Rosewill SATA II 4 Port PCI RAID Card RC217 user manual

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SATA II 4 Port PCI RAID Card RC217
User Manual

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SATAII 4 port PCI RAID Card RC217 User Manual SATA II 4 Port PCI RAID Card This Manual is for many Models of SATAII RAID5 HBA that uses Silicon Image SATA II SiI3124 chipset: 1) 32bit PCI bus host card 2) 64bit PCI-X bus host card 3) PCI Express (PCI-e) host card When the HBA be used on Macintosh as a non bootable adapter, please refer the Mac manuals and Mac drivers on the path of \Mac OS\SiI3124\R

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SATAII 4 port PCI RAID Card RC217 User Manual Q5: What is Raid1? A5: RAID1 also known as Mirroring or SAFE. Mirroring creates an identical twin for a selected disk by having the data simultaneously written to two disks. If a read failure occurs on one drive, the system will read the data from the other drive. Raid1 need two drives to store the same data. Q6: What is Raid10? A6: RAID10 also known as RA

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SATAII 4 port PCI RAID Card RC217 User Manual and no recognition. Q14: Why Rebuilding take so long time? A14: The “Rebuilding” function on Raid 1 or Raid10 always spend long hours for component ready, data copying and function available, especially for high volume data. Please be patient for the rebuilding ready. Q15: How to create the RAID setting on RAID5 Card? A15: If 32bit PCI or 64bit PCI-X or

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SATAII 4 port PCI RAID Card RC217 User Manual Q23: After Raid5 card installation, Windows can’t restart and hang during booting, unless CD Shutoff. A23: It sounds the issue on Mother board BIOS, Please contact Mother board maker to have the latest BIOS update. You may also contact agent and try to update the BIOS of Raid5 card. 1. Introduction This RAID5 Host Adapter provides a 64bit / 133 MHz PCI-x

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SATAII 4 port PCI RAID Card RC217 User Manual Provides RAID 1 (Mirroring) to protect the data from a disk failure by writing identical data on 2 drives. RAID 0+1 (Mirrored-Stripping) combine both Striping an d Mirroring technologies to provide both the performance enhancements that come from Striping and the data availability and integrity that comes from Mirroring. RAID 5 (Distributed Parity RAID) ha

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SATAII 4 port PCI RAID Card RC217 User Manual Parity RAID uses less capacity for protection and is the preferred method to reduce the cost per megabyte for larger installations. Mirroring requires 100% increase in capacity to protect the data whereas the above example only requires a 50% increase. The required capacity decreases as the number of disks in the group increases. Just Bunch of Disks (JBOD, Con

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SATAII 4 port PCI RAID Card RC217 User Manual 5. Press Y to save your settings. 6. Press CTRL+E and then press Y to exit the setup. 7. Continue with conventional Fdisk and Format steps as if you are installing a conventional hard drive. 8. Your RAID configuration is complete. Please proceed to software installation section. 4.2. Creating Mirrored Sets (RAID 1) 1. As the BIOS boots, Press CTRL+S or F4

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SATAII 4 port PCI RAID Card RC217 User Manual 2. Select Create RAID set. Press Enter. 3. Select Spare Drive then press Enter. 4. Select Spare Drives. Press Enter. 5. Select RAID size. Press Enter. 6. Press Y to save your settings. 4.7. Deleting RAID Sets 1. As the BIOS boots, Press CTRL+S or F4 to enter the raid bios utility. 2. Select Delete RAID set. Press Enter. 3. Answer Y to remove the RAID s

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SATAII 4 port PCI RAID Card RC217 User Manual 5.2. Adding the controller card to an existing Windows Vista/2000/XP/2003 Installation 1. Power off the system. Connect the hard drives to the controller card and insert the controller card into a PCI slot. Power up the system. 2. During OS boot up, Windows will display the 'Found New Hardware Wizard'. Click 'Next'. 3. Select 'Search for a suitable driver for