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Raid5 SATA II - 3Gbps Host Adapter 

RC211 

 

User Manual

Summary of Contents for RAID5 SATA II - 3GBPS HOST ADAPTER RC211

Page 1: ...Raid5 SATA II 3Gbps Host Adapter RC211 User Manual...

Page 2: ...UI or Java SATARaid GUI to ensure your new SATARaid5 GUI can work properly i e Start Control Panel Add or Remove Programs Select all SATARaid Remove 5 Raid sets can be created and managed by either th...

Page 3: ...Windows 2000 Windows XP Windows 2003 RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks greatly enhances two main areas of data storage performance and data integrity By using RAID 0 also known as Striping per...

Page 4: ...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 Disk Striping RAID...

Page 5: ...city for protection and is the preferred method to reduce the cost per megabyte for larger installations Mirroring requires 100 increase in capacity to protect the data whereas the above example only...

Page 6: ...o 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 su...

Page 7: ...Enter 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 Pleas...

Page 8: ...e failed hard drives boot the BIOS Press CTRL S or F4 to enter the raid bios utility 2 Select Rebuild RAID 1 set Press Enter 3 Select Rebuild Hard Drive Press Enter 4 Answer Y to rebuild the Mirrored...

Page 9: ...tworking settings components and final set of tasks reboot the system if it is required 8 See instructions in section 5 3 to verify controller was installed correctly 5 2 Adding the controller card to...

Page 10: ...ies Under the System Properties section click on Hardware tab and then on Device Manager click SCSI and RAID Controller and right click Silicon Image SiI 3132 SoftRaid5 Controller 2 Click Driver Updat...

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