounded down to 80GB This permits the smaller drive to be used Please note that users will lose a small amount of available storage cap...

Page 24: ...the FastBuild Utility Create a Mirrored Array Using New Drives As described in the Drive Assignments Option section above if you selected a mirroring array and wish to use two new assigned drives fol...

Page 25: ...SATA RAID Controller You MUST install the driver software while the bootable drive is still attached to your existing hard drive controller See Chapter 4 1 Assign the drives to a Mirroring array 2 Pr...

Page 26: ...t drive data will be erased Make sure you choose the correct drive 5 Press Ctrl Y to Save selection and start duplication The following confirmation screen will appear Start to duplicate the image Do...

Page 27: ...the disk arrays on the PDC20319 are recognized in this order 1 The array set to bootable in the FastBuild Setup 2 The Array number i e Array 0 Array 1 This would be involved in determining which driv...

Page 28: ...esult in its data loss Make sure to record all array information including the array type the disk members and stripe block size in case you wish to undo a deletion FastBuild tm Utility 2 xx c 2002 20...

Page 29: ...byte Boundary OFF Drive Assignments Channel ID Drive Model Capacity MB Assignment 1 SEAGATE S380023AS 80024 Y 2 SEAGATE S380023AS 80024 Y Press Ctrl Y to confirm Yes to the following warning message a...

Page 30: ...0319 SATA RAID Controller BIOS will display an error message identifying which drive has failed 2 Press Ctrl F to enter FastBuild Utility s Main Menu 3 Select submenu Define Array 3 4 Select the faile...

Page 31: ...2 Mirror 2 80024 Critical Array 3 Array 4 Keys Available Up Down ESC Exit Enter Select 11 Highlight the array whose Status is Critical 12 Press Enter The following screen will then appear FastBuild tm...

Page 32: ...ill be copied on to the selected drive All data on the replacement drive will be written over with mirrored information from the array drive A progress bar will appear as below Please Wait While Dupli...

Page 33: ...P operating system on your PDC20319 SATA RAID Controller you MUST install the Windows driver software first onto this drive while it is still attached to your existing hard drive controller Procedure...

Page 34: ...A and press Enter 4 Choose WinServer 2003 Promise PDC20319 SATA RAID Controller FastTrak S150 TX4 from the list that appears on screen and press Enter 5 Press S to use the driver on the floppy disk a...

Page 35: ...rver 2003 Promise PDC20319 SATA RAID Controller FastTrak S150 TX4 from the list that appears on screen and press the Enter key 4 If using a driver that has not been digitally signed by Microsoft you w...

Page 36: ...e A and press Enter 4 Choose Windows XP Promise PDC20319 SATA RAID Controller FastTrak S150 TX4 from the list that appears on screen and press Enter 5 Press S to use the driver on the floppy disk and...

Page 37: ...Promise PDC20319 SATA RAID Controller FastTrak S150 TX4 from the list that appears on screen and press the Enter key 4 If using a driver that has not been digitally signed by Microsoft you will be as...

Page 38: ...al Device s 3 Insert the driver diskette into drive A and press Enter 4 Choose Windows 2000 Promise PDC20319 SATA RAID Controller FastTrak S150 TX4 from the list that appears on screen then press Ente...

Page 39: ...driver then click Next 5 When the Windows 2000 supported SCSI adapter drivers list appears click Have disk 6 Insert the driver diskette in drive A 7 Type A Win2000 in the text box Click OK 8 Choose Wi...

Page 40: ...river diskette into drive A and press Enter 5 Choose Windows NT4 0 Promise PDC20319 SATA RAID Controller FastTrak S150 TX4 from the list that appears on screen then press Enter 6 The Windows NT Setup...

Page 41: ...in the text box window then click OK 8 When the Install Driver dialog box appears select Windows NT4 0 Promise PDC20319 SATA RAID Controller FastTrak S150 TX4 then click OK 9 When the Select SCSI Ada...

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Page 43: ...select from menu settings FastBuild Auto Menu Setup This setup utility is used to build and manage PDC20319 SATA RAID Controller disk arrays The utility is menu driven and features the Auto Setup 1 op...

Page 44: ...are called members Each member of a specific disk array has coded in its reserved sector configuration information that identifies the drive as a member All disk members in a formed disk array are re...

Page 45: ...y type is for high performance systems Identical drives are recommended for performance as well as data storage efficiency The disk array data capacity is equal to the number of drive members times th...

Page 46: ...using their PC however Promise recommends replacing the failed drive as soon as possible Due to redundancy the drive capacity of the array is half the total drive capacity For example two 100 GB driv...

Page 47: ...protecting data with duplication A minimum of four drives are required With a four drive disk array two pairs of drives are striped Each pair mirrors the data on the other pair of striped drives The...

Page 48: ...follows CH indicates channels on the PDC20319 SATA RAID Controller A B indicates which striped pair the drive belongs to 1 2 indicates which part of stripe data CH 1 CH 2 CH 3 CH 4 Drive A1 Drive A2...

Page 49: ...a particular PCI slot will be different depending on the motherboard BIOS This setting is usually made in the PCI Configuration and or Plug and Play PnP section of the motherboard BIOS setup There ar...

Page 50: ...Motherboard CMOS displays C or D drive failure during startup See the Drive Related Errors section Using an Onboard IDE Card with the PDC20319 SATA RAID Controller If an onboard IDE controller is ins...

Page 51: ...g an Array option in the Promise Array Management PAM utility as detailed in the PAM User Manual Drive cannot be formed into an array Drives must support Serial ATA and be free of media defects to be...

Page 52: ...drives that are striped will destroy the arrayed data To remove the Reserve Sector follow these steps 1 During boot up press Ctrl F to enter the FastBuild BIOS utility 2 Choose option 2 View Drive Ass...

Page 53: ...During Reboot See Unable to Partition or Format array above Cannot Rebuild Mirrored RAID 1 Array See Unable to Partition or Format array above Fatal Errors or Data Corruption Are Constantly Reported...

Page 54: ...ating System boot record For Windows NT 2000 and XP Promise recommends a clean install of the Operating System This action restores the MBR and OS boot record This requires repartitioning and formatti...

Page 55: ...000 or XP The F6 key was not pressed at the appropriate time Reboot the system and press the F6 key when the message Setup is inspecting your computer s hardware configuration appears in Windows NT4 o...

Page 56: ...ion and provide better accessibility to the array Optimize Array for Performance The Promise FastBuild BIOS Utility autosetup menu allows optimizing the array for Performance applications such as A V...

Page 57: ...cupies on the PCI bus and frees that time for use by other PCI devices and will eliminate the glitch dropout effect on playback 1 In PAM click on the Controller icon in Tree View to display its Option...

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Page 59: ...e PDC20319 SATA RAID Controller work with 66MHz PCI bus speed A Yes the Controller is designed to accommodate the newer PCI bus speed and is backward compatible with 33MHz speeds Q How can I change th...

Page 60: ...be truncated The truncated space on the bigger HDD will then be unusable For sustained data transfers The PDC20319 SATA RAID Controller array will write data at the rate of the slowest HDD in the arra...

Page 61: ...have to install disk management software on my array in order to access the full storage capacity of drives A No Disk management software will only complicate things The array should be fully addressa...

Page 62: ...re are multiple SCSI add in controllers in the system then the boot sequence among them will be determined exclusively by their PCI slot priority PCI slot 1 will be first slot 2 second etc Put the PDC...

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