Acard AEC-6885, User Manual

Page 1: ...PCI to IDE ATA 133 RAID Controller AEC 6885 User s Manual Version 1 0 Copyright 2002 ACARD Technology Corp Release December 2002...

Page 2: ...Microsoft and the Windows Logo are the registered trademarks and Windows is the trade mark of Microsoft Corporation All brands and trademarks are the properties of their respective owners This manual...

Page 3: ...cription of Functions 11 3 1 1 Set RAID Modes 11 3 1 2 Build Mirror Disk 12 3 1 3 Quick Erase Disk 12 3 1 4 RAID Mode Help 12 3 1 5 Card Information 12 3 1 6 Set Boot Disk 12 3 2 Setting of RAID Mode...

Page 4: ...y 24 5 2 1 File 25 5 2 2 Action 25 5 2 3 Option 25 5 2 4 About 25 5 2 5 System Info 26 5 2 6 Event Log 26 5 2 7 Array Management 26 Chapter 6 Troubleshooting 27 Appendix A About RAID 28 A 1 RAID 0 Str...

Page 5: ...266MB s n Supports up to 8 IDE hard drives n Supports Hot Swap with an optional mobile rack n Hardware RAID 0 1 0 1 and JBOD 1 3 Specifications n Power requirement Voltage 3 3V 2 5V 2 Current 0 5A Max...

Page 6: ...AEC 6885 User s Manual 6 1 4 Package When you open the package please examine the following items n AEC 6885 1 n Internal ATA 133 Cable 4 n Y Splitter Power Cord 2 n User s Manual n ACARD Support CD 1...

Page 7: ...to an available PCI slot firmly 4 Screw AEC 6885 onto the housing 5 Connect AEC 6885 to the hard drives with an ATA 133 cable 6 Connect a 4 pin power cord to the hard drives 7 Screw the housing and po...

Page 8: ...ble indicating pin 1 of the connector 2 Find out pin 1 of the IDE connector on the IDE hard drive see HDD s manual 3 Connect the ATA 133 cable to the IDE hard drive by pin 1 to pin 1 4 Connect the 4 p...

Page 9: ...DMA hard drive and has been fully tested with the hard drives available in laboratory AEC 6885 supports various ATA 66 100 133 hard drives as listed below C Quantum C Seagate C IBM C Maxtor C Fujitsu...

Page 10: ...ure appear immediately behind the figure of motherboard The figure indicates your BIOS version hard drive information RAID status etc Figure 3 1 Please press Ctrl F1 or F10 simultaneously to enter BIO...

Page 11: ...uild or change your RAID mode on any array Move cursor to Set RAID Modes then press Enter and Array 0 to Array 7 will appear There are four RAID and one normal none RAID modes for selection once you p...

Page 12: ...rmation This function indicates the I O address ROM address and IRQ number currently used by AEC 6885 3 1 6 Set Boot Disk This function lets you select a hard drive or a pair of hard drives containing...

Page 13: ...rd drives is damaged you can directly replace it with a new one without powering off The data of another hard drive in the array will be completely copied into the new one When applying Hot Swap toget...

Page 14: ...booting anew the screen will prompt you to use Build Mirror Disk in BIOS to re build Please notice that if you connect the newly removed hard drive back to AEC 6885 in the channel display area at the...

Page 15: ...eds four hard drives You can connect four hard drives to four chan nels that are all set as Master or Slave Besides you have to select stripe block size too 3 2 4 JBOD Mode This mode means to add all...

Page 16: ...85 The second method can be said to boot from AEC 6885 4 1 In Win 2000 XP Please follow the steps given below to install the driver of AEC 6885 1 After installing AEC 6885 boot the computer and enter...

Page 17: ...ndows XP will require the driver s location Select Include this location in the search 4 Select Browse to find the driver s directory of AEC6885 inf such as A WinXP Figure 4 2 5 After the wizard finds...

Page 18: ...AEC 6885 User s Manual 18 6 Click Continue Anyway to continue the installation Figure 4 4 7 Follow the directions The system will complete the setup automatically Figure 4 5...

Page 19: ...AEC 6885 User s Manual 19 8 After setup please boot the system again and click My Computer Figure 4 6 9 Find View system information and double click it Figure 4 7...

Page 20: ...In System Properties click Hardware and then Device Manager 11 Under SCSI and RAID Controllers double click ACARD AEC 6885 PCI Ultra ATA 133 RAID Controller to see if the card has been installed succe...

Page 21: ...a RAID into which you intend to install an OS 3 Place the original CD of Win 2000 or XP into CD ROM and boot from hence 4 On seeing the first blue screen you need to press F6 to install the OS to the...

Page 22: ...then execute FDISK to partition the hard drives connected to AEC 6885 2 Boot again and format the newly created partition 3 Boot the system again Place the original CD of 9X ME into CD ROM and begin...

Page 23: ...AEC 6885 driver disk into the floppy drive and click OK to continue e Follow the installation guide to fihish your OS installation 2 Install the AEC 6885 driver into an existing system a Boot Linux s...

Page 24: ...ing anew 5 1 Install the Utility Please follow the three steps to install the utility 1 Place the CD containing the driver of AEC 6885 into CD ROM 2 Click Utility install IDE RAID Utility and AEC 6885...

Page 25: ...It is used to refresh the screen that is to display anew the status of all RAIDs 5 2 3 Option Click Option to find Preference and Mail Notification Setup The former lets you set the speed of screen r...

Page 26: ...ing there is no record 5 2 7 Array Management Click Array Management to find a more user friendly interface than BIOS Via the interface you can set or change your RAID easily The example in Figure 5 3...

Page 27: ...iven below to solve the problems 1 Inspect if the power cord s connectors are loose or if the watt of power supply is not sufficient 2 Inspect if the jumper settings on the hard drives are all Master...

Page 28: ...oned to the number of hard drives More hard drives mean more read write heads and therefore the speed is quicker Though RAID 0 is quick in read write speed it has no data redundancy and accordingly ha...

Page 29: ...even number Its calculation of capacity is the same as RAID 1 A half of the capacity is used for backup It takes the smallest hard drive capacity as the calculation basis For example four 100GB hard...

Page 30: ...ows 2000 NT XP into a hard drive with ACARD adapter you need a floppy disk containing the adapter s driver to boot the hard drive Please follow the steps below to make an ACARD adapter s driver disk 1...

Page 31: ...AEC 6885 User s Manual 31 3 Under the Driver folder find your adapter s model number For example AEC 6880 s driver is Driver IDE AEC6880V1 3...

Page 32: ...C 6885 User s Manual 32 4 Choose the driver folder and right click Send to 3 5 floppy Meanwhile insert an empty disk into floppy drive 5 Now use the driver disk to boot the hard drive and install the...

Page 33: ...the hard drive 2 Disk QErase Quickly erase the contents of the hard drive Please beware that the data on the partition will be completely erased 3 Disk Format Format the partition 4 Disk Diagnose Det...

Page 34: ...http www acard com Model AEC 6885 F W Version System Configuration Motherboard BIOS version SCSI adapter Chipset Memory Display card Other I O card OS version Hard Disk Configuration Hard Disk Model t...