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Document Number: M5281-83_RAID096 Revision

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3.1 RAID BIOS Setup Menu

3.1.1

Setup Menu of M5281

Create RAID 0 Striping for Performance

Select Boot Drive

Create RAID 1 Mirroring for Reliability

Create RAID 0+1 for Striping, Mirroring

Create JBOD for integrated Capacity

SPACE : Select

Stripe Size

64K

↑↓

: Moving Cursor

Delete RAID Setting & Partition

ENTER : Select & Finish

Delete All RAID Setting & Partition

ESC

: Exit

Rebuild RAID Array

Drive Model

Mode

Capacity

RAID Array/Type

Channel 0 Master : Maxtor 4A160 J0 UDMA6 163928MB

Channel 0 Slave : Maxtor 6L040J2 UDMA6 40027MB

Channel 1 Master : None

Channel 1 Slave : None

Channel 2 Master : WDC WD360GD-00F SATA1 37019MB

Channel 3 Master : Maxtor 6Y200M0 SATA1 203928MB

Capacity

RAID Type

Stripe Size

RAID Name

RAID Array A

RAID Array B

RAID Array C

3.1.2

Setup Menu of M5283

Create RAID 0 Striping for Performance

Select Boot Drive

Create RAID 1 Mirroring for Reliability

Create JBOD for integrated Capacity

Stripe Size

64K

SPACE : Select

Delete RAID Setting & Partition

↑↓

: Moving Cursor

Delete All RAID Setting & Partition

ENTER : Select & Finish

Rebuild RAID Array

ESC

: Exit

Drive Model

Mode

Capacity

RAID Array/Type

Channel 1 Master : None

Channel 1 Slave : None

Channel 2 Master : WDC WD360GD-00F SATA1 37019MB

Channel 3 Master : Maxtor 6Y200M0 SATA1 203928MB

Capacity

RAID Type

Stripe Size

RAID Name

RAID Array A

RAID Array B

RAID Array C

Summary of Contents for ALi M5281

Page 1: ...M5281 M5283 Serial ATA and Parallel ATA Host Controller RAID BIOS Driver Utility Manual Rev 0 96 December 03 2003 ...

Page 2: ...ime of publication ULi Electronics Inc assumes no responsibility for any error that may appear in this document nor does it make a commitment to update the information contained herein ULi Electronics Inc disclaims all warranties and liability whether arising directly or indirectly from the use or misuse of this document and the information contained herein Contact ULi Electronics Inc for the late...

Page 3: ...chapter Added Troubleshooting chapter 0 93 07 07 2003 Added driver installation for Windows NT Modified driver installation for Windows ME 98 Modified BIOS menu Added troubleshooting items 5 and 6 0 94 08 20 2003 Deleted RAID 0 1 at the same parallel ATA channel limitation description 0 95 10 15 2003 Modified sections 4 2 4 3 and 4 4 according to new txtsetup oem Added hot plug support in sections...

Page 4: ... 3 2 6 Delete RAID Setting Partition 11 3 2 7 Delete All RAID Setting Partition 11 3 2 8 Rebuild RAID Array 11 3 2 9 Select Boot Drive 12 3 3 DRIVE SELECT MENU 12 3 4 RAID ARRAY LIST 12 4 ALI WINDOWS DRIVER AND RAID UTILITY INSTALLATIONS 13 4 1 USE SETUP EXE 13 4 1 1 When Windows XP 2000 ME 98 NT is installed already 13 4 2 INSTALL DRIVER DURING WINDOWS XP INSTALLATION 18 4 2 1 Preparation 18 4 2 ...

Page 5: ...nd M5283 chip M5283 and M5281 both support SATA for 2 ports M5283 supports one PATA channel for 2 devices whereas M5281 supports two PATA channels for 4 devices The SATA controller inside M5281 and M5283 chips is named M5281 The PATA controller is named M5228 The following is the comparison table between M5283 and M5281 Companion Chip M5281 M5283 Disk Interface Serial ATA ATA 133 Number of IDE cha...

Page 6: ...ith M5281 M5283 There is no guarantee that it will work for transferring existing RAID 1 drives from other adapter to ALi M5281 M5283 If existing drive with valid data is to be used backup all content of this drive before creating RAID 1 and do Create RAID 1 Mirroring for Reliability at BIOS setup with other new drive It is recommended to use new drive to create RAID 1 with M5281 M5283 There is no...

Page 7: ...Channel 0 Master Maxtor 4A160J0 Channel 0 Slave Maxtor 6L040J2 Channel 1 Master None Channel 1 Slave None Channel 2 Master WDC WD360GD 00F Channel 3 Master Maxtor 6Y200M0 Press Ctrl A to enter ALi RAID BIOS setup utility The following is an example of BIOS version and drives information when using M5283 ALi RAID BIOS V1 00 M5283 c ALi Corporation 2003 All Rights Reserved Identifying IDE drive x x ...

Page 8: ...l 0 Slave Maxtor 6L040J2 UDMA6 40027MB Channel 1 Master None Channel 1 Slave None Channel 2 Master WDC WD360GD 00F SATA1 37019MB Channel 3 Master Maxtor 6Y200M0 SATA1 203928MB Capacity RAID Type Stripe Size RAID Name RAID Array A RAID Array B RAID Array C 3 1 2 Setup Menu of M5283 RAID BIOS Setup Utility c 2003 ALi Corporation www ali com tw Create RAID 0 Striping for Performance Select Boot Drive...

Page 9: ...ity RAID Type Stripe Size RAID Name RAID Array A RAID Array B RAID Array C 3 2 Main Menu In Main Menu the user has several options to operate RAID 3 2 1 Create RAID 0 Striping for Performance 1 Press Enter key to activate this item An S flash cursor appears at the Drive Select Menu for the user to choose the first drive for RAID 0 2 Use Space key to choose the desired drive for RAID 0 Then the fla...

Page 10: ... its information shows up at RAID Array List 8 The process status bar shows up during the duplication process Note RAID 1 cannot be used for mixed parallel and serial ATA drives 3 2 3 Create RAID 0 1 for Striping Mirroring This option is effective only for M5281 with all four Parallel ATA drives installed 1 Press Enter key to activate this item Four Parallel ATA drives are automatically selected 2...

Page 11: ...ore deleting RAID Array 4 RAID Array List automatically updates itself 3 2 7 Delete All RAID Setting Partition 1 Press Enter key to activate this item 2 Data on RAID drives will be deleted Y N prompt message shows up to confirm the user s selection 3 Press Y key and then the data in drives is destroyed Warning Make sure the data in drives is no longer in use before deleting RAID Array 4 RAID array...

Page 12: ... menu two RAID Drive Selection Bar and one Boot Drive Selection Bar RAID BIOS Setup Utility c 2003 ALi Corporation www ali com tw Create RAID 0 Striping for Performance Select Boot Drive Create RAID 1 Mirroring for Reliability Create RAID 0 1 for Striping Mirroring Create JBOD for integrated Capacity SPACE Select Stripe Size 64K Moving Cursor Delete RAID Setting Partition ENTER Select Finish Delet...

Page 13: ...gain 1 For Windows XP 2000 Click Cancel button when the Found New Hardware Wizard dialog box shows up The following is an example of Windows XP Wizard Note If the PATA and SATA controllers are both enabled Windows will show Found New Hardware Wizard dialog box twice For Windows ME 98 Follow the Add New Hardware Wizard and assign proper driver location The wizard will install driver properly Note I...

Page 14: ...R RA AI ID D B BI IO OS S D Dr ri iv ve er r U Ut ti il li it ty y M Ma an nu ua al l M5281 M5283 Page 14 Document Number M5281 83_RAID096 Revision 0 96 The following is an example of Windows 98 Wizard ...

Page 15: ... li it ty y M Ma an nu ua al l Revision 0 96 Document Number M5281 83_RAID096 Page 15 2 Run ALi RAID driver SETUP EXE The following screen shows up Click Next to continue the setup process 3 Wait for a while The setup percentage bar will reach 100 after several seconds ...

Page 16: ...to indicate the driver has not passed Windows Logo testing it means you are installing a non logo driver version Please make sure the version is right for your adapter or system Click Continue Anyway after you confirm the unsigned driver is ready to be used If the driver is signed this warning dialog will not show up 5 The last step is to restart Windows Click Finish to restart Windows ...

Page 17: ... ti il li it ty y M Ma an nu ua al l Revision 0 96 Document Number M5281 83_RAID096 Page 17 6 After Windows restart the driver is installed as SCSI and RAID controllers and you can check it in the Device Manager You can also find the ALi RAID utility at Programs ...

Page 18: ...IOS to use Adapter boot e g SCSI selection item in some BIOS Also prepare a diskette containing the ALi RAID driver The driver binary for Windows XP 2000 NT can be found under win_xp win_2000 and win_nt subdirectory respectively There should be two files TXTSETUP OEM and DISK1 included at the root directory of the diskette 4 2 2 Start installation 1 Boot from Windows XP installation CD ROM When Wi...

Page 19: ... 96 Document Number M5281 83_RAID096 Page 19 2 Wait for a while when Setup is loading files When Setup shows a message indicating it could not determine the type of device press S and Windows Setup will prompt for driver 3 When Setup asks for driver diskette insert the prepared driver diskette and press Enter ...

Page 20: ...ument Number M5281 83_RAID096 Revision 0 96 4 When the controller menu shows up use keys to select ALi STAT RAID Controller Windows XP and press Enter 5 Wait for while when Setup is loading driver files After setup recognizes the driver for ALi SATA RAID Controller and shows the following prompt press S again ...

Page 21: ...needed Press ENTER to continue the rest of Windows setup 8 After several minutes of normal Windows XP installation if a warning dialog box shows up to indicate that the driver has not passed Windows Logo testing it means you are installing a non logo driver version Make sure the version is right for your adapter or system Click YES after you confirm the unsigned driver is ready to be used If the d...

Page 22: ...nstallation is similar to that for Windows XP Only the driver selection at Step 4 and Step 6 are different Use the following for Step 4 and Step 6 refer to Section 4 2 for others steps Step 4 When the controller menu shows up use keys to select ALi STAT RAID Controller Windows 2000 and press Enter Step 6 When the controller menu shows up use keys to select ALi ATA RAID Controller Windows 2000 and ...

Page 23: ...0 Installation The installation is similar to that for Windows XP Read 4 2 1 before you start the following steps 1 When the installation prompts Setup is inspecting your computer s hardware configuration press F6 Key 2 Wait for a while when Setup is loading files When Setup shows a message indicating it could not determine the type of device press S and Windows Setup will prompt for driver ...

Page 24: ... Ut ti il li it ty y M Ma an nu ua al l M5281 M5283 Page 24 Document Number M5281 83_RAID096 Revision 0 96 3 Use keys to highlight Other and then press Enter 4 When Setup asks for driver diskette insert the prepared driver diskette and press Enter ...

Page 25: ...evision 0 96 Document Number M5281 83_RAID096 Page 25 5 When the menu shows up use keys to select ALi STAT RAID Controller WinNT 4 0 and press Enter 6 Wait for a while when Setup is loading driver files After setup recognizes the driver for SATA controller and shows the following prompt press S again ...

Page 26: ...eat Step 3 and Step 4 then the menu as in Step 5 shows up again Select ALi ATA RAID Controller WinNT 4 0 this time and press Enter to continue 8 After setup recognizes the drivers that is ALi SATA RAID Controller and ALi ATA RAID Controller are listed as in the following screen no additional driver is needed Press ENTER to continue the rest of Windows setup ...

Page 27: ...user can create RAID arrays in either the RAID BIOS setup menu as previously described or under Windows Utility by following the steps below 1 After the driver and utility are installed correctly the user can find ALiRAID utility from Windows Programs as shown below Or the user can find ALi RAID Utility at task bar 2 Run ALi RAID utility from Windows Program or click on Configuration at task bar T...

Page 28: ...igure drives The caption will automatically update when you switch between PATA SATA and different controller numbers The following are examples of one controller controller 1 for ALi ATA and ALi SATA 4 The information of the connected drives is displayed The following is an example in which the user has chosen ALi ATA Controller 1 5 Click the desired drive from the Available Drives list The selec...

Page 29: ...n nu ua al l Revision 0 96 Document Number M5281 83_RAID096 Page 29 Note the Create Option is active for RAID 1 and RAID 0 1 only The Create Only option will destroy data at both selected drivers The Duplicate will keep the source drive data and copy source drive data into target drive ...

Page 30: ...ocument Number M5281 83_RAID096 Revision 0 96 6 After the drives and type are configured a dialog box appears to warn the user that the next action will destroy information in the drives Make sure the information in selected drivers is no longer in use before clicking on Yes 7 Click Yes to restart the system ...

Page 31: ...or newly created RAID click on Delete RAID tab on the main Configuration menu Click on the RAID from Available RAID list then move the selected RAID to Selected RAID list by clicking 2 Click OK after the array is selected A dialog box appears to warn the user that the next action will destroy information in the drives Make sure the information in selected drivers is no longer in use before clickin...

Page 32: ...3_RAID096 Revision 0 96 5 3 How to setup automatic e mail notification when error occurs 1 Find ALiRAID utility from Windows desktop or taskbar and click on Management 2 The Management dialog box appears Input the SMTP server information and administrator e mail address Check on the Enable Mail Notification checkbox Then click OK ...

Page 33: ...acity is 20GB RAID 1 Mirroring Disk Array with Fault Tolerance The data is written to all drives and read parallel from different drives This enhances the data protection but cost some overhead at performance Once one drive fails data can be recovered from other drive The maximum capacity is the minimum size of the drives For example when using 10GB and 14GB drivers to form RAID 1 the RAID 1 capac...

Page 34: ... but may not be a workable drive RAID 1 may still function but mirroring mechanism is disabled After broken HDD e g marked with is swapped with new one you may enter RAID BIOS to Rebuild RAID Array for RAID 1 and RAID 0 1 RAID 0 1 may still function but mirroring mechanism is disabled After broken HDD e g marked with is swapped with new one you may enter RAID BIOS to Rebuild RAID Array for RAID 1 ...

Page 35: ... press Yes button Otherwise press No to close utility However remember to reboot system before accessing new changed RAID Error Messages From the theory RAID 0 and RAID 1 need two drives JBOD need 2 or more drivers and RAID 0 1 needs 4 drivers If you do not select the right number of drivers this type of error message will show up Press OK to go back to utility and correct selection Warning Messag...

Page 36: ...erly 3 Q I used unattended installation Windows XP CD and follow the Install driver during Windows XP installation to install bootable XP at M5281 M5283 I found there is an unknown mass storage device with in device manager Why A Use unattended installation CD to install bootable drive will cause incomplete driver installation You need to install ALi RAID driver again after booting into Windows XP...

Page 37: ...t to partition my newly created RAID drive why are there red mark at disk management A This problem only happens under Windows 2000 even with SP3 When you change drive configuration and do not do any partition action before entering Windows 2000 if you check the disk management there sometime is a red cross mark showing a missing disk or a red minus mark showing an unknown disk The following pictu...

Page 38: ...nto working Windows A The hot plug feature is supported by ALi RAID driver under Windows 2000 XP Before you hot plug in a SATA drive please make sure its power is on Before you hot unplug a SATA drive please do the following steps to protect data and Windows a Open Device manger b Open Disk Drives c Choose the disk RAID you want to unplug and click Uninstall as in the following pictures ...

Page 39: ...l Revision 0 96 Document Number M5281 83_RAID096 Page 39 Note ONLY SATA controller and drive can support hot plug unplug Due to operation system limitation ALi RAID driver does not support hot plug under Windows 98 ME NT There is no safety guarantee if you do hot plug unplug under Windows 98 ME NT ...

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