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SA T A II 4 Port PCI RAID Car d RC217 User Manual.
SA T AII 4 port PCI RAID Card RC217 User Manual 2 SATA II 4 Port PCI RAID Card This Manual is for many Models of SATAII RAID5 HBA that uses Silicon Image SATA II SiI3124 chip set: 1) 32bit PCI bus hos.
SA T AII 4 port PCI RAID Card RC217 User Manual 3 Q5: What is Raid1? A5: RAID1 also known as Mirroring or SAFE. Mirr ori ng cr ea tes an identical twin for a selected disk by having the data sim ult ane ousl y wri tte n to two dis ks . If a rea d fa i lu re o cc u rs o n o n e d r iv e , th e system will r ead the data from the other drive.
SA T AII 4 port PCI RAID Card RC217 User Manual 4 and no recognition. Q14: Why Rebuilding take so long time? A 1 4 : The “Rebuilding” function on Ra id 1 or Raid10 a lways spend long hours for component ready , data copying and function available, especia lly for high volume da ta.
SA T AII 4 port PCI RAID Card RC217 User Manual 5 Q23: After Raid5 card installati on, Windows can’t r e start and hang during booting, unless CD Shutof f. A23: It sounds the issue on Moth er board BIOS, Please contact M other board make r to have the latest BIOS update.
SA T AII 4 port PCI RAID Card RC217 User Manual 6 Provid es RAID 1 (Mirroring) to p rotect the data from a disk f ailure by w riti ng iden tic al d ata on 2 dr ive s.
SA T AII 4 port PCI RAID Card RC217 User Manual 7 Parity RAID uses less capacity for prote ction and is the prefer red method to r educe the cost per meg abyte for larg er installations. Mirr oring requir es 100% incr ease in capacity to pr otect the data wher eas the above example only r equire s a 50% incr ease.
SA T AII 4 port PCI RAID Card RC217 User Manual 8 5. Press Y to save your set tings. 6. Press CTRL+E and th en press Y to exit the setup. 7. Con ti nu e w it h co nv en ti on al Fd is k a nd Fo rm at s te ps as if y ou ar e installing a conventional hard drive.
SA T AII 4 port PCI RAID Card RC217 User Manual 9 2. Select Create RAI D set. Press Enter . 3. Select Spare Driv e then press Enter . 4. Select Spare Driv es . Press Ente r. 5. Select RAID size . Press Ente r. 6. Press Y to save your set tings. 4.7. Deleting RAID Sets 1.
SA T AII 4 port PCI RAID Card RC217 User Manual 10 5.2. Adding the controller card to an existing Wind ows Vista/2000/XP/2003 Installation 1. Power of f the system. Connect the har d drives to the contr oller card and in sert the controll er card into a PCI slot.
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