Lindy 51103 Network Card User Manual
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1. IND COMPUTER CONNECTION TECHNOLOGY RAID SATA Il 3Gbps 4 Ports PCI X Host User Manual English LINDY No 70548 External LINDY No 70549 Internal FE C 6 www LINDY com oS EX LINDY ELECTRONICS LIMITED amp LINDY ELEKTRONIK GMBH FIRST EDITION November 2004 1 Introduction This RAID SATA II 3Gbps 4Ports PCI X Host Adapter is a PCI to 4Ports Serial ATA host controller board It provides a 64bit 133 MHz PCI interface on the host side and four fully compliant Serial ATA II 3Gbps ports on the device side to access SATA Hard disk drive The board can be used to upgrade your desktop computer to have 4Ports Serial ATA Il 3Gbps Channels and support RAID 0 RAID 1 and RAID 0 1 features It accepts host commands through the PCI bus processes them and transfers data between the host and Serial ATA devices The board should be connected to SATA target device and will take the data serialize it and output it for transmission over the SATA interface The board can control four independent Serial ATA channels Each channel has its own Serial ATA bus and will Support one Serial ATA device The board supports Serial ATA Generation 1 amp Generation 2 transfer rate of 1 5 Gbps 3Gbps It comes completely with drivers for Windows 2003 Windows NT 4 0 Windows 2000 and XP RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks greatly enhances two main areas of data storage performance and data integrity By using RAID 0 also kno2. Press Enter 3 Select Online rebuild or Offline rebuild 4 Answer Y to rebuild the Mirrored set of hard drive _5 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 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 This section provides the information on how to install the drivers of RAID SATA II 3Gbps 4Ports PCI Host Adapter for the Windows operating systems 4 1 Windows NT 4 0 and Windows 2000 XP Fresh Installation Follow the instructions in this section if you are performing a new installation of Windows NT 4 0 or Windows 2000 XP and you wish to boot from a device attached to the HBA 1 Power off the system Connect the hard drives to the HBA and insert the HBA into a PCI slot Power up the system 2 Put your Windows NT 2000 XP CD into the CD ROM DVD drive or the NT 2000 XP boot diskette 1 in the f
3. 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 3 BIOS Installation RAID Setting 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 user 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 As the BIOS boots Press CTRL S or F4 to enter the raid bios utility Select Create RAID set Press Enter Select Stripe then press Enter Select Auto configuration Press Enter Press Y to save your settings Press CTRL E and then press Y to exit the setup Continue with conventional Fdisk and Format steps as if you are installing a conventional hard drive N OO BWDP 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 CT
4. RL 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 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 3 3 Creating a Mirrored Striped Set 1 As the BIOS boots press CTRL S or F4 to enter the raid bios utility 2 Select Create RAID set Press F2 3 Select Mirrored Striped set then press F3 4 Select Auto config Press A 5 Press Y and then press ESC to exit the setup 6 Continue with conventional Fdisk and Format steps as if you are installing a conventional hard drive 7 Your RAID configuration is complete Please proceed to software installation section 3 4 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 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 5 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
5. d Driver CD and press Enter Choose E SATAII 3Gbps_Raid_4Port Sil8124 Win XP_2000_2003_NT Drivers and click OK 9 See instructions in section 4 4 to verify controller was installed correctly COON OO BW P 4 3 Adding the HBA to an existing Windows 2000 XP Installation Follow the instructions in this section to install the driver on a system already running Windows 2000 1 Power off the system Connect the hard drives to the HBA and insert the HBA into a PCI slot Power up the system 2 During OS boot up Windows 2000 will display the Found New Hardware Wizard Click Next 3 Select Search for a suitable driver for my device Recommended and Click Next 4 Insert the Driver CD in your CD ROM DVD drive check Specify a location uncheck the other boxes click Next type in E If your CD ROM DVD is E Click Browse 5 Points specify a location example E SATAII 3Gbps_Raid_4Port Sil8124 Win XP_2000_2003_NT Drivers click Open then OK 6 When the wizard indicates that it found a driver for the device click Next 7 If the Digital Signature Not Found dialog appears click Yes to continue installing the driver 8 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 9 See instructions in section 4 4 to verify controller was ins
6. loppy drive if your system cannot boot from the CD 3 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 enclosed Driver CD Press Enter and select E SATAII 3Gbps_Raid_4Port Sil8124 Win XP_2000_2003_NT Drivers 4 Press Enter to continue on with text mode setup 5 Follow the setup instructions to select your choice for partition and file system 6 After setup examines your disks it will copy files to Windows 2000 installation folders and restart the system The setup program will continue and finish the installation after restart 7 Wait until Windows 2000 finishes installing devices regional settings networking settings components and final set of tasks reboot the system if it is 6 required 8 See instructions in section 4 4 to verify HBA was installed correctly 4 2 Adding the HBA to an existing Windows NT Installation Follow the instructions in this section to install this HBA on a system already running Windows NT 4 0 1 Power off the system Connect the hard drives to the HBA and insert the HBA into a PCI slot Power up the system After OS boots up Click Start Under Settings click Control Panel Select SCSI Adapters from the Control Panel Select the Drivers tab and click Add Click Have Disk Insert the enclose
7. ly N OO fB WD 4 6 Update new RAID driver on Windows 2000 XP with existing old driver 1 Right click on My Computer and select Properties Under the System Properties section click on Hardware tab and then on Device Manager click SCSI and RAID Controller and right click Silicon Image Ultra 1383 Medley ATA Raid Controller 2 Click Driver Update Driver and select Search for a suitable driver for my device Recommended Insert the Driver CD in your CD ROM DVD drive Click Next and complete the driver installation 3 System will go through the enumeration process and install the driver At the end of the process click Yes to reboot your system when necessary 4 See instructions in section 4 4 to verify controller was installed correctly 10 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
8. rts Special Shield and durable SATA connectors on each Internal Port 1 1 3 2 Model B Serial ATA Il 3Gbps RAID External 4 Ports Supports Independent four External Ports Special SATA II connectors on External Port to support Mobile HDD Mobile CD ROM Mobile DVD and Mobile CD RW 1 2 Package Contents RAID SATA II 3Gbps 4Ports PCI Host Adapter This Users Manual Driver CD 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 Oe 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 Mirrored Striping RAID 0 1 also known as RAID 10 A
9. talled correctly 4 4 Verifying HBA installation under Windows NT 2000 and XP For Windows 2000 XP 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 Sil 3124 SATARaid Controller the driver is started correctly 3 To view information about the devices attached to the controller use the SilCfg Utility and click on the device from the list For Windows NT 4 0 1 Double click on My Computer icon select Control Panel click on SCSI Adapters icon Silicon Image Sil 3124 SATARaid Controller should displayed correctly under Device and Driver tab 2 To view information about the devices attached to the controller use the SilCfg Utility and click on the device from the list 4 5 Update new RAID driver on Windows NT 4 0 with existing old driver After OS boots up Click Start Under Settings click Control Panel Select SCSI Adapters from the Control Panel Select the Drivers tab and click Add Click Have Disk Insert the Driver CD in your CD ROM DVD drive and press Enter Choose E SATAII 3Gbps_Raid_4Port Sil8124 Win XP_2000_2003_NT Drivers and click OK 8 Refer to instructions in section 4 4 to verify controller was installed correct
10. wn as Striping performance of sustained data transfer rates is greatly enhanced by simultaneously writing data to 2 3 or 4 drives The second benefit of RAID is data redundancy RAID 1 Mirroring writes identical data on two drives or sets of 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 Integrated PCI DMA engines 64 bit 183MHz fully compliant PCI host interface 1 1 2 High Speed Serial ATA Interface Four high speed Serial ATA interface ports each supporting 1st generation amp 2 generation Serial ATA data rates 1 5Gbps 3Gbps 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 RAID 0 1 Mirrored Stripping combine 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 Fully compliant with Serial ATA specifications Supports Spread Spectrum in receiver 1 1 3 The Individual features for different HBA Models 1 1 3 1 Model A Serial ATA Il 3Gbps RAID Internal 4 Ports Supports Independent four Internal Po
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