Acard AEC-6885M, User Manual

Page 1: ...PCI to IDE ATA 133 RAID Adapter AEC 6885MS 6885M 6885MLP User s Manual Copyright 2003 ACARD Technology Corp Release July 2003 Version 1 1...

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: ...tting 10 Chapter 3 System Installation 13 3 1 Install OS into HDD with the Adapter 13 3 1 1 Install OS 9 into HDD with the Adapter 13 3 1 2 Install OSX 10 3 into HDD with the Adapter 15 3 1 3 Verify S...

Page 4: ...ystem smoothly via a GUI 1 2 Features n Supports 64 bit 33MHz PCI Bus Master AEC 6885MS n Supports 64 bit 66MHz PCI Bus Master AEC 6885M 6885MLP n Supports data transfer rate of 266MB s AEC 6885MS n S...

Page 5: ...Power Cord 2 n User s Manual 1 n ACARD Support CD 1 n Power requirement Voltage 3 3V 2 5V 2 Current 0 5A Max n Environment Operating temperature 0o C to 70o C Storage temperature 20o C to 85o C n Humi...

Page 6: ...of AEC 6885M you have to initialize or erase in OS X the hard drive first Besides you need to inspect if every hard drive is all right too Then shut down your computer to adjust the DIP switch to a R...

Page 7: ...AEC 6885MS 6885M 6885MLP 7 The PCI to IDE Adapter AEC 6885M The ATA 133 Cable IDE 4 IDE 2 IDE 3 IDE 1 LED Connect to any of the IDE Connect to the IDE ports on AEC 6885M hard drive Master...

Page 8: ...triping Mode RAID 0 1 Striping means to divide a piece of data into several small pieces of data with the same size The data is accessible from several hard drives at the same time This mode can great...

Page 9: ...drives fails another will keep working and thus data won t be lost 2 If the capacity of hard drives is different AEC 6885M will take the hard drive of the smallest capacity as the standard And the who...

Page 10: ...s connector at another end Step 4 Find out pin 1 on the IDE hard drive s connector Step 5 Connect the cable to the hard drive by aligning pin 1 to pin 1 Step 6 Connect the 4 pin power cord to the IDE...

Page 11: ...IDE 4 Thus the adapter will form the 2 hard drives into an array But if you connect one of the hard drives to IDE 1 or IDE 2 and another to IDE 3 or IDE 4 the adapter won t form them into an array Wh...

Page 12: ...striped hard drives This mode needs 4 hard drives to get the volume It is activated by setting DIP switch 1 as ON and switch 2 as OFF ON 1 2 If there are 4 hard drives the adapter will form the 2 har...

Page 13: ...despite that it appeared earlier than OSX 10 2 Perhaps you may wonder if AEC 6885M supports OSX 10 1 No it doesn t In this manual we are going to take OS 9 and OSX 10 3 as examples to explain system...

Page 14: ...he hard drive connected to AEC 6885M then click Initialize For de tailed information of Drive Setup please refer to Mac OS manual 8 Start to install OS 9 onto the hard drive s or array 9 Then install...

Page 15: ...dware is installed correctly 2 Insert the OSX source CD into CD DVD ROM 3 Power on and press C key 4 Before installation click Installer on the top selection row 5 Click Open Disk Utility 6 Choose the...

Page 16: ...hard drives 3 1 3 Verify System Profiler For Mac OS 9 After you initialize the hard drive successfully a new Untitled hard drive icon will appear on the Mac window Of course you can give the hard dri...

Page 17: ...iler 2 Under Apple System Profiler click Devices and Volumes to read the status of devices And choose PCI to find the SCSI card and hard drives You can find the information of AEC 6885M under the Appl...

Page 18: ...ore hard drive icons will appear on the desktop You can use the built in Disk Utility to verify or repair the hard drive when it has something wrong You can find the information of AEC 6885M under the...

Page 19: ...ick Applications on the tool row 3 Under Applications click Utilities 4 Under Utilities click Apple System Profiler 5 Under Apple System Profiler click Devices and Volumes to read the detailed informa...

Page 20: ...AEC 6885M in the current OS 9 and OSX 10 3 3 2 1 In OS 9 1 Be sure that the hardware is installed correctly 2 Decide the RAID mode you need and set it by DIP switch 3 Power on 4 Double click Utilitie...

Page 21: ...ouble click Drive Setup 6 Choose the newly installed hard drive and click Initialize 7 You can see the initialized or partitioned volume on the desktop 8 Then install RAID Utility refer to 3 3 to moni...

Page 22: ...by clicking Partition 3 2 2 In OSX 10 3 1 Be sure that the hardware is installed correctly 2 Decide the RAID mode you need and set it by DIP switch 3 Power on 4 Double click Disk Utility under OnBoar...

Page 23: ...ry easy to install AEC 6885M RAID Utility You can find it in the support CD After discompression you can clearly see the utility and firmware in a folder The execution of the utility is by double clic...

Page 24: ...the disk array of RAID 0 please replace it with a new one then delete the original array Restart the computer to detect the new array If you want to change RAID mode delete the current RAID and shut d...

Page 25: ...ware It is placed under Setup on the top function row You can go to ACARD s web site to download the newest version of firmware But if there is no problem in use you are recommended not to update the...

Page 26: ...MLP 26 Select Adapter When you insert two or more AEC 6885M adapters this function lets you monitor the status of all adapters in OS 9 Please update one adapter s firmware and then another s in OSX In...

Page 27: ...log It records all matters of hard drives such as the wrong RAID the failed hard drive the removed hard drive the successful or failed rebuilding etc Quit Quitting the utility does not affect all RAID...

Page 28: ...AEC 6885MS 6885M 6885MLP 28 NOTICE When rebuilding is running you can still quit the utility by clicking Don t Stop The rebuilding process won t be affected...

Page 29: ...e installing the adapter You are suggested to inspect if every hard drive is normal in access via the adapter s normal mode or Mac s built in IDE port 3 Inspect the adapter Inspect if the adapter is f...

Page 30: ...85M on Power Mac G4 Mirror Door com puter is described below Step 1 Gently lower the computer s side panel onto a clean flat surface Optical drive carrier Rear hard disk drive carrier Front hard disk...

Page 31: ...ds to the two hard drives Step 4 Remove the optical carrier as instructed in Mac user s manual and change the place of CD DVD ROM from the upper bay to the lower bay For the convenience of later proce...

Page 32: ...support onto the optical carrier s upper bay Step 7 Connect ATA 133 cable and power cord to the hard drive And replace the optical carrier and screw it Step 8 Install a hard drive to the previously re...

Page 33: ...cord to the internal hard drive first Then connect another cable and power cord to the newly installed hard drive Step 10 Replace the rear carrier Step 11 Connect the 4 cables other ends to the adapte...

Page 34: ...AEC 6885MS 6885M 6885MLP 34 Step 12 Gently raise the computer s side panel and close Be careful not to press the cables...

Page 35: ...w acard com System Configuration Motherboard BIOS version SCSI adapter Chipset Memory Display card Other I O card OS version Hard Disk Configuration Hard Disk Model type Capacity Firmware version Othe...