AEC-6885MS/6885M/6885MLP
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Please follow the instructions below to get a suitable RAID DIP switch setting.
1. Normal Mode --- When using AEC-6885M as an IDE extension
card to connect an IDE hard drive, please set DIP switch 1 and 2 as
OFF. The default is OFF.
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2. Striping Mode (RAID 0) --- RAID 0 is 2 or more hard drives
that store striping data, but appears as a single volume in the
computer. This mode is activated by setting DIP switch 1 and 2
as ON.
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When you have 3 hard drives and want to form a striping array, you
can connect the 3 hard drives to any 3 of the 4 IDE ports. Thus, the
adapter will regard the 3 hard drives as a RAID.
When you have 2 hard drives and want to form a striping array, you
can connect the 2 hard drives to IDE 1 and IDE 2 (or IDE 3 and IDE 4).
Thus the adapter will form the 2 hard drives into an array. But if you
connect one of the hard drives to IDE 1 (or IDE 2) and another to IDE 3
(or IDE 4), the adapter won’t form them into an array.
When you have 4 hard drives and connect them to AEC-6885M, the
adapter will form the 4 hard drives into a striping array. If you want to form
two arrays, and each is composed of 2 hard drives, you should connect 2
hard drives to IDE 1 and IDE 2. Boot the system, and the first array is
formed. Then connect another 2 hard drives to IDE 3 and IDE 4 to form
the second array.
3. Mirroring Mode (RAID 1) --- RAID 1 is a pair of hard drives that
store mirroring data, and is regarded as a single volume. This mode
is activated by setting DIP switch 2 as ON and switch 1 as OFF.
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When you have 2 hard drives, connect them to IDE 1 and IDE 2 (or
IDE 3 and IDE 4) to get an array. But if you connect one hard drive to
IDE 1 (or IDE 2) and another to IDE 3 (or IDE 4), you won’t get an array.
