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RAIDExpress 133 RAID

USER MANUAL

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Page 1: ...RAIDExpress 133 RAID USER MANUAL Preliminary Specification 0 3...

Page 2: ...ical inaccuracies typographical or other errors contain herein Backup your important data before using the IDE RAID product and use at your own risk In no event shall we be liable for any loss of prof...

Page 3: ...8 Setup Utility 14 Using the RAIDExpress 133 Card Setup Utility 14 RAIDExpress 133 Card Setup Utility Main Menu 15 Auto Configuration 16 Define RAID 21 Delete RAID 27 Rebuild RAID 30 RAID Card Configu...

Page 4: ...of enhancing the performance and raising the system s reliability When you face any difficulties and find anything you don t understand while using the RAIDExpress 133 card please refer to the Q A sec...

Page 5: ...ther function for the DMA UDMA function Includes one embedded CPU and firmware on the system to handle the RAID function It can reduce the driver s loading of system CPU and improve the system s abili...

Page 6: ...lled into the PC system nowadays Besides we provide each OS a corresponding driver so that users don t have to worry that their systems and the IDE RAID system have any compatibility issue This RAIDEx...

Page 7: ...he same time and balance the performance to raise the throughput The RAID0 1 mode uses four drivers to get the merits of RAID0 and RAID1 As for the JBOD mode it combines more than two drives into a dr...

Page 8: ...l Unpack your RAIDExpress 133 Card package When you unpack your RAIDExpress 133 card package you can see the following items RAIDExpress 133 card RAIDExpress 133 manual RAIDExpress 133 card software C...

Page 9: ...easily installed under 32 bit PCI slots of different PC systems Please follow the following procedures to install it 1 Remove the case of the PC system 2 Remove the inside slot cover of any available...

Page 10: ...slave setting to assure that the hard drives can surely action and unnecessarily incorrect action of data access won t occur 2 Exactly insert the hard drive s cables into the connectors on the hard d...

Page 11: ...Please follow the steps below to setup your disk array Warning Please backup data in your hard drives to prevent data damage resulting from the unfamiliarity with the operation 1 Boot your system Plea...

Page 12: ...RAIDExpress 133 RAID USER MANUAL 9 Please press Ctrl F or Ctrl E keys to enter the BIOS utility Main Menu The screen below will appear...

Page 13: ...e Auto Configuration window It will guide you to set an array and this is the simplest and fastest way to create your first array Under the Setup Array Type as option you can use arrow keys and and th...

Page 14: ...None 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 Setup Array for RAID 0 The RAIDExpress 133 card allows you to use two three or four hard drives to set a RAID 0 stripe array All the hard drives attached on the controller will b...

Page 15: ...hed as the same master or slave hard disks Setup Array for RAID 0 1 A RAID 0 1 mirror and stripe array has to be formed by four hard drives RAID 0 1 is implemented as a mirrored array whose segments a...

Page 16: ...key to select a RAID type Press Ctrl Y keys to save and create an array If you select RAID 0 1 0 1 or JBOD the boot sector of the newly created array will be erased If you select IDE the boot sector...

Page 17: ...lease attach your hard drives to the RAIDExpress 133 card and boot your system If your array s configuration is correct you will see the following message shown by the RAIDExpress 133 card onboard BIO...

Page 18: ...please follow the procedures in Auto Configuration on page 16 to create new arrays automatically You can use Define RAID on page 21 and Delete RAID on page 27 to manually create or delete arrays You...

Page 19: ...Menu to enter Auto Configuration You can use arrow keys and and the space bar key to change your option After selecting your option you can press Ctrl Y keys to save the setting and click the Esc key...

Page 20: ...files are broken into 64k stripe size and stripes are sent to each disk in the array Selecting RAID 0 can increase data transfer rate and allow the best overall performance characteristics because of...

Page 21: ...ated on the other different drive Selecting RAID 1 can enhance read performance and allow fault tolerance RAID 1 array can thoroughly backup your files to prevent data loss Note Two hard drives that f...

Page 22: ...0 1 also has fault tolerance capacity as RAID 1 It not only enhances hard disk access performance but also backups data to prevent data loss The formed array is automatically set as array 0 RAID 0 1 P...

Page 23: ...RAID functionality it makes the hard disks appear to be a single one by combining the drives into one larger logical one without any capacity loss Setup Array for Normal You can use the RAIDExpress 13...

Page 24: ...click the Esc key When an array is not assigned a RAID level you will see on the raw Column Array Mode shows the RAID level Stripe Mirror Stripe Mirror or JBOD assigned to the array Column Drive No sh...

Page 25: ...d the Esc key can help you quit then go back to the Define RAID Menu on page 21 Block Size Option You can select Stripe Block size ranging from 1k to 64k for Stripe RAID 0 or Stripe Mirror RAID 0 1 ar...

Page 26: ...the capacity of each hard drive When a symbol is shown before the size the capacity unit is gigabyte When you press Ctrl Y keys to save your change Setup Utility will check if the setting is legal If...

Page 27: ...ot have the array setting respectively However you do not have to concern about this limitation If Setup Utility finds any conflicts Array No will be adjusted automatically After finishing setting the...

Page 28: ...tor of the array the following window will appear to ask whether you want to rebuild an array If you choose Y the Rebuild RAID Menu will appear Please refer to page 30 If you choose not to rebuild thi...

Page 29: ...w keys and to highlight your selection and press the Enter key to select the source disk s then the setting will be finished and the screen will go back to the Define RAID Sub Menu automatically This...

Page 30: ...array you want to delete press D to select it and then enter the Delete RAID Sub Menu to delete your array The D key has no effect if the highlight raw is an empty array If you want to quit the menu...

Page 31: ...AID Sub Menu When you highlight the array you select to delete at the Delete RAID Menu and press the D key the Delete RAID Sub Menu will appear Please press Ctrl Y keys to confirm to delete an array o...

Page 32: ...UAL 29 If you press Ctrl Y keys to make sure to delete an array the following window will appear You can choose to clear the array s boot sector or keep it After you finish the selection Delete RAID M...

Page 33: ...You can use and keys to highlight different arrays press the Enter key to select an array and enter the next rebuild drive select screen If the RAID Mode of the array you want to select is neither mi...

Page 34: ...RAIDExpress 133 RAID USER MANUAL 31 Rebuild RAID Drive Select When you highlight the array you want to rebuild on the Rebuild RAID Menu press the Enter key then the following screen will appear...

Page 35: ...133 RAID USER MANUAL 32 You can use arrow keys and to highlight the source disk s then press the Enter key to select the source disk s The following window will appear to make sure if you would like...

Page 36: ...following window will pop up You can select to monitor the whole rebuild process until it ends completely or select background rebuild You can leave Setup Utility and boot directly if you choose backg...

Page 37: ...e following screen will appear if you choose to monitor the whole rebuild process When rebuild is completed a message below will pop up to inform you that rebuild is finished Then you leave and go bac...

Page 38: ...our PC the RAIDExpress 133 card can detect the hot swap action and start rebuilding automatically When Auto Rebuild is disabled you need to rebuild your mirrored array manually from Application Please...

Page 39: ...ws hard drive s data transfer mode U represents Ultra DMA UDMA mode D represents Multiword DMA DMA mode and P represents PIO mode PIO modes 0 1 2 3 and 4 correspond to maximum transfer rates of 3 3 5...

Page 40: ...procedures to install the RAIDExpress 133 ATA RAID Controller driver under the following various operating systems Before starting to install this driver please make sure that RAIDExpress 133 ATA RAID...

Page 41: ...When a message appears to ask you to designate the device you want to install press the S key 4 Follow the instruction of the installation program to insert the RAIDExpress 133 ATA RAID Controller Dri...

Page 42: ...ndows XP 1 Start Windows 2 When Windows detects RAIDExpress 133 ATA Raid Controller in the system a dialog box named Found New Hardware Wizard will show on the screen Select the Install from a list or...

Page 43: ...he RAIDExpress 133 ATA Raid Controller Driver diskette into the floppy disk drive then check the Search for the best driver in these locations option and type A WIN2K_XP on the field designating the f...

Page 44: ...RAIDExpress 133 RAID USER MANUAL 41 4 The driver installation has finished Press Finish to continue 5 Follow the instruction to restart the computer then the driver will take effect...

Page 45: ...installed successfully 1 Right click My Computer icon on Desktop Select the Properties option from the form 2 Select the Hardware tab from the System Properties window then click the Device Manager bu...

Page 46: ...D USER MANUAL 43 3 If there is a marking or before the RAIDExpress 133 ATA RAID Controller device as shown below it indicates that the driver has not been correctly installed Users should remove the d...

Page 47: ...e When a message appears to ask you to designate the device you want to install press the S key 4 Follow the instruction of the installation program to insert the RAIDExpress 133 ATA RAID Controller D...

Page 48: ...ws 2000 1 Start Windows 2 When Windows detects RAIDExpress 133 ATA Raid Controller in the system a dialog box named Found New Hardware Wizard will show on the screen Select the Search for a suitable d...

Page 49: ...RAIDExpress 133 RAID USER MANUAL 46 3 Check the Specify a location option on the following window then press Next to continue to setup...

Page 50: ...33 RAID USER MANUAL 47 4 Insert the RAIDExpress 133 ATA Raid Controller Driver diskette into the floppy disk drive then type A WIN2K_XP on the field designating the file s location Press Next to conti...

Page 51: ...RAIDExpress 133 RAID USER MANUAL 48 5 The driver for RAIDExpress 133 ATA RAID Controller is found Press Next to continue to setup...

Page 52: ...RAIDExpress 133 RAID USER MANUAL 49 6 The driver installation has finished Press Finish to continue 7 Follow the instruction to restart the computer then the driver will take effect...

Page 53: ...installed successfully 1 Right click My Computer icon on Desktop Select the Properties option from the form 2 Select the Hardware tab from the System Properties window then click the Device Manager bu...

Page 54: ...3 RAID USER MANUAL 51 3 If there is a marking or in front of the RAIDExpress 133 ATA RAID Controller device it indicates that the driver has not been correctly installed Users should remove the device...

Page 55: ...This file mandrake txt Mandrake installation guide driver md90 Mandrake 9 0 directory iteraid o Driver module for Mandrake 9 0 rh73 RedHat 7 3 directory modinfo Module info file modules cgz Compressed...

Page 56: ...ules have been loaded successfully you can check the driver status by using the dmesg command dmesg Then you will see the following messages Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 SCSI d...

Page 57: ...ev sda1 Make dev sda1 ext2 filesystem mkfs j dev sda2 Make dev sda2 ext3 filesystem After this you can create two directories for mount point For example mkdir mnt hd0 mkdir mnt hd1 mount t ext2 dev s...

Page 58: ...ide driver driver directory md90 Mandrake 9 0 directory iteraid o Driver module for Mandrake 9 0 rh73 RedHat 7 3 directory modinfo Module info file modules cgz Compressed driver modules modules dep Mo...

Page 59: ...ou will see the following messages Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 SCSI device sda 120103200 512 byte hdwr sectors 61493 MB 3 1 4 Most likely you will not want to type in insmod i...

Page 60: ...mp initrd ext2 mnt initrd cp iteraid o mnt initrd lib cp lib modules 2 4 18 3 kernel drivers scsi scsi_mod o mnt initrd lib cp lib modules 2 4 18 3 kernel drivers scsi sd_mod o mnt initrd lib Now add...

Page 61: ...y by modifying the file etc fstab E g You can add the following line to tell the system to mount dev sda1 to location mnt raid after startup dev sda1 mnt raid ext2 defaults 0 0 3 2 Installing Red Hat...

Page 62: ...h73 directory to a new dos formatted disk 3 2 4 Install Red Hat 7 3 Start installing Red Hat 7 3 by booting with the CDROM On welcome to Red Hat Linux 7 3 installation screen a prompted label boot wil...

Page 63: ...RAIDExpress 133 RAID USER MANUAL 60 Application Installation 1 Run iteraid exe to install the device driver and the application 2 Click Next to start the installation...

Page 64: ...RAIDExpress 133 RAID USER MANUAL 61 3 Review the License Agreement If you accept the License Agreement click Yes to continue the installation...

Page 65: ...RAIDExpress 133 RAID USER MANUAL 62 4 Click Finish to reboot the computer...

Page 66: ...e Open The system information will be presented in the beginning when the RAID Manager control panel is opened Please read the next section System Information for more detail about system information...

Page 67: ...MANUAL 64 choose RAID Adapter Alert LED at the right bottom is used to indicate the whole system situation GREEN Normal RED If the configuration error of any array occurs BLINKING If there is any arr...

Page 68: ...If the disk arrays exist they will be listed at the first row If the physical disks exist they will be listed at the second row Click the disk array or physical disk icons to list the device propertie...

Page 69: ...then choose Create Disk Array to create a disk array Array Type RAID 0 RAID 1 RAID 0 1 JBOD Array Name Assigned by RAID Manager Block Size Virtual block size for RAID 0 or RAID 0 1 Auto Rebuild Check...

Page 70: ...lid when Array Type is RAID 0 or RAID 0 1 Auto Rebuild is valid when Array Type is RAID 1 or RAID 0 1 Source Disk is valid when Array Type is RAID 1 or RAID 0 1 and Erase Partition is disabled Check E...

Page 71: ...Menu at the left bottom on the RAID Manager control panel then choose Delete Disk Array to delete disk array Available Arrays List existing arrays Selected Arrays Arrays will be deleted Erase Partiti...

Page 72: ...Array to rebuild disk array Rebuild Array List arrays that can be rebuilt Source Disk The source for rebuilding the array Destination Disk The destination for rebuilding the array Resume Previous Rebu...

Page 73: ...3 RAID USER MANUAL 70 4 Records Activity Records Click the Start Menu at the left bottom on the RAID Manager control panel then choose Activity Records to show the activity records Click Clear to clea...

Page 74: ...y the settings Event Timer Self error detection time interval Enable Email Notification Check to enable email notification Email Address If email notification is enabled a warning message will be sent...

Page 75: ...RAIDExpress 133 RAID USER MANUAL 72 Click Test to send a test email to the above email address Click Set to save the settings...

Page 76: ...anager control panel then choose Remote Access to modify the settings Machine Type Single Machine Client or Server Server Name If this machine is client a server is required Server Name can be a compu...

Page 77: ...RAIDExpress 133 RAID USER MANUAL 74 6 Miscellaneous Icon list represents disk array is inactive represents disk array is active represents physical disk is inactive represents physical disk is active...

Page 78: ...at least two disks Click Create 2 Create RAID 1 Open RAID Manager Change the control panel to Create Disks Array Select Array Type as RAID 1 Check Erase Partition to erase partition table or uncheck E...

Page 79: ...tion table or uncheck Erase Partition not to erase partition table If there is an Array of RAID 1 or RAID 0 1 Erase Partition can t be modified If Erase Partition is unchecked the Source must be assig...

Page 80: ...erent channels to get a better performance 4 Q Is a special mobile rack necessary for HOT Swap A It s not necessary The regular one is just enough 5 Q What if R1 and R0 1 just create RAID but don t Re...

Page 81: ...RAIDExpress 133 RAID USER MANUAL 78 Technology Support If you have any technical problems please look for the support from the nearby supplier...

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