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- Page 1 AHARD RAID 66 AEC-6860M PCI-to-IDE RAID 0 Controller for Mac IDE Hard Drives User’ s Manual Version 1.0 Copyright 2000...
- Page 2 ACARD and SCSIDE are the trademarks of ACARD Technology Corp. IBM is a trademark of the International Business Machine Corporation. Apple and the PowerMac Logo are registered trademarks of Apple Corporation.
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
2.2 AHARD RAID 66 adapter compatibility list ..... 5 2.3 What you should know before the installation ..5 2.4 AHARD RAID 66 cable & power installation ..7 2.5 Configuring your AHARD RAID 66 ......8 2.6 System Installation ..........9 2.6.1 Normal Mode Installation ........ -
Page 4: Chapter 1 Introduction
With on board Open Firmware that supports booting from IDE disks configured as RAID. The AHARD RAID 66 supports all models of PowerMac which have a PCI slot, include PowerMac 7200, G3, G4. For PowerMac older than G4, AHARD RAID 66 can really boost the disk performance better. The performance can further be improved by using 7200rpm big capacity drive. -
Page 5: Feature
Supports O.S.: Mac OS 8.5 or later ! ! ! ! ! Cost effective and high performance ! ! ! ! ! Built-in RAID-On-Chip ACARD SCSIDE engine 1.3 Specification 1.3.1 Packing List When you open the AHARD RAID cabinet, please check the following packing list. -
Page 6: Chapter 2 Hardware Installation
The hardware installation is a simple Hardware RAID host adapter installa- tion. Please follow the following instruction. Before you install an IDE device into the AHARD RAID 66, you may set the IDE device as “Master or Slave” mode by adjusting the DIP switch setting. - Page 7 AHARD RAID 66 Board Layout: CN1 (IDE1): The Primary Ultra IDE port CN2 (IDE2): The Secondary Ultra IDE port CN2 (IDE2) CN1 (IDE1) RAID DIP Switch ATA-66 Cable Layout: Connect to Connect to IDE AHARD RAID Connect to IDE hard...
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Page 8: Ahard Raid 66 Adapter Compatibility List
! ! ! ! ! WESTERN DIGITAL 2.3 What you should know before the installation Before you install the AHARD RAID 66, the following tips may help you to get the best performance of your system: Striping Mode ! ! ! ! ! - Page 9 “Master” or both “Slave”. ! ! ! ! ! If using two IDE connector port on AHARD RAID 66 to connect with 4 hard disks, jumpers setting and hard disks boot sequence will follow the jumpers setting from IDE 1 Master, Slave and then IDE 2 Master, Slave.
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Page 10: Ahard Raid 66 Cable & Power Installation
AHARD RAID 66 2.4 AHARD RAID 66 cable & power installation Before you connect AHARD RAID board to your device, recognize the different interface connectors of SCSI and IDE on the board. The longer connector on external circuit board, which has 68 pins, is the SCSI connector. -
Page 11: Configuring Your Ahard Raid 66
AHARD RAID 66 2.5 Configuring your AHARD RAID 66 (Jumper Setting) RAID DIP Switch Setting RAID configurations have to be set up on AEC-6860M. And, you can set RAID Mode by adjust enable / disable DIP switch. RAID DIP Switch Please follow the instruction below and decide your suitable RAID DIP switch setting. -
Page 12: System Installation
AHARD RAID 66 2.6 System Installation 2.6.1 Normal Mode Installation MacOS installation: 1. Be sure your hardware had install correctly. 2. Insert Mac OS CD-ROM to your Macintosh. 3. Power on your Macintosh and press ‘C’ key. 4. Enter MacOS and the MacOS CD Windows popup. - Page 13 AHARD RAID 66 6. Click on “Driver Setup” . 7. Choose the hard disk you connect to AHARD RAID 66, then press “ Initialize” button. 8. Then you can start to install an new OS on the hard drive.
- Page 14 AHARD RAID 66 Verify your System Profiler You are going to make sure the computer “initialize” hard device if suc- cessfully. You can find the system information under the Apply Logo pop up. Then choose “Apple System Profiler”, your will find out the informa- tion.
- Page 15 AHARD RAID 66 Step 2. Choose “Devices and Volumes”, then on “SCSI Bus” to click on each “ID” to pop up the disk information.
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Page 16: Striping Mode (Raid 0) Installation
AHARD RAID 66 2.6.2 Striping Mode (RAID 0) Installation As hard disks may contain some unclean data which might cause the Mac OS installation problems. Before you do the striping mode installa- tion, please do the “initialize” under normal mode first then turn off your computer to set the DIP switches for striping mode. - Page 17 AHARD RAID 66 6. Click on “Driver Setup” . 7. Choose the hard disk you connect to AHARD RAID 66, then press “ Initialize” button. 8. Then you can start to install an new OS on the hard drive.
- Page 18 AHARD RAID 66 Verify your System Profiler You are going to make sure the computer “initialize” hard device if suc- cessfully. You can find the system information under the Apply Logo pop up. Then choose “Apple System Profiler”, your will find out the informa- tion.
- Page 19 AHARD RAID 66 Step 2. Choose “Devices and Volumes”, then on “SCSI Bus” to click on each “ID” to pop up the disk information.
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Page 20: Chapter 3 Troubleshooting
AHARD RAID 66 Chapter 3 Troubleshooting If you install your AHARD RAID 66 and it does not function properly, follow the troubleshooting below. 1. Check power supply. Whenever you are starting to check the malfunction devices, you should check the power status (ON / OFF). - Page 21 AHARD RAID 66 Appendix 1 Technical Support Form Email: support@mail.acard.com http://www.acard.com Model: F/W Version: AEC-6860M System Configuration Main Board vendor BIOS version SCSI adapter Chipset Memory Dispay card Other I/O card OS version Hard Disk Configuration Hard Disk Model/type Capacity...
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