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Page 1: Raid
SATA+Ultra ATA RAID CONTROLLER RC212 User Manual... -
Page 2: Table Of Contents
SATA+ULTRA ATA RAID CONTROLLERRC212 Contents Feature and benefits Package contents System requirement Magic Switch introduction and jumper setting Hardware installation Important message for user RAID introduction RAID 0 RAID 1 RAID 0+1 Driver installation Quick guide Detail guide User Manual... -
Page 3: Feature And Benefits
SATA+ULTRA ATA RAID CONTROLLERRC212 Features and Benefits Compliant with Serial ATA 1.0 specification Compliant with PCI Specification, revision 2.2 Provides three independent channels to connect two SATA and two PATA hard disk drive Supports up to UDMA6 transfer mode of PATA Supports up to 4 storage device connection（Two SATA and Two PATA）... -
Page 4: Magic Switch Introduction And Jumper Setting
SATA+ULTRA ATA RAID CONTROLLERRC212 Magic Switch introduction and jumper setting Before installing the VIA VT6421 RAID PCI Card, please see the photo below which shows all the ports & jumpers on this PCI Card. SATA Connector (External) SATA Connector (External) SATA Connector (Internal) SATA Connector (Internal) PATA Connector... - Page 5 A through D. Ports C to D are internal SATA ports and A to B are external SATA ports. By changing the jumper setting (F and G) on RC212 that allows you to utilize 2 ports of this card. With different jumper setting you can active port A, B, C and D .
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Page 6: Hardware Installation
SATA+ULTRA ATA RAID CONTROLLERRC212 character A through D. Ports C & D are internal SATA ports and A & B are external SATA ports. By changing the jumper setting on the PCI SATA+PATA RAID card that allows you to utilize 2 ports of this card at the same time. Please set which port to work by jumper setting. -
Page 7: Raid Arrays
SATA+ULTRA ATA RAID CONTROLLERRC212 set any RAID set at the beginning of booting. You can jump to P11 “Driver installation” directly to complete the install. The only different is ignoring the step of RAID setting and the driver setting is the same as a RAID card. RAID Arrays RAID Arrays are setup in the PCI SATA+PATA RAID card’s BIOS. - Page 8 SATA+ULTRA ATA RAID CONTROLLERRC212 4. When asked Auto Create array will destroy all data on disks. Continue? (Y/N), press Y to accept. 5. And then a Create New Raid Success!! Message will be displayed. Press ESC to quit then go back to the RAID utility main menu. 6.
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Page 9: Raid 1 (Mirroring)
SATA+ULTRA ATA RAID CONTROLLERRC212 RAID 1 (Mirroring) For New/Blank Hard Drives 1. As the BIOS boots press Tab when prompted to enter the RAID BIOS. 2. At the RAID utility main menu select Create Array, press Enter. 3. At the next screen select Auto Setup For Data Security, press Enter. 4. - Page 10 SATA+ULTRA ATA RAID CONTROLLERRC212 you that build is finished. Rebuild Mirror Drive 12. When a failure to one member occurs, you will be notified by the RAID BIOS during boot. The steps below will guide you in rebuilding a failed mirror set. 13.
- Page 11 SATA+ULTRA ATA RAID CONTROLLERRC212 1. As the BIOS boots press Tab when prompted to enter the RAID BIOS. 2. At the RAID utility main menu select Create Array, press Enter. 3. At the next screen select Auto Setup (Safe, Performance), press Enter. 4.
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Page 12: Bios Configuration
SATA+ULTRA ATA RAID CONTROLLERRC212 14. And then a Create New Raid Success!! Message will be displayed. Press ESC to quit then go back to the RAID utility main menu. 15. Press ESC to exit the BIOS. 16. When asked Do you really want to exit the utility? (Y/N), press Y to accept. SPAN (JBOD) 1. -
Page 13: Driver Installation Quick Guide
SATA+ULTRA ATA RAID CONTROLLERRC212 During this (POST) process, the BIOS will show up and indicate the devices attached to it. Driver Installation Quick guide: 1. If you want to add RC-212 to an existing OS, set up RC-212 into a PCI slot. Enter the OS and install RC-212 with driver disk. - Page 14 SATA+ULTRA ATA RAID CONTROLLERRC212 User Manual This will let PC boot from a HD controller instead of motherboard HD. e. Keep the floppy in floppy drive and follow the installation. Press “S” when the screen shows as the following picture.
- Page 15 SATA+ULTRA ATA RAID CONTROLLERRC212 User Manual Choose the correct OS which you are going to install when system asks you. If below screen happens, please choose “Standard PC with C-Step i486”.
- Page 16 SATA+ULTRA ATA RAID CONTROLLERRC212 User Manual Keep the floppy disk in floppy drive. PC will notice you as below if you take them off from the drive.
- Page 17 SATA+ULTRA ATA RAID CONTROLLERRC212 User Manual The installation of RC-212 by floppy drive will be completed and the system will detect the HD which now plug on the card. After you install RC-212 successfully by floppy disk, installation will lead you back to the same screen as below and then press “enter”...
- Page 18 HD will copy to fresh HD and boot as RAID 1. In addition, based on the above situation, if a bootable HD on the RC212 is desired. It means in this case you will boot our computer from RC212 instead of motherboard. Please follow the following instructions.
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Page 19: Detail Guide
SATA+ULTRA ATA RAID CONTROLLERRC212 c. Turn on PC and enter RAID BIOS to set mirror. Choose “Manual” and then select the original HD as the data source to complete mirror. The copy will take a long time depending on your HD capability. After data copy complete, save and left RAID BIOS. Important message: If you choose the wrong HD source at the step of “manual”, all your data will be lost. - Page 20 SATA+ULTRA ATA RAID CONTROLLERRC212 ＊For An Existing Installation 1. Setup the RAID Array prior to driver installation and boot up to Windows. 2. At the Found New Hardware Wizard window pop-up, please click Cancel button to cancel the driver installation for the device at this moment. The driver for this device will be installed in the next step.
- Page 21 SATA+ULTRA ATA RAID CONTROLLERRC212 7. Select VIA RAID Controller (Windows 2000), then press Enter. 8. Press Enter again to finish driver installation, then follow the on-screen instructions to complete the Windows installation. ＊For An Existing Installation 1. Setup the RAID Array prior to driver installation and boot up to Windows. 2.
- Page 22 SATA+ULTRA ATA RAID CONTROLLERRC212 For Windows® 98SE/Me ＊ For New Installation 1. Setup the RAID array prior to Windows installation. 2. Follow Microsoft procedures to install Windows 98SE/Me accordingly. 3. Once Windows has installed and booted. Please insert the CD driver bound with PCI SATA+PATA RAID card into your CD-ROM Drive.
- Page 23 SATA+ULTRA ATA RAID CONTROLLERRC212 ＊ For An Existing Installation 1. Setup the RAID Array prior to driver installation and boot up to Windows. 2. At the Found New Hardware Wizard window pop-up, please click Cancel button to cancel the driver installation for the device at this moment. The driver for this device will be installed in the next step.
- Page 24 Thank you for purchasing a quality Rosewill Product. Please register your product at : www.rosewill.com/ for complete warranty information and future support for your product. User Manual...
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