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RAID Software

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Getting Start

The “RAID Software” is a Windows-based software utility with

graphical user interface and provides user an easy-operation tool to

configure and manage disk drives or disk arrays connected to VT8237

SATA controller.

After GUI software is installed, it will automatically start every time

when your Windows OS is started. An icon           will appear in the

system tray of the tool bar to indicate that GUI software is currently

running.

Just double click on the small icon to call out the main interface of the

software.

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Страница 1: ...e and manage disk drives or disk arrays connected to VT8237 SATA controller After GUI software is installed it will automatically start every time when your Windows OS is started An icon will appear i...

Страница 2: ...isk array RAID 1 Span and RAID 0 Then a Select Array Creating Method will be prompted Auto The software will configure the available hard disk drives to be a disk array User can modify the hard disk d...

Страница 3: ...add the specific disk drive to array After adding a disk drive user can also remove the selected disk drive from array Click the disk drive in Array Disks windows then click left arrow button to remov...

Страница 4: ...er restarting Create RAID 1 You can reserve the data on the source drive after clicking Create button when you create a RAID 1 array There is a limitation if user wants to keep the data on the source...

Страница 5: ...e first disk drive of JBOD array can be reserved when a JBOD array is created The data on the first disk drive will be reserved and the other disk drives in JBOD will be expanded behind the first disk...

Страница 6: ...Disk Array 1 Select the disk array that you want to delete from the left window Click Remove Array button then a warning message will pop up 2 Click Yes to delete the specific disk array or click No...

Страница 7: ...sk array will destroy all the data on the disk array except RAID 1 When a RAID is deleted the data on these two hard disk drives will be reserved 4 Check All Disks You can check if all the disk drives...

Страница 8: ...be the same as its corresponding source disk to provide fault tolerance for RAID 1 1 Select a RAID 1 Right click the selected RAID and then a shortcut menu will appear Click Verify Mirror to verify wh...

Страница 9: ...or cancel this process at any time The process may take a long time if the capacity of RAID is large 3 When the mirror disk is not identical with the corresponding source disk the mirror disk will be...

Страница 10: ...is absent and the mirror disk runs in the tolerance mode So the exact meaning of Synchronize Mirror is to keep the data on a pair of the source and the mirror disks identical RAID software always mark...

Страница 11: ...will show the process You can pause or cancel this process at any time 3 A message will pop up when synchronization is finished 7 Disk Error Detection RAID will pop up an error message when the failu...

Страница 12: ...mirror disk consist with the corresponding source disk again You may click Yes to synchronize now or click No to synchronize later When the synchronization starts a dialog will show the process You c...

Страница 13: ...e a serial steps to repair this problem 1 A dialog box will pop up to indicate the RAID is broken Click Yes 2 Then another dialog box will pop up If the source or the mirror disk drive is unplugged on...

Страница 14: ...14 3 Select a disk drive from Available Disks and click button to replace the broken down one and then click Next...

Страница 15: ...RAID by using the disk drive that you selected in the previous step click Next Warning The data on the selected disk drive will be lost 5 Reboot the system 6 This RAID is marked as a critical RAID The...

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