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RAID5 SATA II – 3Gbps External Dual Ports PCI-Express Host (Raid 5, 0, 1,10 & JBOD)

 

RC-223                                      User Manual

 

 

 

 

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'Silicon Image SiI 3132 SoftRaid5 Controller', the driver is started correctly.     

3. To view information about the devices attached to the controller, use the SiICfg           

Utility and click on the device from the list. 

 

5.4. Update new driver on Windows Vista/2000/XP/2003 with 

existing driver

 

1. Right click on 'My Computer' and select 'Properties'. Under the 'System 

Properties' section, click on 'Hardware' tab and then on 'Device Manager' click 'SCSI 

and RAID Controller' and right click 'Silicon Image SiI 3132 SoftRaid5 Controller'. 

2. Click 'Driver', 'Update Driver' and select 'Search for a suitable driver for my device 

[Recommended]'. Insert the Driver CD. Press 'Enter' and select 'E:\ SATA 

PCIe_Raid5_2Port \SiI3132\Windows \Driver'. Click 'Next' and complete the driver 

installation. 

3. System will go through the enumeration process and install the driver. At the end of the 

process, click 'Yes' to reboot your system when necessary.     

4. See instructions in section 5.3 to verify controller was installed correctly.   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Summary of Contents for RC-223

Page 1: ...RAID5 SATA II 3Gbps External Dual Ports PCI Express Host Raid 5 0 1 10 JBOD RC 223 User Manual...

Page 2: ...ID5 Card A0 RAID5 Card means the SATA Host adapter the PCI PCI X PCI e Cardbus and ExpressCard which can support RAID5 RAID0 RAID1 RAID10 BigDrive and JBOD functions by software setting Q1 Can I insta...

Page 3: ...e hard drives is need for RAID5 setting Q8 What is JBOD A8 The JBOD Just a Bunch of Disks also known as Contiguous means a single logical drive that can either be an entire disk drive or a segment of...

Page 4: ...under Windows Only SATARAID5 GUI is functional as CardBus adapter or ExpressCard 34 Adapter for Notebook A16 How to get the PDF file of complete RAID5 manual for RAID5 Host Adapter Q16 Please find the...

Page 5: ...After Raid5 card installation Windows can t restart and hang during booting unless CD Shutoff A23 It sounds the issue on Mother board BIOS Please contact Mother board maker to have the latest BIOS upd...

Page 6: ...ng to greatly increase the performance of data transfer by simultaneously writing data to 2 drives o Provides RAID 1 Mirroring to protect the data from a disk failure by writing identical data on 2 dr...

Page 7: ...g When data is written to a Mirrored Striped Set instead of creating just one virtual disk as Striping would do a second Mirrored virtual disk is created as well Parity RAID RAID 5 Parity or RAID 5 ad...

Page 8: ...y RAID or Mirrored Striped setting If 3 Disks don t select Mirrored Striped setting 12 Click Task Manager to make sure Raid setting is completed It shall be Green color or Blue color on the selected c...

Page 9: ...configuration Press Enter 5 Press Y to save your settings 6 Press CTRL E and then press Y to exit the setup 7 Continue with conventional Fdisk and Format steps as if you are installing a conventional...

Page 10: ...was previously part of a RAID set or used in another system it may have conflicting metadata specifically in reference to the drive connection information If so this will prohibit the RAID set from b...

Page 11: ...uring OS boot up Windows will display the Found New Hardware Wizard Click Next 3 Select Search for a suitable driver for my device Recommended and Click Next 4 Insert the Driver CD in your CD ROM DVD...

Page 12: ...k SCSI and RAID Controller and right click Silicon Image SiI 3132 SoftRaid5 Controller 2 Click Driver Update Driver and select Search for a suitable driver for my device Recommended Insert the Driver...

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