TR-824 SATA Host Adapter User’s Manual Manual Rev: 1.00 Date: Nov. 2003 Model Number Protocol PCI Interface Max Xfer Rate (MB/s) TR-824 Serial ATA 1.0 Specification PCI 2.3 66MHz/32bit 150 Max Devices 4 The designation TR-824 is used throughout this manual in reference to the features of the above model. * All other product names are trademarks or copyrights of their respective owners.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION ...........................................................................................5 1.1 PRODUCT OVERVIEW ......................................................................................................... 5 1.1.1 Specifications:....................................................................................................................................... 5 1.1.2 SATA Raid Features ........................................................................
6. GUI (GRAPHIC USER INTERFACE) ..........................................................18 6.1 GUI INSTALLATION ......................................................................................................... 18 6.2 OVERVIEW ....................................................................................................................... 19 6.3 GUI CONFIGURATION MENU ........................................................................................... 23 7. CREATING/NAMING PARTITIONS.
1. INTRODUCTION 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Product Overview Thank you for purchasing Tekram TR-824 Serial ATA controller card. This controller allows you to install and enjoy the performance advantage of the new Serial ATA hard drives in your existing PC rather than spending the time, effort and money in upgrading to a brand-new system. The TR-824 is a four-channel PCI Serial ATA host adapter that can support up to four Serial ATA drives. 1.1.
1. INTRODUCTION 1.2 RAID Explained RAID - Redundant Array of Independent Disks RAID technology manages multiple disk drives to enhance I/O performance and provide redundancy in order to withstand the failure of any individual member, without loss of data. SATA Raid provides four popular RAID Set types, Striped (RAID 0), Mirrored (RAID 1), a combination of RAID 0 and RAID 1 (RAID 0+1), and Data Striping with Striped Parity (RAID 5) which will be supported by Tekram next generation SATA products. 1.2.
1. INTRODUCTION 1.2.4 Data Striping with Striped Parity (RAID 5) The data is striped across disk drives. The parity data in a RAID 5 set is striped across all disk drives. RAID 5 is designed to handle small data blocks. This makes RAID 5 an excellent choice for multitasking, multi-user and database environments. The security provided by RAID 5 is that when one disk drive fails, all data is fully available, the missing data is recalculated from the data that is still available and the parity information.
2. HARDWARE SETUP 2. HARDWARE SETUP 2.1 Board Layout The following figures illustrate the chip and connector locations for the TR-824 PCI SATA Host Adapter. TR-824 Serial ATA 4-channel Host Adapter 7-pin Serial ATA connector S Sil3114 2.2 Installing TR-824 The TR-824 Controller card fits into any available 32-bit PCI slot (must be PCI 2.2 or 2.3 compliant). It also fits the 32-bit portion of a 64-bit PCI slot, on the system’s motherboard (see figure below). 1. Remove the cover of your system. 2.
2. HARDWARE SETUP 2.3 Installing Hard Drives The TR-824 Controller card supports up to four Serial ATA hard drives. Install all of the hard drives into the hard drive bays of your system, including their power cables. Attach one Serial ATA data cable to each hard drive. Then attach the other ends of the cables to one of the Serial ATA ports on the TR-824 card. All of the connectors are keyed so they can only be attached one way. Note: The TR-824 Controller card is a PCI Plug-n-Play (PnP) device.
3. BIOS CONFIGURATION 3. BIOS CONFIGURATION 3.1 Basic BIOS screen information After you install the TR-824 RAID Controller and HDDs in your computer and boot your system, you will see the screen that displays information about the card and HDDs installed. Press or F4 to enter RAID utility.
3. BIOS CONFIGURATION 3.2.5 Low Level Format When any of the drives fails to normally function or there is any logical error in one of the drives, you can select “Low Level Format” to resolve the problem by reverting the drive to original condition. 3.2.6 Logical Drive Info The complete information about the logical drives will be shown on the bottom right part of the screen if this option is chosen.
4. BUILDING DRIVER DISKETTES 4. BUILDING DRIVER DISKETTES If you do not have the Driver Diskettes, you can create them from the Driver CD. Follow these steps to create the Driver Diskettes. 1. The system BIOS must set to boot from a CD-ROM. 2. Insert the Driver CD into the CD-ROM drive. Start the driver building by booting from the CD-ROM. Tekram SATA Adapters Driver Diskette Make Utility starts and provides several screens with choices.
5. INSTALLING SOFTWARE DRIVERS 5. INSTALLING SOFTWARE DRIVERS 5.1 Windows Server 2003 Installation 5.1.1 New Windows Server 2003 Installation The following details the installation of the TR-824 drivers while Installing Windows 2003. 1. Start the installation: • Floppy Install: Boot the computer with the Windows Server 2003 installation diskettes. • CD-ROM Install: Boot from the CD-ROM. Press when the message “Press F6 if you need to install third party SCSI or RAID driver” appears. 2.
5. INSTALLING SOFTWARE DRIVERS specified, continue to the next step. 7. From the Windows XP Setup screen, press . Setup will now load all device files and then continue the Windows XP installation. 5.1.2 Existing Windows XP Installation After installing the TR-824 card and rebooting your system, Windows XP setup will show a Found New Hardware dialog box. Under Windows XP, “RAID Controller” will be displayed. 1. Insert the TR-824 driver diskette into the drive A:\. 2.
5. INSTALLING SOFTWARE DRIVERS) 3. Click the “+” in front of SCSI controllers. “Tekram TR-824 SATARaid Controller” should appear. 5.3 Windows ME Installation 5.3.1 New Windows ME Installation The following details the installation of the TR-824 drivers while installing Windows ME. 1. Install the TR-824 controller card into your system. 2. Install Windows ME fully. 3. After installation, right-click on My Computer and select Properties from the popup menu. 4.
5. INSTALLING SOFTWARE DRIVERS appears on screen then press . 6. The Windows NT Setup window will appear again saying, “Setup will load support for the following mass storage devices:” The list will include TR-824 SATARaid Controller for Windows NT 4.0 and 2000 NOTE: If there are any additional devices to be installed, specify them now. When all devices are specified, continue to the next step. 7. From the Windows NT Setup screen, press .
5. INSTALLING SOFTWARE DRIVERS) Next. 10. Choose Specify Location then type “A:\tr824.inf” in the text box. 11. Insert the TR-824 driver diskette into the A:\ drive. 12. Click the Next button. A message informing you “Windows 98 has found Tekram TR-824 SATARaid Controller” should appear. 13. Click Next, then Finish. 14. When asked if you want to restart your computer, click Yes. Immediately remove the diskette from drive A:\. 5.5.
6. GUI (GRAPHIC USER INTERFACE) 6. GUI (GRAPHIC USER INTERFACE) GUI stands for Graphic User Interface, the GUI function offers user-friendly graphics in Windows operating systems for easy RAID array monitoring and storage management.
6. GUI (GRAPHIC USER INTERFACE) 6.2 Overview The SATA Raid GUI offers the user the ability to easily monitor your RAID Set. To launch the GUI, simply double-click on the icon located in the bottom right hand corner of the Desktop. If the icon does not appear in the bottom right hand corner of the desktop, find where the application was saved and launch from there.
6. GUI (GRAPHIC USER INTERFACE) Selecting any specific channel from the four channels, the following information is reported: Selecting a specific drive reports all relevant information to that drive, including Configuration and Disk Identification information.
6. GUI (GRAPHIC USER INTERFACE) Selecting Sets lists the Sets in the configuration tree and provides information on RIO Version: By selecting a specific RAID set, such as Set 1, the type of RAID set, the number of members and capacity is reported. The Members tab of this window reports the device identification (corresponding with the information in the BIOS) and the State of each device.
6. GUI (GRAPHIC USER INTERFACE) drive from that set, as well as add a designated Spare drive to a Mirrored set that has experienced a disk failure. A drive can NOT be removed from a Striped set as this would destroy all data. Note that when a Mirrored 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.
6. GUI (GRAPHIC USER INTERFACE) 6.3 GUI Configuration Menu By clicking on the toolbox icon in the top left of the SATA Raid GUI window, or right-clicking on the conductor icon in the bottom right of the computer screen (with other start-up icons), the user may configure SATA Raid 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.
6. GUI (GRAPHIC USER INTERFACE) E-Mail The current SATARaid configuration may be sent via e-mail. Using the e-mail tab in the SATARaid Configuration Menu, the user may set the default e-mail address and subject line where the configuration would be sent. This, however, can be overridden at the time of sending the email. Notification When different types of events occur, SATARaid may be configured to send notices to assigned individual e-mail addresses.
6. GUI (GRAPHIC USER INTERFACE) Event Level There are different types of e-mail notifications that may be sent which are set with the Event Level tab. The different levels are: Disable - No event logs will be sent.
6. GUI (GRAPHIC USER INTERFACE) 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. The different levels are: Disable - No popup will occur.
6. GUI (GRAPHIC USER INTERFACE) TrayIcon There are different levels of events that tray icon may blink for. The different levels are: Disable – The tray icon will blink for no event.
7. CREATING/NAMING PARTITIONS 7. CREATING/NAMING PARTITIONS The creating and naming of partitions is something done within the Windows operating system. And while Windows 2000/XP/2003 and Windows NT both use the Disk Management window, there are enough nuances that make it important to follow the procedure specifically for the appropriate operating system. The procedure for Windows 98/Me is significantly different from the others. 7.
7. CREATING/NAMING PARTITIONS SECTION 1 SECTION 2 SECTION 3 This window has three main sections: SECTION 1: System listing of all formatted and available disks/RAID Sets. SECTION 2: Report of physical connection of disks/RAID Sets. SECTION 3: Report of partition status, disk letter, and volume name. 7.1.
7. CREATING/NAMING PARTITIONS possible value is automatically entered), name the volume whatever is desired (suggestions being something generic such as STRIPED SET or something specific to use such as FINANCIAL, CRITICAL, MISCELLANEOUS, etc.) then check the box next to “quick format.” Click Next. 6. The sixth window is a summary window listing all of the selections made. Click Finish.
7. CREATING/NAMING PARTITIONS However, this Write Signature window may appear first: If so, answer YES for each disk reported with no signature found. Afterwards, something similar to the following should appear: Button 1 SECTION 1 Button 2 SECTION 2 Button 1 opens the Disk Administrator Volumes window, which lists the recognizable Volumes, their capacity, free space, type of format, etc.
7. CREATING/NAMING PARTITIONS 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Click Confirm. Repeat this step for each disk. Now, right-click on the first disk and select Mark Active. A window will appear stating that this will take place on the next reboot. Click OK. Repeat this step for each disk. Close window. Confirm saving changes. Click Yes. 10. Disk Administrator will report that the disks were updated successfully. Click OK. 11. Re-open Disk Administrator. 12. Right-click on the first disk (this should now be the Striped Set).
7. CREATING/NAMING PARTITIONS Press Enter for yes. The FDISK Options window will appear: The Current Fixed Drive will be the System Drive (normally C:\). In order to create partitions, the fixed drive needs to be changed. Select 5 and press Enter.
7. CREATING/NAMING PARTITIONS Enter the disk number to partition and press Enter. With the Current fixed drive set at the disk needing to be partitioned, Select 1 and press Enter. The following window will appear: Select 2 to create an extended partition and press Enter.
7. CREATING/NAMING PARTITIONS Once the percentage counter reaches 100%, the following window will appear: This window explains how much space will be available in the partition. Press Enter. This window shows that the partition has been created. Press Esc. FDISK is now creating a logical drive.
7. CREATING/NAMING PARTITIONS Once the percentage counter reaches 100% the following window appears: Once again, this window reports size. Press Enter and the following window appears: This window now shows the drive and its drive letter and size. Press Esc. If another drive (RAID set) needs to be partitioned, repeat the process, starting by changing the fixed disk drive (Press 5). If done, press Esc.
7. CREATING/NAMING PARTITIONS The following window will appear: This window is a reminder to RESTART the computer. After restarting the computer, and booting Windows 9x, double-click on the My Computer icon. Right-click on each new drive and select Format. Only a FULL format will be accepted at this point. Select Full Format, enter the Label Name for the drive or RAID set (if desired) and click OK. Once the drive has been formatted, repeat for each new drive. The new drives should now be ready to be used.
8. TROUBLESHOOTING TIPS 8. TROUBLESHOOTING TIPS The following tips are general troubleshooting procedures: 1. Check that the TR-824 RAID Card is seated evenly all the way into the PCI slot. 2. Check that the PCI expansion slot is 5V and compliant with PCI 2.3 or previous version and supports Bus Mastering. 3. Check that TR-824 Raid Card is detected during booting by looking for the BIOS message from the screen. If it is not detected, try to move to another free PCI slot. 4.
9. TECHNICAL SUPPORT GUIDE 9. TECHNICAL SUPPORT GUIDE Tekram Technical Support provides several support options for our users to access information and updates. We encourage you to use one of our electronic services, which provide product information updates with the most efficient service and support.
FCC Compliance Statement This equipment has been tested and found to comply with limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in residential installations. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy, and if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interface to radio communications.
