Serial ATA PCI RAID Quick Installation Guide Introducing the Serial ATA PCI RAID The Serial ATA PCI RAID is an ultra high-speed two channel Serial ATA controller board for use in Pentium-class computers. It achieves burst data transfer rates up to 150MB/s (1.5Gb/s) and supports various brands of hard disk drives with capacities greater that 137GB. Features and Benefits • • • • • • • • Compliant with Serial ATA Specification, revision 1.0 Compliant with PCI Specification, revision 2.
Package Contents • • • • • • Serial ATA PCI RAID board Driver CD 2 Serial ATA cables Dual Connector Serial ATA power cable "Y" split power cable This quick installaton guide Layout Serial ATA Connectors CN1 CN2 Figure 1.
Hardware Installation General instructions for installing the card are provided below. Since the design of computer cases and motherboards vary, refer to your computer’s reference manual for further information, if needed. Static Electricity Discharge may permanently damage your system. Discharge any static electricity build up in your body by touching your computer’s case for a few seconds. Avoid any contact with internal parts and handle cards only by their external edges. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
2. 3. Connect the Serial ATA hard disk drive to the system power supply using the included Serial ATA power cable. Connect one end of the Serial ATA cable to the hard disk drive. Serial ATA cable Serial ATA power cable Figure 2. Hard disk drive connections 4. Attach the other end of the Serial ATA cable to the Serial ATA connector on the Serial ATA PCI RAID. Figure 3. Connecting the Serial ATA cable 5. Follow the same instructions to connect a second hard drive. Device connection is now complete.
RAID Arrays RAID Arrays are setup in the Serial ATA PCI RAID's BIOS. Find your RAID set from the table of contents. Follow the steps in the order in which they appear. Table of Contents RAID 0 (striping) ........................................... page 5-6 RAID 1 (mirroring) ........................................ page 6-7 Rebuilding a Failed Mirror Set ...................... page 7 Deleting RAID Arrays ..................................... page 8 Resolving Conflicts .......................................
. 7. Press Ctrl+E to exit the BIOS. When asked Are you sure to exit (Y/N)?, press Y to exit and reboot. For Manual Configuration 1. As the BIOS boots press Ctrl+S or F4 when prompted to enter the RAID BIOS. 2. At the next screen select Create RAID Set, then press Enter. 3. Select Striped, then press Enter. 4. Select Manual configuration, then press Enter. 5. Select the first drive, press Enter. 6. Select the second drive, press Enter. 7. Select the chunk size, then press Enter. 8.
For Existing Hard Drives with Data 1. As the BIOS boots press Ctrl+S or F4 when prompted to enter the RAID BIOS. 2. At the next screen select Create RAID Set, then press Enter. 3. At the next screen select Mirrored then press Enter. 4. Select Manual configuration, then press Enter. 5. Select the Source drive, press Enter. 6. Select the Target drive, press Enter. 7. At the Disk Copy window select Yes, then press Enter. 8. Select Offline copy, then press Enter. 9.
3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Select Rebuild Mirror set then press Enter. Select Offline rebuild then press Enter. When asked Are You Sure (Y/N)?, press Y to confirm. The mirror will start to rebuild. When rebuilding finishes, press Ctrl+E to exit. (Rebuilding can take 30-90 minutes depending on the size of the mirror). When asked Are you sure to exit (Y/N)?, press Y to exit and reboot. Deleting RAID Arrays 1. As the BIOS boots press Ctrl+S or F4 when prompted to enter the RAID BIOS. 2.
Low Level Format Low Level Format is built into the RAID BIOS to make it more convenient to erase the entire contents of a hard disk drive, including data, drive and partition information. The Low Level Format utility works on single hard drives only, before the RAID set is configured. Driver Installation This section provides information on how to install the Serial ATA PCI RAID drivers. Table of Contents Windows 98SE ............................................. page 9-10 Windows ME .....................
6. 7. 8. Insert the driver CD, then click Next. Select Search for the better driver ... and click Next. Check CD-ROM drive, uncheck the other boxes, then click Next. Click Next again, then Finish. 9. Remove the driver CD, then restart Windows to complete the installation. When Windows resumes, go to SATARaid GUI on page 18 and install the RAID monitoring utility. For An Existing Installation 1. Setup the RAID array prior to driver installation and boot up to Windows. 2.
4. Double click PCI RAID Controller listed under Other Devices. 5. Select Driver tab and click Update Driver button. 6. Insert the driver CD, select Automatic search for a better driver (Recommended), then click Next. 7. Accept the default entry, then click OK. 8. Click Finish, remove the driver CD, then restart Windows to complete the installation. When Windows resumes, go to SATARaid GUI on page 18 and install the RAID monitoring utility. For An Existing Installation 1.
Windows NT 4.0 A new installation of Windows NT requires a floppy disk for the driver installation. To make this floppy disk, copy the contents of the Floppy folder, found on the driver CD, onto a blank floppy disk then follow the directions below. For A New Installation Important: During NT installation you will be asked to restart several times.
10. Screen 6, Windows NT Setup, highlight Silicon Image Sil 3x12 SATARaid Controller for Windows NT 4.0 and 2000 and hit Enter to load driver. 11. Screen 7, Windows NT Setup, the RAID driver, Silicon Image Sil 3x12 SATARaid Controller for Windows NT 4.0 and 2000 should be listed. Hit Enter. Setup will load the RAID driver. 12. Follow on-screen instructions to complete setup for your NT version. When Windows installation completes, go to SATARaid GUI on page 18 and install the RAID monitoring utility.
2. Highlight Silicon Image Sil 3112 SATARaid Controller and click Properties. A message This device is working properly is displayed in the dialog box, the driver has been correctly installed. Windows 2000 A new installation of Windows 2000 requires a floppy disk for the driver installation. To make this floppy disk, copy the contents of the Floppy folder, found on the driver CD, onto a blank floppy disk then follow the directions below.
8. Press Enter to finish driver installation, then follow the on-screen instructions to complete Windows 2000 installation. When Windows installation completes, go to SATARaid GUI on page 18 and install the RAID monitoring utility. For An Existing Installation 1. Setup the RAID array prior to driver installation and boot up to Windows. 2. At the Found New Hardware Wizard, click Next. 3. Select Search for a suitable driver for my device (recommended), then click Next. 4.
1. 2. 3. Setup the RAID array prior to Windows installation. Follow Microsoft's Windows installation procedure. Restart the computer when prompted by Windows' installation. 4. At the Windows Setup screen, press F6 to install the driver. 5. When prompted press S to specify the location of the driver. 6. Insert the driver diskette, then press Enter. 7. Select Silicon Image Sil 3x12 SATARaid Controller for Windows XP/Server 2003, then press Enter. 8.
To Verify Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003 Installation 1. 2. Right click My Computer, click Manage, click Device Manager. Double click SCSI and RAID controllers, then double click Silicon Image Sil 3112 SATARaid Controller to display driver properties. A message This device is working properly is displayed in the dialog box, the driver has been correctly installed.
SATARaid GUI The SATARaid GUI provides the user an easy way to monitor your RAID set. It also offers administrative tools to save, copy, or send via E-mail the current configuration. Installing SATARaid GUI 1. 2. 3. 4. Place the driver CD into the CD-ROM drive. At the Windows desktop click Start, then Run. Type D:\Setup.exe, then click OK. (Change D: to match your CD-ROM drive letter) Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation. Note: Before installing the SATARaid GUI in Windows NT 4.
Selecting each different component in the configuration tree provides specific information for that component, such as the chip. By selecting a specific channel the following information is reported.
Selecting a specific drive reports all pertinent information to that drive, including Configuration and Disk Identification information.
Selecting Sets reports on active RAID sets. By selecting the specific RAID set, such as Set 0 which is a Mirrored Set, the type of RAID set, the number of members and capacity is reported.
The Members tab reports the device identification (corresponding with the information in the BIOS) and the state of each device. Besides reporting information, the Members tab of a Mirrored Set allows the user to remove a specific drive from that set. However, a drive cannot be removed from a stripe set as this would destroy all the data.
The device identification, along with the state of each device is also reported in the Members tab window. Note that when a Mirror set is first created, the state of the “destination” drive may report as Rebuild for as much as 30-90 minutes depending on the size of the disk. SMART and Configuration information, as well as Data Identification is again provided for each Set.
Configuration Menu With the SATARaid GUI running, the small SATARaid icon should appear in the bottom right of the computer screen, next to the clock. By right-clicking on the icon and clicking Configure the user may configure SATARaid including customizing the settings for SMTP, E-mail, Notification, Event Level, Log File, Audio, and Popup. SMTP The SMTP server is the server that is used to send e-mails. Normally, the network administrator knows what this name is. Both the name and domain must be entered.
E-Mail Using the E-mail tab in the Configuration Menu, the user may set the default E-mail address and subject line to where the configuration should be sent. This, however, can be overridden at the time of sending the E-mail. Notification When different types of events occur, SATARaid may be configured to send notices to assigned individual E-mail addresses. Using the Notification tab, all E-mail addresses desired to receive the notices may be entered.
Event Level There are different types of E-mail notifications that may be sent which are set with the Event Level tab.
Log File The log file is used to store event information received from all the RAID drivers. The log file is a text file and can be viewed with Notepad or the SATARaid GUI. Use the Log File tab to set where the log file should be stored and the name of the file as well. Audio The user may set different audio alerts for the different levels of events.
Popup The popup window is a visual notification that an event occurred. The popup window can be disabled or set to popup for only certain event levels.
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