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Notice 

Product features and specifications described in this manual are subject to change without 
notice. 

The manufacturer shall not be liable for any damage, or for the loss of information resulting 
from the performance or use of the information contained herein. 

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This manual version 2.0a 

Summary of Contents for ACS-7630

Page 1: ...crosoft Windows Windows NT MS DOS are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation Intel and Pentium are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation Other product and company nam...

Page 2: ...0 or RAID 5 array and lists important pre installation notices Chapter 3 Setting up the controller guides you through process of installing ACS 7630 in a system or externally and explains how to repla...

Page 3: ...troller box inside your system or set up the controller box externally Chapter 3 Initialize Initialize the array Chapter 4 Format Partition the array to enable your computer s operating system to begi...

Page 4: ...icates the existence of a potential hazard that could result in personal injury damage to your equipment or loss of data if the safety instruction is not observed This icon indicates useful tips on ge...

Page 5: ...8 Automatic drive rebuilding 8 MAKING SURE YOU HAVE EVERYTHING 8 What s in the box 8 What else you need 8 FAMILIARIZING YOURSELF WITH THE CONTROLLER 9 Overview 9 Front view 9 Rear view 10 CHAPTER 2 B...

Page 6: ...ng drives 22 What if a disk fails 22 Removing a drive from a fixed connector drive carrier 22 Removing a drive from a cable connector drive carrier 23 CHAPTER 4 INITIALIZING THE ARRAY 24 CHAPTER 5 FOR...

Page 7: ...t RAID levels 0 and 5 with three IDE disks in a single RAID group With a cost effective IDE approach supporting Ultra DMA mode the ACS 7630 strips data to three disk drives simultaneously and delivers...

Page 8: ...rive in a RAID 5 array is replaced on line the controller will automatically start to rebuild data to the new drive Making sure you have everything What s in the box Some vendors may ship certain comp...

Page 9: ...nel Front Drive carriers Guide rail channel Holes for mounting screws Rear Connectors jumpers Front view Three Drive Carriers Disk Activity Indicators Drive Carrier Lock Each drive carrier can hold a...

Page 10: ...sing the drives To lock each carrier insert the key and turn it in a clockwise direction To unlock a carrier turn the key in a counterclockwise direction Rear view Master Slave configuration jumper pi...

Page 11: ...fers high transfer rates and is ideal for large blocks of data where speed is of importance Computer Aided Design Graphics Scientific Computing Image and Multimedia applications are all good examples...

Page 12: ...drives are always available to the system SCSI requires more management of the SCSI bus RAID 0 Striped disk array without fault tolerance Characteristics Recommended use RAID 0 implements a striped d...

Page 13: ...ith distributed parity blocks Characteristics Recommended use Each entire data block is written on a data disk Parity for blocks in the same rank is generated on Writes recorded in a distributed locat...

Page 14: ...in a well ventilated area and in such a way that sufficient airflow is maintained across the controller chips Static electricity can damage electronic components To guard against such damage Work in a...

Page 15: ...r in a system or externally Load hard drives into ACS 7630 Swap drives Installation flowchart Installation of ACS 7630 is simple This chapter will lead you though the following steps Use jumpers to se...

Page 16: ...controller box Master Slave configuration jumper pins RAID level configuration jumper pins RAID 0 configuration 1 Make sure the power is turned off 2 Make sure the six RAID configuration jumper pins...

Page 17: ...the HDD is configured as the master drive ACS 7630 should be configured as slave and vice versa If using cable select both devices must use cable select Master configuration 1 Make sure the power is...

Page 18: ...he controller box 5 If planning to use the ACSView GUI to monitor the status of your RAID you should also connect a 3 pin RS 232 cable to the terminal on the controller box 6 Insert the controller box...

Page 19: ...he following hard disk brands Fujitsu IBM Maxtor Quantum or Seagate All three hard disks should be configured as Master There are two types of drive carrier available 1 Fixed IDE connector Drive Carri...

Page 20: ...to the disk drive first then carefully push the disk drive so that the drive s IDE connector is seated securely into the IDE connectors in the disk carrier 4 Push the power connector into the drive co...

Page 21: ...e disk drive 3 Carefully connect the drive s IDE connector to the drive carrier connector 4 Slide the disk drive into position in the carrier taking care not to damage the IDE or power cables 5 Secure...

Page 22: ...r a key switch is turned off the red disk activity indicator of its disk carrier will light and the alarm will sound When this happens you can replace the failed IDE disk with a new one then turn the...

Page 23: ...le connector drive carrier 1 Unlock the appropriate disk carrier The red disk activity indicator will light 2 Slide the drive carrier out of its slot 3 Lift the disk drive slightly out of the carrier...

Page 24: ...the drives in turn You should wait for the green disk activity indicator to light for each drive before keying on the next drive Initialization and RAID status is shown by the disk activity indicator...

Page 25: ...lization the following will be observed Indicator Status Green Solid Amber Solid Red Flashing Alarm Intermittent If system power is turned off midway through array initialization the process will cont...

Page 26: ...rt Y N type Y Press Enter 4 The FDISK options menu will appear Select Change current fixed disk drive 5 Each of your current fixed disk drives including the ACS 7630 RAID controller will be listed Sel...

Page 27: ...ish to use the maximum available size for a Primary DOS Partition type Y 9 The following message will appear Primary DOS Partition created drive letters changed or added Press Esc to continue 10 The s...

Page 28: ...elf is faulty d If all of the above steps fail contact your vendor 2 How can I turn off the alarm beep sound when there is a hard disk failure Unlock the drive carrier of the failed disk This will tur...

Page 29: ...bined with a body of Array Management Software Array Management Software controls the disks and presents them to the array operating environment as one or more virtual disks Firmware See Array Managem...

Page 30: ...the remainder of the storage capacity The redundant information enables regeneration of user data in the event that one of the array member disks or the access path to it fails See Parity Different R...

Page 31: ...33 100 66 33 Disk interface Ultra ATA 133 100 66 33 RAID levels supported 0 5 Form factor Two half height 5 inch Dimensions W5 75 D8 84 H3 35 inch Weight 3 96 lb Hot swap Yes Rebuilding is transparent...

Page 32: ...ur in particular installation If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on the user is encouraged to t...

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