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1. A yar ODOT dente 3 Next you can click Yes button to start the operation or click button to cancel When you click Yes button to start this operation the following warning message will be popup dng ort OD Saat or it wl cana ctn feil ivf all dan he da vod ke destroyed cule cathe bi Taye sore ach nee Next you can click Yes button to start the operation or click No button to cancel When you click Yes button to start this operation the operation will begin 42 Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide When this operation is beginning you still can click the destroy button on the Create Stripe 38 0501 dialog to stop this operation But this action will cause the data of the source disk broken And the following message will be popup to remind you A The Spitting acon fal data inthe source disk hac been destroyed E 8 If the operation is Source is a boot device of Split data into Raido Set the following warning message will be popup seeing below TE you ment to creel this RAND al dets onthe Boot device wll be selt irto Ral st you sure to conis EE EE Next you can click Yes button to start the operation or click button to cancel When you click Yes button to start this operation the following warning message will be popup2. Th gitas etn onde ach a e Quos beri ab soc vo ld an cnt welt es Next you can click Yes button to start the operation or click button to cancel When you click Yes button to start this operation the following warning message will be popup 43 Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide Oe Do yeu Want to restart tho windows ro Next you can click Ok button to restart the windows and start the operation Source is a boot device o Split data into Raido Set Or click Cancel button to suspend this operation But this operation is stil done after restarting the windows next time To create RAID 1 Mirror array follow these steps NOTE The RAID array supports two hard disks only Create Raid Raid Type RAID 1 select the mode type you want 1 Configuration 2 From the drop down box Mode Typ or use the default value DMA FEF I TS oo OE From the Available Disks pane select the disk and click downy arrow icon or double click it to add the disk on the Selected Disk pane This action is the same as the operation to create a JBOD array 4 When the RAID1 array s configuration is finished click the button Create Then a Create Mirror RaidSer dialog will be popup Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide poo Note Source The first selected disk
3. Microsoft Windows Me Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional and Server Microsoft Windows XP Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide Step 0 What is RAID Know How This section will give you an overview about the RAID system and introduce the basic background and glossary which you need to know before using 518 RAID Controller Application 1 RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disk Drives use jointly several hard drives to increase data transfer rates and data security It depends on the number of drives present and RAID function you select to fulfill the security or performance purposes or both 2 RAID 0 Also known as Stripping All of the data are distributed evenly to all of the existing drives You gain benefits on performance because the data transfer rate is multiplied by the number of drives However RAID 0 has high risks of data security All of the stored data will be lost it even any one drive in the RAID set crashes 3 RAID 1 Also known as Mirroring Two hard drives are required The goal of RAID O is to ensure data security Data is written to two or more drives synchronously That is 100 duplication of data from one drive to another 4 RAID 041 Also known as SiripeMirror At least four hard drivers are required RAID 0 1 is a combination of RAID 0 and RAID 1 Data is striped into two drives then mirrored It provides high performance and high data protection This is a costly
4. Target The second selected disk Create Only This operation will destroy all data on all the selected disks and create a clean mirror array without any data oni Create and Duplicate Duplicate operation will reserve data on the source disk and copy them onto the target disk Start the operation Cancel Cancel the operation Disk Copy Remaining Sector Show the remaining copying data 5 Next you can click Cancel button to leave or click button to continue after the operation being selected The warning messages will be popup following the differential operations If the operation is Create Only the warming messages are similar to JBOD array creation 6 If the operation is Create and Duplicate the following warning message will be popup seeing below 45 Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide a you nant to eae ths RATD dl data onte source dik vil be cocked iota dsk ya suetocortruet es om Next you can click Yes button to start the operation or click No button to cancel When you click Yes button to start this operation the following warning message will be popup This copy action needs much nare tine Once begining dorit restert your computer ar it wil cause the action Fal Click OK button to start this duplicating action Don t restart your computer or it will cause the action fail 7 When the operation is finished the
5. When the RAIDO array s configuration is finished click the button Create Then a Create Stripe RaidSet dialog will be popup lt Note gt Source The first selected disk Target All other disks but first one Create Only This operation will destroy all data on all the selected disks and create a clean stripe array wilhout any data Split data into Raid0 Set gt Source is NOT a boot device Split operation will split data from source disk into all the selected disks In this operation the source disk can t be a boot device This operation is similar to Source is NOT a boot device operation but the source disk is a boot device Ok Start the selected operation Disk Copy Remaining Sector Show the remaining splitting data sector numbers Source is a boot device 41 Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide NOTE miniCapacity gt SourceCapacity miniCapacity The minimum size of all selected disks SourceCapacity The size of source disk N Total disk numbers Next you can click Ok button to continue after the operation being selected The differential warning messages will be popup following the differential operations If the operation is Create Only the warning messages are similar to JBOD array creation 7 the operation is Source is NOT a boot device of Split data into Raido Set the following warning message will be popup seeing below
6. and SIS 180 IDE RAID Controller should appear 10 Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide Step 3 BIOS Utility Operation Note For the best performance and reliability please read Performance Hints and Recommend Setting section in Step 0 Starting BIOS Utility 1 Boot your system If this is the first time you have booted with the 518964 or 515180 and the drives installed the BIOS will display the following Silicon Integrated Systems Corp RAID BIOS Setting Utility vo Xx 2003 2008 Silicon Integrated Systems Corp All Rights Reserved Press lt Cirl gt lt S gt to run BIOS Setting Utility Scan Devices Please Primary Master XXXXXXXXXX XXXXXMB UDMA X Primary Slave lt Device Not Found gt Secondary Master gt SATA Device Not Found gt Secondary Slave XXXXXXXXXX UDMA X RAID Information RAID Information includes some statements See below No RAID Install 2 Not any completed RAID exists b Raid 1 Mirror k X Disk X gt Have a RAID set Broken RAID detected Do you want to enter Setup Menu YIN Y You can select Y to enter setup menu to handle it Or you can select IN to ignore this message d Found a new HD Do you want to rebuild RAID 17 gt Occurs when the controller has broken Raid 1 and single HDD existing simultaneously and the location of single HDD is just conformed it s rebuild conditions S
7. thin cables making it easier to connect your drive and improving the airfiow inside your PC Supports 150 MB s transfers with CRC error checking Large LBA suppor for drives over 137 GB Data handing optimizations including tagged command queuing elevator seek and packet chain command Ultra ATA Interface Standard interlace Supports Ultra ATA 133 Ultra ATA 100 and Ultra ATA G6 drives Supports CRC error checking for ATA drives Separate timing control for two devices attached to ono ATA channel Serial Ultra ATA RAID Interfaces The SeriaUltra ATA RAID is designed to provide a cost effective high performance RAID solution that adds performance and or reliability to desktops and or servers using Serial ATA 150 Ultra ATA 133 Ultra 100 Ultra ATA 66 hard disks Seria Ultra ATA RAID function supports striping RAID 0 mirroring RAID 1 striping mirroring RAID 0 1 and span JBOD Please note that the function supports hard disk drives only and the South Bridge SiS964 controller don t support Striping mirroring Raid 0 1 With striping identical drives can read and write data in parallel to increase performance Mirroring increases read performance through load balancing and elevator sorting while creating complete backup of your files Span would increase the logic hard disk space Serial Ultra ATA RAID striped arrays can double the sustained data transfer rate of
8. 5 Press Enter to continue with installation or if you need to specify any additional devices to be installed do so at this time Once all devices are specified Press Enter to continue with installation 6 From the Windows XP 2000 Setup screen press the Enter key Setup will now load all device fles and then continue the Windows XP 2000 installation 7 Please install the driver package again ex SiS RAID driver v1 02 while the operation system has been setup Remark If you would like to install windows to any RAID set you should create RAID from BIOS RAID setting Utility or SiS964 SiS180 RAID Utility first and then follow the steps above Existing Windows XP 2000 Me 98SE Installation 1 Install the driver by execute SiS RAID driver setup utility 2 The drivers will be automatically installed Confirming Windows XP 2000 Driver Installation 1 From Windows XP 2000 open the Control Panel from My Computer followed by the System icon 2 Choose the Hardware tab then click the Device Manager tab 3 Click the in front of SCSI and RAID Controllers hardware type The driver SIS 180 Raid Controller should appear Confirming Windows Me 98SE Driver Installation 1 From Windows Me 98SE open the Control Panel from My Computer followed by the System icon 2 Choose the Device Manager tab 3 Click the in front of IDE ATA ATAPI Controllers hardware type The driver SIS 180 IDE Dual Channel
9. JBOD array or click No button to cancel d temere een seen NOTE the disk you selected has the ability of booting another warning message will be popup before SIS Software RAID message You can click Yes button to continue or click button to cancel 39 Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide 5 Next another message box will be popup to tell user that disk setting has been changed and ask whether to restart the computer or nol Click Yes button to restart the computer and you can get new setting Or click Cancer button to skip restarting Boya wart to restart Be nds E care b To create RAID 0 Stripe array follow these steps NOTE You must have at least two hard disks to create a RAIDO array 1 Configuration Create Raid Raid Type RAID 0 2 From the drop down box Block Size select the block size you or use the default value 64K From the drop down box Mode Type select the mode type you want or use the default value foma 40 Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide 4 From the Available Disks pane select the disk and click downward arrow icon or double click it to add the disk on the Selected Disks pane This action is the same as the operation to create a JBOD array 5
10. disks have been changed and ask whether to restart the computer rae onsen ates me mean ee ora pem d b To delete a RAID 0 1 array follow these steps 1 Configuration Delete Raid highlight the disk array in the Current RaidType pane and then click the Information bution or double click the array You can get some information about the disk array The following windows will appear 51 Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide 2 It you want to delete a disk array you selected you can highlight the disk array and then click the button Delete Then a warning message will be popup and pay attention to the warning message pum 3 Next you can click the button Delete to delete this RAID 0 1 array and all disk will become single disk Then some warning messages which are the same with previous those will be popup 4 Or you can click the button Degrade to degrade RAID 0 1 set to become a completed RAIDO set See below NOTE The degrading operation is workable only when the RAID 0 1 set has any one completed RAID 0 set existed 52 Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide About Raid Recovery Click the tab Raid Recovery you can find two panes and some buttons Those meaning willbe showing below Raid Recovery Operation NOTE The recovering operation is workable o
11. to display the RAID setup menu below This is the fastest and easiest method to delete your frst 28 Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide Soe ros soe oT cerent c INS Silicon Integrated form com 2 Press D to start deleting a RAID array and use lt gt gt gt to select RAID array you wanted to delete Sem ros se apr iaht el TTI Silicon Integrated Sustens tero wuss eon 3 Press lt Enter gt to select the RAID array that you want to delete And a message Are you sure to delete this RAID will show on this frame 29 Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide SERRATE ME LOM Copyright c 2003 2005 Silicon Integrated Systems Corb 4 Press and lt Enter gt the deleting action finish And the RAID Type of all disk members of this RAID array will be changed from RAID 0 to Single SEREN Copyright c 2003 2005 Silicon Integrated Systems Corb 5 Press until escape the BIOS Utility and the red message frame will show on 30 Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide Soe Copyright c 2003 2005 Silicon Integrated Systexs Corb 6 Press lt gt and Enter to save all changes Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide Step 4 SiS964 SiS180 RAID Utility Note 1 the best performance and reliabilit
12. x Y 6 x Y Y Y V Selected X Unselected NOTE Storage Capacity the capacity of the smallest drive in the disk array Working Speed the speed of the lowest drive in the disk array For RAID 0 1 Stripe Mirror array 4 Hard disks would set up a RAID 0 1 Only the SiS180 controller can suppor this function HDD Population Rules for RAID 0 1 Striping Mirroring Ultra ATA Master ATA Slave Seria ATA Master 1 Seria ATA Master 2 v Y v v V Selected X Unselected NOTE Storage Capacity the capacity of the smallest drive in the disk array Working Speed the speed of the lowest drive in the disk array Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide For JBOD Spanning array 6 Any combination to 2 3 or 4 Hard disks would combine to JBOD system The South Bridge SiS964 SATA controller only supports combination 6 and the 915180 controller supports all combinations HDD Population Rules for JBOD Spanning Ultra ATA Master Un ATA Slave Serial ATA Master 1 Serial ATA Master 2 v v x x V Selected X Unselected NOTE Storage Capacity the number of hard drives times the capacity of the smallest drive in Ihe disk array Working Speed the speed of the lowest drive in the disk array Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide Step 2 Installing
13. AIDO RAID 1 and JBOD The selection of RAID 0 1 will appear when 4 single HDD existing Creating RAID 0 Stripe Array for Performance NOTE 1 SiS160 enables users to create striped arrays with 2 3 or 4 drives 2 SiS964 only supports 2 SATA drivers to create a stripe array To create an array for best performance follow these steps 1 Press lt A gt to start creating RAID array 2 Press 2 and Enler to select RAID 0 RAD cun mm eb UDN MA Copyright c 2003 2005 Silicon Integrated Svstens Corp 15 Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide 3 You will have two selections to create RAID 0 array The default value is lt 1 gt If you select lt 1 gt Auto Create you can create RAID 0 array faster and easier The Blocksize will be selected by its default value 64K The result after auto creating will be shown on step 6 Besides you also can select lt 2 gt Manual Create see following steps 0 Copyright c 2003 2005 Silicon Integrated Systens Corb 4 Press lt 1 gt lt 5 gt keys and Enter to select Block Size Default 64K Sea os sare m 7 SB UDOT MB UDMAS Sng Copyright c 2003 2005 Silicon Integrated Systens Corb 5 Usec 1 gt gt to select disk and press Enter to select disk to exit When you press lt Enter gt on the disk you wanted the RAID Type 16 Serial ATA RAID Q
14. D array faster and easier The result after creating will be shown on step 5 Besides you also can select lt 2 gt Manual Create see following steps Sis eID BTS sa Copyright c 2003 2005 Silicon Integrated Systems Corb 4 Usec 1 lt gt gt to select disk and press Enter to select disk Q to exit When you press Enter on the disk you wanted the RAID Type will be changed from Single to JBOD 24 Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide Copyright c 2003 2005 Silicon Integrated Systexs Corb 5 Alter all steps finished press lt Q gt until escape the setup menu and JBOD array will be shown on the top of the main frame TD key to delete Hode RAID Ty BoM 5 28 29MB UDMA S JBOD Copyright c 2009 2009 Silicon Integrated Svstens Corp 25 Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide 6 Press lt Q gt until exit this BIOS utility and the red message frame will show as the same as the creation of the RAID array Press and Enter to save changes SIs RATE BIOS OTD i ena DHA 22 AE UDMAS JB Copyright c 2003 2005 Silicon Integrated Systems Corp 7 Once the array has been created you will need to FDISK and FORMAT the array as if it were new single hard drive Creating a RAID 0 1 Stripe Mirror Array NOTE 1 Only SiS 180 controller supports Stripe Mirror array w
15. Serial ATA 150 and Ultra ATA 133 drives Serial Ultra ATA RAID fully Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide supports Serial ATA 150 and Ultra ATA 133 specification of up per drive depending on individual drive specifications The technology also offers fault tolerant data redundancy for entry level network file servers or simply for desktop PC users wanting to continually protect valuable data on their PC The SeriallUltra ATA RAID offers RAID 1 mirroring for two drives to protect data Should drive that is part of a mirrored array fail Serial Ultra ATA RAID technology uses the mirrored drive which contains identical data to assume all data handing When a new replacement drive is later installed Serial Ultra ATA RAID rebuilds data to the new drive from the mirrored drive to restore fault tolerance Features SiS180 controller support two Serial ATA Serial ATA RAID and two Ultra ATA Ultra ATA RAID drives The South Bridge 519964 SATA controller only support two Serial ATA Serial ATA RAID drivers Support RAID function RAID 0 RAID 1 JBOD and RAID 0 1 RAID 0 1 function can be used by SiS180 controller with all hard drivers on it Support bootable disk except for RAID 0 1 Windows based SiS RAID Utility software tool only support Windows XP and 2000 BIOS RAID Setting Utility Support operating Systems Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide
16. SiS964 SiS180 SATA w RAID User s Manual Ula Serial Urea RAID 0 ge 1 Sarial Ultra RAID 1 Surial Uliea JBOD Quick User s Guide Version 0 3 Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide Edition December 2003 Copyright 2003 Silicon Integrated Systems Corp Trademarks SiS is a registered trademark of Silicon Integrated Systems Corp All brand or product names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders Revision History Revision History Date 01 Thiial release May 03 o2 Fix some frame s changes of BIOS and RAID Utility RAID 0 1 can t support as a bootable disk and DOS working For best performance the sequence of RAID 0 1 is forced to set as Disk 1 Disk 2 gt Disk 3 gt Disk 4 October 03 Fix some frame s changes of BIOS Uii Add some capabilities in BIOS Utility a Broken Raid warning messages show b Rebuild Function for RAID 1 Broken Raid warning messages show in RAID Utility December 03 Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide CONTENTS Introduction Features Support operating Systems KNOW HOW PERFORMANCE HINTS AND RECOMMEND SETTING Step 1 Hardware Setup HARD DRIVES SETUP FOR RAID 0 STRIPING ARRAY 6 FOR RAID 1 MIRROR ARRAY 7 FOR RAID 0 1 STRIPE MIRROR ARRAY 1 FOR JBOD SPANNING ARRAY 8 Step 2 Installing Softwar
17. Software Drivers SiS RAID driver support Microsoft Windows XP 2000 Me 98SE 1 SiSt80 controller support Serial ATA Ultra w RAIDO RAID1 RAIDO 1 and JBOD by installing SiS RAID driver 2 South Bridge 515964 SATA controller support Serial ATA w RAIDO RAID 1 and JBOD by installing SIS RAID driver For RAID function 515180 support RAIDO RAID1 RAIDO and JBOD and SIS 964 support RAIDO RAID1 and JBOD by software RAID driver only 3 Support the function of installing Windows Operation System to RAID array except for RAID 0 1 For special occasions users can refer to the following sections with details on the 5 5964 5 5180 driver installation when used with various operating systems Windows XP 2000 Me 98SE New Windows XP 2000 Installation The following details that installation of the drivers while installing new Windows XP 2000 This method don t be supported for new Windows Me 98SE installation 1 Start the installation Boot from the CD ROM Press F6 when the message Press F6 key if you need to install third party SCSI or RAID driver appears 2 When the Windows XP 2000 Setup window is generated press 5 key to specify an Additional Device s Insert the driver diskette into drive A and press Enter 4 Choose one of tho following items WinXP SIS Raid IDE Controller Win2000 SiS Raid IDE Controller that appears on screen and then press the Enter key Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide
18. ation of the first device on SiS RAID controller 1 33 Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide Besides if this controller has some broken RAID existing this AP will show some warning message on initial time If this broken RAID is RAID 1 RAID 0 1 it will tell you that you can go to the Raid Recovery tab to recovery this broken RAID 1 or RAID 0 1 o Dd ee 3 Click the button Help you can open a help document that tell you how to use this RAID utility 4 Click the button About you can find an about message It show that RAID utility version version 0 XX and some copyright information EDI SEREN DEY SiSRaid Utility Version 0 72 Copsight e 2003 Silicon Integrated System Corp rm 5 Click the tab configuration you can find three tabs Create Raid Delete Raid and Raid Recovery In the same way you can switch to different tabs by clicking on it Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide Eka About Create Raid Click the tab Create Raid you can find three drop down box and three panes Those meaning will be showing below Viewing the Create Raid Raid Type Click the drop down box Raid Type This box enables the user to select array type There are four array types that the user can select JBOD RAID 0 Stripe RAID 1 Mirror and RAID 051 St Mr User can select any one array type to create RAID set When the number of hard drive
19. d arrow icon or double click the marked disk to select the disk into the Selected Disks pane In the same way user can click the upward arrow icon or double click the marked disk in the Selected Disks to get back the disk that we might select wrong to the Available Disks pane f Information This pane will show the information about creating a RAID set after clicking the button Create The information may be Please select the Raid Type first Please select the Mode Type gt first Please select the Block Size first Please select the disk you want first Mirror supports TWO DISKS only Raid Created Successfull Reboot pleasell or Raid Creation failed Create a RAID set To create a JBOD array follow these steps NOTE You must have at least two hard disks to create a JBOD array 1 Configuration Create Raid Raid Type JBOD 2 From the drop down box Mode Type select the mode type you want or use the default value DMA iz roid te 3 From the Available Disks pane select the disk and click downward arrow icon or double click it to add the disk on the Selected Disks 38 Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide pane a ed click the button Then a warning message will be popup Pay attention to the warning message and then click Yes button to finish the creation of
20. e Drivers WINDOWS XP 2000 ME 98SE NEW WINDOWS XP 2000 INSTALLATION 9 EXISTING WINDOWS XP 2000 ME 98SE INSTALLATION 0 CONFIRMING WINDOWS XP 2000 DRIVER INSTALLATION 0 CONFIRMING WINDOWS MESE DRIVER INSTALLATION 10 Step 3 BIOS Util STARTING BIOS UTILITY lity Operation CREATE RAID CREATING A RAID 0 STRIPE ARRAY FOR PERFORMANCE 14 CREATING A RAID 1 MIRROR ARRAY 19 CREATING A JBOD ARRAY CREATING A RAID 041 STRIPE MIRROR ARRAY 26 Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide DELETE RAD STARTING TO DELETE A RAID ARRAY 28 Step 4 515964515180 RAID Utility STARTING TO USE SIS964 SIS180 RAID UTILITY ABOUT CREATE RAID VIEWING THE CREATE RAID CREATE RAID SET 37 ABOUT DELETE RAID VIEWING THE RAIDTYPE MEANING a DELETE RAID SET E ABOUT RAID RECOVERY RAID RECOVERY OPERATION 52 Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide Introduction The SiS180 SATA controller is a hybrid solution that combines two independent SATA ports and one Ultra ATA port for support of up to two Serial ATA Serial ATA RAID and two Ultra ATA Uhra ATA RAID drives However the South Bridge 518964 SATA controler only support two Serial on two independent ports Specifications are as follows Serial ATA Interface Serial ATA SATA is the latest generation of the ATA interface SATA hard drives deliver blistering transfer speeds of up to 150MB sec Serial ATA uses long
21. erial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide The Raid is wrong Do you want to fix it Y N gt Occurs when the locations of two SATA HDD change owing to ATA HDD existing or not Press Ctr S keys to display the SiS964 SiS180 Utility Main Menu AID BIOs m mm NB UNAS Si MB UDMAS Singe Copyright c 2003 2005 Silicon Integrated Sys tens Corb Press to display the RAID setup menu below This is the fastest and easiest method to create your first array The A and D key will appear randomly in the different conditions a No RAID existing but have available disks existing 12 Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide Ses a ME LOM Copyright c 2003 2005 Silicon Integrated Svstens Corb Ib No available disk existing but have RAID existing Se os ee oe 290298 UDMAS RAIDO Copyright c 2003 2005 Silicon Integrated Systens Corb c Available disks and RAID existing simultaneously 13 Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide SERENE Copyright c 2003 2005 Silicon Integrated Svstens Corb 19 Available disk is not enough to create RAID So os se Copyright c 2003 2005 Silicon Integrated Systens Corb 14 Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide Create RAID NOTE SiS180 controller support RAID 0 RAID 1 JBOD and RAID 0 1 515964 SATA controller support R
22. es only To create a Mirror array follow these steps 3 Press lt A gt to start creating a RAID 2 Press and lt Enter gt to select Mirror 19 Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide Se Os or Copyright c 2003 2005 Silicon Integrated Systems Corb 3 You will have two selections to create RAID 1 array The default value is lt 1 gt If you select lt 1 gt Auto Create you can create RAID 1 array faster and easier The result after creating will be shown on step 5 Besides you also can select lt 2 gt Manual Create see following steps To os ae Copyright c 2003 2005 Silicon Integrated Systess Corb 4 Usec 1 lt gt lt to select disk and press Enter to select disk to exit When you press Enter on the disk you wanted the RAID Type 20 Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide will be changed from Single to RAID 1 The same as RAID 0 the disk you select first will be the SOURCE disk om ose 5 Next you will see a message Duplicate the SOURCE Disk x data to RAID disks Press and lt Enter gt to create RAID 1 array only or press Y and lt Enter gt to duplicate the data from source disk to mirror disk STE RATIOS sang TOT ice UD MB UDMAS Copyright c 2003 2005 Silicon Integrated Svstens Corb 21 Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide Starting duplicating action the fol
23. ith 4 drives 2 The selection of RAID 0 1 will appear when 4 single HDD existing Forusers convenience RAID 0 1 will be auto created 4 best performance the sequence of RAID 0 1 is forced to set as Disk 1 gt Disk 3 gt Disk 2 gt Disk 4 5 DOS it cant support RAID 0 1 function So you cannot FDISK or FORMAT the array as if it were a new single hard driver If you want to FORMAT this single hard driver you have to use disk manager to FORMAT it in WinXP or Win2000 In 26 Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide WinMe or Win98SE you must install Raid driver first and you can use MS DOS tool to FORMAT it To create an Stripe Mirror array follow these steps d Press lt A gt to start creating a RAID array Copyright c 2003 2005 Silicon Integrated Systens Corb 2 Alter step 2 RAID 0 1 array will be shown on the top of the main frame RAT T IB UDHAS RAID 0t Copyright c 2003 2005 Silicon Integrated Systens Corb 2 Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide 3 Press lt Q gt until exit this BIOS utility and the red message frame will show as the same the creation of the RAID 0 array Press lt Y gt and Enter to save changes JB UDN 1 Copyright c 2003 2005 Silicon Integrated Corb Delete RAID Starting to delete a RAID array 1 After enter the 518964918180 Utility Main Menu press lt R gt
24. ks in this Raid E D E a Raid is correct Raid is error D or E will show or P In which the meaning of and will show below Check the corditon of your please 4 ths poston HD ets or the HD ie not apart ots RAID 1 The HD ar this postions apart nf S RAID But the postion is not rs orignal positon before creetna tn RA Example 48 Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide 49 Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide Delete a Raid set To delete a JBOD RAIDO or RAID1 array follow these steps 1 Configuration Delete Raid the following windows will appear mw esate el 2 Highlight the disk array in the Current RaidType pane and then click the Information button or double click the array You can get some information about the disk array btn ma enr Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide 3 Ifyou want to delete a disk array you selected you can highlight the disk array and then click the button Delete Then a warning message will be popup and pay attention to the warning message You can click Yes to delete the selected disk array or click No to cancel Do you cerfrm that you want to delete this m 4 Next another message will be popup to tell user the setting of these
25. lowing frame will be showing Copyright c 2003 2005 Silicon Integrated Systems Corb 7 After all steps finished press lt Q gt unti escape the setup menu and RAID 1 array will be shown on the top of the main frame So os se oe Mode RAID RAIDT 1 Copyright c 2009 2005 Silicon Integrated Svstens Corb Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide 8 Press lt Q gt until exit this BIOS utility and the red message frame will show as the same as the creation of the RAID 0 array Press lt Y gt and Enter to save changes Se os see oo i eno RAID T MB UDMAS RAID 1 Copyright c 2009 2005 Silicon Integrated Systems Corp 9 Once the array has been created you will need to FDISK and FORMAT the array as if it were a new single hard drive Creating a JBOD Array NOTE 1 515180 enables users to create JBOD arrays with 2 3 or 4 drives 2 515964 only supports 2 SATA drivers to create a JBOD arrays To create a JBOD array follow these steps 1 Press lt A gt to start creating a RAID array 2 Press lt t gt and lt Enter gt to select JBOD 28 Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide Te ose Copyright c 2003 2005 Silicon Integrated Systems Corb You will have two selections to create JBOD array The default value is lt 1 gt If you select lt 1 gt Auto Create you can create a JBO
26. nly when error RAID set error RAID 0 1 set must at least an error RAIDO set exist First you can click the button Available Raid to find whether any error Raid set existing See below Next highlight the error Raid set you want to recovery And you can click the button Ok to continue or click Cancel to cancel this operation 53 Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide b After Available RAID selected click the button Available Disk to find whether any emply hard disk existing See below Next highlight the empty hard disk you want to select And you can click the button OK to continue or click Cancel to give up this selection c When the Available Raid and Available Disk is finished you can click the button Start to start this operation And the button Star wil become Pause Then you can click the button Pause to pause the thread operation And the button Pause will become Start Or you can click the button Stop to cancel this operation This operation can be broken off if you want to close this RAID utility or shut down your computer and it can continue when you open this RAID ulilty again or restart you computer next time
27. restart warning message will be popup as well as JBOD array creation d To create a RAID 0 1 Stripe Mirror array follow these steps 1 Configuration Create Raid Raid Type RAID 0 1 46 Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide 2 From the drop down box Block Size select the block size you want or use the default value 64K 3 From the drop down box Mode Type select the mode type you want or use the default value DMA 4 From the Available Disks pane select the disk and click downward arrow icon or double click it to add the disk on the Selected Disks pane Please see the Performance hints and recommend setting Section for best settings 5 When the RAID 0 1 array s configuration is finished click the button Create Then a warning message will be popup The message is similar to JBOD array creation 6 Next the restart message will be popup NOTE 1 The RAID 0 1 array support at least four hard disks 2 The 95964 SATA controller don t support RAID 0 1 3 For best performance the sequence of RAID 0 1 is forced to set as Disk 1 Disk 3 gt Disk 2 Disk 4 About Delete Raid 47 Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide Click the tab Delete Raid you can find some panes and two buttons The RaidType meaning will show below Viewing the RaidType meaning General case RAIDO A C D Meaning RAIDO Raid Type total number of dis
28. rs is not equal to 4 the selection RAID 0 17 will disappear 35 Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide Block Size user selected RAID 0 and RAID 0 1 array types in the Array Type box the Block Size drop down box will be enabled and user must select a block size Clicking the drop down box Block Size there are seven block size that the user can select 8k 16k 32k 64k 128k 256 and 512k User can select any one block size to create RAID 0 or RAID 0 1 set The default selection is 64k b 38 Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide c Mode Type Click the drop down box Mode Type This box enables the user to select mode type There are two mode types that the user select PIO and DMA User can select any one mode type to create a RAID set The default selection is DMA enean ro mem 9 ues i Fu d Available Disks This pane wil list out all the disks that can be used to create a RAID set currently It will show some disk information ex Location serial numbers the ability of boot and the status of recovering 37 Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide e Selected Disks This pane will list out all the disks that have been Selected to create a RAID set User can highlight the specific disk that we wants in the Available Disks pane and click the downwar
29. s Guide Step 1 Hardware Setup Hard Drives setup The 519180 controller supports up to two Serial ATA hard drives and two Parallel hard drives The South Bridge 515964 SATA controller only supports two Serial ATA hard drivers For RAID 0 Striping array combination to 2 3 or 4 Hard disks would combine to a stripe system South Bridge 515964 SATA controller only supports combination 6 the 915180 controller supports all combinations HDD Population Rules for RAID 0 Striping Uwe ATA Waster Ultra ATA Slave Serial ATA Master Serial ATA Master 2 1 Y v x x 2 Y x Y x 3 Y x x Y 4 x x 5 x v x v 6 x x v Y 7 Y v v x Y x Y Y x Y Y 10 x v v v Y v v v V Selected X Unselected NOTE Storage Capacity the number of hard drives times the capacity of the smallest drive in the disk array Working Speed the speed of the lowest drive in the disk array Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide For RAID 1 Mirror array Any of 2 Hard disks would make a mirror system South Bridge 515964 SATA controller only supports combination 6 and the SiS180 controller supports all combinations HDD Population Rules for RAID 1 Mirroring Ultra ATA Master Ultra ATA Slave Serial ATA Master Serial ATA Master 2 1 Y v x x 2 Y x Y x 3 Y x x Y v v x 5 x v
30. solution as RAID 1 because the two mirrored drives represent an expensive insurance 5 JBOD Just a Bunch of Drives Also known as Spanning Two or more hard drives are required Several hard disk types configured as a single hard disk The hard drives are simply hooked up in series This expands the capacity of your drive and results in a useable total capacity However JBOD will not increase any performance or data security Performance hints and recommend setting For the best performance and reliability please read the following suggestions 1 In Serial ATA port use Native Serial ATA drives Parallel ATA to Serial ATA converter board is NOT suggested 2 In Parallel ATA port use ATA 66 100 133 hard drives 3 Use the same model hard drives 4 Ifyou have only two Serial ATA drives the auto configure function will assign each on a different channel as a master drive Using only two Parallel ATA drives to create RAID array is NOT suggested It might decrease performance Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide Always use 80 conductor cables We strongly recommend you should use transfer mode The recommended block size is 64K when creating RAID 0 and RAID 0 1 The best performance of RAID 0 1 is set the sequence as Disk 1 gt Disk 3 gt Disk 2 gt Disk 4 So the SiS RAID Utility and BIOS RAID Setting Utility will force to set the sequence as 1324 Serial ATA RAID Quick User
31. uick User s Guide will be changed from Single to RAID 0 And the disk you select first wil be the SOURCE disk So sae oe Copyright c 2009 2005 Silicon Integrated Systems Corb 6 you will see a message Split the SOURCE Disk x data to RAID disks Press and lt Enter gt to create RAID 0 array only or press lt gt and lt Enter gt to split the data from source disk to other disks Sea os Sere Copyright c 2003 2005 Silicon Integrated Systens Corb 7 Starting splitting action the following frame will be shown 7 Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide EAEE ME LOM Copyright c 2009 2009 Silicon Integrated Systems Corp 8 After all steps finished press lt Q gt until escape the setup menu and RAID 0 array will be shown on the top of the main frame So os see Copyright c 2003 2005 Silicon Integrated Systens Corb Press lt Q gt until exit this BIOS utility and the red message frame will show Press Y and lt Enler gt to save changes 18 Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide EENEN Copyright c 2009 2009 Silicon Integrated Systems Corp 10 Once the array has been created you will need to FDISK and FORMAT the array as if it were a new single hard drive Creating a RAID 1 Mirror Array NOTE sis964 SiS180 enables users to create Mirror arrays with pair of driv
32. y please read Performance Hints and Recommend Setting section in Step 0 2 This Utility only supports Windows XP 2000 Starting to use SiS964 SiS180 RAID Utility 1 Alter installing the SiS RAID utility go to Start menu and choose Programs From the Programs menu choose SIS RAID and click on SiSRaid E mail Activate wide windows cba Ml A WindowsUpdate wies dae dB nene Explorer 8 uico Express VL Remote Assistarce Windows Media Player Programs i3 rc Serial ATA RAID Quick User s Guide 2 This SIS RAID utility will be resident in the toolbar You can click the right button of the mouse on the SiS Raid Utility s icon and some selection wil be popup You can click Exit to close this resident utility or let it always resident in the toolbar Or click SiS Raid to open the SiS RAID Utility Step 3 The Help will show the help document to tell you how to use this RAID Utility and the About will show as Step 5 SiS Raid About Ext 3 The SiS RAID Utility window opens as below The main interface has two tabs View and Configuration You can switch to different tabs by clicking it On View tab we can see some device information on different controllers You can click the drop down box Adapter to select the controller you want to use The default value is the inform
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