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Raid5 SATA II - 3Gbps Host Adapter
RC211
User Manual
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RC211 Installation Instruction This Manual for many Models of SATA2 RAID5 PCI Express host cards which use Silicon Image SATA II- 3Gbps SiI3132 chipset. Important Message for User: 1. Before controller card installation, we recommend the users to study this manual and the PDF file of SATARaid5 Manual at enclosed CD folder\SATA PCIe_Raid5_2Port\SiI3132\Windows\ Gui ( or\Raid5 SATA2_4Port\SiI3124\ Windows\Gui ) first. This Raid manual has more information on
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RC211 Installation Instruction 1. Introduction This Low Profile PCI-Express Host Adapter is a controller board to support Low profile PCI and regular size PCI both in one card. The card can upgrade your desktop computer to have 2 ports Serial ATA II transfer rate of 3 Gb/s (300 MB/s). The board can be used to upgrade your desktop computer to have 2Ports Serial ATA Channels and support RAID 5, RAID 0+1, RAID 0, RAID 1 and JBOD features. It accepts host commands through the PCI Express bu
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RC211 Installation Instruction 14. Supports FIS-based switching with Port Multipliers. 15. Commands and Scatter/Gather Tables per Port. 16. Two Pin headers on board for LED connection. 17. Completely with drivers for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. 18. Provides RAID 0 (Stripping) to greatly increase the performance of data transfer by simultaneously writing data to 2 drives. 19. Provides RAID 1 (Mirroring) to protect the data from a disk failure by writing ident
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RC211 Installation Instruction Mirrored-Striping (RAID 0+1 also known as RAID 10) A Mirrored-Striping Set does just what it says, combining both Striping and Mirroring technologies to provide both the performance enhancements that come from Striping and the data availability and integrity that comes from Mirroring. When data is written to a Mirrored- Striped Set, instead of creating just one virtual disk as Striping would do, a second, Mirrored virtual disk is created as well. Parity RAID
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RC211 Installation Instruction 11. Use SATARAID5 Manager GUI for RAID configuration setting. If 1 Disk, please select “Concatenate” or “Contiguous” setting only. If 2 Disks, don’t select “Parity RAID” or “Mirrored Striped” setting If 3 Disks, don’t select “Mirrored Striped” setting 12. Click “Task Manager” to make sure Raid setting is completed. It shall be “Green” color or “Blue” color on the selected components. RAID5 setting may cost hours for component ready
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RC211 Installation Instruction 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. 4.3. Creating a Mirrored-Striped Set (RAID 10) 1. As the BIOS boots, press CTRL+S or F4 to enter the raid bios utility. 2. Sel
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RC211 Installation Instruction 4.6. 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. 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 R
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RC211 Installation Instruction 5. Software Installation 5.1. Windows 2000/XP/2003 Fresh Installation 1. Power off the system. Connect the hard drives to the controller card and insert the controller card into a PCI Express slot. Power up the system. 2. Put your Windows 2000/XP CD into the CD-ROM/DVD drive, or the 2000/XP boot diskette #1 in the floppy drive if your system cannot boot from the CD. 3. Press F6 for third party SCSI or driver installation at the beginning
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RC211 Installation Instruction 5.3. Verifying controller installation under Windows 2000/ XP/2003 1. Right click on 'My Computer' icon, select 'Properties', left click on 'Hardware' tab and then on 'Device Manager' button. 2. Double click on 'SCSI and RAID Controllers', If there is no yellow '!' or '?' in front of 'Silicon Image SiI 3132 SoftRaid5 Controller', the driver is started correctly. 3. To view information about the devices attached to the controller, use
