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BIOS Setting Utility

3-5

User’s Manual

3-6.

 

Create Spare Disk

This item allows you to select the disk to be used as a spare for a Mirror Disk Array.

3-7.

 

Remove Spare Disk

This item allows you to remove the spare disk from a Mirror Disk Array.

3-8.

 

Set Drive Mode

This item allows you to select the drive transfer mode for the hard disk(s) attached to this
IDE RAID controller card.

Use the up/down arrow to select the menu option to “Set Drive Mode” and press <Enter>. In
the Channel Status, select the channel you would like to set and press the <Enter> key. There
will be an asterisk mark in the parentheses indicating that the channel selection has been
done. Choose the mode from the pop-up menu. You can choose from PIO 0 ~ 4, MW DMA
0 ~ 2, and UDMA 0 ~ 5.

Содержание Hot Rod 100 Pro

Страница 1: ... defect or error in this manual or product Product names appearing in this manual are for identification purpose only and trademarks and product names or brand names appearing in this document are property of their respective owners This document contains materials protected under International Copyright Laws All rights reserved No part of this manual may be reproduced transmitted or transcribed w...

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Страница 3: ...ING HARD DRIVES 2 2 CHAPTER 3 BIOS SETTING UTILITY 3 1 3 1 SET MOTHERBOARD CMOS SETUP 3 1 3 2 ENTER THE BIOS SETTING MENU 3 1 3 3 CREATE RAID 3 2 3 4 DELETE RAID 3 3 3 5 DUPLICATE MIRROR DISK 3 4 3 6 CREATE SPARE DISK 3 5 3 7 REMOVE SPARE DISK 3 5 3 8 SET DRIVE MODE 3 5 3 9 SELECT BOOT DISK 3 6 CHAPTER 4 SOFTWARE INSTALLATION 4 1 4 1 DOS INSTALLATION 4 1 4 2 WINDOWS 9X INSTALLATION 4 1 4 3 WINDOWS...

Страница 4: ...Hot Rod 100 Pro APPENDIX D TROUBLE SHOOTING NEED ASSISTANCE D 1 APPENDIX E HOW TO GET TECHNICAL SUPPORT E 1 ...

Страница 5: ...tion of any IDE device including IDE EIDE and Ultra ATA standards The Hot Rod 100 Pro includes EZRAID for boosting disk performance and data protection The EZRAID function supports Striping RAID 0 Mirroring RAID 1 or Striping Mirroring RAID 0 1 operation For Striping operation the identical drives can read and write data in parallel to increase performance The Mirroring operation increases read pe...

Страница 6: ...o independent ATA channels 256 Byte FIFO per ATA channels Compliant with Plug Play Up to 4 IDE devices supported 4 Drive Modes Support Ultra 5 4 3 2 1 0 PIO 4 3 2 1 0 DMA 2 1 0 5 BIOS Support Friendly UI for RAID functions settings Auto detects and supports Ultra Mode ATA EIDE transfers Recognizes drives up to 128 GB 6 Operating System Supports Microsoft DOS 5 X and above Microsoft Windows 95 98 M...

Страница 7: ...Modes Ultra DMA mode 5 4 3 2 1 0 DMA mode 2 1 0 PIO mode 4 3 2 1 0 Devices ATAPI Hard Drives Operating Systems Microsoft DOS 5 X and above Microsoft Windows 95 98 Microsoft Windows 2000 Microsoft Windows NT4 0 ABIT Gentus 2 0 Linux BIOS 1MB Flash ROM Auto ID Configure Max Storage 128GB Supports ACPI function Hardware Bus mastering Triple data channels all DMA 33 66 100 Utilities ABIT Vivid Install...

Страница 8: ...1 4 Chapter 1 Hot Rod 100 Pro 1 3 Layout Diagram Figure 2 1 Hot Rod 100 Pro controller card component locations ...

Страница 9: ...tra ATA HDD and Ultra ATA 66 cable The correct drivers must be loaded and an Ultra ATA 66 specific data cable must be used The Ultra ATA 66 cables use a Cable Select method rather than a Master Slave scheme The drive must be jumped to enable Cable Select The Boot drive C is attached to the connector on the end of the cable and the second drive is attached to the middle connector If an Ultra ATA 66...

Страница 10: ... the chip set pin connector remains the same at 40 Hard drives that support Ultra ATA 100 also support Ultra ATA 33 66 and legacy ATA IDE specifications 1 5 Requirements for Attaining Ultra ATA 100 There are four requirements for attaining Ultra ATA 100 1 The drive must support Ultra ATA 100 2 The motherboard and system BIOS or an add in controller must support Ultra ATA 100 3 The operating system...

Страница 11: ...ler card into your computer is a simple process You just have to insert the card into any available PCI slot on the motherboard see figure below Open your computer case Remove the inside slot cover of an available PCI slot on the motherboard Insert this controller card into the open slot Fasten the controller card bracket to the case Attach the two threaded IDE HDD LED connector of the computer ca...

Страница 12: ...le assembly has a small polarization tab centrally located on the body of the plastic This fits into the matching slot on the mating plugs on this IDE RAID controller card and the drives thus assuring positive mating pin 1 to pin 1 Please refer to figure 2 2 When two hard drives are attached configure each drive as a Master with no Slave attached and each hard drive on a separate channel Check the...

Страница 13: ...ary on the motherboard BIOS setup Connecting hard drives with onboard IDE controller This IDE RAID controller card can coexist with onboard or add on IDE controller s and hard drives installed If the motherboard s CMOS has a boot to SCSI option it is possible to boot from this IDE RAID controller card and still recognize the onboard non bootable drives If the motherboard s CMOS does not allow boot...

Страница 14: ... This IDE RAID controller card is bootable with a SCSI controller in the system The adapter with the lower BIOS address will be bootable If it is necessary to change the boot sequence swap the Hot Rod 100 Pro slot position with that of SCSI card s PCI slot Bootable Secondary ...

Страница 15: ...rt address For this IDE RAID controller card to be the bootable IDE controller confirm in the motherboard s Standard CMOS Setup that the drive types for hard disk drives are set for Not Installed or None Or use the Boot to SCSI option if this setting is available in the motherboard s BIOS No changes are needed for CD ROM drives that are attached to the motherboard IDE controller 3 2 Enter the BIOS...

Страница 16: ... Enter to confirm the selection Press Esc to return to the top menu 3 3 Create RAID This item allows you to create a RAID array with the hard disks attached to this IDE RAID controller card After you have selected the function you want in the main menu press the Enter key to enter the sub menu as shown below Warning All the data stored in the hard disks will be lost after created RAID ...

Страница 17: ...an JBOD This item is recommended for high capacity without redundancy or performance features usage Requires at least 2 disks Select Disk Drives This item allows you to select the disk drives to be used with the RAID array Block Size This item allows you to select the block size of the RAID array There are five options 4K 8K 16K 32K and 64K Start Creation Process After you have made your selection...

Страница 18: ... as shown below Select Source Disk This item is to select the source disk The size of the source disk must be smaller or equal to the one of the target disk Select Target Disk This item is to select the target disk The size of target disk must be greater or equal to the one of the source disk Start Duplicating Process After you had selected this item the BIOS setting will take up to 30 minutes to ...

Страница 19: ...m allows you to select the drive transfer mode for the hard disk s attached to this IDE RAID controller card Use the up down arrow to select the menu option to Set Drive Mode and press Enter In the Channel Status select the channel you would like to set and press the Enter key There will be an asterisk mark in the parentheses indicating that the channel selection has been done Choose the mode from...

Страница 20: ...o Select Boot Disk and press Enter In the Channel Status select the channel you would like to set as the bootable disk and press the Enter key There will be an asterisk mark in the parentheses indicating that the channel selection has been done Note Your PC or server must be configured to use the Hot Rod 100 Pro as the bootable controller The system will then use the bootable array as the fixed bo...

Страница 21: ...ation This IDE RAID card BIOS supports DOS 5 x or above and Windows 3 1x without software driver 4 2 Windows 9x Installation Step 1 After the Windows 9x operating system had been installed and rebooted successfully go to the Control Panel System Properties Device Manager You can see the driver is not yet installed and there is a device of PCI Mass Storage Controller under Other devices ...

Страница 22: ...ss Storage Controller and then go to Driver tab Click Update Driver to go to the next step Step 3 The wizard is going to install the PCI Mass Storage Controller Click Next to go to the next step Step 4 Choose Display a list of all the drivers in a specific location and click Next to go on ...

Страница 23: ...6 Click Have Disk to go on Step 7 Insert the driver disk that comes with the Hot Rod 100 Pro and type the path in the text box a WIN a is your floppy drive letter or E Drivers Win9x E is your CD ROM drive letter Click OK to go on Step 8 Choose HPT370 UDMA ATA100 RAID Controller and click Next to go on ...

Страница 24: ...ver Click Next to go on Step 10 Windows has finished installing the driver Click Finish to end the installation Step 11 After rebooting the system go to the Control Panel System Properties Device Manager Now you can see the driver is installed under the item of SCSI controllers ...

Страница 25: ...ers during Windows NT installation If the NT 4 0 is first installed on the ATA100 drive connected to the Hot Rod 100 Pro controller card follow the following installation procedure Step 1 Install this IDE RAID controller card in any available PCI slot and then connect your ATA100 hard disk to it refer to hardware installation Step 2 Set your system to boot from Drive A and then insert the Windows ...

Страница 26: ...d then press ENTER Step 3 Insert the driver disk into drive A and press ENTER Step 4 Use the UP or DOWN arrow key to move the highlight to the mass storage device you want and press ENTER to continue setup Step 5 Windows NT setup has recognized this IDE RAID controller card Press ENTER to continue setup ...

Страница 27: ...owed the steps described above you should be finished installing your Hot Rod 100 Pro controller For the rest of the Windows NT installation steps please follow the instructions displayed in the NT setup program Installing drivers with existing Windows NT If there is an existing NT 4 0 file system you can install this IDE RAID controller card into the existing system by the following procedure Ste...

Страница 28: ... Click Have Disk to go on Step 4 Insert this IDE RAID controller card driver disk into drive A and then click OK Step 5 Click OK to go on Step 6 Enter A in the blank space and then click Continue Step 7 Click Yes to restart your computer ...

Страница 29: ...ng procedure is used only when you don t want to install the Windows 2000 operating system onto the hard drive connected to Hot Rod 100 Pro Step 1 Install the Hot Rod 100 Pro and reboot the system Windows will detect the new hardware automatically Click Next to go to the next step Step 2 Choose Display a list of all the drivers in a specific location and click Next to go on Step 3 Choose SCSI and ...

Страница 30: ...hat comes with the Hot Rod 100 Pro and type the path in the text box A 2K A is your floppy drive letter or D Drivers Win2k D is your CD ROM drive letter Step 6 Choose HPT370 UDMA ATA100 RAID Controller and click Next to go on Step 7 Windows is now ready to install the driver Click Next to go on ...

Страница 31: ...p 9 Windows has finished installing the driver Click Finish to end the installation Step 10 Click Yes to restart the system Step 11 Go to the Control Panel System Properties Device Manager Now you can see the driver is installed under the item of SCSI and RAID controllers ...

Страница 32: ...4 12 Chapter 4 Hot Rod 100 Pro ...

Страница 33: ...e sequential records This leaves RAID 1 and RAID 5 as the RAID levels applicable for networked and transaction processing based environments utilizing NetWare Windows NT Unix and OS 2 In addition to these five redundant array architectures it has become popular to refer to a non redundant array of disk drives as RAID 0 array Why RAID Data security is a very important issue for system administrator...

Страница 34: ...s increasing system uptime and network availability while protecting against the loss of data Multiple drives working together also increases system performance The RAID Levels RAID Level 0 Striped Disk Array without Fault Tolerance RAID 0 is typically defined as a non redundant collection of striped disk drives It doesn t provide data protection but it offers very high data throughput especially ...

Страница 35: ...performance unchanged RAID 1 is a good entry level redundant system since only two drives are required However the cost of RAID 1 is higher because one drive has to be used to store duplicate data RAID Level 0 1 Performance and Security RAID 0 1 which uses Hamming error correction codes is intended for use with drives which do not have built in error detection Because the check method of Hamming c...

Страница 36: ...detection Because the check method of Hamming code is very complicated and more than one drive is required to store ECC information RAID 2 offers no significant advantages over RAID 3 RAID Level 3 Parallel transfer with parity RAID 3 uses a separate drive to store parity and stripes data on a byte by byte basis across all of the data disks in the array Because each I O accesses all drives in the a...

Страница 37: ... 5 Independent Data disks with distributed parity blocks RAID 5 also stripes data at a block level across several drives But it distributes parity among the drives which avoids the write bottleneck caused by the single dedicated parity drive Each drive takes turns storing parity information for a different series of stripes RAID 5 can execute read write to disk drives either in parallel or indepen...

Страница 38: ... Weaknesses RAID 0 2 Striped Disk Array without Fault Tolerance Highest I O Performance Very simple design Easy to implement No redundancy One drive fails all data is lost RAID 1 2 Mirroring and Duplexing 100 redundancy of data Twice the Read transaction rate of a single disk same Write transaction rate as single a disk Simplest RAID storage subsystem design High redundancy cost overhead RAID 0 1 ...

Страница 39: ...ata disks with shared parity disk Very high Read data transaction rate High aggregate Read transfer rate Low ratio of ECC Parity disks to data disks means high efficiency Worst Write transaction rate and Write aggregate transfer rate RAID 5 3 Independent Data disks with distributed parity blocks Highest Read data transaction rate Medium Write data transaction rate Best cost performance for transac...

Страница 40: ...A 8 Appendix A Hot Rod 100 Pro ...

Страница 41: ...cal support download the BIOS file and save it under the name BIOS then follow the procedure below to upgrade this IDE RAID controller card BIOS Step 1 Copy the files load exe included in this IDE RAID Driver Disk and BIOS to a new floppy Step 2 Reboot your system and go into the pure DOS environment Step 3 Insert the floppy that contains the files load exe and BIOS into drive A Step 4 At the A pr...

Страница 42: ...B 2 Appendix B Hot Rod 100 Pro ...

Страница 43: ... Please insert the Hot Rod 100 Pro CD Title into your CD ROM drive It should execute the program automatically If not you can go to the CD location and execute the execution file from the main directory of the CD Title After it is executed you will see the screen shot below Move the cursor to Utility and click on it to go to the next step Move the cursor to RAID Status Monitor Utility and click on...

Страница 44: ...for the destination location you want We suggest you use the default folder as the destination location When you are sure of the folder click Next to go on Now you can select the program folder The setup wizard will add program icons to those program folders listed Click Next to go on The system will start copying files Click Next to go on ...

Страница 45: ...where the execution file is shown left The monitoring screen pops up Note that there will be a shortcut icon appears in the tool bar This is used for bringing out the screen again after you had clicked the Minimize icon on the upper right corner of the screen This short cut icon will disappear after you click the Exit icon Now you are in the monitoring screen Your current device allocation is view...

Страница 46: ...C 4 Appendix C Hot Rod 100 Pro ...

Страница 47: ... 5 to fix it For windows 2000 there is no such a 64GB issue http www storage ibm com techsup hddtech welcome htm Q How to create a striping and mirror array RAID 0 1 A You need four drives Appendix A every two of them on the same channel cable build a striping array Then create a mirror array by these two striping arrays Appendix A 3 i Press Ctrl H to setup configuration ii Choose item 1 to Create...

Страница 48: ...isk the one with data on it v Choose sub item 2 to Select Target Disk the brand new and empty one vi Choose sub item 3 to Start Duplication Process vii After duplication process completes press Esc to leave RAID BIOS Q Why I see NO ROM BASIC SYSTEM HALTED when booting A There isn t any activated primary partition in you system Please use FDISK or any other utilities to create set one ...

Страница 49: ...o connect them on two different channels as master drive please 3 When attach drives to the RAID card do make sure the master slave jumper settings are correct please If there is only one drive on one channel cable do set it as master or single drive 4 Do always use 80 conductor cables please 5 Don t connect any ATAPI devices CD ROM LS 120 MO ZIP removable HD etc on the RAID card please 6 For the ...

Страница 50: ...l Address IDE Card Product Name IDE Card BIOS Version Motherboard Manufacturer Model Name and Chipset type IDE Card Software and Driver Version Operating System Type Hardware name Type Specifications CPU Type and Speed HDD IDE1 IDE2 CD ROM Drive IDE1 IDE2 System Memory Size SDRAM Add On Card Problem Description ...

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