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4Port Raid5 SATAII-3Gbps
Multilane PCI-X Card
User Manual English
LINDY No. 51127
www.LINDY.com
© LINDY ELECTRONICS LIMITED & LINDY-ELEKTRONIK GMBH - FIRST EDITION (June 2006)
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Important Message: 1. Before controller card installation, we recommend to study the PDF file of SATA Raid5 manual at enclosed CD folder \ Raid5 SATA2_4Port \ SiI3124 \ Windows \ Gui first. This Raid manual has more information on Raid architecture, Raid features, Raid installation, Raid setting and Management software for Raid5 GUI (Graphical User Interface). 2. After driver installation, if you like, you can install SATARaid5 GUI for Raid management. Before SATARaid5 GUI installatio
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3Gbps. It comes completely with drivers for Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003. RAID, Redundant Array of Independent Disks, greatly enhances two main areas of data storage: performance and data integrity. By using RAID 0, also known as Striping, performance of sustained data transfer rates is greatly enhanced by simultaneously writing data to 2, 3 or 4 drives. The second benefit of RAID is data redundancy. RAID 1, Mirroring, writes identical data on two drives or sets of drives, thus
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This Users Manual Driver CD 2. What Is RAID RAID - Redundant Array of Independent Disks RAID technology manages multiple disk drives to enhance I/O performance and provide redundancy in order to withstand the failure of any individual member, without loss of data. Disk Striping (RAID 0) Striping is a performance-oriented, non-redundant data mapping technique. While Striping is discussed as a RAID Set type, it is actually does not provide fault tolerance. With modern SATA bus mas
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illustrates how the parity is rotated from disk to disk. 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) The JBOD is a virtual disk that can either be an entire disk drive or a seg
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2. Select Create RAID set. Press Enter. 3. Select RAID 1 then press Enter. 4. Select Auto configuration. Press Enter. 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. 3.3. Creating a Mirrored-Striped Set (RAID 10) 1. As the BIOS boots, press CTRL+S or F4 to
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2. Select Create RAID set. Press Enter. 3. Select JBOD (Single) then press Enter. 4. Select JBOD Drives. Press Enter. 5. Select RAID size. Press Enter. 6. Press Y to save your settings. 3.6. Creating Spare Drive 1. As the BIOS boots, Press CTRL+S or F4 to enter the raid bios utility. 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. 3.7. Deleting
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replacement disk was previously part of a RAID set (or used in another system), it may have conflicting metadata, specifically in reference to the drive connection information. If so, this will prohibit the RAID set from being either created or rebuilt, In order for the RAID set to function properly, this old metadata must be first overwritten with the new metadata. To resolve this, select Resolve Conflicts, and the correct metadata, including the correct drive connection information, will
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3. Select 'Search for a suitable driver for my device (Recommended)' and Click 'Next'. 4. Insert the Driver CD in your CD-ROM/DVD drive, check Specify a location, uncheck the other boxes, click Next, type in E:\ (If your CD-ROM/DVD is E:\). Click Browse. 5. Points specify a location, example E:\ Raid5 SATA2_4Port \ SiI3124 \ Windows \ Driver, click Open then OK. 6. When the wizard indicates that it found a driver for the device click 'Next'. 7. If the 'Digital Signature Not Found' dialog a
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This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) this device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operations. - 10 -
