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SATAII 4 port PCI RAID Card 

RC217                                                                                    User Manual 

     

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 hard drive. 

8. Your RAID configuration is complete. Please proceed to software installation section.   

 

4.2. Creating Mirrored Sets (RAID 1) 

1. As the BIOS boots, Press CTRL+S or F4 to enter the raid bios utility. 

2. Select 

Create RAID set.

 Press 

Enter

3. Select 

RAID 1

 then press 

Enter

4. Select 

Auto configuration

. Press 

Ente

r. 

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 hard drive. 

8.Your RAID configuration is complete. Please proceed to software installation section.   

 

4.3. Creating a Mirrored-Striped Set (RAID 10) 

1. As the BIOS boots, press CTRL+S or F4 to enter the raid bios utility. 

2. Select 

Create RAID set

. Press 

F2

3. Select 

RAID 10

 then press 

Ente

r. 

4. Select 

Auto config

. Press 

Ente

r. 

5. Press 

Y

 and then press ESC to exit the setup. 

6. Continue with conventional Fdisk and 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 boots, Press CTRL+S or F4 to enter the raid bios utility. 

2. Select 

Create RAID set.

 Press 

Enter

3. Select 

RAID 5

 then press 

Enter

4. Select 

Auto configuration

. Press 

Ente

r. 

5. Press 

Y

 to save your settings. 

 

4.5. Creating JBOD Sets   

1. As the BIOS boots, Press CTRL+S or F4 to enter the raid bios utility. 

2. Select 

Create RAID set.

 Press 

Enter

3. Select 

JBOD (Single)

 then press 

Enter

4. Select 

JBOD Drives

. Press 

Ente

r.  

5. Select 

RAID size

. Press 

Ente

r. 

6. Press 

Y

 to save your settings. 

4.6. Creating Spare Drive   

1. As the BIOS boots, Press CTRL+S or F4 to enter the raid bios utility. 

Summary of Contents for SATA II 4 Port PCI RAID Card RC217

Page 1: ...SATA II 4 Port PCI RAID Card RC217 User Manual...

Page 2: ...Q0 What is RAID5 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...

Page 3: ...ating RAID Groups or sets in the SATARAID5 Manager utility Q9 What is CONCATENATED A9 Concatenated also known as Big Drive The Concatenated combines multiple disks or multiple segments of disks into a...

Page 4: ...in PC system so we don t recommend to use the mixed RAID and RAID5 cards in one system If you decide to sacrifice the RAID GUI and use the RAID5 GUI only in system you must remove the existing RAID G...

Page 5: ...board supports Serial ATA Generation 1 Generation 2 transfer rate of 1 5 Gbps 3Gbps It comes completely with drivers for Windows Vista 2000 XP 2003 1 1 Features 1 1 1 PCI Interface optional Compliant...

Page 6: ...SATA bus mastering technology multiple I O operations can be done in parallel enhancing performance Striping arrays use multiple disks to form a larger virtual disk Disk Mirroring RAID 1 Disk mirrori...

Page 7: ...or F4 and then delete the Raid setting on every used HDD when BIOS booting 11 Use SATARAID5 Manager GUI for RAID Group creating If 1 Disk please select Make Pass Thru option in Device Menu or Concaten...

Page 8: ...ed Set RAID 10 1 As the BIOS boots press CTRL S or F4 to enter the raid bios utility 2 Select Create RAID set Press F2 3 Select RAID 10 then press Enter 4 Select Auto config Press Enter 5 Press Y and...

Page 9: ...lt In order for the RAID set to function properly this old metadata must be first overwritten with the new metadata To resolve this select Resolve Conflicts and the correct metadata including the corr...

Page 10: ...n under Windows Vista 2000 XP 2003 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 there...

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