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Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide 

 

 
 
The technology also offers fault tolerant, data redundancy for entry-level 
network file servers or simply for desktop PC users wanting to continually 
protect valuable data on their PC. The Serial/Ultra ATA RAID offers RAID 1 
mirroring (for two drives) to protect data. Should a drive that is part of a 
mirrored array fail, Serial/Ultra ATA RAID technology uses the mirrored drive 
(which contains identical data) to assume all data handling. When a new 
replacement drive is later installed, Serial/Ultra ATA RAID rebuilds data to 
the new drive from the mirrored drive to restore fault tolerance. 

 

Содержание SiS180

Страница 1: ...SiS 180 S ATA User s Manual Quick User s Guide Version 0 1...

Страница 2: ...Copyright Trademarks SiS is a registered trademark of Silicon Integrated Systems Corp All brand or product names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders Revision...

Страница 3: ...0 XP INSTALLATION 8 EXISTING WINDOWS 2000 XP INSTALLATION 9 CONFIRMING WINDOWS 2000 XP DRIVER INSTALLATION 9 Step 3 BIOS Utility Operation for RAID only 10 CREATING AN ARRAY FOR PERFORMANCE 11 CREATIN...

Страница 4: ...Ultra ATA drives Separate timing control for two devices attached to one ATA channel Serial Ultra ATA RAID Interfaces The Serial Ultra ATA RAID is designed to provide a cost effective high performance...

Страница 5: ...their PC The Serial Ultra ATA RAID offers RAID 1 mirroring for two drives to protect data Should a drive that is part of a mirrored array fail Serial Ultra ATA RAID technology uses the mirrored drive...

Страница 6: ...nother 4 RAID 0 1 Also known as StripeMirror At least four hard drivers are required RAID 0 1 is a combination of RAID 0 and RAID 1 Data is striped into two drives then mirrored It provides high perfo...

Страница 7: ...rongly recommend you should use DMA transfer mode 7 The recommended block size is 64K when creating RAID 0 and RAID 0 1 8 The best selecting sequence of creating RAID 0 1 is Primary Master 1 Secondary...

Страница 8: ...al ATA Master 1 Serial ATA Master 2 1 V V X X 2 V X V X 3 V X X V 4 X V V X 5 X V X V 6 X X V V 7 V V V X 8 V V X V 9 V X V V 10 X V V V 11 V V V V V Install X Uninstall NOTE Storage Capacity the numb...

Страница 9: ...ATA Master Ultra ATA Slave Serial ATA Master 1 Serial ATA Master 2 1 V V V V V Install X Uninstall NOTE Storage Capacity the capacity of the smallest drive in the disk array Working Speed the speed o...

Страница 10: ...D Quick User s Guide 7 V Install X Uninstall NOTE Storage Capacity the number of hard drives times the capacity of the smallest drive in the disk array Working Speed the speed of the lowest drive in t...

Страница 11: ...hen used with various operating systems Windows 2000 XP New Windows 2000 XP Installation The following details the installation of the drivers while installing Windows 2000 XP 1 Start the installation...

Страница 12: ...been setup Remark If you would like to install windows to any RAID set you should create RAID from BIOS utility first and then follow the steps above Existing Windows 2000 XP Installation 1 Install th...

Страница 13: ...booted with the SIS 180 and the drives installed the onboard BIOS will display the following screen 2 Press Ctrl S keys to display the SIS180 Utility Main Menu 3 Press R to display the RAID setup menu...

Страница 14: ...h 1 2 3 or 4 drives To create an array for best performance follow these steps 1 Press A to create array 2 Press 2 and Enter to select Stripe 3 Press 1 7 keys and Enter to select Block Size Default 32...

Страница 15: ...Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide 12 6 Press N and Enter to Create Stripe only If Press Y and Enter it will split the data on source disk to other disks 7 Press Q until escape the setup menu...

Страница 16: ...ess Y and Enter to save changes 9 Once the array has been created you will need to FDISK and format the array as if it were a new single hard drive Creating a Mirror Array To create an Mirror array fo...

Страница 17: ...Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide 14 2 Press 3 and Enter to select Mirror 3 Press 1 2 keys and Enter to select Transfer Mode Default DMA 4 Use to select disk and press Enter to select disk Q to exit...

Страница 18: ...Quick User s Guide 15 5 Press N and Enter to Create Mirror only If Press Y and Enter it will Duplicate the data on source disk to mirror disk 6 Press Q until escape the setup menu 7 Press Y and Enter...

Страница 19: ...Once the array has been created you will need to FDISK and format the array as if it were a new single hard drive Creating a JBOD Array To create an JBOD array follow these steps 1 Press A to create a...

Страница 20: ...ick User s Guide 17 3 Press 1 2 keys and Enter to select Transfer Mode Default DMA 4 Use to select disk and press Enter to select disk Q to exit 5 Press Q until escape the setup menu 6 Press Y and Ent...

Страница 21: ...y has been created you will need to FDISK and format the array as if it were a new single hard drive Creating a Stripe Mirror Array To create an Stripe Mirror array follow these steps 1 Press A to cre...

Страница 22: ...uide 19 3 Press 1 7 keys and Enter to select Block Size Default 32K 4 Press 1 2 keys and Enter to select Transfer Mode Default DMA 5 Use to select disk and press Enter to select disk Q to exit 6 Press...

Страница 23: ...Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide 20 7 Press Y and Enter to save changes 8 Once the array has been created you will need to FDISK and format the array as if it were a new single hard drive...

Страница 24: ...ter installing the SiS RAID utility go to Start menu and choose Programs From the Programs menu choose SiS RAID Utility and click on SiSRaid 2 The SiS RAID Utility window opens as below The main inter...

Страница 25: ...Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide 22 3 Click the tab configuration you can find three tabs Create Raid Delete Raid and Raid Recovery In the same way you can switch to different tabs by clicking on it...

Страница 26: ...at the user can select JBOD RAID 0 RAID 1 and RAID 0 1 User can select any one array type to create a RAID set b Block Size If user selected RAID 0 and RAID 0 1 array types in the Array Type box the B...

Страница 27: ...ode types that the user can select PIO and DMA User can select any one mode type to create a RAID set The default selection is DMA d Available Disks This pane will list out all the disks that can be u...

Страница 28: ...e f Information This pane will show the information about creating a RAID set after clicking the button Create The information may be Please select the Raid Type first Please select the Mode Type firs...

Страница 29: ...n Create Then a warning message will be popup Pay attention to the warning message and then click Yes button to finish the creation of JBOD array or click No button to cancel NOTE If the disk you sele...

Страница 30: ...skip restarting NOTE New Setting will take effect after restarting only b To create a RAID 0 Stripe array follow these steps 1 Configuration Create Raid Raid Type RAID 0 2 From the drop down box Block...

Страница 31: ...create a clean stripe array without any data on it Split data Boot from IDE Split operation will split data from source disk into all the selected disks In this operation the boot disk can t be place...

Страница 32: ...n to cancel 8 When the operation is finished the restart warning message will be popup as well as JBOD array creation except for the operation Split boot OS into Raid0 Next you can click Ok button to...

Страница 33: ...Source The first selected disk Target The second selected disk Create Only This operation will destroy all data on all the selected disks and create a clean mirror array without any data on it Create...

Страница 34: ...Disks pane select the disk and click downward arrow icon or double click it to add the disk on the Selected Disks pane Please see the Performance hints and recommend setting section for best settings...

Страница 35: ...Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide 32 Example Showing its information...

Страница 36: ...Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide 33 Delete a Raid set a To delete a JBOD RAID0 or RAID1 array follow these steps 1 Configuration Delete Raid the following windows will appear...

Страница 37: ...ble click the array You can get some information about the disk array 3 If you want to delete a disk array you selected you can highlight the disk array and then click the button Delete Then a warning...

Страница 38: ...Configuration Delete Raid highlight the disk array in the Current RaidType pane and then click the Information button or double click the array You can get some information about the disk array The fo...

Страница 39: ...which are the same with previous those will be popup 4 Or you can click the button Degrade to degrade RAID0 1 set to become a completed RAID0 set See below NOTE The degrading operation is workable onl...

Страница 40: ...AID0 set exist a First you can click the button Available Raid to find whether any error Raid set existing See below Next highlight the error Raid set you want to recovery And you can click the button...

Страница 41: ...ancel to give up this selection c When the Available Raid and Available Disk is finished you can click the button Start to start this operation And the button Start will become Pause Then you can clic...

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