SATARAID5 User’s Manual
2
Table of Contents
1
WELCOME
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4
1.1
SATARAID5 F
EATURES
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4
2
AN INTRODUCTION TO RAID
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5
2.1 D
ISK
S
TRIPING
(RAID 0)
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5
2.2 D
ISK
M
IRRORING
(RAID 1)
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5
2.3
CONCATENTION
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5
3
INSTALLING DRIVERS
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6
4
JAVA 2 RUNTIME ENVIRONMENT INSTALLATION
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7
5
SATARAID5 GUI INSTALLATION
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9
6
CREATING AND DELETING LEGACY RAID GROUPS WITH BIOS UTILITY
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10
6.1
C
REATING
RAID G
ROUPS
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12
6.2
C
REATING
S
PARE
D
RIVE
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13
6.3
C
REATING
CONCATENATION
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13
6.4
D
ELETING
RAID G
ROUPS
, S
PARE
D
RIVE
,
AND
C
ONCATENATION
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14
6.5
R
EBUILD
RAID 1 S
ET
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15
6.6
L
OW
L
EVEL
F
ORMATTING
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16
6.7
L
OGICAL
D
RIVE
I
NFORMATION
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16
6.8
R
ESERVED
D
RIVE AND
S
ETTING
S
IZE FOR
RAID S
ET OR
S
PARE
D
RIVE
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16
7
ALLOCATING PARTITIONS IN WINDOWS
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18
7.1
W
INDOWS
S
ERVER
2003 & XP & 2000
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18
7.1.1
C
REATING THE
P
ARTITIONS
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19
8
SATARAID5 GUI OVERVIEW
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23
8.1
RAID G
ROUPS AND
D
EVICE
C
ONFIGURATION
W
INDOWS
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23
8.2
SATARAID5 M
ENU
C
OMMANDS
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24
8.2.1
C
ONFIGURATION
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25
8.2.2
E
XIT
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28
8.2.3
C
REATE
S
PARE
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