Lindy 70538 Computer Hardware User Manual
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1. 1 Power off the system Insert Combo Card into an available PCI slot Connect serial cable s between the SATA port and serial ATA device s Power up the system Put your Windows 2000 XP CD into the CD ROM DVD drive or the 2000 boot diskette 1 in the floppy drive if your system cannot boot from the CD Press F6 for third party SCSI or driver installation at the beginning of text mode installation Press S when setup asks if you want to specify an additional device and insert the driver diskette Press Enter and select Silicon Image Sil 3X12 SATARaid Controller for Windows NT 4 0 and 2000 Silicon Image Sil 3X12 SATARaid Controller for Windows Press again when prompted to continue on with text mode setup Follow the setup instructions to select your choice for partition and file system After setup examines your disks it will copy files from the CD to the hard drive selected above and restart the system After restart the setup process will resume to finish the installation Once the operating system installation has completed you can follow the instructions in section 4 4 to verify controller was installed correctly 4 2 Windows 2000 installation 1 Power off the system Insert Combo Card into an available PCI slot Power up the system During OS boot up Windows will display the Found New Hardware Wizard Universal Serial Bus USB controller Click Next Select Search2. Automatic search for a better driver Recommended Click Next and then click Finish to exit the wizard 4 The Hardware wizard will display that it found PCI Universal Serial Bus Select Automatic search for a better driver Recommended insert CD driver into CD ROM drive click Next and then click Finish to exit the wizard 5 The Hardware Wizard will display that it found a RAID Controller Select Automatic search for a better driver Recommended Click Next 6 System will go through the enumeration process and install the driver At the end of the process click Finish to complete the installation 10 Reboot the system if your Windows ME drive is connected on the Sil 3112 Controller 4 8 Verifying The installation under Windows 98SE and ME Follow the instructions in this section to verify that the controller was installed correctly ils Right click on My Computer icon select Properties left click Device Manager tab Double click on System devices then left click 1 standard PCI to PCl bridge If there is no yellow or in front of PCI standard PCI to PCl bridge the driver has started correctly Double click on 1394 Bus controllers If there is no yellow or in front of NEC Firewarden OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller the driver has started correctly Double click Universal Serial Bus Controllers If there i
3. INL COMPUTER CONNECTION TECHNOLOGY SATA Raid USB2 0 1394a 9 port PCI Card User Manual English LINDY No 70538 www LINDY com FE LINDY ELECTRONICS LIMITED amp LINDY ELEKTRONIK GMBH FIRST EDITION November 2004 1 Introduction This PCI Host Adapter is a PCI controller board which can upgrade your desktop computer to have dual independent Serial ATA Channels to support RAID 0 and RAID 1 features three 1394 FireWire ports and four USB2 0 USB1 1 ports The board supports a 32 bit 33 MHz PCI bus revision 2 2 1394 transfer rate of 400 Mb s USB transfer rate of 1 5Mb s 12Mb s 480Mb s and the Serial ATA Generation 1 transfer rate of 1 5 Gb s 150 MB s It comes completely with drivers for Windows RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks greatly enhances two main areas of data storage performance and data integrity By using RAID also known as Striping performance of sustained data transfer rates is greatly enhanced by simultaneously writing data to 2 drives The second benefit of RAID is data redundancy RAID 1 Mirroring writes identical data on two drives thus protecting the data from a disk failure If for any reason one drive were to fail your data is secure and available from the mirrored second drive 1 1 Features 1 1 1 PCI Interface Compliant with PCI Specification revision 2 2 Compliant with PCI IDE Controller Specification revision 1 0 Compliant
4. 2048 bytes asynchronous transmit 2048 bytes and receive 3072 bytes 32 bit CRC generation and checking for receive transmit packets 1 2 Package Contents SATA Raid USB2 0 1394a 3 In 1 9 Port PCI Host Adapter This User s Manual Driver Diskette 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 This card provides two RAID Set types Striped RAID 0 and Mirrored RAID 1 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 mastering technology multiple I O operations can be done in parallel enhancing performance Striping arrays use multiple disks to form a larger virtual disk Disk Mirroring RAID 1 Disk mirroring creates an identical twin for a selected disk by having the data simultaneously written to two disks This redundancy provides instantaneous protection from a single disk failure If a read failure occurs on one drive the system reads the data from the other drive 3 RAID BIOS Installation Creating and deleting RAID sets is a function found in the BIOS During boot up the RAID setting message will appear and pause for a few moments to allow the u
5. and final set of tasks reboot the system 5 After the system reboots right click on My Computer and select Properties From 8 System Properties select Device Manager right click on the PCI RAID controller and select Properties from the context menu 6 Click Driver Update Driver and select Automatic search for a better driver Recommended Insert the driver diskette into floppy drive Click Next and complete the driver installation 7 System will go through the enumeration process and install the driver At the end of the process click Yes to reboot your system 8 See instructions in section 4 8 to verify controller was installed correctly 4 6 Windows 98SE installation 1 Power off the system Insert Combo Card into an available PCI slot Power up the system 2 During the system boot up the Hardware Wizard will display that it found a PCI standard PCI to PClI bridge click Next Select Search for the best driver for your device Recommended and click Next 3 Select Floppy disk drives and click Next 4 When the wizard indicates that it found a driver for the device click Next Then click Finish to exit the wizard 5 The Hardware wizard will display that it found NEC USB Open Host Controller click Next 6 Select Search for the best driver for your device Recommended and click Next 7 Select CD ROM drive And insert CD driver in
6. for a suitable driver for my device Recommended and Click sige 8 9 10 11 12 13 Next Under Optional search locations insure that CD ROM drives is only checked Insert the CD Driver into CD ROM drive and click Next When the wizard indicates that it found a driver for the device click Next The wizard will now copy the required files to the system and start the Driver After starting the driver the wizard will display a completion dialog click Finish to exit the wizard Windows will display the Found New Hardware Wizard Click Next Select Search for a suitable driver for my device Recommended and Click Next Under Optional search locations insure that CD ROM drives is checked And Click Next When the wizard indicates that it found a driver for the device click Next If the Digital Signature Not Found dialog appears click Yes to continue installing the driver The wizard will now copy the required files to the system and start the Driver After starting the driver the wizard will display a completion dialog click Finish to exit the wizard 4 3 Windows XP installation Power off the system Insert Combo Card into an available PCI slot Power up the system During OS boot up Windows will display the Found New Hardware Wizard Universal Serial Bus USB controller Select Install the software automatically Recommended and insert C
7. with Programming Interface for Bus Master IDE Controller revision 1 0 32 bit 33Mhz fully compliant PCI host interface Integrated PCI DMA engines 1 1 2 High Speed Serial ATA Interface Dual high speed serial ATA interface ports each supporting 1st generation Serial ATA data rates 1 5Gb s Provides RAID 0 Stripping to greatly increase the performance of data transfer by simultaneously writing data to 2 drives Provides RAID 1 Mirroring to protect the data from a disk failure by writing identical data on 2 drives Fully compliant with Serial ATA 1 0 specifications Independent 256 byte FIFOs 32 bit 64 deep per Serial ATA channel for host reads and writes Supports Spread Spectrum in receiver Features Serial ATA to PCI interrupt masking Features Watch Dog Timer for fault resiliency 1 1 3 USB Interface Compliant with Universal Serial Bus Specification Revision 2 0 Data Rate 1 5 12 480 Mbps Compliant with Open Host Controller Interface Specification for USB Rev 1 0a Compliant with Enhanced Host Controller Interface Specification for USB Rev 0 95 All USB ports can handle high speed 480 Mbps full speed 12 Mbps and low speed 1 5 Mbps transaction 1 1 4 1394 FireWire Interface Compliant with 1394 Open Host Controller Interface specification release 1 1 and IEEE Std 1394a 2000 Provides three 1394 ports at 100 200 400 Mbps Built in FIFOs for isochronous transmit
8. D driver into CD ROM drive And Click Next If the Hardware Installation dialog appears click Continue Anyway The wizard will now copy the required files to the system and start the Driver After starting the driver the wizard will display a completion Dialog click Finish to exit the wizard Windows will display the Found New Hardware Wizard Select install the software automatically Recommended Click Next If the Hardware Installation dialog appears click Continue Anyway The wizard will now copy the required files to the system and start the Driver After starting the driver the wizard will display a completion Dialog click Finish to exit the wizard 4 4 Verifying The installation under Windows 2000 and XP Follow the instructions in this section to verify that the controller was installed correctly 1 Right click on My Computer icon select Properties left click on Hardware tab and then on Device Manager button 2 Double click on System devices then left click on PCI standard PCI to PCl bridge If there is no yellow or in front of PCI standard PCI to PCI bridge the driver has started correctly Double click on IEEE 1394 Bus host controllers If there is no yellow or in front of NEC OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller the driver has started correctly 4 Double click Universal Serial Bus Controllers If there is no yellow or
9. Search for the best driver for your device Recommended Click Next 20 Select CD ROM drive and click Next Select The Updated driver Recommended NEC Firewarden OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller click Next And click Next to continue 21 1 display Insert Disk please insert the disk labeled windows 98 second Edition CD ROM and click OK Then click Finish to exit the wizard 22 The Hardware Wizard will display that it found a PCI Raid Controller click Next 23 Select Search for the best driver for your device Recommended and click Next and insert CD driver into CD ROM drive 24 Make sure the CD ROM drive checkbox is checked Click Next And click Next to continue 25 System will go through the enumeration process install the driver At the end of the process click Finish to complete the installation Reboot the system if your Windows 98SE drive is connected on the Sil 3112 Controller 4 7 Windows ME installation 1 Power off the system Insert Combo Card into an available PCI slot Power up the system 2 During the system boot up the Hardware Wizard will display that it found standard PCI to PCI bridge select Automatic search for a better driver Recommended click Next and then click Finish to exit the wizard 3 The Hardware wizard will display that it found NEC Firewarden OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller Select
10. in front of NEC PCI to USB Enhanced Host Controller NEC PCI to USB Open Host controller NEC PCI to USB Open Host controller USB Root Hub USB Root Hub The driver has started correctly 5 Double click on SCSI and RAID Controllers If there is no yellow l or in front of Silicon Image Sil 3112 SATARaid Controller the driver has started correctly 6 To view information about the devices attached to the controller right click the Devices and select Properties from the context menu then select the tab labeled 4 5 Windows 98 SE ME Fresh OS installation Follow the instructions in this section if you are performing a new installation of Windows 98SE ME and you wish to boot from a device attached to the SATA port You may start up the Windows 98SE ME installation from CD If either your Windows 98SE ME CD or CD ROM drive is not bootable your can start up with floppy diskettes 1 Power off the system Insert Combo card into an available PCI slot Connect serial ATA cable s between the SATA port and serial ATA device s Power up the system 2 Put your Windows 98SE ME CD into the CD ROM DVD drive and the Windows 98SE ME boot diskette in the floppy drive if your system cannot boot from the CD 3 Follow the normal Windows 98SE ME setup instructions to select your choice for partition and file system 4 Wait until Windows 98SE ME finishes installing devices regional settings networking settings components
11. s no yellow in front of NEC PCI to USB Enhanced Host Controller NEC USB Open Host controller NEC USB Open Host controller USB Root Hub USB Root Hub The driver has started correctly Double click on SCSI Controllers If there is no yellow or in front of Silicon Image Sil 3112 SATARaid Controller the driver has started correctly To view information about the devices attached to the controller right click the Devices and select Properties from the context menu then select the tab labeled General 11 12 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
12. ser to choose what to do This board will act as normal NON RAID card when BIOS not configured for RAID Just proceed to Software Installation section directly If you use traditional parallel ATA HDD make sure your hard drives be set up as master mode before the RAID setting 3 1 Creating Striped Sets RAID 0 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 Striped then press Enter 4 Select Auto configuration Press Enter 5 Press 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 2 Creating Mirrored Sets RAID 1 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 Mirrored then press Enter 4 Select Auto configuration Press Enter 5 Press 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 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 An
13. swer Y to remove the RAID set If the RAID set being deleted is a Striped set then all of the data will be lost If the set being deleted is a Mirrored set then the data will remain intact and accessible on both drives 3 4 Rebuilding Mirrored Sets 1 After replacing the failed hard drives boot the BIOS Press CTRL S or F4 to enter the raid bios utility 2 Select rebuilding Mirrored set Press Enter 3 Select Online rebuild or Offline rebuild 3 Answer Y to rebuild the Mirrored set of hard drive 3 5 Resolving Conflict When a RAID set is created the metadata written to the disk includes drive connection information Primary and Secondary If after a disk failure the 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 252 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 be written to the replacement disk 4 Software Installation 4 1 Windows 2000 XP Fresh OS installation Follow the instructions in this section if you are performing a new installation of Windows 2000 and you wish to boot from a device attached to the SATA port
14. to CD ROM drive and click Next 8 Select The Updated driver NEC USB Open Host Controller and click Next And click Next to continue 9 If display Insert Disk please insert the disk labeled windows 98 second Edition CD ROM and click OK Then click Finish to exit the wizard 10 The Hardware wizard will display that it found NEC USB Open Host Controller and click Next 11 Select Search for the best driver for your device Recommended Click Next 12 Select CD ROM drive click Next Select The Updated driver NEC USB Open Host Controller and click Next And click Next to continue 13 If display Insert Disk please insert the disk labeled windows 98 second Edition CD ROM and click OK Then click Finish to exit the wizard 14 The Hardware wizard will display that it found PCI Universal serial Bus and click Next 15 Select Search for the best driver for your device Recommended Click Next and insert CD driver into CD ROM drive 16 Select CD ROM drive and click Next Select The Updated driver Recommended NEC PCI To USB Enhanced Host Controller click Next 17 When the wizard indicates that it found a driver for the device click Next Then click Finish to exit the wizard 18 The Hardware wizard will display that it found NEC Firewarden OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller click Next 19 Select
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