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    SATA RAID Function (Only for chipset Sil3132 used) User's Manual 12ME-SI3132-001
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    MIRRORING (RAID 1) ...5 2.3 CONCATENTION ...5 3 INSTALLING DRIVERS ...6 4 JAVA 2 RUNTIME ENVIRONMENT INSTALLATION 7 5 SATARAID5 INSTALLATION ...9 6 CREATING AND DELETING LEGACY RAID GROUPS WITH BIOS UTILITY 10 6.1 CREATING RAID GROUPS ...12 6.2 CREATING CREATE SPARE ...29 SATARAID5 User's Manual 2
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    ...45 8.2.19 CREATE LEGACY SPARE...45 8.2.20 DELETE LEGACY SPARE...46 8.2.21 CONVERT LEGACY SPARE...46 8.2.22 HELP TOPICS ...47 8.2.23 ABOUT...47 SATARAID5 User's Manual 3
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    the industry's leading PCI-to-SATA host controller products. Two major challenges host controller and SATARAID5, both of these problems are solved. SATARAID5 software provides a Graphical be global or dedicated to a specific RAID group. • Supports Auto and Manual rebuild policy for a RAID group
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    1 Block 2 Block 3 2.3 CONCATENTION The CONCATENATION is a virtual disk that can either be an entire disk drive or a segment of a single disk drive. Since BIOS no longer reports non-RAID drives to the system BIOS, if a non-RAID boot drive or data drive is desired, a CONCATENATION can be created so
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    support and a blank formatted disk. Step 1: Insert the prepared startup disk and motherboard driver CDROM in your system. Boot GIGABYTE motherboard driver driver" message (Figure 3). In the next screen, press S to specify additional device(s) as instructed and supply the Serial ATA controller driver
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    it. The installation will begin. The installer program will download the needed files from the Internet. (You may also install the J2RE from motherboard driver CD. When a window appears asking for acceptance the license agreement, select I accept the terms of this license agreement and click Next
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    Choose the Typical setup type and click Next. When the installation completes, click Finish. Restart the computer when prompted. SATARAID5 User's Manual 8
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    Insert the motherboard driver CD into the computer's CD-ROM drive. When the autorun window appears, click the SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS button at the left of the window. Find the Silicon Image SATA RAID Utility and is done, click the Finish button to complete the installation. SATARAID5 User's Manual 9
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    for information on configuring RAID Groups using the SATARAID5 GUI. During boot up, a screen similar to that below will appear for about 5 seconds. Press CTRL+S or the F4 key to enter the BIOS RAID utility. SiI 3132 SATARaid BIOS Version 7.2.14 Copyright (C) 1997-2005 Silicon Image, Inc. Press
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    , allocated spare, and unallocated physical drive attached to the SATA host adapter. These operations are detailed in the pages that reported to the system BIOS. The lower part lists spare drives, reserved drives, and invalid drives not reported to the system BIOS. Command Line The bottom 's Manual 11
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    RAID Groups As previously discussed, the Silicon Image SATA host adapter supports RAID 0 and RAID 1 configurations. The selection They can be created either automatically or to allow the greatest flexibility, manually. 1. Select "Create RAID set" 2. Choose a RAID 0 Striped or a RAID
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    the spare drive creation. 6.3 Creating CONCATENATION Since BIOS no longer reports non-RAID drives to the system BIOS, if a non-RAID boot drive or data drive is desired, a CONCATENATION can be created so BIOS will report it to the system BIOS. 1. To create a CONCATENATION, Select "Create RAID set
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    asked, "Are You Sure?" 4. The drives will be returned to the selection of logical drives from which a new RAID set can be created. SATARAID5 User's Manual 14
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    . 3. Press "Y" when asked, "Are You Sure?" 4. The set will be rebuilt. The status of the rebuild is displayed in the MAIN MENU window. SATARAID5 User's Manual 15
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    a physical drive has been used to create a RAID set or spare drive by BIOS utility, BIOS saves user selected set or drive size in the reserved area of the physical drive , after a set or drive is deleted, BIOS recognizes the physical drive as a reserved logical drive and it will not report the drive
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    for the set or drive. BIOS will set a default size for BIOS before, the full size of the physical drive will be set as default size. Otherwise, BIOS will set default size to the size it saved in the reserved area of the physical drive before. If the user wants to increase the default size, BIOS
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    There are enough nuances that make it important to follow the procedure specific to the Operating System. 7.1 Windows Server 2003 & XP & 2000 Before creating any partitions, RAID groups must first be created using the BIOS RAID Utility or the SATARAID5 GUI. Once the sets have been created, 's Manual
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    the order in which the drives are displayed corresponds directly to the order the Sets appear in the BIOS. Therefore, the first Unallocated Partition represents Set 1, and so on. 1. In this example, there the partition type. Choose primary partition and click Next. SATARAID5 User's Manual 19
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    single disk drive. Click Next. 5. The fourth window designates the drive letter of the partition. Change the drive letter if desired. Click Next. SATARAID5 User's Manual 20
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    is selected. Name the volume as desired (suggestions are generic names such as STRIPED SET or something specific to use such as FINANCIAL, CRITICAL, MISCELLANEOUS, etc.). It is recommended to use the default NTFS . After verifying that everything is correct, click Finish. SATARAID5 User's Manual 21
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    minutes. When complete, the status will change to "Healthy" and the name and drive letter will be updated. Once the disk reports Healthy, it appears in the listing in System Listing section with all of its visible and properly named. The new disks are available for use. SATARAID5 User's Manual 22
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    main window will display: 8.1 RAID Groups and Device Configuration Windows The RAID Groups window identifies SATA host adapters and configured RAID groups. Selecting each RAID group in the RAID Groups window, be a RAID group member, a spare drive, or a virtual drive. SATARAID5 User's Manual 23
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    Group Rebuild RAID Group Task Manager Event Log Delete Member Delete Orphan Delete RAID Group RAID Group Summary Resources Device Summary Legacy Support Create Legacy RAID Group Rebuild Legacy RAID Group Delete Legacy RAID Group Convert Legacy RAID Group Create Legacy Spare Delete Legacy Spare
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    for SATARAID5 with the following three tabs: Log File Tab The log file is used to store event information received from all Silicon Image RAID drivers. The log file is a text file and can be viewed with any text viewer (such as Notepad) or with the Event Log window of SATARAID5
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    window: Warnings Errors - Information Level - The following events will trigger a popup window: Informational Warnings Errors - Disable All - No events will trigger a popup window. SATARAID5 User's Manual 26
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    the RAID driver. By default, all these advanced options are disabled. The following features are supported: 1. Legacy (Bootable) Support - When this feature is selected, Legacy Support menu will box. The Advanced RAID Features are not supported for Legacy RAID groups. SATARAID5 User's Manual 27
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    Info Support - When this feature is selected, Resources menu item will be available under the Window menu. This feature is for debugging purpose only. For detailed Resources feature, refer to section 8.2.14 Resources. 8.2.2 Exit This command terminates the SATARAID5 program. SATARAID5 User's Manual
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    not be shown in the list. Note: delete RAID group member will reduce the RAID group to be a non-fault-tolerant RAID group. SATARAID5 User's Manual 29
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    an orphan. This command displays the Delete Orphan Segment window to show all orphan segments and allow user to delete selected orphan segments. SATARAID5 User's Manual 30
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    Options Exit Sorting... Fields... Exit This command closes the Device Summary window. Sorting This command sorts the rows based on the selected field. SATARAID5 User's Manual 31
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    a group ID from the available ID list. Since the maximum number of RAID groups is limited to 9 so group slower rebuild times but will take the least amount of CPU resources to complete a rebuild. After parameters are set, instructions on initialization and formatting. SATARAID5 User's Manual 32
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    Example 2, a RAID 1 (Mirrored) array called Volume B- RAID Group 2 with capcity of 2GB with rebuild priority of 10 is created over hard drive 0 and 1. SATARAID5 User's Manual 33
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    8.2.9 Rebuild RAID Group This command displays a dialog box to let user choose a replacement segment to rebuild a non-fault tolerant RAID group. 8.2.10 Delete RAID Group This command displays a dialog box to let user choose RAID groups to delete. SATARAID5 User's Manual 34
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    options available via the menu bar are shown below File Options Exit Sorting... Fields... Exit This command closes the RAID Group Summary window. SATARAID5 User's Manual 35
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    Sorting This command displays a dialog box to let user choose an item to sort RAID group items in the RAID Group list. Fields This command displays a dialog box to let user choose which fields will be shown in the RAID Group Summary window. SATARAID5 User's Manual 36
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    ... Print... Resume... Exit Cancel... Delete... Open This option will be available in future revisions. Save This option will be available in future revisions. SATARAID5 User's Manual 37
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    command allows user to modify parameters of the selected task items. The following is an example of changing rebuild priority for a rebuild task. SATARAID5 User's Manual 38
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    Suspend This command allows user to suspend the selected task items. Resume This command allows user to resume the suspended task items. SATARAID5 User's Manual 39
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    Cancel This command allows user to cancel the selected task items. Delete This command displays a dialog box to let user delete the selected task items from the task list in Task Summary window. The following dialog box will pop up to get confirmation from the user. SATARAID5 User's Manual 40
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    8.2.13 Event Log This command displays the Event Log window. The Event Log window displays SATA device-related events that occur while SATARAID5 is running. The Event Log window has it's own menu bar. All options available via the menu bar
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    Fields This command displays a dialog box to let user choose which fields will be shown in the event log. SATARAID5 User's Manual 42
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    Rebuild Legacy RAID Group This command displays a dialog box to let user choose a replacement segment to rebuild a non-fault tolerant legacy RAID group. SATARAID5 User's Manual 43
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    8.2.17 Delete Legacy RAID Group This command displays a dialog box to let user choose legacy RAID groups to delete. This item is disabled if no legacy RAID groups exist. SATARAID5 User's Manual 44
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    Legacy Spare This command displays a dialog box to let user create legacy spare drive. This item is disabled if new RAID groups exist. SATARAID5 User's Manual 45
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    to let user choose legacy spare drives to convert to new spare drives. This item is disabled if no legacy spare drives exist. SATARAID5 User's Manual 46
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    be available in future revisions. 8.2.23 About This command displays a dialog box with more information about the SATARAID5 program, including the revision level. SATARAID5 User's Manual 47
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SATA RAID Function
(Only for chipset Sil3132 used)
User’s Manual
12ME-SI3132-001