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RAID SATA II – 3Gbps
4 Ports PCI-X Host
User Manual
English
LINDY No. 70548 (External)
LINDY No. 70549 (Internal)
www.LINDY.com
© LINDY ELECTRONICS LIMITED & LINDY-ELEKTRONIK GMBH - FIRST EDITION (November 2004)
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1. Introduction This RAID SATA II –3Gbps 4Ports PCI-X Host Adapter is a PCI to 4Ports Serial ATA host controller board. It provides a 64bit, 133 MHz PCI interface on the host side and four, fully compliant Serial ATA II – 3Gbps ports on the device side to access SATA Hard disk drive. The board can be used to upgrade your desktop computer to have 4Ports Serial ATA II – 3Gbps Channels and support RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 0+1 features. It accepts host commands through the PCI bus, proce
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Four high speed Serial ATA interface ports, each supporting 1st generation & nd 2 generation Serial ATA data rates 1.5Gbps/ 3Gbps. Provides RAID 0 (Stripping) to greatly increase the performance of data transfer by simultaneously writing data to 2 drives. Provides RAID 1 (Mirroring) to protect the data from a disk failure by writing identical data on 2 drives. RAID 0+1 (Mirrored-Stripping) combine both Striping and Mirroring technologies to provide both the performance enhancements
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data. This card provides two RAID Set types, Striped (RAID 0) and Mirrored (RAID 1). 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. Disk Mirroring (RAID 1) Dis
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8. Your RAID configuration is complete. Please proceed to software installation section. 3.2. 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 Mirrored then press Enter. 4. Select Auto configuration. 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 as if you are installing a co
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3.5. Resolving Conflict When a RAID set is created, the metadata written to the disk includes drive connection information (Primary and Secondary). If, after a disk failure, the replacement disk was previously part of a RAID set (or used in another system), it may have conflicting metadata, specifically in reference to the drive connection information. If so, this will prohibit the RAID set from being either created or rebuilt, In order for the RAID set to function properly, this old m
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required. 8. See instructions in section 4.4 to verify HBA was installed correctly. 4.2. Adding the HBA to an existing Windows NT Installation Follow the instructions in this section to install this HBA on a system already running Windows NT 4.0. 1. Power off the system. Connect the hard drives to the HBA and insert the HBA into a PCI slot. Power up the system. 2. After OS boots up, Click 'Start' 3. Under 'Settings', click 'Control Panel'. 4. Select 'SCSI Adapters' from the
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8. The wizard will now copy the required files to the system and start the driver. After starting the driver the wizard will display a completion dialog, click 'Finish' to exit the wizard. 9. See instructions in section 4.4 to verify controller was installed correctly. 4.4. Verifying HBA installation under Windows NT, 2000 and XP For Windows 2000/XP 1. Right click on 'My Computer' icon, select 'Properties', left click on 'Hardware' tab, and then on 'Device Manager' button. 2. Doub
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4.6. Update new RAID driver on Windows 2000/XP with existing old driver 1. Right click on 'My Computer' and select 'Properties'. Under the 'System Properties' section, click on 'Hardware' tab, and then on 'Device Manager' click 'SCSI and RAID Controller' and right click 'Silicon Image Ultra-133 Medley ATA Raid Controller'. 2. Click 'Driver' ,'Update Driver' and select 'Search for a suitable driver for my device[Recommended]'. Insert the Driver CD in your CD-ROM/DVD drive. Click
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This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) this device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operations. - 10 -
