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  • Page 1 Serial ATA RAID PCI Card User Manual...

  • Page 2: System Requirements

    Features  Silicon Image SiI3512 SATA controller chip  Compliant with PCI Specification, Rev. 2.3  Compliant with Serial ATA 1.0 specification  Provides two independent channels to support up to two Serial ATA drives  Supports RAID0(striping) and RAID1(mirroring) for speed and data protection respectively ...

  • Page 3: Hardware Installation

    Hardware Installation Turn Off the power to your computer and any other connected peripheral devices. Unplug the power cord form the back of the computer. Remove your computer’s cover. Remove the slot bracket from an available PCI slot. To install the card, carefully align the card’s bus connector with the selected PCI slot on the motherboard.

  • Page 4: Raid Arrays

    Attach the other end of the Serial ATA cable to the Serial ATA port on the SATA 150 PCI RAID Card. Follow the same instructions to connect up to two hard drives. Device connection is now complete. Replace the computer cover and reconnect the power cord. RAID Arrays RAID Arrays are setup in the SATA 150 PCI RAID Card’s BIOS.

  • Page 5: Manual Configuration

    the RAID BIOS. At the next screen select Create RAID Set, then press Enter. Select Striped, then press Enter. Select Auto configuration, then press Enter. When asked Are You Sure (Y/N)?, press Y to accept. Press Ctrl+E to exit the BIOS. When asked Are you sure to exit (Y/N)?, press Y to exit and reboot.

  • Page 6: Raid 1 (Mirror)

    Enter. When asked Are You Sure(Y/N)?, press Y to accept. Press Ctrl+E to exit the BIOS. 10. When asked Are you sure to exit(Y/N)?, press Y to exit and reboot. 11. Continue with FDISK and FORMAT steps as if you were installing a conventional hard drive.
  • Page 7 installing a conventional hard drive. For Existing Hard Drives with Data As the BIOS boots press Ctrl+S or F4 when prompted to enter the RAID BIOS. At the next screen select Create RAID Set, then press Enter. At the next screen select Mirrored then press Enter. Select Manual configuration, then press Enter.

  • Page 8: Deleting Raid Arrays

    complete, disregard the message, continue booting, and let the Mirror rebuild. Rebuilding a Failed Mirror Set When a failure to one member occurs, you will be notified either by the RAID BIOS during boot or by the SATARAID GUI while in Windows.

  • Page 9: Resolving Conflicts

    Select the RAID set then press Enter. When asked Are You Sure(Y/N)?, press Y to confirm. Resolving Conflicts When a RAID set is created, then metadata written to the disk includes drive connection information. 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.

  • Page 10: Bios Configuration

    BIOS Configuration The Serial ATA 2-Channel RAID adapter BIOS will appear every time your system starts up. If the BIOS doesn’t show, please try your controller in another PCI slot. During this (POST) process, the BIOS will show up and indicate the devices attached to it. Driver Installation For Windows®...
  • Page 11 When prompted, press S to specify the location of the driver. Insert the floppy disk, then press Enter. Select Silicon Image SiI 3x12 SATARAID Controller for Windows NT 4.0 and 2000, then press Enter. Press Enter again to finish driver installation, then follow the on-screen instructions to complete the Windows installation.
  • Page 12 For Windows® XP/Server 2003 For New Installation A new installation requires a floppy disk for the driver installation. To make this floppy disk, copy the contents of “ DS-33101\2K_XP_2003_Vista” folder, found on the driver CD, onto a blank floppy disk then follow the directions below. Setup the RAID Array prior to Windows installation.
  • Page 13 For An Existing Installation Setup the RAID Array prior to driver installation and boot up to Windows. At the Found New Hardware Wizard: XP(w/SP1 or earlier)/Server 2003: continue to step #3 XP(w/SP2 or later)/Server 2003(w/SP1 or later): select No, not this time, then click Next.
  • Page 14 Restart the computer when prompted by Windows’ installation. At the Windows Setup screen, press F6 to install the RAID driver. When prompted, press S to specify the location of the driver. Inset the floppy disk, then press Enter. Select Silicon Image SiI 3x12 SATARaid Controller (64-bit Extended) or Silicon Image SiI 3x12 SATARaid Controller (Itanium), then press Enter.
  • Page 15 Click Finish.
  • Page 16 For Windows® Vista For New Installation A new installation requires a floppy disk for the driver installation. To make this floppy disk, copy the contents of “ DS-33101\2K_XP_2003_Vista” folder, found on the driver CD, onto a blank floppy disk then follow the directions below. Setup the RAID Array prior to Windows installation.
  • Page 17 For Windows® Vista-x64 For New Installation A new installation requires a floppy disk for the driver installation. To make this floppy disk, copy the contents of “ DS-33101\XP_2003_Vista x64” folder, found on the driver CD, onto a blank floppy disk then follow the directions below. Setup the RAID Array prior to Windows installation.

  • Page 18: Java 2 Runtime Environment Installation

    Windows. At Found New Hardware Wizard, select Locate and install driver software (recommended). Please insert the CD driver bound with SATA 150 PCI RAID card into your CD-ROM Drive, click Next. If the system prompts the user informing the drivers are not signed, select the option Install this driver software anyway.
  • Page 19 Management Software. Please insert the CD driver bound with SATA 150 PCI RAID card into your CD-ROM Drive. At the Windows desktop click Start, then Run. Type D:\DS-33101\InstallSATARaid.exe, then click (Change D: to match your CD-ROM drive letter) Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation. SATARAID Management Software Installation Please insert the CD driver bound with SATA 150 PCI RAID card into your CD-ROM Drive.

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