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- Page 1 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL 12ME-IT8212-006R...
- Page 2 Copyright Copyright by GIGA-BYTE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. (“GBT”) No part of this manual may be reproduced or transmitted in any from without the expressed, written permission of GBT. Trademarks Third-party brands and names are the property of their respective owners. Notice Due to rapid change in technology, some of the specifications might be out of date before publication of this booklet.
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
Contents Introduction ........................4 Features ......................5 What is the GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller ........6 Quick Start .........................7 Create Your Disk Array ..................9 Setup Utility......................15 Using the GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller Setup Utility....15 Auto Configuration..................17 Define RAID....................22 Delete RAID....................28 Rebuild RAID....................31 RAID Card Configuration................36 Driver Installation .....................38 Windows XP ....................39... -
Page 4: Introduction
GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Introduction This manual is mainly to help users setup the GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller and solve problems when they use it. If it is your first time to use the GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller and you are about to install it, please refer to the “Quick Start”... -
Page 5: Features
GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Features Compatible with the ATA133 specification and supports two IDE channels with 4 drives. Supports ANSI ATA proposal PIO modes 0,1,2,3,4 with flow control, DMA Modes 0,1,2,3,4,5,6. 512 bytes FIFO for auto transfer per IDE channel to get a high performance Supports the RAID 0/1/0+1 function Supports the JBOD function Supports the Scatter/Gather function for the DMA/UDMA function... -
Page 6: What Is The Gigaraid (It8212) Ata Raid Controller
GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL What is the GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller This GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller is an excellent product resulting from Soc concept. It includes one RAID Chip combining CPU, firmware, advanced PCI controller and IDE controller. Its architecture can provide users a RAID system with low CPU utilization. -
Page 7: Quick Start
GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL this data-copying characteristic to let two drivers transmit at the same time and balance the performance to raise throughput. The RAID0+1 mode uses four drivers to get the merits of RAID0 and RAID1. As for the JBOD mode, it combines more than two drives into a drive with a large capacity. - Page 8 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL The hard drives which are required for the installation The hard drives, which are connected on the GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller, can support Ultra ATA/ 133, Ultra ATA/ 100, Ultra ATA/ 66, Ultra ATA/33, EIDE or Fast ATA-2 drives.
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Page 9: Create Your Disk Array
GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Create Your Disk Array You can create your own array using the onboard BIOS utility of the GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller with the attached hard drives. Please follow the steps below to setup your disk array. Warning: Please backup data in your hard drives to prevent data damage resulting from the unfamiliarity with the operation. - Page 10 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Please press “Ctrl-G” keys to enter the BIOS utility Main Menu. The screen below will be shown.
- Page 11 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Please click ”1” to enter the Auto Configuration window. It will guide you to set an array and this is the simplest and fastest way to create your first array. Under the Setup Array Type as option, you can use arrow keys → and ← and the “space” bar key to change your option to setup your array type.
- Page 12 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Totally, there are five configurations supported: RAID level/Type Configurations Number of disks needed RAID 0 Disk Striping 2 or 3 or 4 RAID 1 Disk Mirroring RAID 0+1 Disk Striping + Mirroring JBOD Disk Concatenation 2 or 3 or 4 Normal...
- Page 13 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Setup Array for RAID 1: The GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller allows two drives to be setup as a RAID 1 (mirror) array or four drives as two arrays. The first mirrored array will be set as array 0 and the second as array 1.
- Page 14 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Setup Array for Normal: You can use the GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller as a normal IDE controller. The GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller allows you to use one, two, three or four hard drives.
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Page 15: Setup Utility
GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Setup Utility Using the GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller Setup Utility The GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller Setup Utility provides functions to create, delete and rebuild an array. It also provides the information of each hard drive and the configuration of the GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller. - Page 16 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller Setup Utility Main Menu There are five options in the Setup Utility Main Menu, please press 1 ~ 5 to enter the submenu or the “Esc” key to quit the Setup Utility. If you are not familiar with the array setting, please follow the procedures in Auto Configuration on page 17 to create new arrays automatically.
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Page 17: Auto Configuration
GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Auto Configuration Click “1” on the Main Menu to enter Auto Configuration. You can use arrow keys → and ← and the “space” bar key to change your option. After selecting your option, you can press “Ctrl-Y”... - Page 18 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Setup Array for RAID 0: The GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller allows you to use two, three or four hard drives to set a RAID 0 (stripe) array. All the hard drives attached on the controller will be set as array 0.
- Page 19 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Setup Array for RAID 1: The GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller allows two drives to be setup as a RAID 1 (mirror) array or four drives as two arrays. The first mirrored array will be set as array 0 and the second as array 1.
- Page 20 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Setup Array for RAID 0+1: A RAID 0+1 (mirror and stripe) array has to be formed by four hard drives. RAID 0+1 is implemented as a mirrored array whose segments are RAID 0 arrays so RAID 0+1 also has fault-tolerance capacity as RAID 1.
- Page 21 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Setup Array for JBOD: The GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller allows you to use two, three or four hard drives to form a JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks) array as array 0. Although JBOD doesn’t offer other RAID functionality, it makes the hard disks appear to be a single one by combining the drives into one larger logical one without any capacity loss.
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Page 22: Define Raid
Column “Size” shows the array’s total capacity. If there is a symbol shown in front of “Size”, the capacity unit is gigabyte. Column “Status” shows array status. You will see “Functional” if the array is operational and “Non-Functional” if the array has lost its functionality. - Page 23 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Define RAID Sub-Menu When you highlight the array you want to define on the Define RAID Menu, click the “Enter” key then you will enter this Define RAID Sub-Menu. You can use arrow keys ↑...
- Page 24 “Size” shows the capacity of each hard drive. When a symbol is shown before the size, the capacity unit is gigabyte. When you press “Ctrl-Y” keys to save your change, Setup Utility will check if the setting is legal. If not, an error message will pop up to show you what the error is and you have to correct the setting.
- Page 25 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL RAID 0+1 is implemented as a mirrored array whose segments are RAID 0 arrays. SPAN (JBOD): There isn’t any specific limitation. Normal: If a hard drive is not included in an array (Column “Assignment” in the View Drive Assignment is shown “Free”), this hard drive is regarded as a normal drive.
- Page 26 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL If your RAID Mode selection is Mirror or Stripe + Mirror and you choose not to delete the boot sector of the array, the following window will appear to ask whether you want to rebuild an array.
- Page 27 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL mirrored hard drives. Thus, the following window will appear. Please press arrow keys ↑ and ↓ to highlight your selection and press the “Enter” key to select the source disk(s) then you have finished the setting and the screen will go back to the Define RAID Sub-Menu automatically.
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Page 28: Delete Raid
GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Delete RAID Press “3” on the Main Menu then the Delete RAID Menu will appear. Please use arrow keys ↑ and ↓ to highlight the array you want to delete, press “Del” to select it and then enter the Delete RAID Sub-Menu to delete your array. - Page 29 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Delete RAID Sub-Menu When you highlight the array you select to delete at the Delete RAID Menu and press the “Del” key, the Delete RAID Sub-Menu will appear. Please press “Ctrl-Y” keys to confirm to delete an array or press any other keys to abort array delete.
- Page 30 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL If you press “Ctrl-Y” keys to make sure to delete an array, the following window will appear. You can choose to clear the array’s boot sector or keep it. After you finish the selection, Delete RAID Menu will pop up automatically.
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Page 31: Rebuild Raid
GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Rebuild RAID Press ”4” when you are at the Main Menu then the Rebuild RAID Menu will appear. You can use ↑ and ↓ keys to highlight different arrays, press the “Enter” key to select an array and enter the next rebuild drive select screen. - Page 32 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Rebuild RAID Drive Select When you highlight the array you want to rebuild on the Rebuild RAID Menu, press the “Enter” key then the following screen will appear.
- Page 33 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL You can use arrow keys ↑ and ↓ to highlight the source disk(s) then press the “Enter” key to select the source disk(s). The following window will appear to make sure if you would like to continue.
- Page 34 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL If you press “Y”, the following window will pop up. You can select to monitor the whole rebuild process until it ends completely or select background rebuild. You can leave Setup Utility and boot directly if you choose background rebuild and rebuild can proceed at the background.
- Page 35 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL The following screen will appear if you choose to monitor the whole rebuild process. When rebuild is completed, a message below will pop up to inform you that rebuild is finished. Then you leave and go back to the Rebuild RAID Menu.
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Page 36: Raid Card Configuration
GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL RAID Card Configuration Press “5” on the Main Menu then the RAID Card Configuration menu will appear. You can use arrow keys → and ← and the “space” bar key to enable or disable Auto-Rebuild option. - Page 37 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL “Channel ID”, “Drive Name” and “Size”, please refer to Define RAID sub-Menu on page 23. Column “Array No” shows hard drive’s array number. If a hard drive is not assigned to an array, it’s shown as free. A free hard drive is taken as a normal one. Column “Mode”...
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Page 38: Driver Installation
GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Driver Installation This section details the procedures to install the GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller driver under the following various operating systems. Before starting to install this driver, please make sure that GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller has already been properly setup in the system. -
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GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Windows XP Install the driver during Windows XP installation Start Windows XP installation. Warning: Because of the different selections of the following installation methods, the time when step2 starts will be different. Boot from floppy with Windows installation diskette. Boot from floppy with un-installable diskette. - Page 40 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Install the driver under existing Windows XP Start Windows. When Windows detects GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller in the system, a dialog box named Found New Hardware Wizard will show on the screen. Select the Install from a list or specific location (Advanced) option then click “Next”...
- Page 41 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Insert the GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller Driver diskette into the floppy disk drive then check the Search for the best driver in these locations option and type A:\WIN2K_XP on the field designating the file’s location. Press “Next”...
- Page 42 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL The driver installation has finished. Press “Finish” to continue. Follow the instruction to restart the computer then the driver will take effect.
- Page 43 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Verify Installation Follow the previous section to install the driver. After the system restarts, you can do the following steps to check if the driver has been installed successfully. Right-click My Computer icon on Desktop. Select the Properties option from the form.
- Page 44 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL If there is a marking ! or ? under SCSI and RAID Controller device as shown below, it indicates that the driver has not been correctly installed. User should remove the device and reinstall.
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Page 45: Windows 2000
GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Windows 2000 Install the driver during Windows 2000 installation Start Windows 2000 installation. Warning: Because of the different selections of the following installation methods, the time when step2 starts will be different. Boot from floppy with Windows installation diskette. Boot from floppy with un-installable diskette. - Page 46 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Install the driver under existing Windows 2000 Start Windows. When Windows detects GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller in the system, a dialog box named Found New Hardware Wizard will show on the screen. Select the Search for a suitable driver for my device (recommended) option then click “Next”...
- Page 47 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Check the Specify a location option on the following window then press “Next” to continue to setup.
- Page 48 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Insert the GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller Driver diskette into the floppy disk drive then type A:\WIN2K_XP on the field designating the file’s location. Press “Next” to continue to setup.
- Page 49 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL The driver for GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller is found. Press “Next” to continue to setup.
- Page 50 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL The driver installation has finished. Press “Finish” to continue. Follow the instruction to restart the computer then the driver will take effect.
- Page 51 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Verify Installation Follow the previous section to install the driver. After the system restarts, you can do the following steps to check if the driver has been installed successfully. Right-click My Computer icon on Desktop. Select the Properties option from the form.
- Page 52 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL If there is a marking ! or ? under SCSI and ATA RAID Controller device, it indicates that the driver has not been correctly installed. User should remove the device and reinstall.
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Page 53: Windows Se/Me
GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Windows SE/ME Install the driver Start Windows. When Windows detects GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller in the system, a dialog box named Add New Hardware Wizard will show on the screen. Select the Specify the location of the driver (Advanced) option then click “Next”... - Page 54 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Insert the GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller Driver diskette into the floppy disk drive then select Search for the best driver for your device (Recommended) from the following dialog box and type A:\WIN98_ME on the field designating the file’s location.
- Page 55 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL The driver for GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller is found. Press “Next” to continue to setup.
- Page 56 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL The driver installation has finished. Press “Finish” to continue.
- Page 57 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Follow the instruction to restart the computer then the driver will take effect.
- Page 58 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Verify Installation Follow the previous section to install the driver. After the system restarts, you can do the following steps to check if the driver has been installed successfully. Right-click My Computer icon on Desktop. Select the Properties option from the form.
- Page 59 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Select the Device Manager panel from the System Properties window. If GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller device is shown under the SCSI controllers item (see the following figure), it means that the driver has been installed successfully.
- Page 60 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL If there is a marking ! or ? in front of the GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller device as shown below, it indicates that the driver has not been correctly installed. User should remove the device and reinstall.
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Page 61: Windows Nt
GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Windows NT Install the driver during Windows NT installation Start Windows NT installation. Warning: Because of the different selections of the following installation methods, the time when step2 starts will be different. Boot from floppy with Windows installation diskette. Boot from floppy with un-installable diskette. - Page 62 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Install the driver under existing Windows NT Start Windows. Select Settings from the Start menu then choose the Control Panel option from the Settings form.
- Page 63 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL In the Control Panel window, double-click on the SCSI Adapters icon.
- Page 64 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Choose the Drivers tab from the SCSI Adapters window then press “Add” to continue.
- Page 65 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Click Have Disk from the Install Driver window.
- Page 66 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Insert the GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller Driver diskette into the floppy disk drive then type A:\WINNT on the field designating the file’s location. Press “OK” to continue to setup.
- Page 67 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Select GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller from the window then click “OK” to continue. Follow the instruction to restart the computer then the driver will take effect.
- Page 68 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Verify Installation Follow the previous section to install the driver. After the system restarts, you can do the following steps to check if the driver has been installed successfully. Follow step1 to step3 described in the previous section to activate the SCSI Adapters option.
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Page 69: Linux
GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Linux Install the GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller on Red Hat 7.3 Mount the driver CD-ROM. [/]mkdir cdrom For mount point [/]mount –t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /cdrom Mount CD-ROM under /cdrom directory Copy and unzip the new kernel [/]cp /cdrom/linux/linux-2.4.18.tar.gz /usr/src/ Copy new kernel to the /usr/src/... - Page 70 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL [/] cd /etc/ [/]vim lilo.conf Edit the lilo.conf , the contents may be different with yours prompt timeout=50 default=Linux boot=/dev/had map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b message=/boot/message linear # Original kernel image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-3 label=Linux initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-3.img read-only root=/dev/hda1 # Add the new kernel here image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18 The kernel is in /boot directory label=Linux-RAID...
- Page 71 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Run LILO to update the book record on disk by typing the following: [/] /sbin/lilo The output should be similar to: Added Linux * Added Linux-RAID Reboot the system then choose the Linux-RAID. [/]reboot...
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Page 72: Application
GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Application Installation Pictures below are shown in Windows XP (CD ver. 2.2) Insert the driver CD-title that came with your motherboard into your CD-ROM drive, the driver CD-title will auto start and show the installation guide. If not, please double click the CD-ROM device icon in "My computer", and execute the setup.exe. - Page 73 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Click “Next”. Click “Next”.
- Page 74 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Click “Next”. Click “Finish”.
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Page 75: Functions Description
GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Functions Description Starting RAID Manager will be executed automatically when Microsoft Windows is booted. A small icon, “ ”, will show in the system tray at the right bottom corner to indicate RAID Manager is active. Open RAID Manager Double click on the small icon in the system tray to open the RAID Manager control panel. - Page 76 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Alert LED, at the right bottom, is used to indicate the whole system situation. GREEN: Normal. RED: If the configuration error of any array occurs. BLINKING: If there is any array in rebuilding process.
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Page 77: System Information
GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL System Information Device Status Click the “Start Menu” at the left bottom on the RAID Manager control panel then choose “Device Status” to show the system information. If the disk arrays exist, they will be listed at the first row. If the physical disks exist, they will be listed at the second row. - Page 78 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Configuration Create Disk Array Click the “Start Menu” at the left bottom on the RAID Manager control panel then choose “Create Disk Array” to create a disk array. Array Type: RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, JBOD Array Name: Assigned by RAID Manager Block Size: Virtual block size for RAID 0 or RAID 0+1 Auto Rebuild: Check to rebuild by hardware automatically.
- Page 79 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Click “Create” to create a disk array. Remarks: Stripe Size is valid when Array Type is RAID 0 or RAID 0+1. Auto Rebuild is valid when Array Type is RAID 1 or RAID 0+1. Source Disk is valid when Array Type is RAID 1 or RAID 0+1 and Erase Partition is disabled.
- Page 80 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Delete Disk Array Click the “Start Menu” at the left bottom on the RAID Manager control panel then choose “Delete Disk Array” to delete disk array. Available Arrays: List existing arrays. Selected Arrays: Arrays will be deleted. Erase Partition: Check to erase partition table.
- Page 81 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Rebuild Disk Array Click the “Start Menu” at the left bottom on the RAID Manager control panel then choose “Rebuild Disk Array” to rebuild disk array. Rebuild Array: List arrays which can be rebuilt. Source Disk: The source for rebuilding the array Destination Disk: The destination for rebuilding the array Resume Previous Rebuild Process: Check to resume the last rebuild process.
- Page 82 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Records Activity Records Click the “Start Menu” at the left bottom on the RAID Manager control panel then choose “Activity Records” to show the activity records. Click “Clear” to clear all records.
- Page 83 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Options Email Notification Click the “Start Menu” at the left bottom on the RAID Manager control panel then choose “Email Notification” to modify the settings. Event Timer: Self error detection time interval Enable Email Notification: Check to enable email notification. Email Address: If email notification is enabled, a warning message will be sent to this email box.
- Page 84 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Remote Access Click the “Start Menu” at the left bottom on the RAID Manager control panel then choose “Remote Access” to modify the settings. Machine Type: Single Machine, Client or Server Server Name: If this machine is client, a server is required. Server Name can be a computer name or an IP address.
- Page 85 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Miscellaneous Icon list represents disk array is inactive. represents disk array is active. represents physical disk is inactive. represents physical disk is active.
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Page 86: How To
GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL How to… Create RAID 0 Open RAID Manager. Change the control panel to “Create Disk Array”. Select “Array Type” as “RAID 0”. Check “Erase Partition” to erase partition table or uncheck “Erase Partition” not to erase partition table. Select “Stripe Size”. - Page 87 GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Create RAID 0+1 Open RAID Manager. Change the control panel to “Create Disks Array”. Select “Array Type” as “RAID 0+1”. Check “Erase Partition” to erase partition table or uncheck “Erase Partition” not to erase partition table. If there is an Array of RAID 1 or RAID 0+1, “Erase Partition”...
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Page 88: Q&A
GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER’S MANUAL Q&A Q: How to set RAID as startup disk? A: Please set booting device to Array0 and set as SCSI boot in the BIOS. Q: Is CD ROM able to be used? A: This product does not support any ATAPI devices. Q: How can two RAID0 perform well? A: For two RAID0, it is suggested that HD should be put in different channels to get a better performance.