Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product ADSA4R5 Addonics Technologies
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Addonics T E C H N O L O G I E S 4- Port SATA II PCI RAID5/JBO D Controller Card ( ADSA4R5) User’s Guide Revision 1.0.
Addonics Technologies Users Guide v1.0 4- Port SATA II PCI RAID5/JBO D Controller Car d 1 FCC Warning Statement This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the lim its for a Class B digital devic e pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC rules.
Addonics Technologies Users Guide v1.0 4- Port SATA II PCI RAID5/JBO D Controller Car d 2 Contents FCC Warning ................................ ................................ ................... 1 LIMIT ED WARRANTY ................................ .
Addonics Technologies Users Guide v1.0 4- Port SATA II PCI RAID5/JBO D Controller Car d 3 Chapter 1 Specifications General = Serial ATA (SATA) – 1.5 Gbps (150MB/s) = Compliant with SATA 1.
Addonics Technologies Users Guide v1.0 4- Port SATA II PCI RAID5/JBO D Controller Car d 4 Chapter 2 R AID tutorial 2. What is RAID? RAID - Redundant Arr ay of Independent Disks RAID technology mana ge.
Addonics Technologies Users Guide v1.0 4- Port SATA II PCI RAID5/JBO D Controller Car d 5 2.5 Parity RAID (RAID 5) Parit y or RAID 5 adds f ault toler ance to Disk Striping by including parit y information with the data. Parity RAID dedicates the equivalent of one disk for storing parity stripes.
Addonics Technologies Users Guide v1.0 4- Port SATA II PCI RAID5/JBO D Controller Car d 6 Chapter 3 BIOS Installation (RAID Setting) Creating and deleti ng RAID sets is a function found in the BIOS. Durin g boot up, th e RAID setting message w ill appear and pause for a few mome nts to all ow the user t o choose w hat to do.
Addonics Technologies Users Guide v1.0 4- Port SATA II PCI RAID5/JBO D Controller Car d 7 3.4 Creating a Spare Drive 1. As the BIOS boots, press CTRL +S or F4 to enter th e raid bios utilit y. 2. Select Create RAID set . Press Enter. 3. Select RAID 1 set then press Ent er.
Addonics Technologies Users Guide v1.0 4- Port SATA II PCI RAID5/JBO D Controller Car d 8 Chapter 4 New Windows Systems (Fresh Installation) Hardware Configuration Note : To do a fresh insta ll of Windows, y our har d drive must be connected to Port 1 of the host controller.
Addonics Technologies Users Guide v1.0 4- Port SATA II PCI RAID5/JBO D Controller Car d 9 Note : To do a fresh insta ll of Windows, y our har d drive must be connected to Port 1 of the Multilane Bridge for SATA Storage.
Addonics Technologies Users Guide v1.0 4- Port SATA II PCI RAID5/JBO D Controller Car d 10 Hardware Insta llations: 1. Remove PC cover. 2. Select an empty PCI s lot and in sert the SATA Controller. 3. Makes sure to secure the bracket with a screw. 4. Close the PC’s cover.
Addonics Technologies Users Guide v1.0 4- Port SATA II PCI RAID5/JBO D Controller Car d 11 B. STRIPPED RAID Set Configuration in RAID BIOS: 1. Power ON your PC. 2. Wait unt il th e sys tem prompts for the RAID BIOS Co nfigura tion Utility. Press CTRL + S or th e F4 key to e nter the BIOS RAID Utility.
Addonics Technologies Users Guide v1.0 4- Port SATA II PCI RAID5/JBO D Controller Car d 12 10. The PC will r eboo t. 11. At the Windows Set - up screen, press F6 to specify and a dd the dr iver. 12. Insert th e Floppy Driver diskette containi ng th e driver from step 1 above .
Addonics Technologies Users Guide v1.0 4- Port SATA II PCI RAID5/JBO D Controller Car d 13 Chapter 5 Existing Windows System installation This section provides the information on h ow to install the drivers of RAID Native SATA - 150 4Ports PCI Host Adapter onto computer with existing operatin g systems: 5.
Addonics Technologies Users Guide v1.0 4- Port SATA II PCI RAID5/JBO D Controller Car d 14 Hardware Installations: 5. Power OFF PC and rem ove its cove r. 6. Select an empty PCI s lot and in sert the SATA Controller. 7. Makes sure to secure the bracket with a screw.
Addonics Technologies Users Guide v1.0 4- Port SATA II PCI RAID5/JBO D Controller Car d 15 5.2. Win dows XP Driver and Software Install ation Note: Install the SATA Utilities from the CD tha t came with y our packag e first befo re instal ling th e Ho st Controller.
Addonics Technologies Users Guide v1.0 4- Port SATA II PCI RAID5/JBO D Controller Car d 16 12. When the new hardware wizard has finished installing the Serial ATA Controller Card, click Finish to complete the insta llations.
Addonics Technologies Users Guide v1.0 4- Port SATA II PCI RAID5/JBO D Controller Car d 17 5.3. Win dows 2003 Server Driver and software install ation Note: Install the SATA Utilities from the CD th at came with yo ur package first befo re instal ling th e Ho st Controller.
Addonics Technologies Users Guide v1.0 4- Port SATA II PCI RAID5/JBO D Controller Car d 18 11. The Hardware Install ation window ope ns. Click “ Continue Anyway ”. 12. When the new hardware wizard has finished installing the Serial ATA Controller Card, click Finish to complete the install ations.
Addonics Technologies Users Guide v1.0 4- Port SATA II PCI RAID5/JBO D Controller Car d 19 Technical Support If yo u need assistan ce to get y our unit functionin g properly, please call Addonics Technical Support. Our techn ical staff will be happ y to assist you, but they will need y our help to do so.
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