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ECS SiS964 User Manual

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  • Page 1 SiS964/SiS180 SATA w/ RAID User’s Manual Quick User’s Guide Version 0.3...
  • Page 2 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide Edition December 2003 Copyright © 2003 Silicon Integrated Systems Corp. Trademarks SiS is a registered trademark of Silicon Integrated Systems Corp. All brand or product names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. Revision History Revision History...

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide CONTENTS Introduction ....................1 Features ....................... 2 Support operating Systems ................ 2 KNOW HOW..................4 PERFORMANCE HINTS AND RECOMMEND SETTING..... 4 Step 1. Hardware Setup ................6 HARD DRIVES SETUP ................ 6 FOR RAID 0 (STRIPING ARRAY) ............... 6 FOR RAID 1 (MIRROR ARRAY)..............
  • Page 4 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide DELETE RAID..................28 STARTING TO DELETE A RAID ARRAY..........28 Step 4. SiS964/SiS180 RAID Utility ............31 STARTING TO USE SIS964/SIS180 RAID UTILITY..... 31 ABOUT CREATE RAID ..............34 VIEWING THE “CREATE RAID” ............... 34 CREATE A RAID SET ..................

  • Page 5: Introduction

    Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide Introduction The SiS180 SATA 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. However the South Bridge SiS964 SATA controller only support two Serial ATA on two independent ports.

  • Page 6: Features

    Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide supports Serial ATA/150 and Ultra ATA/133 specification of up to 150MB/sec per drive, depending on individual drive specifications. 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.
  • Page 7 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide Microsoft Windows Me Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional and Server Microsoft Windows XP...

  • Page 8: Know How

    Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide Step 0. What is RAID Know How 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 RAID Controller Application”. RAID: (Redundant Array of Independent Disk Drives) use jointly several hard drives to increase data transfer rates and data security.
  • Page 9 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide 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. 8. The best performance of RAID 0+1 is set the sequence as Disk 1 ->...

  • Page 10: Step 1. Hardware Setup

    Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide Step 1. Hardware Setup Hard Drives setup The SiS180 controller supports up to two Serial ATA hard drives and two Parallel ATA hard drives. The South Bridge SiS964 SATA controller only supports two Serial ATA hard drivers. For RAID 0 (Striping array) Any combination to 2, 3 or 4 Hard disks would combine to a stripe system.

  • Page 11: For Raid 1 (Mirror Array)

    Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide For RAID 1 (Mirror array) Any of 2 Hard disks would make a mirror system. The South Bridge SiS964 SATA controller only supports combination 6 and the SiS180 controller supports all combinations. HDD Population Rules for RAID 1 (Mirroring) Ultra ATA (Master) Ultra ATA (Slave) Serial ATA (Master 1)

  • Page 12: For Jbod (Spanning Array)

    Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide For JBOD (Spanning array) Any combination to 2, 3 or 4 Hard disks would combine to a JBOD system. The South Bridge SiS964 SATA controller only supports combination 6 and the SiS180 controller supports all combinations. HDD Population Rules for JBOD (Spanning) Ultra ATA (Master) Ultra ATA (Slave)

  • Page 13: Step 2. Installing Software Drivers

    Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide Step 2. Installing Software Drivers SiS RAID driver support Microsoft Windows XP/2000/Me/98SE SiS180 controller support Serial ATA/Ultra ATA w/ RAID0, RAID1, RAID0+1 and JBOD by installing SiS RAID driver . South Bridge SiS964 SATA controller support Serial ATA w/ RAID0, RAID 1 and JBOD by installing SiS RAID driver.

  • Page 14: Existing Windows Xp/2000/Me/98Se 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 XP/2000 Setup screen, press the Enter key.

  • Page 15: Step 3. Bios Utility Operation

    Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide Step 3. BIOS Utility Operation Note: For the best performance and reliability, please read “Performance Hints and Recommend Setting” section in Step 0. Starting BIOS Utility Boot your system. If this is the first time you have booted with the SiS964 or SiS180 and the drives installed, the BIOS will display the following.
  • Page 16 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide e. The Raid is wrong!! Do you want to fix it??(Y/N) Occurs when the locations of two SATA HDD change owing to ATA HDD existing or not. Press <Ctrl-S> keys to display the SiS964/SiS180 Utility Main Menu. Press <R>...
  • Page 17 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide [b]. No available disk existing but have RAID existing: [c]. Available disks and RAID existing simultaneously:...
  • Page 18 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide [d]. Available disk is not enough to create RAID:...

  • Page 19: Create Raid

    Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide Create RAID NOTE: SiS180 controller support RAID 0, RAID 1, JBOD and RAID 0+1. SiS964 SATA controller support RAID0, RAID 1 and JBOD. The selection of RAID 0+1 will appear when 4 single HDD existing. Creating a RAID 0 (Stripe) Array for Performance NOTE: SiS180 enables users to create striped arrays with 2, 3, or 4 drives.
  • Page 20 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide You will have two selections to create a RAID 0 array. The default value is <1>. If you select <1>Auto Create, you can create a RAID 0 array faster and easier. The Blocksize will be selected by its default value “64K”.
  • Page 21 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide will be changed from Single to RAID 0. And the disk you select first will be the SOURCE disk. Next, you will see a message “Split the SOURCE(Disk x) data to RAID disks?”. Press <N> and <Enter> to create RAID 0 array only or press <Y>...
  • Page 22 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide After all steps finished, press <Q> until escape the setup menu and RAID 0 array will be shown on the top of the main frame. Press <Q> until exit this BIOS utility and the red message frame will show.

  • Page 23: Creating A Raid 1 (Mirror) Array

    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. Creating a RAID 1 (Mirror) Array NOTE: SiS964/SiS180 enables users to create Mirror arrays with pair of drives only.
  • Page 24 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide You will have two selections to create a RAID 1 array. The default value is <1>. If you select <1>Auto Create, you can create a RAID 1 array faster and easier. The result after creating will be shown on step 5. Besides, you also can select <2>Manual Create, see following steps.
  • Page 25 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide will be changed from Single to RAID 1. The same as RAID 0, the disk you select first will be the SOURCE disk. Next, you will see a message “Duplicate the SOURCE(Disk x) data to RAID disks?”.
  • Page 26 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide Starting duplicating action, the following frame will be showing. After all steps finished, press <Q> until escape the setup menu and RAID 1 array will be shown on the top of the main frame.

  • Page 27: Creating A Jbod Array

    Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide Press <Q> until exit this BIOS utility and the red message frame will show as the same as the creation of the RAID 0 array. 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.
  • Page 28 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide You will have two selections to create a JBOD array. The default value is <1>. If you select <1>Auto Create, you can create a JBOD array faster and easier. The result after creating will be shown on step 5. Besides, you also can select <2>Manual Create, see following steps.
  • Page 29 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide After all steps finished, press <Q> until escape the setup menu and JBOD array will be shown on the top of the main frame.

  • Page 30: Creating A Raid 0+1 (Stripe-Mirror) Array

    Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide Press <Q> until exit this BIOS utility and the red message frame will show as the same as the creation of the RAID 0 array. 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.
  • Page 31 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide WinMe or Win98SE, you must install Raid driver first and you can use MS-DOS tool to FORMAT it. To create an Stripe-Mirror array, follow these steps: Press <A> to start creating a RAID array. After step 2, RAID 0+1 array will be shown on the top of the main frame.

  • Page 32: Delete Raid

    Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide Press <Q> until exit this BIOS utility and the red message frame will show as the same as the creation of the RAID 0 array. Press <Y> and <Enter> to save changes. Delete RAID Starting to delete a RAID array After enter the SiS964/SiS180 Utility Main Menu, press <R>...
  • Page 33 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide 2. Press <D> to start deleting a RAID array, and use<↑> <↓> to select RAID array you wanted to delete. 3. Press <Enter> to select the RAID array that you want to delete. And a message “Are you sure to delete this RAID?”...
  • Page 34 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide 4. Press <Y> and <Enter>, the deleting action finish. And the RAID Type of all disk members of this RAID array will be changed from RAID 0 to Single. 5. Press <Q> until escape the BIOS Utility, and the red message frame will show on it.
  • Page 35 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide 6. Press <Y> and <Enter> to save all changes.

  • Page 36: Step 4. Sis964/Sis180 Raid Utility

    Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide Step 4. SiS964/SiS180 RAID Utility Note: For the best performance and reliability, please read “Performance Hints and Recommend Setting” section in Step 0. This Utility only supports Windows XP/2000. Starting to use SiS964/SiS180 RAID Utility 1) After installing the SiS RAID utility, go to “Start”...
  • Page 37 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide 2) This SiS RAID utility will be resident in the toolbar. You can click the right button of the mouse on the SiS Raid Utility’s icon and some selection will be popup. You can click “Exit” to close this resident utility or let it always be resident in the toolbar.
  • Page 38 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide Besides, if this controller has some broken RAID existing, this AP will show some warning message on initial time. If this broken RAID is RAID 1 or RAID 0+1, it will tell you that you can go to the “Raid Recovery” tab to recovery this broken RAID 1 or RAID 0+1.

  • Page 39: About Create Raid

    Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide About Create Raid 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 40 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide Block Size: If user selected RAID 0 and RAID 0+1 array types in the “Array Type” box, the “Block Size” drop-down box will be enabled and user must select a block size. Clicking the drop-down box “Block Size”, there are seven block size that the user can select: 8k, 16k, 32k, 64k, 128k, 256k and 512k.
  • Page 41 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 42: 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 the disk into the “Selected Disks”...
  • Page 43 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide pane. 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” button to finish the creation of JBOD array, or click “No”...
  • Page 44 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 and you can get new setting. Or click “Cancel”...
  • Page 45 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide 4. From the “Available Disks” pane, select the disk and click downward arrow icon or double click it to add the disk on the “Selected Disks” pane. This action is the same as the operation to create a JBOD array. 5.
  • Page 46 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide miniCapacity x N > SourceCapacity NOTE: miniCapacity: The minimum size of all selected disks. SourceCapacity: The size of source disk. N: Total disk numbers. 6. Next, you can click “Ok” button to continue after the operation being selected.
  • Page 47 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide When this operation is beginning, you still can click the destroy button on the “Create Stripe RaidSet” dialog to stop this operation. But this action will cause the data of the source disk broken. And the following message will be popup to remind you.
  • Page 48 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide Next, you can click “Ok” button to restart the windows and start the operation “Source is a boot device” of <Split data into Raid0 Set>. Or click “Cancel” button to suspend this operation. But, this operation is still done after restarting the windows next time.
  • Page 49 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. Create and Duplicate: Duplicate operation will reserve data on the source disk and copy them onto the target disk.
  • Page 50 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide Next, you can click “Yes” button to start the operation or click “No” button to cancel. When you click “Yes” button to start this operation, the following warning message will be popup. Click “OK” button to start this duplicating action. Don’t restart your computer or it will cause the action fail.

  • Page 51: About Delete Raid

    Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide 2. From the drop-down box “Block Size”, select the block size you want or use the default value “64K”. 3. From the drop-down box “Mode Type”, select the mode type you want or use the default value “DMA”. 4.

  • Page 52: Viewing The Raidtype Meaning

    Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide Click the tab “Delete Raid”, you can find some panes and two buttons. The RaidType meaning will show below. Viewing the RaidType meaning General case: RAID0 (A = B C | D E) <Meaning> RAID0: Raid Type A: total number of disks in this Raid B,C: the serial number of each disk in this Raid...
  • Page 53 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide <Showing its information>...

  • Page 54: 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 55 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 56 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 57: About Raid Recovery

    Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide About Raid Recovery 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 set NOTE: or error RAID 0+1 set (must at least an error RAID0 set) exist.
  • Page 58 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”...

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