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SA T A 4 Port PCI Adaptor with RAID RC209 User Manual.
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1 User Manual SA T A 4 Port PCI Adaptor with RAID RC209 SiI 3114 SA T A PCI Car d Featur e Highlights • Silicon Image SiI3114 SA T A controller chip • Compliant with PCI Specification, Rev . 2.3, 32bit, 33/66Mhz • Compliant with Serial A T A 1.
2 User Manual SA T A 4 Port PCI Adaptor with RAID RC209 Magic Switch intr oduction and jumper setting Before installing the SiI 3114 SA T A PCI Card, please see the photo below which shows all the ports & jumpers on this PCI Card.
3 User Manual SA T A 4 Port PCI Adaptor with RAID RC209 Step by step photo installation of Magic Switch 1. Ther e are six SA T A ports in RC209 RAID adapter . W e named these ports character A thr ough F . Ports A to D ar e inter nal SA T A ports and E to F are exter nal SA T A ports.
4 User Manual SA T A 4 Port PCI Adaptor with RAID RC209 Mode 1 (Default) - ABCD Active Mode 2 - ABDF Active Mode 3 - ABEF Active C D E F Active 2.3 close 1.2 close A B Active C D E Active F 1.2 close 1.2 close A B Active A B C D E F Active 2.3 close 2.
5 User Manual SA T A 4 Port PCI Adaptor with RAID RC209 Mode 4 - ABCE Active Note: There ar e six SA T A ports in Serial A T A 4-Channel RAID adapter . W e named these ports character A through F . Ports A to D ar e inter nal SA T A ports and E & F ar e exter nal SA T A ports.
6 User Manual SA T A 4 Port PCI Adaptor with RAID RC209 3. Connect one end of the Serial A T A cable to the hard disk drive. 4. Attach the other end of the Serial A T A cable to the Serial A T A controller on the Serial A T A 4-Channel RAID adapter . 5.
7 User Manual SA T A 4 Port PCI Adaptor with RAID RC209 Auto configuration (recommended) The default chunk size is 64k when selecting Auto configuration . 1. As the BIOS boots press Ctrl+S or F4 when pr ompted to enter the RAID BIOS. 2. At the next screen select Cr eate RAID Set , then press Enter .
8 User Manual SA T A 4 Port PCI Adaptor with RAID RC209 3. Select RAID0 , then press Enter . 4. Select the number of drives then press Enter . 5. Select Auto configuration , then press Enter . 6. Input the RAID size, press Enter . 7. When asked Are Y ou Sure (Y/N)?, pr ess Y to accept.
9 User Manual SA T A 4 Port PCI Adaptor with RAID RC209 12. Press Ctrl+E to exit the BIOS. 13. When asked Are you sur e to exit(Y/N)?, press Y to exit and r eboot. 14. Continue with FDISK and FORMA T steps as if you were installing a conventional hard drive.
10 User Manual SA T A 4 Port PCI Adaptor with RAID RC209 Cr eating a SP ARE Drive This function is used when you want to backup your data by adding a new HD to RC-209.
11 User Manual SA T A 4 Port PCI Adaptor with RAID RC209 Auto configuration (recommended) The default chunk size is 64k when selecting Auto configuration . 1. As the BIOS boots press Ctrl+S or F4 when pr ompted to enter the RAID BIOS. 2. At the next screen select Cr eate RAID Set , then press Enter .
12 User Manual SA T A 4 Port PCI Adaptor with RAID RC209 3. Select RAID5 , then press Enter . 4. Select the number of drives then press Enter . 5. Select Auto configuration , then press Enter . 6. Input the RAID size, press Enter . 7. When asked Are Y ou Sure(Y/N)? , pr ess Y to accept.
13 User Manual SA T A 4 Port PCI Adaptor with RAID RC209 9. When asked Are you sur e to exit(Y/N) ?, press Y to exit and r eboot. 10. Continue with FDISK and FORMA T steps as if you were installing a conventional hard drive. Deleting RAID Arrays 1. As the BIOS boots press Ctrl+S or F4 when pr ompted to enter the RAID BIOS.
14 User Manual SA T A 4 Port PCI Adaptor with RAID RC209 BIOS will show up and indicate the devices attached to it. Driver Installation Quick guide: 1. If you want to add RC-209 to an existing OS, set up RC-209 into a PCI slot. Enter the OS and install RC-209 with driver disk.
15 User Manual SA T A 4 Port PCI Adaptor with RAID RC209 Choose the correct OS for your futur e system. Then choose “Standard PC with C-Step i486”.
16 User Manual SA T A 4 Port PCI Adaptor with RAID RC209 Keep the floppy disk in floppy drive. PC will notice you as below if you take them off from the drive. The installation of RC-209 by floppy drive will be completed and the system will detect the HD which now plug on the card.
17 User Manual SA T A 4 Port PCI Adaptor with RAID RC209 After you install RC-209 successfully by floppy disk, installation will lead you back to the same screen as below and then pr ess “enter” to left the setting. f. Once the system can find the HD connecting to RC-209, you can follow the normal steps to complete the Windows installation.
18 User Manual SA T A 4 Port PCI Adaptor with RAID RC209 For New Installation A new installation requir es a floppy disk for the driver installation. T o make this floppy disk, copy the contents of the “RC-209DriverRAID” folder , found on the driver CD, onto a blank floppy disk then follow the directions below .
19 User Manual SA T A 4 Port PCI Adaptor with RAID RC209 6. Insert the floppy disk, then press Enter . 7. Select Silicon Image SiI 3114 SoftRaid 5 Controller for Windows 2000 , then pr ess Enter . 8. Press Enter again to finish driver installation, then follow the on-scr een instructions to complete the Windows installation.
20 User Manual SA T A 4 Port PCI Adaptor with RAID RC209 file’ s location. Press Next to continue to setup. (Change D : to match your CD-ROM drive letter) 9. Click Next again, then Finish . 10. Remove the driver CD, close all open Windows, then restart Windows to complete the installation.
21 User Manual SA T A 4 Port PCI Adaptor with RAID RC209 3. Click Finish . 4. Remove the driver CD, close all open Windows, then restart Windows to complete the installation. T o V erify Windows® 98SE/Me Installation 1. Right click My Computer , click Properties , then click Device Manager .
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