Table Of Contents - Silicon Image SATA RAID FOR Manual

1 Welcome.......................................................................................................................................... 5
1.1 SATARaid Features ......................................................................................................................................5
2 An Introduction to RAID ................................................................................................................ 6
3 Installing Drivers for Windows Server 2003/XP/2000 /98/NT...................................................... 7
4 JAVA 2 Runtime Environment Installation .................................................................................. 8
5 SATARaid GUI Installation .......................................................................................................... 10
6 Creating and Deleting RAID Sets with BIOS Utility ................................................................... 11
6.1 BIOS Utility Overview .................................................................................................................................11
6.1.1 Main Menu...............................................................................................................................................................12
6.1.2 Help Window ...........................................................................................................................................................12
6.1.3 Physical Drive Information.......................................................................................................................................12
6.1.4 Logical Drive Information.........................................................................................................................................12
6.1.5 Command Line ........................................................................................................................................................12
6.2 Creating RAID Sets and Spare Drive ........................................................................................................13
6.3 Deleting RAID Sets and Spare Drive.........................................................................................................14
6.4 Rebuild RAID 1 Set .....................................................................................................................................15
6.5 Resolving Conflicts ....................................................................................................................................16
6.6 Deleting Invalid RAID Drive........................................................................................................................18
6.7 Low Level Formatting.................................................................................................................................18
6.8 Logical Drive Information...........................................................................................................................19
7 Allocating Partitions .................................................................................................................... 20
7.1 Windows Server 2003 & XP & 2000...........................................................................................................20
7.1.1 Creating the Partitions .............................................................................................................................................21
7.2 Windows NT ................................................................................................................................................25
7.2.1 Creating the Partitions .............................................................................................................................................26
7.3 Windows 98 & Me .......................................................................................................................................28
8 SATARaid GUI Overview ............................................................................................................. 32
8.1 Devices and Information Windows ...........................................................................................................32
8.2 Event Viewer and Events Windows ..........................................................................................................34
8.3 SATARaid Toolbar and Menu Commands ...............................................................................................34
8.3.1 RAID Management ..................................................................................................................................................34
8.3.2 System View............................................................................................................................................................35
8.3.3 Configure SATARaid ...............................................................................................................................................35
8.3.4 Send Configuration..................................................................................................................................................35
8.3.5 Save Configuration ..................................................................................................................................................35
8.3.6 Copy Configuration..................................................................................................................................................35
8.3.7 SATARaid Help .......................................................................................................................................................35
8.3.8 Exit ..........................................................................................................................................................................35
8.3.9 About SATARaid .....................................................................................................................................................35
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