Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product PCISATA4R1 StarTech.com
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Instruction Manual 1 Introduction Make the jump to Serial A T A performance with a four-port RAID card from StarT ech.com. Y ou get four RAID-ready internal Serial A T A ports for your high performance Serial A T A hard drives. Whether you need Striping (RAID 0), Mirroring (RAID 1), or both (RAID 0+1), this card has you covered .
Instruction Manual 2 Driver Installation Window s 2000/XP 1. Windows will launch the A dd New Hardware W izard. Click Next. 2. Choose the Search for a suitable driver ... option and click Next. 3. Check only the CD-ROM drives option. Ensure the installation CD is inserted in the CD-ROM or other optical drive.
Instruction Manual 3 Ac cessing the RAID BIOS Utilit y The PCISA T A4R1 comes with an integrated BIOS-level conguration utility that allows y ou to congure the RAID setup, r ebuild your array in the event of failure, and r esolve conicts with the arrays you hav e setup.
Instruction Manual 4 The Main Menu option allows you to carry out various tasks related to conguring and maintaining your RAID . Y ou can navigate the menu using the arrow keys on the keyboard and select an item by pressing [Enter].
Instruction Manual 5 Conguring an Arr ay When you choose Create a RAID set fr om the Main M enu of the RAID utility , you will be presented with the following menu: For each option/RAID level ar e as follows: RAID0: Also called “ disk striping, ” where multiple physical drives are merged to crea te a single logical volume.
Instruction Manual 6 After you select which RAID level you wish to use, y ou will have to select drives to include in the array . Follow the on-screen prompts t o complete the conguration. Please note: If you wish to use the RAID 1+S (“spare driv e”) option, you must congure a RAID 1 array rst.
Instruction Manual 7 Resolving Conicts When a RAID set is created, the metadata written t o the disk includes drive connection information including the channel on the host adapter to which it is connected.
Instruction Manual 8 SA T ARaid GUI O ver view The SA T AR aid GUI Installation program c ongures the SA T ARaid GUI to automatically start when Windows is started. If the SA T AR aid GUI does not automatically start or is closed by the user , choose the JA V A SA T ARaid program from the Start Menu to launch the GUI.
Instruction Manual 9 SA T AR aid T oolbar and Menu Commands 1 - RAID Management This command allows the management of the RAID sets and drives on the SA T A host adapter . I t is available only under Windows 2000 and XP . 2 - System View This command displays a graphical r epresentation of the host adapter and RAID sets.
Instruction Manual 10 SA T AR aid C onguration SA T ARaid conguration options include customization of the settings for E vent Notication, E-mail Notication, Log F ile, Audio, and P opup. The rst tab displayed when SA T ARaid conguration is opened is for Event T able conguration.
Instruction Manual 11 The Event Time tab is used to set the interval time in seconds for the prog ram to poll the status of the host adapter and devices. Lo wer settings may have an impact on system performance. If the RAID sets are subject to heavy activity, the Event Time interval should be increased.
Instruction Manual 12 The current SA T ARaid conguration may be sent via e-mail. This featur e is most often used when contacting the system administrator for t echnical suppor t. Select the E-mail tab in the SA T ARaid Conguration Menu and enter the default e-mail address and subject line for the party receiving the conguration data.
Instruction Manual 13 The log le is used to store ev ent information received from all Silicon Image RAID drivers. The log le is a text le and can be viewed with any text viewer (such as Notepad) or with the Ev ent Property page of SA T ARaid.
Instruction Manual 14 SA T ARaid can be congured to notify the user of events using messages in popup windo ws. These alerts can occur separately or in conjunction with audio alerts and email notication.
Instruction Manual 15 Specications Bus Interface 32-bit PCI v2.2 (3.3V/5 V ) SA T A rev 1.0 Internal Connectors 4 x 7-pin SA T A Chipset Silicon Image SiI3114R RAID Modes RAID 0, 1, 0+1, JBOD Maxim.
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