Gigabyte SiS 964 User Manual
  1. Manuals
  2. Brands
  3. Gigabyte Manuals
  4. Controller
  5. SiS 964
  6. User manual
Gigabyte SiS 964 User Manual

Gigabyte SiS 964 User Manual

Serial/ultra ata, serial/ultra ata raid 0 or 1, serial/ultra ata raid 0+1, serial/ultra ata jbod
Hide thumbs Also See for SiS 964:
Table of Contents

Advertisement

Quick Links

Download this manual See also: Installation Manual
SiS 964 S-ATA User' s Manual
Quick User' s Guide
Version 0.1

Advertisement

Table of Contents
loading
Need help?

Need help?

Do you have a question about the SiS 964 and is the answer not in the manual?

Questions and answers

Related Manuals for Gigabyte SiS 964

Summary of Contents for Gigabyte SiS 964

  • Page 1 SiS 964 S-ATA User’ s Manual Quick User’ s Guide Version 0.1...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    CREATING AN ARRAY FOR PERFORMANCE......11 CREATING A MIRROR ARRAY ...........13 CREATING A JBOD ARRAY ............16 CREATING A STRIPE-MIRROR ARRAY ........18 Step 4. SIS 964 RAID Utility Operation..........22 VIEWING THE “CREATE RAID” ..........24 CREATE A RAID SET..............26 VIEWING THE RAIDTYPE MEANING........33 DELETE A RAID SET ..............35...

  • Page 3: Introduction

    Serial ATA RAID Quick User’ s Guide Introduction The 964 S-ATA controller is a hybrid solution that combines two independent SATA ports and one Ultra ATA port for support of up to two Serial ATA (Serial ATA RAID) and two Ultra ATA (Ultra ATA RAID) drives. Specifications are as follows: Serial ATA Interface Serial ATA (SATA) is the latest generation of the ATA interface.
  • Page 4 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’ s Guide The technology also offers fault tolerant, data redundancy for entry-level network file servers or simply for desktop PC users wanting to continually protect valuable data on their PC. The Serial/Ultra ATA RAID offers RAID 1 mirroring (for two drives) to protect data.

  • Page 5: Step 0. What Is Raid

    This section will give you an overview about the RAID system and introduce the basic background and glossary which you need to know before using “SiS 964 RAID Controller Application”. RAID: (Redundant Array of Independent Disk Drives) use jointly several hard drives to increase data transfer rates and data security. It depends on the number of drives present and RAID function you select to fulfill the security or performance purposes or both.
  • Page 6 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’ s Guide parallel ATA drives to create a RAID array is NOT suggested. It might decrease performance. 5. Always use 80-conductor cables. 6. We strongly recommend you should use “DMA” transfer mode. 7. The recommended block size is 64K when creating RAID 0 and RAID 0+1.

  • Page 7: Step 1. Hardware Setup

    Serial ATA RAID Quick User’ s Guide Step 1. Hardware Setup Hard Drives setup The 964 controller supports up to two Serial ATA hard drives and two Parallel ATA hard drives. Any combination to 2, 3 or 4 Hard disk would combine to a strip system.
  • Page 8 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’ s Guide V = Install; X = Uninstall NOTE: Storage Capacity: the capacity of the smallest drive in the disk array Working Speed: the speed of the lowest drive in the disk array 4 Hard disk would set up a RAID 0 + 1 HDD Population Rules for RAID 0+1 (Striping + Mirroring) Ultra ATA (Master) Ultra ATA (Slave)
  • Page 9 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’ s Guide V = Install; X = Uninstall NOTE: Storage Capacity: the number of hard drives times the capacity of the smallest drive in the disk array Working Speed: the speed of the lowest drive in the disk array...

  • Page 10: Step 2. Installing Software Drivers

    Serial ATA RAID Quick User’ s Guide Step 2. Installing Software Drivers SiS provides Mini IDE driver for SiS964 SATA function and RAID driver for SiS964 SATA with RAID function. SiS Mini IDE driver for Windows 2000/XP SiS RAID driver for Windows 2000/XP For SATA function, both of Mini IDE driver and RAID driver support SATA.

  • Page 11: Existing Windows 2000/Xp Installation

    Serial ATA RAID Quick User’ s Guide Press Enter to continue with installation or if you need to specify any additional devices to be installed, do so at this time. Once all devices are specified, Press Enter to continue with installation. From the Windows 2000/XP Setup screen, press the Enter key.

  • Page 12: Step 3. Bios Utility Operation (For Raid Only)

    Serial ATA RAID Quick User’ s Guide Step 3. BIOS Utility Operation (for RAID only) Note: For the best performance and reliability, please read “Performance Hints and Recommend Setting” section in Step 0 Boot your system. If this is the first time you have booted with the SIS 964 and the drives installed, the onboard BIOS will display the following screen.

  • Page 13: Creating An Array For Performance

    Serial ATA RAID Quick User’ s Guide Creating an Array for Performance NOTE: SIS 964 enables users to create striped arrays with 1, 2, 3, or 4 drives. To create an array for best performance, follow these steps: Press “A” to create array .
  • Page 14 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’ s Guide Press <N> and <Enter> to Create Stripe only. (If Press <Y> and <Enter>, it will split the data on source disk to other disks) Press <Q> until escape the setup menu...

  • Page 15: Creating A Mirror Array

    Serial ATA RAID Quick User’ s Guide Press <Y> and <Enter> to save changes. Once the array has been created, you will need to FDISK and format the array as if it were a new single hard drive. Creating a Mirror Array To create an Mirror array , follow these steps: Press “A”...
  • Page 16 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’ s Guide Press <3> and <Enter> to select Mirror. Press <1>¢w <2> keys and <Enter> to select Transfer Mode. ( Default : DMA ) Use<¡ô> <¡õ> to select disk , and press <Enter> to select disk, <Q> to exit.
  • Page 17 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’ s Guide Press <N> and <Enter> to Create Mirror only. (If Press <Y> and <Enter>, it will Duplicate the data on source disk to mirror disk) Press <Q> until escape the setup menu...

  • Page 18: Creating A Jbod Array

    Serial ATA RAID Quick User’ s Guide Press <Y> and <Enter> to save changes. Once the array has been created, you will need to FDISK and format the array as if it were a new single hard drive. Creating a JBOD Array To create an JBOD array , follow these steps: Press “A”...
  • Page 19 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’ s Guide Press <1> and <Enter> to select JBOD. Press <1>¢w <2> keys and <Enter> to select Transfer Mode. ( Default : DMA ) Use<¡ô> <¡õ> to select disk , and press <Enter> to select disk, <Q> to exit.

  • Page 20: Creating A Stripe-Mirror Array

    Serial ATA RAID Quick User’ s Guide Press <Q> until escape the setup menu Press <Y> and <Enter> to save changes. Once the array has been created, you will need to FDISK and format the array as if it were a new single hard drive. Creating a Stripe-Mirror Array To create an Stripe-Mirror array, follow these steps: Press “A”...
  • Page 21 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’ s Guide Press <4> and <Enter> to select Strpie-Mirror. Press <1>¢w <7> keys and <Enter> to select Block Size. ( Default : 32K ) Press <1>¢w <2> keys and <Enter> to select Transfer Mode. ( Default : DMA ) Use<¡ô>...
  • Page 22 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’ s Guide Press <Q> until escape the setup menu Press <Y> and <Enter> to save changes.
  • Page 23 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’ s Guide Once the array has been created, you will need to FDISK and format the array as if it were a new single hard drive.

  • Page 24: Step 4. Sis 964 Raid Utility Operation

    Serial ATA RAID Quick User’ s Guide Step 4. SIS 964 RAID Utility Operation Note: For the best performance and reliability, please read “Performance Hints and Recommend Setting” section in Step 0. 1) After installing the SiS RAID utility, go to “Start” menu and choose “Programs.”...
  • Page 25 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’ s Guide 3) Click the tab “configuration”, you can find three tabs: Create Raid, Delete Raid and Raid Recovery. In the same way, you can switch to different tabs by clicking on it.

  • Page 26: Viewing The "Create Raid

    Serial ATA RAID Quick User’ s Guide 4) Click the tab “Create Raid”, you can find three drop-down box and three panes. Those meaning will be showing below. Viewing the “Create Raid” Raid Type: Click the drop-down box “Raid Type”. This box enables the user to select array type.
  • Page 27 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’ s Guide 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.

  • Page 28: Create A Raid Set

    Serial ATA RAID Quick User’ s Guide Selected Disks: This pane will list out all the disks that have been selected to create a RAID set. User can highlight the specific disk that we wants in the “Available Disks” pane and click the downward arrow icon or double click the marked disk to select that disk into the “Selected Disks”...
  • Page 29 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’ s Guide You must have at least two hard disks to create a JBOD array. NOTE: 4. When the JBOD array’ s configuration is finished, click the button “Create”. Then a warning message will be popup. Pay attention to the warning message, and then click “Yes”...
  • Page 30 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’ s Guide 5. Next, another message box will be popup to tell user that disk setting has been changed and ask whether to restart the computer or not. Click “Yes” button to restart the computer or click “Cancel” button to skip restarting.
  • Page 31 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’ s Guide You must have at least two hard disks to create a RAID0 array. NOTE: 5. When the RAID0 array’ s configuration is finished, click the button “Create”. Then a “Create Stripe RaidSet” dialog will be popup. <Note>...
  • Page 32 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’ s Guide operation, the boot disk can’ t be placed on 964. Split data (Boot from 964): This operation is similar to “Split data into Raid0” operation, but system boots from 964. Ok: Start the operation. Cancel: Cancel the operation.
  • Page 33 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’ s Guide Next, you can click “Ok” button to restart the windows and start the operation “Split boot OS into Raid0”. Or click “Cancel” button to suspend this operation. But, this operation is still done after restarting the windows next time.
  • Page 34 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’ s Guide <Note> Source: The first selected disk. Target: The second selected disk. Create Only: This operation will destroy all data on all the selected disks and create a clean mirror array without any data on it.

  • Page 35: Viewing The Raidtype Meaning

    Serial ATA RAID Quick User’ s Guide “Create”. Then a warning message will be popup. The message is similar to JBOD array creation. 6. Next, the restart message will be popup. The RAID0+1 array support at least four hard disks. NOTE: Click the tab “Delete Raid”, you can find some panes and two buttons.
  • Page 36 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’ s Guide <Example> <Showing its information>...

  • Page 37: Delete A Raid Set

    Serial ATA RAID Quick User’ s Guide Delete a Raid set a) To delete a JBOD, RAID0 or RAID1 array, follow these steps: 1. “Configuration” ¡÷ “Delete Raid”, the following windows will appear: 2. Highlight the disk array in the “Current RaidType” pane, and then click the “Information”...
  • Page 38 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’ s Guide 3. If you want to delete a disk array you selected, you can highlight the disk array and then click the button “Delete”. Then a warning message will be popup, and pay attention to the warning message. You can click “Yes”...
  • Page 39 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’ s Guide 2. If you want to delete a disk array you selected, you can highlight the disk array and then click the button “Delete”. Then a warning message will be popup, and pay attention to the warning message. 3.

  • Page 40: Raid Recovery Operation

    Serial ATA RAID Quick User’ s Guide Click the tab “Raid Recovery”, you can find two panes and some buttons. Those meaning will be showing below. Raid Recovery Operation The recovering operation is workable only when error RAID1 NOTE: set or error RAID0+1 set (must at least an error RAID0 set) exist.
  • Page 41 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’ s Guide b) After “Available RAID” selected, click the button “Available Disk” 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 button “Ok”...

This manual is also suitable for:

Sis 964 s-ata

Table of Contents