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2-CHANNEL SATA II 

PCI EXPRESS CARD 

 

 

User Manual 

 

Summary of Contents for DS-30103

Page 1: ...1 2 CHANNEL SATA II PCI EXPRESS CARD User Manual ...

Page 2: ...eue NCQ on SATA ports Provides three independent channels to connect two SATA and one PATA hard disk drive Supports up to UDMA6 transfer mode of PATA Supports up to 4 storage device connection Supports RAID 0 1 0 1 and JBOD functions Supports Windows 7 Vista XP and 2000 Connectors 2 x internal SATA connectors 2 x external eSATA connectors 1 x PATA connector Package Contents 1x PCIe SATA II 300 PAT...

Page 3: ...Manual 1x Driver CD 2x SATA Data Cable 2x SATA Power Cable 1x ATA 133 IDE Cable System Requirements Windows 2000 Windows XP 2003 Vista 32 64 bit PCI Express enabled system with an available PCI Express slot ...

Page 4: ...4 Hardware Description ...

Page 5: ...Turn Off the power to your computer 2 Unplug the power cord and remove your computer s cover 3 Remove the slot bracket from an available PCIe slot 4 To install the bard carefully align the card s bus connector with the selected PCIe slot on the motherboard Push the board down firmly 5 Attach your internal or external devices to the PCIe SATA II 300 PATA Raid Card 6 Replace the slot bracket s holdi...

Page 6: ...s needed RAID 0 Disk Striping 2 or 3 or 4 RAID 1 Disk Mirroring 2 RAID 0 1 Disk Striping Mirroring 4 JBOD Disk Concatenation 2 or 3 or 4 RAID 0 Striping 1 As the BIOS boots press Ctrl J when prompted to enter the RAID BIOS 2 At the next screen select Create RAID Disk Drive press Enter 3 Enter RAID name press Enter 4 Please use arrow keys and to switch the RAID level ...

Page 7: ...t the RAID size press Enter 8 When asked Created RAID on the select HDD Y N press Y to accept 9 At the next screen select Save And Exit Setup press Enter When asked Save to disk Exit Y N press Y to exit the BIOS RAID 1 Mirroring 1 As the BIOS boots press Ctrl J when prompted to enter the RAID BIOS 2 At the next screen select Create RAID Disk Drive press Enter 3 Enter RAID name press Enter 4 Please...

Page 8: ...At the next screen select Save And Exit Setup press Enter When asked Save to disk Exit Y N press Y to exit the BIOS CONCATENATION JBOD 1 As the BIOS boots press Ctrl J when prompted to enter the RAID BIOS 2 At the next screen select Create RAID Disk Drive press Enter 3 Enter RAID name press Enter 4 Please use arrow keys and to switch the RAID level to JBOD Concatenate then press Enter 5 Please use...

Page 9: ...press Enter When asked Save to disk Exit Y N press Y to exit the BIOS RAID 0 1 Striping Mirroring 1 As the BIOS boots press Ctrl J when prompted to enter the RAID BIOS 2 At the next screen select Create RAID Disk Drive press Enter 3 Enter RAID name press Enter 4 Please use arrow keys and to switch the RAID level to 01 Stripe Mirror then press Enter 5 Please use arrow keys and to select chunk size ...

Page 10: ...Save to disk Exit Y N press Y to exit the BIOS Delete RAID Disk Drive 1 As the BIOS boots press Ctrl J when prompted to enter the RAID BIOS 2 At the next screen select Delete RAID Disk Drive press Enter 3 Please use arrow keys and to select the array you want to delete use the space key to mark the selected array then press DEL 4 When asked ALL DATA ON THE RAID WILL LOST ARE YOU SURE TO DELETE Y N...

Page 11: ... either created or rebuilt in order for the RAID set to function properly this old metadata must be first overwritten with the new metadata To resolve this from the main BIOS window select Solve Mirror Conflict then press Enter the correct metadata including the correct drive connection information will be written to the replacement disk Rebuild Mirror Drive When a failure to one member occurs you...

Page 12: ... array you want to rebuild press Enter 5 Please use arrow keys and to select the destination disk press Enter 6 When rebuilding is finished select Save And Exit Setup press Enter When asked Save to disk Exit Y N press Y to exit the BIOS BIOS Configuration The PCIe SATA II 300 PATA Raid Card BIOS will appear every time your system starts up During this POST process the BIOS will show up and indicat...

Page 13: ...nstall disk for 64 bit WinXP Win2003 copy the contents of the DS 30103 Windows Floppy64 folder found on the driver CD onto a blank floppy disk 1 Setup the RAID Array prior to Windows installation 2 Follow Microsoft s Windows installation procedure 3 At the Windows Setup screen press F6 to install the RAID driver 4 When prompted press S to specify the location of the driver 5 Insert the floppy disk...

Page 14: ...folder found on the driver CD onto a blank floppy disk To create a pre install disk for 64 bit Vista copy the contents of the DS 30103 Windows Floppy64 folder found on the driver CD onto a blank floppy disk 1 Setup the RAID Array prior to Windows installation 2 Follow Microsoft s Windows installation procedure 3 At the Windows Setup screen press Load Driver to install the driver 4 Insert the flopp...

Page 15: ...click Cancel button to cancel the driver installation for the device at this moment The driver for this device will be installed in the next step 3 Please insert the CD driver bound with PCIe SATA II 300 PATA Raid Card into your CD ROM Drive 4 At the Windows desktop click Start then Run 5 Type D DS 30103 Windows Setup exe click OK Change D to match your CD ROM drive letter 6 Follow the on screen i...

Page 16: ...ation Click on the Device Manager tab in System Properties which you access from the Windows Control Panel You should see an JMicron JMB36X RAID Controller installed under SCSI and RAID controllers Storage controllers Vista item ...

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