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Serial ATA 4-Channel RAID

 

Quick Installation Guide

 

04-0370B 

Introducing the 

Serial ATA 4-Channel RAID

 

The 

Serial ATA 4-Channel RAID 

is an ultra high-speed 

four channel Serial ATA controller for use in Pentium 

class computers.  It achieves burst data transfer rates up 

to 150MB/s (1.5Gb/s) and supports various brands of 

hard disk drives with capacities greater that 137GB. 

Features and Benefits

 

• 

Compliant with Serial ATA Specification, revision 

1.0 

• 

Compliant with PCI Specification, revision 2.2 

• 

Provides four independent channels to support up 

to four Serial ATA drives 

• 

Co-exists with on-board Ultra ATA controller 

• 

Supports 32-bit wide PCI bus at 66MHz 

• 

Supports RAID 0 (striping), RAID 1 (mirroring) and 

RAID 10 (mistriping) RAID Arrays and 

Single and JBOD modes 

• 

Lower pin count and voltage requirement, plus 

better cabling over traditional Parallel ATA make 

Serial ATA the controller of the future 

System Requirements

 

• Pentium

® 

or equivalent computer with one available 

PCI slot 

• Windows

®

 2000 / XP (32-/64-bit) / Server 2003 

(32-/64-bit) / Vista (32-/64-bit) 

Summary of Contents for Serial ATA 4-Channel PCI

Page 1: ...A Specification revision 1 0 Compliant with PCI Specification revision 2 2 Provides four independent channels to support up to four Serial ATA drives Co exists with on board Ultra ATA controller Suppo...

Page 2: ...l RAID 4 Serial ATA data cables 1M 2 Dual Connector Serial ATA power cables 2 Y split power cables DriverCD Quick Installaton Guide Layout Figure 1 Serial ATA 4 Channel RAID layout Serial ATA Connecto...

Page 3: ...uter and any other connected peripheral devices 2 Unplug the power cord from the back of the computer 3 Remove your computer s cover 4 Remove the slot bracket from an available PCI slot 5 To install t...

Page 4: ...a cable to the hard disk drive Figure 2 Hard disk drive connections 4 Attach the other end of the Serial ATA data cable to the Serial ATA connector on the Serial ATA 4 channelRAID Serial ATA cable Pow...

Page 5: ...the power cord Go to RAID Arrays to configure the RAIDBIOS RAID Arrays RAID Arrays are setup in the Serial ATA 4 Channel RAID BIOS RAID0 Striping This RAID array to be used on New Blank hard drives St...

Page 6: ...rive For Auto Configuration The default chunk size is 64k when selecting Auto configuration 1 AstheBIOSbootspressCtrl SorF4whenprompted to enter the RAID BIOS 2 At the next screen select Create RAID S...

Page 7: ...and Format steps as if you were installing a conventional hard drive For Existing Hard Drives with Data 1 AstheBIOSbootspressCtrl SorF4whenprompted to enter the RAID BIOS 2 At the next screen select...

Page 8: ...2 Select Create RAID Set press Enter 3 Select SPARE DRIVE then press Enter 4 Select the single hard drive then press Enter 5 WhenaskedAreYouSure Y N pressYtoconfirm 6 Press Ctrl E to exit 7 When asked...

Page 9: ...and let the Mirror rebuild RAID10 Mirror Striping This RAID set is used on New Blank hard drives do not useexistingharddrive s withdata TocreateaMirrored Striped set four hard drives are required For...

Page 10: ...2 At the next screen select Create RAID Set then pressEnter 3 Select RAID10 then press Enter 4 Select Auto configuration then press Enter 5 WhenaskedAreYouSure Y N press Ytoaccept 6 Press Ctrl E to e...

Page 11: ...eDriveSetup Setting up a hard drive to operate as a single drive may destroyallexistingdataontheharddrive therefore back up any data on the hard drive before connecting it to the RAID controller or us...

Page 12: ...heBIOSbootspressCtrl SorF4whenprompted to enter the RAID BIOS 2 At the next screen select Create RAID Set then pressEnter 3 Select Concatenation then press Enter 4 Select the number of drives then pre...

Page 13: ...Conflicts When a RAID set is created the metadata written to the disk includes drive connection information If after a disk failure the replacement disk was previously partof a RAID set or used in ano...

Page 14: ...RAID BIOS reports an Incomplete RAID set disregard the message continue with the installation and let the Mirror rebuild on its own This shouldhappen only once and it s done automatically Please do n...

Page 15: ...ge 19 and install the RAID monitoring utility For An Existing Installation 1 SetuptheRAIDarraypriortodriverinstallationand boot up to Windows 2 At the Found New Hardware Wizard click Next 3 Select Sea...

Page 16: ...inue with the installation 4 Insert the driver diskette Press S then press Enter 5 SelectSiliconImageSiI3114SoftRaid5Controller for Windows XP Server 2003 press Enter 6 Press Enter to continue and fol...

Page 17: ...accordingly 3 Atthe Windows Setup screen press F6 to continue Note Prior to this step you may be prompted to restart in order to continue with the installation 4 Insert the driver diskette Press S the...

Page 18: ...3114 SoftRaid 5 Controller should be displayed WindowsVista 32 64 bit ForANewInstallation 1 SetuptheRAIDarraypriortoWindowsinstallation 2 Follow Windows installation procedure 3 At Where do you want t...

Page 19: ...the RAID monitoring utility ToVerifyWindowsVistaInstallation 1 RightclickComputer clickManage clickContinue select Device Manager 2 DoubleclickStoragecontrollers andSiliconImage SiI3114SoftRaid5Contro...

Page 20: ...OM drive letter For64 bit InStartSearchbox typeD 64bitgui msi then press Enter Change D to match your CD ROM drive letter 3 Follow the on screen instructions to complete the installation SATARaid5GUIO...

Page 21: ...nfigurationwindow RightclickingoneachnodeintheRAIDGroupswindow a popup menu will be displayed to let the user select an actiontobeperformedfortheselectedcontrollerorRAID group DeviceConfigurationwindo...

Page 22: ...customizethesettingsforLogFile PopupandAdvanced Options tabs LogFile The log file is used to store event information received fromalltheRAIDdrivers Thelogfilecanbeviewedwith any text viewer such as N...

Page 23: ...ed for the following events Errors Disabled No popup will occur AdvancedOptions The advanced options tab is used to control advanced features of the RAID driver By default all advanced options are dis...

Page 24: ...displays a dialog box to let the user create or delete a spare drive DeleteMember This command displays a dialog box to let the user choose RAID groups members to delete Since RAID 0 is not fault tol...

Page 25: ...s Capacity SelectfromalistofRAIDgroupsizes Selecting MAX will create the largest RAID set possible with the drives selected Chunk Size Select one size from the available list This setting is for RAID...

Page 26: ...kManagerwindowlistallRAIDanddiskmanagement tasks that have been started and or done This window provides the user with the ability to schedule any RAID anddiskmanagementoperationsincludingRAIDgroup cr...

Page 27: ...g box to the the user choose up to 3 items to sort event items in the event log Fields This command displays a dialog box to let the user choose which fields will be shown in the event log Resources T...

Page 28: ...command displays a dialog box to let the user choose a replacement segment to rebuild a non fault tolerant legacy RAID group Delete Legacy RAID Group This command displays a dialog box to let the user...

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Page 31: ...ese steps to have the product repaired or replaced Step1 SubmityourRMArequest Go to www siig com click Support then RMA to submit a request to SIIG RMA If the product is determined to be defective anR...

Page 32: ...IGproductsoffercomprehensiveusermanuals manyuser friendly features and are backed by an extensive manufacturer warranty High quality control standards are evident by the overall ease of installation a...

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