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Foxconn SiS964 User Manual

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  • Page 1 SiS964/Silicon 3112A SATA RAID User’s Manual User’s Guide...
  • Page 2 Serial ATA RAID User’s Guide Edition V1.0 91-185-755-10-00 P/N: Trademarks All brand or product names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Serial ATA RAID User’s Guide CONTENTS Introduction ....................1 Features ....................... 2 Support operating Systems ................ 2 KNOW HOW..................3 PERFORMANCE HINTS AND RECOMMEND SETTING..... 3 Step 1. Hardware Setup ................4 HARD DRIVES SETUP ................ 4 FOR RAID 0 (STRIPING ARRAY) ............... 4 FOR RAID 1 (MIRROR ARRAY)..............
  • Page 4 Serial ATA RAID User’s Guide ABOUT CREATE RAID ..............28 VIEWING THE “CREATE RAID” ............... 28 CREATE A RAID SET .................. 30 ABOUT DELETE RAID..............38 VIEWING THE RAIDTYPE MEANING............38 DELETE A RAID SET .................. 39 ABOUT RAID RECOVERY .............. 41 RAID RECOVERY OPERATION..............

  • Page 5: Introduction

    Serial ATA RAID User’s Guide Introduction The South Bridge SiS964 SATA controller support two Serial ATA on two independent ports. Specifications are as follows: Serial ATA Interface Serial ATA (SATA) is the latest generation of the ATA interface. SATA hard drives deliver blistering transfer speeds of up to 150MB/sec.

  • Page 6: Features

    Serial ATA RAID User’s Guide Features The South Bridge SiS964 SATA controller only support two Serial ATA (Serial ATA RAID) drivers. Support RAID function: RAID 0, RAID 1 and JBOD. Support bootable disk. Windows-based SiS RAID Utility software tool (only support Windows XP and 2000).

  • Page 7: Know How

    Serial ATA RAID 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 8: Step 1. Hardware Setup

    Serial ATA RAID User’s Guide Step 1. Hardware Setup Hard Drives setup The South Bridge SiS964 SATA controller only supports two Serial ATA hard drivers. For RAID 0 (Striping array) Any of 2 SATA Hard disks would make a stripe system. The South Bridge SiS964 SATA controller only supports combination 6.

  • Page 9: Step 2. Installing Software Drivers

    Serial ATA RAID User’s Guide NOTE: Before Installing software drivers, make sure to set the item “SIS Serial ATA Mode” to Raid in “Integrated Peripherals” of BIOS Setup. Step 2. Installing Software Drivers SiS RAID driver support Microsoft Windows XP/2000 South Bridge SiS964 SATA controller support Serial ATA W/ RAID0, RAID 1 and JBOD by installing SiS RAID driver.

  • Page 10: Existing Windows Xp/2000 Installation

    Serial ATA RAID User’s Guide that appears on screen, and then press the Enter key. 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.

  • Page 11: Step 3. Bios Utility Operation

    Serial ATA RAID 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 and the drives installed, the BIOS will display the following.
  • Page 12 Serial ATA RAID User’s Guide Press <Ctrl-S> keys to display the SiS964 Utility Main Menu. Press <R> to display the RAID setup menu below. This is the fastest and easiest method to create your first array. The [A] and [D] key will appear randomly in the different conditions.
  • Page 13 Serial ATA RAID User’s Guide [b]. No available disk existing but have RAID existing: [c]. Available disk is not enough to create RAID:...

  • Page 14: Create Raid

    Serial ATA RAID User’s Guide Create RAID Creating a RAID 0 (Stripe) Array for Performance NOTE: SiS964 only supports 2 SATA drivers to create a stripe array. To create an array for best performance, follow these steps: Press <A> to start creating a RAID array. Press <2>...
  • Page 15 Serial ATA RAID User’s Guide Press <1>─<5> keys and <Enter> to select Block Size. ( Default : 64K ) Use <↑> <↓> to select disk , and press <Enter> to select disk, <Q> to exit. When you press <Enter> on the disk you wanted, the RAID Type will be changed from Single to RAID 0.
  • Page 16 Serial ATA RAID User’s Guide 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> and <Enter> to split the data from source disk to other disks.
  • Page 17 Serial ATA RAID User’s Guide Starting splitting action, the following frame will be shown. 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 18: Creating A Raid 1 (Mirror) Array

    Serial ATA RAID User’s Guide 10. Once the array has been created, you will need to FDISK and FORMAT the array as if it was a new single hard drive. Creating a RAID 1 (Mirror) Array NOTE: SiS964 enables users to create Mirror arrays with pair of drives only. To create a Mirror array, follow these steps: Press <A>...
  • Page 19 Serial ATA RAID 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 20 Serial ATA RAID User’s Guide Next, you will see a message “Duplicate the SOURCE(Disk x) data to RAID disks?”. Press <N> and <Enter> to create RAID 1 array only or press <Y> and <Enter> to duplicate the data from source disk to mirror disk.
  • Page 21 Serial ATA RAID User’s Guide 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. 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.

  • Page 22: Creating A Jbod Array

    Serial ATA RAID 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 JBOD Array NOTE: SiS964 only supports 2 SATA drivers to create a JBOD array. To create a JBOD array, follow these steps: Press <A>...
  • Page 23 Serial ATA RAID 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 24 Serial ATA RAID 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. 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.
  • Page 25 Serial ATA RAID 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 26: Delete Raid

    Serial ATA RAID User’s Guide Delete RAID Starting to delete a RAID array After enter the SiS964 Utility Main Menu, press <R> to display the RAID setup menu below. This is the fastest and easiest method to delete your first array. 2.
  • Page 27 Serial ATA RAID User’s Guide 3. Press <Enter> to select the RAID array that you want to delete. And a message “Are you sure to delete this RAID?” will show on this frame. 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.
  • Page 28 Serial ATA RAID User’s Guide 5. Press <Q> until escape the BIOS Utility, and the red message frame will show on it. 6. Press <Y> and <Enter> to save all changes.

  • Page 29: Step 4. Sis964 Raid Utility

    Serial ATA RAID User’s Guide Step 4. SiS964 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 RAID Utility 1) After installing the SiS RAID utility, go to “Start”...
  • Page 30 Serial ATA RAID 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 31 Serial ATA RAID 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, it will tell you that you can go to the “Raid Recovery” tab to recovery this broken RAID 1.

  • Page 32: About Create Raid

    Serial ATA RAID User’s Guide About Create Raid Click the tab “Create Raid”, you can find three drop-down boxs 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 33 Serial ATA RAID 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 34: Create A Raid Set

    Serial ATA RAID 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 want 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 35 Serial ATA RAID User’s Guide 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 36 Serial ATA RAID 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 37 Serial ATA RAID 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 38 Serial ATA RAID User’s Guide OK: Start the selected operation. <Disk Copy Remaining Sector>: Show the remaining splitting data sector numbers. miniCapacity x N > SourceCapacity NOTE: miniCapacity: The minimum size of all selected disks. SourceCapacity: The size of source disk. N: Total disk numbers.
  • Page 39 Serial ATA RAID 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 operation will begin. When this operation is beginning, you still can click the destroy button on the “Create Stripe RaidSet”...
  • Page 40 Serial ATA RAID 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. Next, you can click “Ok” button to restart the windows and start the operation “Source is a boot device”...
  • Page 41 Serial ATA RAID 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 42: About Delete Raid

    Serial ATA RAID 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 43: Delete A Raid Set

    Serial ATA RAID User’s Guide A: total number of disks in this Raid B,C: the serial number of each disk in this Raid D,E: a) Raid is correct, B=D C=E b) Raid is error, D or E will show “?” or “!”. In which, the meaning of “?”...
  • Page 44 Serial ATA RAID User’s Guide 2. Highlight the disk array in the “Current RaidType” pane, and then click the “Information” button or double click the array. You can get some information about the disk array. 3. If you want to delete a disk array you selected, you can highlight the disk array and then click the button “Delete”.

  • Page 45: About Raid Recovery

    Serial ATA RAID User’s Guide About Raid Recovery Click the tab “Raid Recovery”, you can find two panes and some buttons. Those meaning will be showed below. Raid Recovery Operation The recovering operation is workable only when error RAID1 set NOTE: exist.
  • Page 46 Serial ATA RAID 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” to continue or click “Cancel” to give up this selection. c) When the “Available Raid”...

  • Page 47: Sata Raid Software To Be Used With The Sii 3112

    Serial ATA RAID User’s Guide SATA RAID Software to be used with the SiI 3112 Product Overview Silicon Image’s SATARaid provides Serial ATA Software RAID including Striping and Mirroring to enhance the industry’s first proven PCI-to-SATA host controller product. Two major challenges facing the storage industry today are keeping pace with the increasing performance demands of computer systems by improving disk I/O throughput and providing data accessibility in the face of hard disk failures.
  • Page 48 Serial ATA RAID User’s Guide and provide redundncy in order to withstand the failure of any individual member, without loss of data. SATARaid provides two RAID Set types, Striped (RAID 0) and Mirrored (RAID 1). Disk Striping (RAID 0) Striping is a performance-oriented, non-redundant data mapping technique. While Striping is discussed as a RAID Set type, it is actually does not provide fault tolerance.
  • Page 49 Serial ATA RAID User’s Guide Creating RAID Sets (SATA3/4): During the Power-On Self Test (POST), press the <Ctrl> and <S> keys or <F4> key simultaneously to enter the Raid Configuration Utility - Silicon Image. The following screen menu appears. 1. Switch the highlight bar to the Create RAID set and press the <Enter>...
  • Page 50 Serial ATA RAID User’s Guide chunk size. For Mirrored Sets, you assign which is the Source and Target drives, as well as if you want Disk Copy. What is Disk Copy? If the disk assigned as the source disk already has been partitioned and has data stored on it, and then a second disk is added for redundancy, the data on the source drive can be copied to the destination drive, so the disks are identical, and all subsequent data will...
  • Page 51 Serial ATA RAID User’s Guide Deleting RAID set: To remove one or more RAID sets select Delete RAID set and press the <Enter> key. 2. Select desired set and press Y when asked “Are You Sure?”...
  • Page 52 Serial ATA RAID User’s Guide Resolving Conflict When a RAID set is created, the metadata written to the disk includes drive connection information (Primary Channel, Secondary Channel). If, after a disk failure, the replacement disk was previously part of a RAID set (or used in another system), it may have conflicting metadata, specifically in reference to the drive connection information.

  • Page 53: Installing Drivers And Software

    Serial ATA RAID User’s Guide Installing Drivers and Software Windows XP/2000 Operating System The driver is located on the provided floppy disk. Insert the floppy disk into the floppy disk drive and click Browse. Most floppy disk drives are configured as [A:]. Choose the [A:] drive in your browser and the Si3112r.inf file for the SiI 3112.
  • Page 54 Serial ATA RAID User’s Guide 4. Insert the previous floppy disk (RAID driver installation disk). 5. Press <S> to continue. 6. Press <Enter> to continue.
  • Page 55 Serial ATA RAID User’s Guide 7. Press <Enter> to continue. 8. Press <Enter> to continue. Install WinXP With Silicon 3112A RAID1: 1. Setup RAID1 function in Raid Configuration Utility - Silicon Image 2. The remainder of the process is the same as installing WinXP with RAID0 Install Win2K With Silicon 3112A RAID0: The process is the same as installing WinXP with RAID0...
  • Page 56 Serial ATA RAID User’s Guide C R E AT I N G / N A M I N G PA RT I T I O N S The creating and naming of partitions is something done within the Windows operating system. And while Windows XP/2000 use the Disk Management window, there are enough nuances that make it important to follow the procedure specifically for the appropriate operating system.
  • Page 57 Serial ATA RAID User’s Guide This window has three main sections: SECTION 1: System listing of all formatted and available disks/RAID Sets. SECTION 2: Report of physical connection of disks/RAID Sets. SECTION 3: Report of partition status, disk letter, and volume name. Initial Window SECTION 2, every disk should report as:...
  • Page 58 Serial ATA RAID User’s Guide Creating Partitions SECTION 2, the disk order corresponds directly to the order the Sets appear in the BIOS. Therefore, the first Unallocated Partition represents Set 1, and so on. 1. At this point, there should be three disks with Unallocated partitions. Right- click on the partition of the first disk and click on “Create Partition”.
  • Page 59 Serial ATA RAID User’s Guide USING SILICON IMAGE SATARaid GUI Overview The SATARaid GUI offers the user the ability to easily monitor your RAID Set. To launch the GUI, double-click on the icon located in the bottom right hand corner of the Desktop; or right-click on the icon located in the bottom right hand corner of the Desktop, and then clik “open”.If the icon does not appear in the bottom right hand corner of the desktop, find where the application was saved and launch from there.
  • Page 60 Serial ATA RAID User’s Guide Selecting different component in the configuration tree provides specific information for that component, such as the chip. Selecting a specific channel, either channel 0 or channel 1, the following information is reported:...
  • Page 61 Serial ATA RAID User’s Guide Selecting a specific drive reports all pertinent information to that drive, including Configuration and Disk Identification information. Click here Click here...
  • Page 62 Serial ATA RAID User’s Guide Click here Selecting Sets lists the Sets in the configuration tree and provides information on RIO Version:...
  • Page 63 Serial ATA RAID User’s Guide By selecting a specific RAID set, such as Set 0, the type of RAID set, the number of members and capacity is reported. Click here Click here The Device Location refers to how each physical disk was reported in the BIOS RAID utility.
  • Page 64 Serial ATA RAID User’s Guide The Members tab of this window reports the device identification (corresponding with the information in the BIOS) and the State of each device. Besides reporting information, the Members tab of a Mirrored set allows the user to remove a specific drive from that set, as well as add a designated Spare drive to a Mirrored set that has experienced a disk failure.
  • Page 65 Serial ATA RAID User’s Guide Click here SATARaid Configuration Menu By clicking on the toolbox icon in the top left of the SATARaid GUI window, or right-clicking on the conductor icon in the bottom right of the computer screen (with other start-up icons), the user may configure SATARaid including customizing the settings for SMTP, E-mail, Notification, Event Level, Log File, Audio, and Popup.
  • Page 66 Serial ATA RAID User’s Guide E-Mail current SATARaid configuration may be sent via e-mail. Using the e-mail tab in the SATARaid Configuration Menu, the user may set the default e-mail address and subject line where configuration would be sent. This, however, overridden the time of...
  • Page 67 Serial ATA RAID User’s Guide Event Level There are different types of e- mail notifications that may be sent which are set with the Event Level tab. The different levels are: Disabled - No event logs will be sent. Informational - The following events will be sent: - Informational - Warnings...
  • Page 68 Serial ATA RAID User’s Guide Audio The user may set different audio alerts for the different levels of events. Popup The popup window is a visual notification that event occurred. The popup window can be disabled or set to popup for only certain event levels.

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