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SATA+Ultra ATA RAID CONTROLLER RC212
User Manual
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SATA+ULTRA ATA RAID CONTROLLERRC212 User Manual Contents Feature and benefits 3 Package contents 3 System requirement 3 Magic Switch introduction and jumper setting 4 Hardware installation 6 Important message for user 6 RAID introduction RAID 0 7 RAID 1 9 RAID 0+1 10 Driver installation Quick guide 13 Detail guide 19 2
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SATA+ULTRA ATA RAID CONTROLLERRC212 User Manual Features and Benefits Compliant with Serial ATA 1.0 specification Compliant with PCI Specification, revision 2.2 Provides three independent channels to connect two SATA and two PATA hard disk drive Supports up to UDMA6 transfer mode of PATA Supports up to 4 storage device connection（Two SATA and Two PATA） Supports RAID 0, 1, 0+1 and JBOD functions Supports drives with capacities
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SATA+ULTRA ATA RAID CONTROLLERRC212 User Manual Magic Switch introduction and jumper setting Before installing the VIA VT6421 RAID PCI Card, please see the photo below which shows all the ports & jumpers on this PCI Card. A SATA Connector (External) B SATA Connector (External) C SATA Connector (Internal) D SATA Connector (Internal) E PATA Connector F Jumpers control BC Switch G Jumpers control AD Switch 4
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SATA+ULTRA ATA RAID CONTROLLERRC212 User Manual IDE/RAID: Jumper Settings JP Description 1-2 Enable SATA Connector B close J8-J11 2-3 Enable SATA Connector C close 1-2 Enable SATA Connector A close J12-J15 2-3 Enable SATA Connector D close Default Mode is all jumper 2-3 close, so C-D is active and A-B is inactive on default. 1.There are four SATA ports in RC212 RAID adapter. We named these ports character A throug
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SATA+ULTRA ATA RAID CONTROLLERRC212 User Manual character A through D. Ports C & D are internal SATA ports and A & B are external SATA ports. By changing the jumper setting on the PCI SATA+PATA RAID card that allows you to utilize 2 ports of this card at the same time. Please set which port to work by jumper setting. By default, Port C and D are working. Hardware Installation 1. Turn Off the power to your computer. 2. Unplug the power cord
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SATA+ULTRA ATA RAID CONTROLLERRC212 User Manual set any RAID set at the beginning of booting. You can jump to P11 “Driver installation” directly to complete the install. The only different is ignoring the step of RAID setting and the driver setting is the same as a RAID card. RAID Arrays RAID Arrays are setup in the PCI SATA+PATA RAID card’s BIOS. There are four configurations supported: RAID Configurations Number of disks needed level/Ty
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SATA+ULTRA ATA RAID CONTROLLERRC212 User Manual 4. When asked Auto Create array will destroy all data on disks. Continue? (Y/N), press Y to accept. 5. And then a Create New Raid Success!! Message will be displayed. Press ESC to quit then go back to the RAID utility main menu. 6. Press ESC to exit the BIOS. 7. When asked Do you really want to exit the utility? (Y/N), press Y to accept. Manual configuration 1. As the BIOS boots press Tab whe
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SATA+ULTRA ATA RAID CONTROLLERRC212 User Manual RAID 1 (Mirroring) For New/Blank Hard Drives 1. As the BIOS boots press Tab when prompted to enter the RAID BIOS. 2. At the RAID utility main menu select Create Array, press Enter. 3. At the next screen select Auto Setup For Data Security, press Enter. 4. When asked Auto Create array will destroy all data on disks. Continue? (Y/N), press Y to accept. 5. And then a Create New Raid Success!! Mess
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SATA+ULTRA ATA RAID CONTROLLERRC212 User Manual you that build is finished. Rebuild Mirror Drive 12. When a failure to one member occurs, you will be notified by the RAID BIOS during boot. The steps below will guide you in rebuilding a failed mirror set. 13. Replace he failed drive(s) with one of equal or greater capacity, then start the computer. 14. Then you will see the following message shown by the PCI SATA+PATA RAID card’s BIOS on the scr
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SATA+ULTRA ATA RAID CONTROLLERRC212 User Manual 1. As the BIOS boots press Tab when prompted to enter the RAID BIOS. 2. At the RAID utility main menu select Create Array, press Enter. 3. At the next screen select Auto Setup (Safe, Performance), press Enter. 4. When asked Auto Create array will destroy all data on disks. Continue? (Y/N), press Y to accept. 5. And then a Create New Raid Success!! Message will be displayed. Press ESC to quit the
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SATA+ULTRA ATA RAID CONTROLLERRC212 User Manual 14. And then a Create New Raid Success!! Message will be displayed. Press ESC to quit then go back to the RAID utility main menu. 15. Press ESC to exit the BIOS. 16. When asked Do you really want to exit the utility? (Y/N), press Y to accept. SPAN (JBOD) 1. As the BIOS boots press Tab when prompted to enter the RAID BIOS. 2. At the RAID utility main menu select Create Array, press Enter. 3. A
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SATA+ULTRA ATA RAID CONTROLLERRC212 User Manual During this (POST) process, the BIOS will show up and indicate the devices attached to it. Driver Installation Quick guide: 1. If you want to add RC-212 to an existing OS, set up RC-212 into a PCI slot. Enter the OS and install RC-212 with driver disk. In this case, PC is booting up by an existing HD connecting to motherboard. After RC-212 is installed complete, you can add HD and set the RAI
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SATA+ULTRA ATA RAID CONTROLLERRC212 User Manual This will let PC boot from a HD controller instead of motherboard HD. e. Keep the floppy in floppy drive and follow the installation. Press “S” when the screen shows as the following picture. 14
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SATA+ULTRA ATA RAID CONTROLLERRC212 User Manual Choose the correct OS which you are going to install when system asks you. If below screen happens, please choose “Standard PC with C-Step i486”. 15
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SATA+ULTRA ATA RAID CONTROLLERRC212 User Manual Keep the floppy disk in floppy drive. PC will notice you as below if you take them off from the drive. 16
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SATA+ULTRA ATA RAID CONTROLLERRC212 User Manual The installation of RC-212 by floppy drive will be completed and the system will detect the HD which now plug on the card. After you install RC-212 successfully by floppy disk, installation will lead you back to the same screen as below and then press “enter” to left the setting. 17
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SATA+ULTRA ATA RAID CONTROLLERRC212 User Manual f. Once the system can find the HD connecting to RC-212, you can follow the normal steps to complete the Windows installation. 1. If you want to create a mirror with a HD with existing OS and a fresh HD, the data on existing HD will copy to fresh HD and boot as RAID 1. In addition, based on the above situation, if a bootable HD on the RC212 is desired. It means in this case you will boot our co
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SATA+ULTRA ATA RAID CONTROLLERRC212 User Manual c. Turn on PC and enter RAID BIOS to set mirror. Choose “Manual” and then select the original HD as the data source to complete mirror. The copy will take a long time depending on your HD capability. After data copy complete, save and left RAID BIOS. Important message: If you choose the wrong HD source at the step of “manual”, all your data will be lost. d. Reboot your PC and now you can e
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SATA+ULTRA ATA RAID CONTROLLERRC212 User Manual ＊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 window pop-up, please click Cancel button to cancel the driver installation for the device at this moment. The driver for this device will be installed in the next step. 3. Please insert the CD driver bound with PCI SATA+PATA RAID card into your CD-ROM Dr
