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Installation Installation Installation Guide
RAID5 eSATA 1.5Gbps 4 External port PCI Card
GIC704SR5W6
PART NO. M0560
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Table of Contents Caution 4 Introduction 5 Features 6 Package Contents 7 What Is RAID? 8 Installation Procedure 11 Software Installation 18 Federal Communications Commission 22 (FCC) Statement CE Statement 24 Limited Warranty 25 Contact 26 3
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Caution • Before installation of the controller card, we recommend that users study this manual fi rst. This RAID manual has more information on RAID architecture, RAID features, RAID installation, RAID settings and Management software for the RAID5 GUI (Graphical User Interface). • Windows Device Manager cannot recognize hard drives without the correct RAID settings in place. • The working data on your existing hard drive may NOT work when you migrate it to a RAID Host Card confi guration. •
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Introduction The board offers the ability to upgrade your desktop computer to RAID 5, RAID 0+1, RAID 0, or RAID 1 as well as JBOD. The board can control four independent Serial ATA channels. Each channel has its own Serial ATA bus and will support one Serial ATA device. The board supports Serial ATA Generation 1 transfer rates of 1.5 Gb/s (150 MB/s). 5
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Features PCI Interface • Compliant with PCI Specifi cations, Revision 2.2. • Integrated PCI DMA engines. • 32 bit, 33/66MHz fully compliant PCI host interface. High Speed Serial ATA Interface • Four high speed Serial ATA interface ports, each supporting 1st generation Serial ATA data rates (1.5Gb/s). • RAID 5 (Distributed Parity RAID) has Highest Read data transaction rate and Good aggregate transfer rate. • Provides RAID 0 (Stripping) to greatly increase the performance of data transfer by sim
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Package Contents • RAID5 SATA-150 4Ports PCI Host Adapter • Quick Start Guide • Driver CD 7
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What Is RAID? 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 drive, without loss of data. Disk Striping (RAID 0) Striping is a performance-oriented, non-redundant data mapping technique. While Striping is discussed as a RAID Set type, it actually does not provide fault tolerance. With modern SATA bus technology, multiple I/O operations can be done in
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Mirrored-Striping (RAID 0+1 also known as RAID 10) A Mirrored-Striping Set does just what it says, combining both Striping and Mirroring technologies to pro- vide both the performance enhancements that come from Striping and the data availability and integrity that comes from Mirroring. When data is written to a Mirrored-Striped Set, instead of creating just one virtual disk as Striping would do, a second Mirrored virtual disk is created as well. Parity RAID (RAID 5) Parity or RAID 5 adds fau
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Just a Bunch of Disks (JBOD/Contiguous) JBOD (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, the JBOD function only supports one disk. JBOD here is a Contiguous confi guration option when using the “Create RAID Group” within the SATARAID5 Manager Utility. 10
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Installation Procedure 1. Power down the computer system. 2. Insert the Host card into an available bus slot. 3. Power on the computer system. 4. Install drivers for the device. 5. Remove all existing SATARAID GUIs (or Java SATARAID GUIs) to ensure your new SATARAID5 GUI installs and functions properly. 6. Install the SATARAID5 GUI. 7. Power down the computer system once again. 8. Connect Hard Drives to the proper SATA Ports. 9. Power on the computer system once again. 10. If
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11. Use the SATARAID5 Manager GUI to confi gure your RAID settings. If using 1 Disk, please select “Concatenate” or “Contiguous” settings only. If using 2 Disks, do NOT select “Parity RAID” or “Mirrored Stripe” settings. If using 3 Disks, do NOT select the “Mirrored Stripe” setting. 12. Open “Task Manager” to make sure the RAID setup is completed. RAID5 can take hours to complete, please be aware of these time requirements. 13. Use Device Manager for hard disk initializatio
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BIOS (RAID Settings) Creating and deleting RAID sets is a function found in the BIOS. During boot up, the RAID setting message will appear and pause for a few moments to allow the user access to its settings. The board will act as a normal NON-RAID card when the BIOS does not have it confi gured for RAID. If you’re using traditional parallel ATA HDDs, make sure your hard drives are set to master mode before accessing the RAID settings. Creating Striped Sets (RAID 0) 1. As the BIOS boots, Pres
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Creating Mirrored Sets (RAID 1) 1. As the BIOS boots, Press CTRL+S or F4 to enter the RAID bios utility. 2. Select Create RAID set. Press Enter. 3. Select RAID 1 then press Enter. 4. Select Auto confi guration. 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 to prepare the hard drives. 8. Your RAID hardware confi guration is complete. Proceed to software installation section. 14
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Creating a Mirrored-Striped Set (RAID 10) 1. As the BIOS boots, press CTRL+S or F4 to enter the RAID bios utility. 2. Select Create RAID set. Press F2. 3. Select RAID 10 then press Enter. 4. Select Auto confi guration. Press Enter. 5. Press Y and then press ESC to exit the setup. 7. Continue with conventional Fdisk and Format steps to prepare the hard drives. 8. Your RAID hardware confi guration is complete. Proceed to software installation section. Creating Parity RAID (RAID 5) 1. As the
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Creating JBOD Sets 1. As the BIOS boots, Press CTRL+S or F4 to enter the RAID bios utility. 2. Select Create RAID set. Press Enter. 3. Select JBOD (Single) then press Enter. 4. Select JBOD Drives. Press Enter. 5. Select RAID size. Press Enter. 6. Press Y to save your settings. Creating Spare Drive 1. As the BIOS boots, Press CTRL+S or F4 to enter the RAID bios utility. 2. Select Create RAID set. Press Enter. 3. Select Spare Drive then press Enter. 4. Select Spare Drives. Press Enter
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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, 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 drive sets. Rebuilding Mirrored Sets (RAID 1) 1. After replacing the failed hard drives boot the BIOS, Press CTRL+S or F4 to enter the RAID bios ut
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Software Installation Windows XP Fresh Installation 1. Power off the system. Insert the controller card into a PCI slot and connect the hard drives to the controller card. Power up the system. 2. Put your Windows XP CD into the CD-ROM/DVD drive. 3. Press F6 for third party SCSI or driver installation. Press ‘S’ when setup asks if you want to specify an additional device. Press ‘Enter’ and select ‘[CD Drive Letter]:\RAID5 SATA_4Port \SiI3114\ Win XP_2000_2003\Driver’. 4. Press ‘Enter’ to contin
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Windows XP Existing Installation 1. Power off the system. Insert the controller card into a PCI slot and connect the hard drives to the control- ler card. Power up the system. 2. During OS boot up, Windows will display the ‘Found New Hardware Wizard’. Click ‘Next’. 3. Select ‘Install from a list or specifi c location (Advanced)’ and Click ‘Next’. 19
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4. Insert the Driver CD in your CD-ROM/DVD drive, check Specify a location, uncheck the other boxes, click Next, type in your CD-ROM/DVD Drive Letter and Click Browse. 5. Specify the following location: [CD Drive Letter]:\RAID5 SATA_4Port\SiI3114\Win XP_2000_2003\Driver. Select Open then click OK. 6. When the wizard indicates that it found a driver for the device click ‘Next’. 7. The wizard will now copy the required fi les to the system. After installation the wizard will display a completi
