RAID5 SATA II – 3Gbps External Dual Ports PCI-Express Host (Raid 5, 0, 1,10 & JBOD) RC-223 User Manual
RAID5 SATA II – 3Gbps External Dual Ports PCI-Express Host (Raid 5, 0, 1,10 & JBOD) RC-223 User Manual When the HBA be used on Macintosh as a non-bootable adapter, please refer the Mac drivers on the path of \ Mac OS \ SiI3132 \ Raid5 at the packed driver CD or download from http://www.siliconimage.com/support/index.aspx?pid=0&cid=0&.
RAID5 SATA II – 3Gbps External Dual Ports PCI-Express Host (Raid 5, 0, 1,10 & JBOD) RC-223 User Manual Q5: What is Raid1? A5: RAID1 also known as Mirroring or SAFE. Mirroring creates an identical twin for a selected disk by having the data simultaneously written to two disks. If a read failure occurs on one drive, the system will read the data from the other drive. Raid1 need two drives to store the same data. Q6: What is Raid10? A6: RAID10 also known as RAID 0+1 or Mirrored-Striping or “SAFE and FAST”.
RAID5 SATA II – 3Gbps External Dual Ports PCI-Express Host (Raid 5, 0, 1,10 & JBOD) RC-223 User Manual A12: In RAID storage system, RAID managing information is saved on the drive. If without the correct RAID Creating by BIOS or GUI, Windows Device Manager can NOT recognize the existing of hard drive.
RAID5 SATA II – 3Gbps External Dual Ports PCI-Express Host (Raid 5, 0, 1,10 & JBOD) RC-223 User Manual Q20: Does RAID card support ATAPI device? Q20: No, RAID card doesn’t. Q21: OK to install Windows OS on RAID5 Drives? A21: RAID5 card is software RAID5, which is managed and manipulated by Software Driver. It’s NOT good to let Driver layer charge the tasks of OS layer, so we don’t recommend to use the RAID5, RAID0, RAID1, RAID10 as OS Disks.
RAID5 SATA II – 3Gbps External Dual Ports PCI-Express Host (Raid 5, 0, 1,10 & JBOD) RC-223 User Manual o Independent Link, Transport, and data FIFO. o Independent command fetch, scatter/gather, and command execution. o Supports Legacy Command Queuing (LCQ). o Supports Native Command Queuing (NCQ). o Supports Non-zero offsets NCQ. o Supports Out of order data delivery NCQ. o Supports FIS-based switching with Port Multipliers. o 31 Commands and Scatter/Gather Tables per Port.
RAID5 SATA II – 3Gbps External Dual Ports PCI-Express Host (Raid 5, 0, 1,10 & JBOD) RC-223 User Manual Disk Striping (RAID 0) Striping is a performance-oriented, non-redundant data mapping technique. While Striping is discussed as a RAID Set type, it is actually does not provide fault tolerance. With modern SATA bus mastering technology, multiple I/O operations can be done in parallel, enhancing performance. Striping arrays use multiple disks to form a larger virtual disk.
RAID5 SATA II – 3Gbps External Dual Ports PCI-Express Host (Raid 5, 0, 1,10 & JBOD) RC-223 User Manual 3. Installation Procedures 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.
RAID5 SATA II – 3Gbps External Dual Ports PCI-Express Host (Raid 5, 0, 1,10 & JBOD) RC-223 User Manual 4. Select Number of hard drive. Press Enter. 5. Select RAID size. Press Enter. 6. Press Y to save your settings. 7. Press CTRL+E and then press Y to exit the setup. 8. Continue with conventional Fdisk and Format steps as if you are installing a conventional hard drive. 9. Your RAID configuration is complete. Please proceed to software installation section. 4.2. Creating Mirrored Sets (RAID 1) 1.
RAID5 SATA II – 3Gbps External Dual Ports PCI-Express Host (Raid 5, 0, 1,10 & JBOD) RC-223 User Manual 4.5. 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. 4.6. Rebuilding Mirrored Sets (RAID 1) 1.
RAID5 SATA II – 3Gbps External Dual Ports PCI-Express Host (Raid 5, 0, 1,10 & JBOD) RC-223 User Manual \SiI3132\Windows\Driver'. 4. Press 'Enter' to continue on with text mode setup. 5. Follow the setup instructions to select your choice for partition and file system. 6. After setup examines your disks, it will copy files to Windows 2000 installation folders and restart the system. The setup program will continue and finish the installation after restart. 7.
RAID5 SATA II – 3Gbps External Dual Ports PCI-Express Host (Raid 5, 0, 1,10 & JBOD) RC-223 User Manual 'Silicon Image SiI 3132 SoftRaid5 Controller', the driver is started correctly. 3. To view information about the devices attached to the controller, use the SiICfg Utility and click on the device from the list. 5.4. Update new driver on Windows Vista/2000/XP/2003 with existing driver 1. Right click on 'My Computer' and select 'Properties'.
