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Page 2: User Manual
© 2005 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Western Digital is a registered trademark; and WD, the WD logo, and EasyBuild are trademarks of Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Other marks may be mentioned herein that belong to other companies. -
Page 3: Table Of Contents
Table of Contents Introduction/Getting Started Disk Array Concepts About the WD SATA RAID Controller ......5 Disk Array Terms . - Page 4 Frequently Asked Questions Pre-Installation ..........30 Drive Issues.
- Page 5 WD SERIAL ATA RAID CONTROLLER USER MANUAL Introduction/Getting Started Thank you for purchasing a WD SATA RAID Controller. This installation manual provides instructional steps and information to make the installation process of your new WD SATA Controller as quick and easy as possible.
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Page 6: Raid Controller
WD SERIAL ATA RAID CONTROLLER USER MANUAL Key Features and Benefits The following information offers an overview of the major features of your new WD SATA RAID Controller. Advanced Hardware Design Features Benefits Supports 66 MHz PCI bus motherboards Allows maximum data transfers of up to 266 MB per second (133... -
Page 7: Kit Contents
WD SERIAL ATA RAID CONTROLLER USER MANUAL Compatibility Features Benefits Compliant with PCI v2.3 Local Bus standard Provides highest level of hardware compatibility. Compliant with SATA Specification 1.0 Provides full compatibility with first generation SATA hard drives. Compliant with PCI Bus Master standard. PCI... - Page 8 WD SERIAL ATA RAID CONTROLLER USER MANUAL Unpacking and Handling Procedures WD controllers are precision instruments and should be handled with care during unpacking and installation. These devices can be damaged by rough handling, shock and vibration, or electrostatic discharge (ESD). Be aware of the following precautions: Do not unpack the controller until you are ready to install it.
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Page 9: Disk Array Concepts
WD SERIAL ATA RAID CONTROLLER USER MANUAL Disk Array Concepts About the WD SATA RAID Controller The WD SATA RAID Controller is a high performance SATA RAID controller that features concurrent data channel operation and onboard BIOS. The channels on the WD SATA RAID Controller support concurrent operation that allows for overlapped I/O under multi- tasking operating systems and sharing the workload between multiple drives. -
Page 10: Disk Array Terms
WD SERIAL ATA RAID CONTROLLER USER MANUAL Disk Array Terms Disk Array Description A disk array is formed from a group of two or more hard drives that appear to the system as a single drive. The advantage of an array is to provide better throughput performance and/or data fault tolerance. -
Page 11: About Raid Levels
WD SERIAL ATA RAID CONTROLLER USER MANUAL About RAID Levels Striping (RAID 0) Reads and writes sectors of data interleaved between multiple drives. When any disk member fails, it affects the entire array. Performance is better than a single drive since the workload is balanced between the array members. - Page 12 WD SERIAL ATA RAID CONTROLLER USER MANUAL Installing the SATA RAID Controller IMPORTANT: This WD SATA RAID Controller supports the following installation configurations: single drive non-RAID, RAID 1, and RAID 0. When installing a single SATA hard drive, follow the non-RAID installation instructions in section 2 below. The single drive install is not supported in RAID because this setup requires the simultaneous formatting of two drives.
- Page 13 WD SERIAL ATA RAID CONTROLLER USER MANUAL 5. Connect your system case's 2- or 4-pin LED cable to the LED connector on the WD SATA RAID Controller. 6. Attach one SATA data cable to each SATA hard drive. Then attach the other end(s) of the cable(s) to the connector(s) on the WD SATA RAID Controller.
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Page 14: Creating A Disk Array
1. Boot your system. If this is the first time you have booted with the WD SATA RAID Controller and drives installed, the WD onboard BIOS will display the following screen. WD SATA RAID controller (c)2003 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. All Rights Reserved No array defined . . . -
Page 15: Creating A Single Sata Non-Raid Drive
5. Press the key twice to exit the EasyBuild utility. Your system will reboot automatically. After reboot, the EasyBuild BIOS will appear showing your newly created array. WD SATA RAID Controller (c)2003 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. All Rights Reserved MODE SIZE TRACK-MAPPING... -
Page 16: Creating A Security Array With Two New Drives (Raid 1 Recommended)
WD SERIAL ATA RAID CONTROLLER USER MANUAL Creating a Security Array with Two New Drives (RAID 1 recommended) Under the Security setting, WD SATA RAID Controller permits two drives to be used for a single mirrored array. Note: When creating a Security array with new drives, a feature called Gigabyte Boundary will automatically be set to ON. - Page 17 WD SERIAL ATA RAID CONTROLLER USER MANUAL Follow these steps to create a security array with an existing hard drive: 1. Press the to choose Security under the Optimize Array for section. SPACEBAR 2. Press to save your selection. The window below will appear.
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Page 18: Creating A Security Array With Quick Initialization
WD SERIAL ATA RAID CONTROLLER USER MANUAL Creating a Security Array with Quick Initialization Under the Security setting, the WD SATA RAID Controller permits two drives to be used for a single Mirrored array in Auto Setup. Use this setting to create a mirrored (RAID-1) array with one or two existing hard drives containing data that you do not want to keep. -
Page 19: Installing Software Drivers
WD SERIAL ATA RAID CONTROLLER USER MANUAL Installing Software Drivers Following are driver installation procedures for the Windows operating systems that support the WD SATA RAID Controller. The WD SATA RAID Controller software drivers for Windows are included on the diskette. -
Page 20: Confirming Windows 2003 Server Driver Installation
WD SERIAL ATA RAID CONTROLLER USER MANUAL Confirming Windows 2003 Server Driver Installation 1. Right-click on the My Computer icon and select Manage from the popup menu. 2. From the left panel, select Device Manager. 3. Click the + in front of SCSI and RAID controllers. "Win .NET 2003 WD SATA RAID Controller"... -
Page 21: Confirming Windows Xp Driver Installation
WD SERIAL ATA RAID CONTROLLER USER MANUAL Confirming Windows XP Driver Installation 1. Right-click on the My Computer icon and select Manage from the popup menu. 2. From the left panel, select Device Manager. 3. Click the + in front of SCSI and RAID controllers. "WinXP WD SATA RAID Controller"... -
Page 22: Existing Windows 2000 Installation
WD SERIAL ATA RAID CONTROLLER USER MANUAL Existing Windows 2000 Installation After installing the WD SATA RAID Controller and rebooting your system, Windows 2000 setup will show a New Hardware Found dialog box. 1. Choose Add New Hardware Wizard from the list, and then press ENTER 2. -
Page 23: Easybuild Options And Features
2. Press 2 to View Drive Assignments. The screen below displays. Here, you can see that there are two WD 74 GB drives connected that have been assigned to "Array 1." EasyBuild(tm) Utility 2.xx (c)2003 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. [View Drive Assignments] Channel:ID... -
Page 24: Deleting An Array
2. Press 3 to Delete Array. 3. To delete an array, highlight the Array you wish to delete and press the key. DELETE EasyBuild(tm) Utility 2.xx (c)2003 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. [Delete Array Menu] Array No RAID Mode Total Drv... -
Page 25: Rebuilding A Mirrored Array
7. Reboot the system and enter the EasyBuild Main Menu by pressing CTRL 8. Press 5 to select Rebuild Array. EasyBuild(tm) Utility 2.xx (c)2003 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. [Rebuild Array Menu] Array No RAID Mode... - Page 26 WD SERIAL ATA RAID CONTROLLER USER MANUAL 10. Press . The following screen displays. ENTER EasyBuild(tm) Utility 2.xx (c)2003 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. [Rebuild Array Menu] Array No RAID Mode Total Drv Status Array 2 Mirror Critical Stripe Block: Not Available...
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Page 27: Reserve Sector Implementation
WD SERIAL ATA RAID CONTROLLER USER MANUAL Reserve Sector Implementation Array configuration data about the drive member (each physical drive on the WD SATA RAID Controller) and other members in the disk array are saved on a special location on the hard drives called the Reserve Sector. -
Page 28: Gigabyte Boundary
WD SERIAL ATA RAID CONTROLLER USER MANUAL Gigabyte Boundary The Gigabyte Boundary feature is designed for mirrored arrays (RAID 1) in which a drive has failed and the user cannot replace the drive with the same capacity or larger drive. Instead, the Gigabyte Boundary feature permits the installation of a replacement drive that is slightly smaller (within 1 GB) than the remaining working drive (for example, an 80.5 GB drive... -
Page 29: Troubleshooting & Tips
WD SERIAL ATA RAID CONTROLLER USER MANUAL Troubleshooting & Tips This section is used to assist with troubleshooting conflicts and WD SATA RAID Controller installation problems. Also refer to our product support Web site at support.wdc.com. The section is divided into the following categories:... -
Page 30: System Cmos Issues
WD SERIAL ATA RAID CONTROLLER USER MANUAL System CMOS Issues Set Motherboard CMOS Boot sequence to boot to WD SATA RAID Controller On some Motherboard BIOS, it is necessary to set the Boot sequence to SCSI, A:, C: since the WD SATA RAID Controller is identified as a SCSI card. - Page 31 WD SERIAL ATA RAID CONTROLLER USER MANUAL Unable to Partition or Format Array This condition may occur when the Reserve Sector of one of the drives has become corrupt or bad. Removing the Reserve Sector will remedy any issue related directly to a Bad Reserve Sector.
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Page 32: Operating System-Related Issues
WD SERIAL ATA RAID CONTROLLER USER MANUAL Operating System-Related Issues The Operating System no longer boots after creating a Mirrored Array using your existing boot drive using Windows 98/NT4/2000/XP/2003 Server This is due to Drive Geometry issues. You can verify this if you move the original drive back to the onboard controller and it boots successfully. -
Page 33: Performance Tips
Block size of 64. This larger block size is recommended for the data streaming requirements of A/V editing. You may select an even larger block size in manual mode (see Chapter 3). EasyBuild(tm) BIOS Version 1.xx (Build xxxx) (c)2003 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. All Rights Reserved [Auto Setup Options Menu] Optimize Array for:... -
Page 34: Frequently Asked Questions
WD SERIAL ATA RAID CONTROLLER USER MANUAL Frequently Asked Questions This section lists frequently asked questions involving pre-installation, drive issues, installation, and post-installation. Pre-Installation (Speed, Device Types, Capacity, Cabling) Q: What kind of hard drives can I use for a WD SATA RAID Controller array? A: You can use any SATA hard drive(s) to create arrays on the WD SATA RAID Controller. -
Page 35: Drive Issues
WD SERIAL ATA RAID CONTROLLER USER MANUAL Q: How does the WD SATA RAID Controller provide storage and/or data protection? A: WD SATA RAID Controller implements two different types of RAID levels as follows: RAID 0 (Stripe) For capacity - The WD SATA RAID Controller array will be as big as the smallest hard drive in the array times however many hard drives are in the array. -
Page 36: Installation Issues
WD SERIAL ATA RAID CONTROLLER USER MANUAL Q: If I have a problem with one of the drives on the WD SATA RAID Controller, how can I low-level format it to correct the problem? A: Do NOT do this. Low-level formatting is unnecessary and generally does not correct problems commonly experienced during use. -
Page 37: Post-Installation
WD SERIAL ATA RAID CONTROLLER USER MANUAL Q: How can I change the boot sequence between a PCI SCSI card and the WD SATA RAID Controller RAID array? A: Since all PCI devices are Plug and Play, it is difficult to determine which device is addressed first. -
Page 38: Appendix A: Regulatory Compliance
WD SERIAL ATA RAID CONTROLLER USER MANUAL Appendix A: Regulatory Compliance FCC Class B Information This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits of a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. -
Page 39: Appendix B: Warranty Information
WD SERIAL ATA RAID CONTROLLER USER MANUAL Appendix B: Warranty Information Obtaining Service WD (WD) values your business and always attempts to provide you the very best of service. If this Product requires maintenance, either contact the dealer from whom you originally purchased the Product or visit our product support Web site at support.wdc.com for... -
Page 40: Appendix C: Wd Service And Support
WD SERIAL ATA RAID CONTROLLER USER MANUAL Appendix C: WD Service and Support If you need additional information or help during the installation or normal use of this product, visit our product support Web site at support.wdc.com to choose from the following options: Warranty Services–Obtain warranty information, warranty status, product replacement,...