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DVPro High Performance Storage System User Manual ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- T10B3 - eSATA6G and USB3 HOST MODEL- [ User Manual ] Version 1.0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------...
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Safety Warning In order to avoid injury to oneself, please heed the following instructions. ■ The following indications explain the degree of physical danger possible by ignoring the proper usage directions. This symbol and waning is used to indicate sections WARNING that may result in a serious injury or even death.
BIOS CORPORATION Precautions This user manual contains features, functions, setup, and warnings, so please read this manual prior to use our product. ・ If any material in this manual is not clear, please contact vender whom you purchased from. ・ The information in this manual is subject to change without prior notice.
DVT10B3 Chapter 1. Outline Features ● Support up to 10 Hot-swap SATA HDD (Hard Disk Drive) ● Support different RAID modes including RAID 6, RAID 5, RAID 3, RAID 1, RAID 0, RAID10 ● Dual Host Interface: eSATA3 (6Gbps) and USB 3.0 (5Gbps) ●...
BIOS CORPORATION Packing Contents DVT10B3: Storage sytesm AC Power Cord USB3 Cable: 1 meter USB-IF certified eSATA Cable: 1 meter eSATA cable Screws: 50 pcs of screws and Quick Installation Guide CD : User manual (this file) Hardware Components < Front View>...
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BIOS CORPORATION Name Function Explanation ① POWER Switch Power ON /OFF Switch BLUE Flash upon access; Orange ON indicates an error HDD Access / FAIL ② When 「RAID-x RECOVERING 0%」 shown on LCD, the FAIL LED on means the HDD is under rebuilding ③...
DVT10B3 Connection < Steps for eSATA connection> 1. Basic connection eSATA or USB 3→ Host Computer ① Connect eSATA Cable or USB3 cable from host to the system. (included in the package) ② To use web-based GUI, connect Ethernet cable between LAN connector and host 2.
DVT10B3 Chapter 2. Setup and Monitor 2.1 Setup Overview To simplify the process of setup, DVPro is designed to support all of setup options from front panel LCD and button operation. The default RAID level is RAID6 for highest reliability. To prevent malfunction, parametners cannot be changed at normal operation mode.
DVT10B3 After a new configuration completed, hold down the Mode button at next power on at the same time for system initialization. (Notice: this will initialize controller based on configured parameters. This action will force failed drive or rebuilding status to become “Normal”. Please DO NOT do this if your system was in degraded mode, and need to be recovered.) After power on, LCD should show its RAID mode and “Normal”...
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BIOS CORPORATION RAID 6, RAID 5, RAID 3, RAID 1, RAID 0, RAID 1 Three Drive, RAID 10, Single Drive RAID 1 Three Drive means same data is written to three drives and read might be from any drive. RAID10 works as a pair of ‘Drive 0,1’ ‘Drive 2,3’, ‘Drive 4,5’ etc.
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DVT10B3 64GB + Max2TB LUN SIZE 256GB+ALL Set up one LUN as 256GB, 1TB or 2TB and the rest of all capacities as 2 1TB+ALL 2TB+ALL Note: For LUN mapping to host port, please refer to LUN MODE parameter for details. ...
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BIOS CORPORATION The bigger size of stripe width, faster transfer speed can be achieved for sequential read or write. Usually 「2MB/ DRIVE」 setup will give a good performance but it depends on the host application. Setup of eSATA Host...
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DVT10B3 Continuous host commands will be processed first. Recovery RECOVER operation will be taken care when the interval between host WAIT commands longer than 0.1 sec. The following host command has TIME 0.1 Sec to wait till one recovery task completed except READ/WRITE or READ Cache command which will be executed immediately.
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BIOS CORPORATION Write command is acknowledged as “Completed” right after data Write Back WRITE MODE written into cache, and cached data starts to be moved into disks BUFFERD at the same time. After caching the first host WRITE, the cache content will only be WRITE MODE flushed into disk if there is more than 0.1 sec host idle or cache...
2.Press the SELECT button (instead of MODE to set up RAID operational parameters) Firm ware is Firmware version will be displayed Ver.x.xxx 3.Press the SELECTbutton Vender ID is Vendor ID will be displayed BIOS 4.Press the SELECTbutton Product ID is Product ID will be displayed DVT10B3 - 18 -...
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BIOS CORPORATION 5.Press the SELECTbutton Serial No ID Serial number of DVPro T10 will be displayed xxxxxxxx 6.Press the SELECTbutton End of Indicate the end of the fixed parameters. Fixed Parameter Then, if you press the Mode button now, you will enter Background Parameter mode.
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DVT10B3 NCQ MODE NO Priority, NO Queuing, Read Priority*, NO NO QUEUING Reorder Set up NCQ (Native Command Queue) support, default is READ Priority. Options are listed as below NO QUEUING * : No Queuing READ PRIORITY : NCQ ON, higher priority for READ command NO REORDER : Queuing ON, command executed as first in first out NO PRIORITY...
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BIOS CORPORATION WRITE RETRY NO WRITE RETRY MODE、 MODE WRITE RETRY MODE* Enable or disable RETRY when an error is detected during RAID-3/5 write operation. If NO WRITE RETRY MODE is set, an error will move the DVPro T10 status to「ONE DOWN」.
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DVT10B3 One time data read size depends on the bigger value between READ Ahead Size parameter and access size multiplies this Sequential Read Ahead TIMES. Cache memory will be quickly consumed if the large size is setup. Usually, the size should be set up small when host performance is low or vice versa. ●...
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BIOS CORPORATION CHECK CACHE NORMA*L, FAST, NO NORMAL This setting specifies the speed of the background cache memory check to take place at the system power on initialization. If the cache memory onboard is large the check will take some time so if you wish to speed up the process please set this to “FAST”.
DVT10B3 2.5.2 Parameter Confirmation Sometimes you will need to read and confirm the setup of current parameters then you can press both MODE and SELECT button on the front at the same time for this. Firmware version will be shown at the beginning and the content can be rolled among by pusing MODE button.
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Notes Parameter Default Firmware Firm ware is Ver. x.xxx Change if firmware is upgraded Vendor ID Vender ID is BIOS Model No Product ID is DVT10B3 Vary as different models Serial No Serial No ID xxxxxxxx IP Address Can be changed by SELECT Button 192.168.50.210...
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DVT10B3 Quick Overview of From Panel Button Operation DVPro series button operations can be summarized as below Item Operation + POWER ON Force Reset MODE Mute Buzzer MODE + + Power ON Start SELECT MODE Roll next item After parameter setup MODE Change the setting After parameter setup...
BIOS CORPORATION 2.6 Web-based Monitor and Setup via Ethernet To monitor DVPro via Web management GUI, you can connect Ethernet cable to a host computer. Ethernet parameter must be configured correctly before launching a Web browser (such as Internet Explorer). To setup IP Address, please follow steps below.
DVT10B3 2.6.1 Main Screen of Web GUI With power on and Ethernet connected, launch the Internet browser with preset IP address.「http://<IP Address>」. The Web GUI will be displayed as below for Monitor Mode. The left hand side lists main menu items and the right side displays detail items or information associated with the selected menu item.
BIOS CORPORATION 2.6.2 Introduction of Monitor Mode DVPro Status Monitor: Click [RAID Monitor] on main menu to check the enclosure status. The refreshing interval can be changed by specifying the requested time and apply Change Refresh Interval. Drive status is differentiated by color.
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DVT10B3 <Basic Parameters> Click on main menu [Basic Parameters] to show basic RAID parameters. <Basic parameter screen> <Additional Parameters > (These are same to Background parameters of LCD operation ) Click on main menu [Additional Parameters] to show additional RAID parameters. Additonal parameters can be changed after logging in Management Mode.
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BIOS CORPORATION <Network Parameters> Click on main menu [Network Parameters] to show Network related parameters. <Network related parameters screen> <Logged Data> Click on main menu [Logged Data] to show Log data of the storage <Logged data screen> Log data shows the historic events after power on. First item on top of the log table shows either the lapse of last log or the lapse time after power on.
DVT10B3 whenever it is required. 2.6.3 Management Mode Login To configure Additional parameters, email notification and SNMP traps, you need to login to secured Management state. Click [Login for Management Mode] on main menu. <Pop window for User Name/Password to enter Management mode> Default password is”passwd”...
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BIOS CORPORATION <Page indicates Management mode> User can configure EMAIL notification and SNMP setting also modifying Additional Parameters under Management mode. - 33 -...
Up to 63byte alphabet, number, “_”, “-“, “@”, and “.” is allowed. Two byte characters such as Chinese are not allowed. ● Receiver Address test@bios.co.jp Up to two receiver addresses are allowed. For users who want to have more than 2 receivers, you need to setup aliases on assigned email server.
The mail format is looked like below: From: DVPro@[192.168.50.210] test@bios.co.jp Subject: Alert from DVPro T10 Alert Condition of BIOS DVProxx-xxx6 Ver.x.xxx Serial Number= xxxxxxxx Alert Reason = Test of Send Mail. 1) From: Mail sender, this machine - 35 -...
DVT10B3 2)To: Receiver 3)Subject: 4)Alert Condition of vendor name, device name, and version. 5)Serial Number: the serial number of this device 6)Alert Reason: Cause of this email sent 2.6.6 Conditions of Mail Notification Under below conditions, the mail will be sent: 1)Drive failure One Drive Down Two Drives Down...
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BIOS CORPORATION addressed. 2. Setup the level of status monitor. There are a total of three categories explained below: 3. Click after you choose level to test if it is succeeded or not. - 37 -...
DVT10B3 2.6.8 Additional Parameters Setup < Additional Parameters > In Management Mode, click Additional Parameters on main menu to setup Additional Parameters Page <Additional Parameters Page> Parameter settings under additional parameters can be changed without effecting data on the RAID system. Scroll to the parameter value you wish to change then click [Change Parameters] button to save the change.
BIOS CORPORATION 2.7 Setup Mode (Array Parameters Setting) A power recycle of the RAID storage is necessary to get into Setup mode. Under Setup mode, you can change all kinds of parameters for the controller. Power on the RAID storage while holding both MODE and SELECT buttons (about 3 seconds)to enter Setup Mode.
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DVT10B3 <Basic Parameters> Click [Basic Parameters] on main menu to enter Basic Parameters page. <Basic Parameters Page> Choose the parameter from drag down menu for the change. Press [Change Parameters] button to save it. Then, reboot the RAID system to reflect the change. <Network Parameters>...
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BIOS CORPORATION <Update Firmware> Click on Update Firmware on main menu to update firmware. Browse firmware file and click [Update Firmware] button to start update process. Once firmware update is successfully started, the screen will show “ Flash PROM Wrtie Started …”...
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DVT10B3 Power off Now! Firm Update OK Upon completion, LCD message will show “Power off Now….”. Please reboot the system to make new firmware effective. If the update process failed for any reason, the following screen will be shown. <Wrong firmware file or transmission error> <DVPro T10 LCD Display>...
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BIOS CORPORATION <Change Password Page> 1)Enter new password in New Password and Confirm Password box. (Max 6 digits) 2)Click Change Password button to save the change Reboot the RAID system for change to take effect. What if I forgot my password?...
DVT10B3 2.8 Host LAN Configuration 2.8.1 IP Setup for Windows 1.Go to: Start -> Control Panel 2.Navigate to Network and Internet -> Network and Sharing Center - 44 -...
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BIOS CORPORATION 3. Choose Internet Protocol Version 4(TCP/Ipv4) then click Properties button. 4.Set Internet Protocol Properties First, check “use the following IO address”. Considering RAID IP ADDRESS is 192.168.50.210 set as follows: IP address: 192.168.50.XXX (put unused address in place of XXX.) Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0...
DVT10B3 5.Confirming the change 1.Start -> enter “cmd.exe” to open command prompt window. 2.Enter ipconfig /renew 3.Enter ipconfig /all Check if the IP Address has changed correctly. 2.8.2 IP Setup for Linux 1.Open a Terminal Window. 2.Enter # ifconfig eth0 192.168.50.X (*Put IP that is not used in the current network in “X”.) 3.Enter $ sudo dhclient then press enter key.
BIOS CORPORATION 2.8.3 IP Setup for MAC OS X 1. Click System Preferences. 2.Click “Network” Icon. - 47 -...
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DVT10B3 3.Choose Configure option to Manually. 4.Enter IP address and click Apply button to save it. ▶ Make sure the address used here is not used by another device. - 48 -...
DVT10B3 Chapter 3 Format 3.1 Linux The section explains how to use with Linux for reference. Please refer to Linux OS user guide for details. 1.Login as Superuser Handling a disk is privileged function for Superuser only. Please login as a Superuser or a.k.a. “root”. <Host name>...
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BIOS CORPORATION (p:fdisk command) Command (m for help): Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 120130 cylindersUnits = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 182399 1465119936 83 Linux (w:fdisk command) Command (m for help): The partition table has been altered! Calling ioctl( ) to re-read partition table.
DVT10B3 * “/dev/sdb1” is Device partition you are mounting and “/RAID” is the mount point. 3.2 Windows 7 The section explains how to use with Windows 7 for reference. Please refer to Windows 7 user guide for details. 1. Confirm the connection ①...
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BIOS CORPORATION 2. Partition Creation and Formatting 1.Log into Windows 7 and click the Start, then right click on “Computer” and click on “Manage” 2. Click on “Computer Management” -> “Storage” -> “Disk Management” 3.Right click Not initialize disk(DISK1)then click「Initialize Disk」.
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DVT10B3 4.Check the disk to be initialized and move on to the formatting.(If DVPro T10 has capacity over 2TB in Volume then choose GPT Disk label here to able to use disk over 2TB.) 5.Right click on the disk you wish to edit and click “New Simple Volume” -...
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BIOS CORPORATION 6.The New Volume Wizard will load up, so click “Next” 7.Choose the volume you want, then click “Next”. - 55 -...
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DVT10B3 8.Choose the driver letter you wish, click “Next”, 9.Choose the proper formatting settings and To change allocation unit size from default to 16K is recommended for better performance. click “Next” again. - 56 -...
BIOS CORPORATION 10.When you’ve verified that the settings are correct and there are no errors, click “Finish”. 11.The format will begin. Close the “Computer Management” after the format has completed. ※ You can use the disk now, please remember the disk name you made 3.3 Other OSs...
DVT10B3 Appexdix A - MBR of different Operating Systems Since first LBA of LUN partition is not always aligned with data buffer size, an unaligned LUN might impact the performance of data access. Especially this happens on earlier Windows Operating Systems. In LUN MODE setup parameter;...
BIOS CORPORATION Appexdix B – Error Message shown on LCD Category LCD Text Meaning Notes Drive Error RAID-x One drive down and host To know exactly which drive ONE DRIVE DOWN accessible status is down, please look up Drive Fault LED on system front panel.
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DVT10B3 SYSTEM Undefined Trap process error TRAP Error Cache Buffer Manager Cache buffer manager error Host access is disconnected Memory Error Queue Error upon all Cache errors. Contact support for necessary actions. Cache Buffer Access error while cache Error 0x####### buffer check Buffer Size Data inconsistent while cache...
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BIOS CORPORATION ONE DOWN/SYSTEM DOWN (Drive error) Extra error code shown on Hardware Error Software Error IDE register read / write U undefined command error disk dma time out ? no pend in exe auto E chip busy soft error...
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DVT10B3 RAID-6 NORMAL The retry mark is shown in front of “NORMAL” case. : - Data in transmission error detected abortion of condition check . - Data read recovered by retry ! - Data read recovered by Rewrite and Read ?...
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