eSATA II 1+1 PCIe RAID Card RC213 User Manual
eSATAII 1+1 PCIe RAID Card RC213 User Manual Important Message for User before Installing RC-213: Before controller card installation, we recommend the users to study this manual and the PDF file of SATARaid5 Manual at enclosed CD folder\SATA PCIe_Raid5_2Port\SiI3132\Windows\Gui ( or\Raid5 SATA2_4Port\SiI3124\ Windows\Gui ) first. This Raid manual has more information on Raid architecture, Raid features, Raid installation, Raid setting and Management software for Raid5 GUI (Graphical User Interface). 1.
eSATAII 1+1 PCIe RAID Card RC213 User Manual 1. Introduction This Low Profile PCI-Express Host Adapter is a controller board to support Low profile PCI and regular size PCI both in one card. The card can upgrade your desktop computer to have 2 ports Serial ATA II transfer rate of 3 Gb/s (300 MB/s). The board can be used to upgrade your desktop computer to have 2Ports Serial ATA Channels and support RAID 5, RAID 0+1, RAID 0, RAID 1 and JBOD features.
eSATAII 1+1 PCIe RAID Card RC213 User Manual 20. RAID 0+1 (Mirrored-Stripping) combine both Striping and Mirroring technologies to provide both the performance enhancements that come from Striping and the data availability and integrity that comes from Mirroring. 1.2. Package Contents 1. RC-213 RAID5 SATA II – 3Gbps 2Ports PCI Express Host Adapter 2. This Users Manual 3. Driver CD 4. Low profile bracket 2.
eSATAII 1+1 PCIe RAID Card RC213 User Manual installations. Mirroring requires 100% increase in capacity to protect the data whereas the above example only requires a 50% increase. The required capacity decreases as the number of disks in the group increases. Just Bunch of Disks (JBOD, Contiguous) The JBOD here (also known as Contiguous) means a logical drive that can either be an entire disk drive or a segment of a single disk drive. For this card, JBOD function only supports one disk.
eSATAII 1+1 PCIe RAID Card RC213 User Manual f. Keep the floppy in floppy drive and follow the installation. Press “S” when the screen shows as the following picture.
eSATAII 1+1 PCIe RAID Card RC213 User Manual g. Choose the correct OS for your future system. h. Keep the floppy disk in floppy drive during the installation. PC will notice you as below if you take them off from the drive.
eSATAII 1+1 PCIe RAID Card RC213 User Manual i.The installation of RC-213 by floppy drive will be completed right now. The system will detect the HD which plugs on the card right now. After you install RC-213 successfully by floppy disk, installation will lead you back to Windows Setup. System will ask you if you want to specify additional SCSI adapter for use in Windows. Please press “enter” to left the setting. j.
eSATAII 1+1 PCIe RAID Card RC213 User Manual Detail guide: 1. Power down the computer system. 2. Insert the Host card into an available bus slot. 3. Power ON. 4. Install Device Driver as section 5. 5. Remove all the existing SATARaid GUI (or Java SATARaid GUI) to ensure your new SATARaid5 GUI can work properly. 6. Install new SATARaid5 GUI. 7. Power down the computer system again. 8. Connect Hard Drives to SATA Ports. 9. Power ON. 10.
eSATAII 1+1 PCIe RAID Card RC213 User Manual 2. Select Create RAID set. Press Enter. 3. Select RAID 1 then press Enter. 4. Select Auto configuration. Press Enter. 5. Press Y to save your settings. 6. Press CTRL+E and then press Y to exit the setup. 7. Continue with conventional Fdisk and Format steps as if you are installing a conventional hard drive. 8. Your RAID configuration is complete. Please proceed to software installation section. 4.3. Creating a Mirrored-Striped Set (RAID 10) 1.
eSATAII 1+1 PCIe RAID Card RC213 User Manual 4.7. Deleting RAID Sets 1. As the BIOS boots, Press CTRL+S or F4 to enter the raid bios utility. 2. Select Delete RAID set. Press Enter. 3. Answer Y to remove the RAID set. If the RAID set being deleted is a Striped set, then all of the data will be lost. If the set being deleted is a Mirrored set, then the data will remain intact and accessible on both drives. 4.8. Rebuilding Mirrored Sets (RAID 1) 1.
eSATAII 1+1 PCIe RAID Card RC213 User Manual 5.2. Adding the controller card to an existing Windows 2000/XP/2003/VISTA Installation 1. Power off the system. Connect the hard drives to the controller card and insert the controller card into a PCI Express slot. Power up the system. 2. During OS boot up, Windows will display the 'Found New Hardware Wizard'. Click 'Next'. 3. Select 'Search for a suitable driver for my device (Recommended)' and Click 'Next'. 4.
