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Foxconn 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 ................... 3 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) ..............7 FOR RAID 0+1 (STRIPE-MIRROR ARRAY) ..........7 FOR JBOD (SPANNING ARRAY)..............8...
  • Page 4 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide DELETE RAID ....................30 STARTING TO DELETE A RAID ARRAY..........30 Step 4. SiS964/SiS180 RAID Utility..............33 STARTING TO USE SIS964/SIS180 RAID UTILITY.......33 ABOUT CREATE RAID..................36 VIEWING THE “CREATE RAID”..............36 CREATE A RAID SET..................39 ABOUT DELETE RAID...................49 VIEWING THE RAIDTYPE MEANING ............49 DELETE A RAID SET ..................51 ABOUT RAID RECOVERY................54...

  • 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 Serial/Ultra ATA RAID striped arrays can double the sustained data transfer rate of Serial ATA/150 and Ultra ATA/133 drives. Serial/Ultra ATA RAID fully 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: Support Operating Systems

    Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide Support operating Systems Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition 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 If you have only two Serial ATA drives, the auto-configure function will assign each on a different channel as a master drive. Using only two Parallel ATA drives to create a RAID array is NOT suggested. It might decrease performance.

  • 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 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 15 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide Click the “+” in front of “ IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers” hardware type. The driver “ SiS 180 IDE Dual Channel ” and “ SiS 180 IDE/RAID Controller ” should appear.

  • Page 16: 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 17 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide e. The Raid is wrong!! Do you want to fix it??(Y/N) à 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 18 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide [b]. No available disk existing but have RAID existing: [c]. Available disks and RAID existing simultaneously:...
  • Page 19 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide [d]. Available disk is not enough to create RAID:...

  • Page 20: 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 21 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 22 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 23 Serial ATA RAID Quick 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>...

  • Page 24: 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 25 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.
  • Page 26 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 27 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 28 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 29: Creating A Jbod Array

    Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide Creating a JBOD Array NOTE: SiS180 enables users to create JBOD arrays with 2, 3, or 4 drives. SiS964 only supports 2 SATA drivers to create a JBOD arrays. To create a JBOD array, follow these steps: Press <A>...
  • Page 30 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide 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 JBOD.
  • Page 31 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. 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 32: Creating A Raid 0+1 (Stripe-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 0+1 (Stripe-Mirror) Array NOTE: Only SiS 180 controller supports Stripe - Mirror array with 4 drives. The selection of RAID 0+1 will appear when 4 single HDD existing.
  • Page 33 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide After step 2, RAID 0+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. Press <Y> and <Enter>...

  • Page 34: Delete Raid

    Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide Delete RAID Starting to delete a RAID array After enter the SiS964/SiS180 Utility Main Menu, press <R> to display the RAID setup menu below. This is the fastest and easiest method to delete your first array.
  • Page 35 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 36 Serial ATA RAID Quick 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 37: 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 38 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 39 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 40: About Create Raid

    Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide 5) 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. About Create Raid Click the tab “Create Raid”, you can find three drop-down box and three panes.
  • Page 41 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 42 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 43: 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 44 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide 3. 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. 4. When the JBOD array’s configuration is finished, click the button “Create”.
  • Page 45 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide message. You can click “Yes” button to continue or click “No” button to cancel. 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.
  • Page 46 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 47 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide disks. In this operation, the source disk can’t be a boot device. Source is a boot device: This operation is similar to “Source is NOT a boot device” operation, but the source disk is a boot device. Ok: Start the selected operation.
  • Page 48 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 operation will begin. When this operation is beginning, you still can click the destroy button on the “Create Stripe RaidSet”...
  • Page 49 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. Next, you can click “Ok” button to restart the windows and start the operation “Source is a boot device”...
  • Page 50 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide 3. 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.
  • Page 51 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide 6. If the operation is “Create and Duplicate”, the following warning message will be popup, seeing below: 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.
  • Page 52 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide d) To create a RAID 0+1 (Stripe-Mirror) array, follow these steps: 1. “Configuration” ? “Create Raid” ? “Raid Type” ? RAID 0+1. 2. From the drop-down box “Block Size”, select the block size you want or use the default value “64K”.

  • Page 53: About Delete Raid

    Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide About Delete Raid 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>...
  • Page 54 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide <Example> <Showing its information>...

  • Page 55: 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 56 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 57 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide 1. “Configuration” ? “Delete Raid”, 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. The following windows will appear: 2.

  • Page 58: About Raid Recovery

    Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide The degrading operation is workable only when the RAID 0+1 NOTE: set has any one completed RAID 0 set existed. About Raid Recovery Click the tab “Raid Recovery”, you can find two panes and some buttons. Those meaning will be showing below.

  • Page 59: Raid Recovery Operation

    Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide Raid Recovery Operation The recovering operation is workable only when error RAID1 NOTE: set or error RAID 0+1 set (must at least an error RAID0 set) exist. a) First, you can click the button “Available Raid” to find whether any error Raid set existing.
  • Page 60 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide c) When the “Available Raid” and “Available Disk” is finished, you can click the button “Start” to start this operation. And the button “Start” will become “Pause”. Then you can click the button “Pause” to pause the thread operation.

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