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Abit HOT ROD 100 Pro User Manual

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  • Page 1 Copyright and Warranty Notice The information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on part of the vendor, who assumes no liability or responsibility for any errors that may appear in this manual. No warranty or representation, either expressed or implied, is made with respect to the quality, accuracy or fitness for any particular part of this document.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Hot Rod 100 Pro User’s Manual Index CHAPTER 1. THE INTRODUCTION OF HOT ROD 100 PRO FEATURES ............1-1 1-1. F IDE RAID C ....1-1 EATURES OF ONTROLLER 1-2. S ..............1-2 PECIFICATIONS 1-3. L ..............1-4 AYOUT IAGRAM 1-4.
  • Page 4 APPENDIX D. TROUBLE SHOOTING (NEED ASSISTANCE?) ...D-1 APPENDIX E. HOW TO GET TECHNICAL SUPPORT ..... E-1 Hot Rod 100 Pro...

  • Page 5: Chapter 1. The Introduction Of Hot Rod 100 Pro Features

    Striping with Mirroring operation offers both high read/write performance and fault tolerance. The EZRAID function of the Hot Rod 100 Pro offers quick and easy installation and configuration.

  • Page 6: Specifications

    Auto detects and supports Ultra Mode(ATA/EIDE) transfers Recognizes drives up to 128 GB 6. Operating System Supports Microsoft DOS 5.X and above Microsoft Windows 95/98 Microsoft Windows 2000 Microsoft Windows NT4.0 ABIT Gentus 2.0 or later version (Linux) Hot Rod 100 Pro...
  • Page 7 Introduction of Hot Rod 100 Pro Features Table 1-1: Hot Rod 100 Pro specifications Bus: Drive Transfer Rate: 100MB/sec burst w/Ultra ATA/100 devices Number of Supporting Drives: 4 Drive Modes: Ultra DMA mode 5/4/3/2/1/0 DMA mode 2/1/0 PIO mode 4/3/2/1/0...

  • Page 8: Layout Diagram

    Chapter 1 1-3. Layout Diagram Figure 2-1: Hot Rod 100 Pro controller card component locations Hot Rod 100 Pro...

  • Page 9: Introduction Of Ultra Ata/100

    Introduction of Hot Rod 100 Pro Features 1-4. Introduction of Ultra ATA/100 Ultra ATA/100 enhances existing Ultra ATA/66 technology by increasing both performance and data integrity. This new high-speed interface enhances the Ultra ATA/66 and Ultra/33 burst data transfer rate to 100 Mbytes/sec. The result is maximum disc performance using the current PCI local bus environment.

  • Page 10: Requirements For Attaining Ultra Ata/100

    If all the above requirements are met, you can enjoy the Ultra ATA/100 features of your computer system. Note For obtaining the performance of Hot Rod 100 Pro, please use the Ultra ATA/66 cable that comes with the package. Hot Rod 100 Pro...

  • Page 11: Chapter 2. Hardware Installation

    Attach the two-threaded IDE HDD LED connector of the computer case to HDD-LED connector on this controller card. (Note: Watch out the pin orientation.) Connect the Ultra ATA/100 HDD to the IDE connectors on this controller card. Figure 2-1: The installation of the Hot Rod 100 Pro controller card User’s Manual...

  • Page 12: Connecting Hard Drives

    IDE RAID controller card and the drives, thus assuring positive mating (pin #1 to pin #1). Please refer to figure 2-2. Table 2-1: Hot Rod 100 Pro Hard Drive Setup " When two hard drives are attached, Total Drives IDE 1...
  • Page 13 Hardware Installation Connecting hard drives with onboard ATAPI CD-ROM: Please DO NOT attach ATAPI devices to this IDE RAID controller card. Hot Rod 100 Pro is for hard drives only. ATAPI CD-ROM ATAPI IDE CD-ROM drives or other devices can be installed on motherboard or add-on IDE controllers.
  • Page 14 SCSI controller in the system. The adapter with the lower BIOS address will be bootable. If it is necessary to change the boot sequence, swap the Hot Rod 100 Pro slot position with that of SCSI card’s PCI slot.

  • Page 15: Chapter 3. Bios Setting Utility

    BIOS Setting Utility Chapter 3. BIOS Setting Utility In this chapter we will discuss the BIOS setting procedure of this IDE RAID controller card before starting the software installation. 3-1. Set Motherboard CMOS Setup No changes are necessary in the motherboard CMOS setup for resources or drive types. As this IDE RAID controller card is a PCI Plug and Play device, the motherboard’s PCI PnP BIOS automatically assigns the Interrupt and Port address.

  • Page 16: Create Raid

    After you have selected the function you want in the main menu, press the <Enter> key to enter the sub menu as shown below: Warning All the data stored in the hard disks will be lost after created RAID! Hot Rod 100 Pro...

  • Page 17: Delete Raid

    BIOS Setting Utility Array Mode: This item allows you to select the appropriate RAID mode for the desired array. There are four modes to choose. Striping (RAID 0): This item is recommended for high performance usage. Requires at least 2 disks. Mirror (RAID 1): This item is recommended for data security usage.

  • Page 18: Duplicate Mirror Disk

    Start Duplicating Process: After you had selected this item, the BIOS setting will take up to 30 minutes to run the duplication. Please wait or you may press <Esc> to cancel. Hot Rod 100 Pro...

  • Page 19: Create Spare Disk

    BIOS Setting Utility 3-6. Create Spare Disk This item allows you to select the disk to be used as a spare for a Mirror Disk Array. 3-7. Remove Spare Disk This item allows you to remove the spare disk from a Mirror Disk Array. 3-8.

  • Page 20: Select Boot Disk

    <Enter> key. There will be an asterisk mark in the parentheses indicating that the channel selection has been done. Note: Your PC or server must be configured to use the Hot Rod 100 Pro as the bootable controller. The system will then use the bootable array as the (fixed) boot C: drive.

  • Page 21: Chapter 4. Software Installation

    Software Installation Chapter 4. Software Installation In this chapter we will show you the driver installation procedure under various operating systems. 4-1. DOS Installation This IDE RAID card BIOS supports DOS 5.x (or above) and Windows 3.1x without software driver. 4-2.
  • Page 22 Step 3: The wizard is going to install the PCI Mass Storage Controller. Click “Next >” to go to the next step. Step 4: Choose “Display a list of all the drivers in a specific location…” and click “Next >” to go on. Hot Rod 100 Pro...
  • Page 23 “Next >” to go on. Step 6: Click “Have Disk…” to go on. Step 7: Insert the driver disk that comes with the Hot Rod 100 Pro and type the path in the text box “a:\WIN” (“a:\” is your floppy drive letter), or “E:\Drivers\Win9x”...

  • Page 24: Installation

    Click “Finish” to end the installation. Step 11: After rebooting the system, go to the “Control Panel” $ “System Properties” $ “Device Manager”. Now you can see the driver is installed under the item of “SCSI controllers”. Hot Rod 100 Pro...

  • Page 25: Windows Nt 4.0 Installation

    Installing drivers during Windows NT installation: If the NT 4.0 is first installed on the ATA100 drive connected to the Hot Rod 100 Pro controller card, follow the following installation procedure: Step 1: Install this IDE RAID controller card in any available PCI slot and then connect your ATA100 hard disk to it (refer to hardware installation).
  • Page 26 Step 4: Use the UP or DOWN arrow key to move the highlight to the mass storage device you want and press <ENTER> to continue setup. Step 5: Windows NT setup has recognized this IDE RAID controller card. Press <ENTER> to continue setup. Hot Rod 100 Pro...
  • Page 27 Software Installation Step 6: After you configure your hard disk and specify the installation path, the NT setup will ask you to insert this IDE RAID controller card driver disk into drive A again. Insert the driver disk, and then press <ENTER>...
  • Page 28 A, and then click “OK.” Step 5: Click “OK” to go on. Step 6: Enter “A:\” in the blank space, and then click “Continue”. Step 7: Click “Yes” to restart your computer. Hot Rod 100 Pro...

  • Page 29: Windows 2000 Installation

    If you want to install the Windows 2000 operating system on the hard drive connected to Hot Rod 100 Pro, please refer to the NT4.0 installation procedure. The following procedure is used only when you don’t want to install the Windows 2000 operating system onto the hard drive connected to Hot Rod 100 Pro.
  • Page 30 Step 4: Click “Have Disk…” to go on. Step 5: Insert the driver disk that comes with the Hot Rod 100 Pro and type the path in the text box “A:\2K” (“A:\” is your floppy drive letter), or “D:\Drivers\Win2k” (D:\ is your CD-ROM drive letter).
  • Page 31 Software Installation 4-11 Step 8: Click “Yes” to go on. Step 9: Windows has finished installing the driver. Click “Finish” to end the installation. Step 10: Click “Yes” to restart the system. Step 11: Go to the “Control Panel” $ “System Properties”...
  • Page 32 4-12 Chapter 4 Hot Rod 100 Pro...

  • Page 33: Appendix A. The Introduction Of Raid

    The Introduction of RAID Appendix A. The Introduction of RAID What is RAID? RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive/Independent Disks) technology was developed to offer a combination of outstanding data availability, excellent performance, and high capacity that one single disk drive can not match. A RAID array is defined as two or more disks grouped together to appear as one single device to the host system, which can tolerate the failure of a drive without losing data, and which can operate independently from each other.
  • Page 34 All data is lost if any drive in the array fails. It is intended for non-critical data requiring Block A Block B high performance. Block C Block D Block E Block F Block G etc … Disk 0 Disk 1 Hot Rod 100 Pro...
  • Page 35 The Introduction of RAID RAID Level 1 Mirroring and Duplexing Block D RAID 1 provides 100% redundancy by Block C mirroring one drive to another one. In the Block B event of a disk drive failure, the array Block A controller will automatically switch the read/write activity to another drive.
  • Page 36 C Parity operations require that parity data to be D Parity updated each time, they can not be Disk 0 Disk1 Disk 2 Disk3 overlapped. And so the RAID 4 offers no significant advantages over RAID5. Hot Rod 100 Pro...
  • Page 37 The Introduction of RAID RAID Level 5 Independent Data disks with DATA ABCD distributed parity blocks RAID 5 also stripes data at a block level across several drives. But it distributes A Block B Block C Block D Block parity among the drives, which avoids the 0 Parity write bottleneck caused by the single 1 Parity...
  • Page 38 1 Disk Striping with Previously used for No practical use error-correction RAM error code (ECC) environments correction used (known as Hamming RAID 2 Code) and in disk drives before the use of embedded error correction Hot Rod 100 Pro...
  • Page 39 RAID1 for transaction-oriented networks RAID 5 Supports multiple, simultaneous Read and Write Low ratio of ECC (Parity) disks to data disks means high efficiency Note: Hot Rod 100 Pro only supports RAID level 0, 1, and 0+1 currently. User’s Manual...
  • Page 40 Appendix A Hot Rod 100 Pro...

  • Page 41: Appendix B. Bios Flashing User Instructions

    IDE RAID controller card BIOS from our website (http://www.abit.com.tw) or technical support, download the BIOS file and save it under the name “BIOS”, then follow the procedure below to upgrade this IDE RAID controller card BIOS: Step 1: Copy the files “load.exe (included in this IDE RAID Driver Disk)”...
  • Page 42 Appendix B Hot Rod 100 Pro...

  • Page 43: Appendix C. Hot Rod Utility Instructions

    Hot Rod Utility Instructions Appendix C. Hot Rod Utility Instructions In order to provide you with the on-screen monitoring function about the device information of disk array, you may install the “Hot Rod Utility” onto your system. Please insert the Hot Rod 100 Pro CD-Title into your CD-ROM drive.
  • Page 44 “Next>” to go on. Now you can select the program folder. The setup wizard will add program icons to those program folders listed. Click “Next>” to go The system will start copying files. Click “Next>” to go on. Hot Rod 100 Pro...
  • Page 45 Hot Rod Utility Instructions When the installation is completed, choose “Yes, I want to restart my computer now.” In the check box and click “Finish” to end the setup. After the system restart, you can run this “Stripe & Mirror Settings” monitoring program. Move the cursor to where the execution file is, shown left.
  • Page 46 Appendix C Hot Rod 100 Pro...
  • Page 47 Trouble Shooting (Need Assistance?) Appendix D. Trouble Shooting (Need Assistance?) Q & A Q: May I use hard drives with different capacity or transfer mode? A: In order to get optimized performance, we suggest using hard drives with the same model.
  • Page 48 (vii) After duplication process completes, press <Esc> to leave RAID BIOS. Q: Why I see “NO ROM BASIC SYSTEM HALTED” when booting? A: There isn’t any activated primary partition in you system. Please use FDISK or any other utilities to create/set one. Hot Rod 100 Pro...
  • Page 49 Trouble Shooting (Need Assistance?) Do & Don’t 1. Do always use the same model drives to achieve best quality and performance. Different firmware has different timing characteristic, thus may somewhat decrease the RAID performance. 2. If you have two drives, do connect them on two different channels as master drive please.

  • Page 50: Technical Support Form

    IDE Card Software Manufacturer, and Driver Version Model Name and Chipset type Operating System Type Hardware name Type Specifications CPU Type and Speed IDE1 IDE2 IDE1 IDE2 Drive System Memory Size (SDRAM) Add-On Card Problem Description: Hot Rod 100 Pro...
  • Page 51 Also please make sure you have the latest drivers from your peripheral cards makers! 3. Check the ABIT Technical Terms Guide and FAQ on our website. We are trying to expand and make the FAQs more helpful and information rich. Let us know if you have any suggestions.
  • Page 52 How they serve you is also a good reference for your next purchase. 6. Contacting ABIT. If you feel that you need to contact ABIT directly you can send email to the ABIT technical support department. First, please contact the support team for the branch office closest to you.
  • Page 53 Stevenage, Herts SG1 2UG, UK abituksales@compuserve.com abituktech@compuserve.com Tel: 44-1438-741 999 Fax: 44-1438-742 899 In Germany and Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg) countries: AMOR Computer B.V. (ABIT's European Office) Van Coehoornstraat 5a, 5916 PH Venlo, The Netherlands sales@abit.nl technical@abit.nl Tel: 31-77-3204428 Fax: 31-77-3204420...
  • Page 54 Please contact the reseller from whom you bought the product. You should be able to get RMA service there. 8. Reporting Compatibility Problems to ABIT. Because of tremendous number of email messages we receive every day, we are forced to give greater weight to certain types of messages than to others.

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