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eSATA II 1+1 PCIe RAID Card 

RC213

 

User Manual

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 

Summary of Contents for RC-213

Page 1: ...eSATA II 1 1 PCIe RAID Card RC213 User Manual...

Page 2: ...7 RAID5 setting may cost hours for component ready and function available please be patient for that Especially if Raid5 setting by BIOS please Click Task Manager to make sure Raid setting is complet...

Page 3: ...sfer rates is greatly enhanced by simultaneously writing data to 2 3 or 4 drives The second benefit of RAID is data redundancy RAID 1 Mirroring writes identical data on two drives or sets of drives th...

Page 4: ...edundancy provides instantaneous protection from a single disk failure If a read failure occurs on one drive the system reads the data from the other drive Mirrored Striping RAID 0 1 also known as RAI...

Page 5: ...al storage HD to your original system install RC 213 into a PCI slot Boot up the system and enter the OS Install RC 213 with driver disk coming in the box After RC 213 is installed correctly you can a...

Page 6: ...User Manual 6 eSATAII 1 1 PCIe RAID Card RC213 f Keep the floppy in floppy drive and follow the installation Press S when the screen shows as the following picture...

Page 7: ...l 7 eSATAII 1 1 PCIe RAID Card RC213 g Choose the correct OS for your future system h Keep the floppy disk in floppy drive during the installation PC will notice you as below if you take them off from...

Page 8: ...D set In this case you will boot your computer from a Mirror HD set connecting to RC213 instead of motherboard Please follow the following instructions a Install RC 213 into a PCI slot Boot up the sys...

Page 9: ...se be patient for that 13 Use Device Manager for hard disk initialization partition and formatting 4 BIOS Setting RAID Setting Creating and deleting RAID sets is a function found in the BIOS During bo...

Page 10: ...nd Format steps as if you are installing a conventional hard drive 7 Your RAID configuration is complete Please proceed to software installation section 4 4 Creating Parity RAID RAID 5 1 As the BIOS b...

Page 11: ...rwritten with the new metadata To resolve this select Resolve Conflicts and the correct metadata including the correct drive connection information will be written to the replacement disk 5 Software I...

Page 12: ...ation under Windows2000 XP 2003 VISTA 1 Right click on My Computer icon select Properties left click on Hardware tab and then on Device Manager button 2 Double click on SCSI and RAID Controllers If th...

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