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Guide to SiS RAID Utility for Windows XP / 2000
1. General
1. After installing the SiS RAID utility, go to "Start" menu and choose
"Programs." From the "Programs" menu, choose "SiS RAID Utility" and
click on "SiSRaid"
NOTE
If your working OS is installed in the SATA hard disk(s) and you want to
re-configure the RAID type, we suggest you to re-configure it in "SiS
RAID BIOS Setting Utility" rather than this "SiS RAID Utility for Windows.

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  • Page 1 Guide to SiS RAID Utility for Windows XP / 2000 1. General 1. After installing the SiS RAID utility, go to “Start” menu and choose “Programs.” From the “Programs” menu, choose “SiS RAID Utility” and click on “SiSRaid” NOTE If your working OS is installed in the SATA hard disk(s) and you want to re-configure the RAID type, we suggest you to re-configure it in “SiS RAID BIOS Setting Utility”...
  • Page 2 2. The SiS RAID Utility window opens as below. The main interface has two tabs: View and Configuration. You can switch to different tabs by clicking on it. On “View” tab, we can see some device information on different controllers. You can click the drop-down box “Adapter” to se- lect the controller you want to use.
  • Page 3 2. Viewing the “Create Raid” Click the tab Create Raid, you can find three drop-down box and three panes. Those meaning will be showing below. 1. Raid Type: Click the drop-down box “Raid Type”. This box enables the user to select array type.
  • Page 4 2. Block Size: If user selected RAID 0 array types in the “RAID Type” box, the “Block Size” drop-down box will be enabled and user must select a block size. Clicking the drop-down box “Block Size”, there are seven block size that the user can select: 8k, 16k, 32k, 64k, 128k, 256k and 512k.
  • Page 5 3. Mode Type: Click the drop-down box “Mode Type”. This box enables the user to select mode type. There are two mode types that the user can select: PIO and DMA. User can select any one mode type to create a RAID set. The default selection is DMA.
  • Page 6 4. <Available Disks>: This pane will list out all the disks that can be used to create a RAID set currently. It will show some disk information (ex. Location, serial numbers, the ability of boot and the status of recovering). 5.

  • Page 7: Create Raid

    3. Create Raid A. To create a JBOD array, follow these steps: 1. Configuration “Create Raid” “Raid Type” JBOD. 2. From the drop-down box “Mode Type”, select the mode type you want or use the default value “DMA”. 3. From the <Available Disks> pane, select the disk and click down- ward arrow icon or double click it to add the disk on the <Selected Disks>...
  • Page 8 4. When the JBOD array’s configuration is finished, click the Create button. Then a warning message will pop up. Pay attention to the warning message, and then click Yes button to finish the creation of JBOD array, or click No button to cancel. NOTE If the disk you selected has the ability of booting, another warning message will pop up before “SiS...
  • Page 9 B. To create a RAID 0 (Stripe) array, follow these steps: 1. Configuration “Create Raid” “Raid Type” RAID 0. 2. From the drop-down box “Block Size”, select the block size you want. 3. From the drop-down box “Mode Type”, select the mode type you want.
  • Page 10 5. When the RAID0 array’s configuration is finished, click the Create button. Then a “Create Stripe RaidSet” dialog will pop up. <Option Description> Source: The first selected disk. Target: The second selected disk. Create Only: Select this option will destroy all data on all the selected disks and create a clean stripe array without any data on it.
  • Page 11 7. If the operation is “Split data into Raid0”, a warning message will pop up. See below: Next, you may click Yes button to start the operation or click No button to cancel. When this operation is beginning, you still can click the destroy button on the “Create Stripe RaidSet”...
  • Page 12 8. If the operation is “Source is a boot device” of <Split data into Raid0 Set>, the following warning message will popup, seeing below: Next, you can click “Yes” button to start the opera- tion or click “No” button to cancel. When you click “Yes”...
  • Page 13 C. To create a RAID 1 (Mirror) array, follow these steps: 1. Configuration “Create Raid” “Raid Type” RAID 1. 2. From the drop-down box “Mode Type”, select the mode type you want. 3. From the <Available Disks> pane, select the disk and click down- ward arrow icon or double click it to add the disk on the <Selected Disks>...
  • Page 14 4. When the RAID1 array’s configuration is finished, click the Create button. Then a “Create Mirror RaidSet” dialog will pop up. <Option Description> Source: The first selected disk. Target: The second selected disk. Create Only: Select this option will destroy all data on all the selected disks and create a clean mirror array without any data on it.
  • Page 15 6. If the operation is “Create and Duplicate”, the following warning message will popup, seeing below: Next, you can click “Yes” button to start the opera- tion or click “No” button to cancel. When you click “Yes” button to start this operation, the following warning message will popup.
  • Page 16 4. Explaining the RaidType Information General case: RAID0 (A = B C | D E) <Meaning> RAID0: Raid Type total number of disks in this Raid B,C: the serial number of each disk in this Raid D,E: a) Raid is correct, B=D C=E b) Raid is error, D or E will show “?”...
  • Page 17 <HD information>...

  • Page 18: Delete Raid

    5. Delete Raid Click the tab “Delete Raid”, you can find some panes and two buttons. The RaidType meaning will show below. 1. Connfiguration “Delete Raid”, the following windows will appear: 2. Highlight the disk array in the <Current RaidType> pane, and then click the Information button, or double click the array.
  • Page 19 3. If you want to delete a disk array you selected, you can highlight the disk array and then click the Delete button. Then a warning message will pop up. Pay attention to the warning message. You may click Yes to delete the selected disk array, or click No to cancel.

  • Page 20: Raid Recovery

    6. Raid Recovery NOTE The recovering operation is workable only when error RAID1 set exist. 1. Click the tab Raid Recovery, you can find two panes and some buttons. Those meaning will be showing below. 2. First, you can click the button Available Raid to find whether any error RAID set existing.
  • Page 21 3. After you select Available Raid, click the Available Disk button to find whether any empty hard disk existing. See below: Next, highlight the empty hard disk you want to select. And you can click the OK button to continue or click Cancel to give up this selection. 4.
  • Page 22 7. SiS964/SiS180 Hot-Plug Utility NOTE 1. The Hot-Plug support is ONLY applied to Single SATA drive. 2. SiS Hot-Plug Utility only supports Windows 2000 and XP. 3. Usually, each power wire will provide 2 power connectors for HDDs. It is recommended to connect SATA HDDs to different power wires to prevent intervention.
  • Page 23 2. Next, you can click the “SATA Status” and the SiS Hot-Plug Utility window opens as below. You can click the drop-down box “Adapter” to select the controller you want to use. The default value is the information on first controller “SiS RAID controller 1”. 3.
  • Page 24 4. If you want to remove any one SATA device and hope that the data can be protected. You can click the grid in front of “SATAx Safely Remove”, and then click the button “OK” to remove it. The following message will be popup to tell you that hard disk can be removed safely now.