Silicon Image SataRaid, User Manual

Page 1: ...SATA RAID SOFTWARE to be used with the SiI 3112 User s Manual August 28 2002 Revision 0 92 P R E L I M I N A RY MAN xx3112 xxx ...

Page 2: ...s the right to make changes to this manual and the equipment described in this manual without notice Silicon Image has made all reasonable efforts to ensure that the information in this manual is accurate and complete Silicon Image will not be liable however for any technical or editorial errors or omissions made in this manual or for inci dental special or consequential damage of whatsoever natur...

Page 3: ...stem 2 2 4 CREATING DELETING RAID SETS 3 1 Creating RAID Sets 3 1 Deleting RAID Sets 3 2 5 CREATING NAMING PARTITIONS 4 1 Windows XP 2000 Operating System 4 2 Windows NT Operating System 4 5 Windows 98 Me Operating System 4 9 6 USING SILICON IMAGE SATARaid GUI 5 1 Overview 5 1 SATARaid Configuration Window 5 7 i SATARaid Manual Rev 0 92 P R E L I M I N A RY T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S ...

Page 4: ...ii SATARaid Manual Rev 0 92 P R E L I M I N A RY SATARaid Manual Revision History Revision 0 90 Preliminary internal release Revision 0 91 and 0 92 Minor edits ...

Page 5: ...ring enables users to enjoy the confidence of data availability regardless of a single disk failure as data is simultaneously written to two drives Standard with SATARaid software is a Graphical User Interface GUI that provides easy to use configu rations for the different RAID Sets supported SATARaid Features RAID 0 and 1 Hot Spare and On line Mirror Rebuilding System GUI Monitoring Utility Displ...

Page 6: ... operations can be done in parallel enhancing performance Striping arrays use multiple disks to form a larger virtual disk This figure shows a stripe set using three disks with stripe one written to disk one stripe two to disk two and so forth 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 pr...

Page 7: ...exe 3 Follow on screen instructions to complete installation Note Do NOT install in the Start Up folder Choose the Default folder normally Accessories or Administrative Tools or some thing similar Windows NT Operating System The driver is on the provided floppy disk insert the floppy in the floppy disk drive and click Have Disk The next window is asking for the location of the driver Most floppy d...

Page 8: ...ows 98 Me Operating System Follow the instructions in each window using the driver installation files siI3112r sys on the provided floppy disk as necessary To install the SATARaid GUI use Windows InstallShield by performing the following 1 After computer restarts insert cd in disk drive 2 Double click on Install SATARaid exe 3 Follow on screen instructions to complete installation Note Do NOT inst...

Page 9: ...Becuase SATARaid supports two drives creating RAID Sets is a simple procedure 1 Select Create RAID Set 2 Choose either a Striped or Mirrored RAID Set 3 Select if you want the utility to Auto Configure the RAID Set or if you want to manually configure the RAID Set For Striped Sets you can change the chunk size For Mirrored Sets you assign which is the Source and Target drives as well as if you want...

Page 10: ...ously 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 Conflict and the correct metadata i...

Page 11: ...anagement window there are enough nuances that make it important to follow the procedure specifically for the appropriate operating system The procedure for Windows 98 Me is significantly different than the others 4 1 SATARaid Manual Rev 0 92 P R E L I M I N A RY 4 C R E A T I N G N A M I N G P A R T I T I O N S Windows XP 2000 Windows 98 Me Windows NT ...

Page 12: ...tility Once completed continue booting Windows Once Windows is running open the Disk Management window located at Control Panel Administrative Tools Computer Management Storage Disk Management Something similar to the following window should appear 4 2 SATARaid Manual Rev 0 92 P R E L I M I N A RY SECTION 1 SECTION 3 SECTION 2 ...

Page 13: ...ION 2 of that disk and click on Return disk to Basic Within seconds the disk should report as Basic Creating Partitions In SECTION 2 the disk order corresponds directly to the order the Sets appear in the BIOS Therefore the first Unallocated Partition represents Set 1 and so on 1 At this point there should be three disks with Unallocated partitions Right click on the partition of the first disk an...

Page 14: ...he partition the partition should change from Unallocated to Healthy with its name and drive letter reported as well in a matter of minutes or less Do not attempt to create a partition for the next disk until the disk currently being formatted is complete and reports Healthy Also note that once the disk reports Healthy it appears in the listing in SECTION 1 with all of its perti nent information a...

Page 15: ...he BIOS RAID Utility Once completed continue booting Windows Once Windows is running open the Disk Administrator window The Disk Administrator window is located at Start Programs Disk Administrator Common Something similar to the following window should appear 4 5 SATARaid Manual Rev 0 92 P R E L I M I N A RY ...

Page 16: ...ndow may appear first If so answer YES for each disk reported with no signature found Afterwards something similar to the following should appear 4 6 SATARaid Manual Rev 0 92 P R E L I M I N A RY Button 2 Button 1 Section 1 Section 2 ...

Page 17: ...pace right click on each partition and select Create 3 A Create Primary Partition window should now appear Click OK 4 Click Confirm 5 Repeat this step for each disk 6 Now right click on the first disk and select Mark Active 7 A window will appear stating that this will take place on the next reboot Click OK 8 Repeat this step for each disk 9 Close window Confirm saving changes Click Yes 10 Disk Ad...

Page 18: ...ormatted enter Striped Set for Volume Label Make sure that Quick Format is selected as the Format Option 15 Repeat this procedure for the other two disks but name them something else 16 Close Disk Administrator and open My Computer icon should be on Desktop 17 The new disks should now appear in My Computer window 18 Close all windows and applications and Restart computer 4 8 SATARaid Manual Rev 0 ...

Page 19: ...nagement window Instead after creating RAID sets using the BIOS RAID utility and booting Windows start fdisk by 1 Click on the START button 2 Select Run 3 Type fdisk 4 Click OK The following window will probably appear Press Enter for yes 4 9 SATARaid Manual Rev 0 92 P R E L I M I N A RY ...

Page 20: ...rent Fixed Drive will be the System Drive normally C In order to create partitions the fixed drive needs to be changed Select 5 and press Enter Enter the disk number to partition and press Enter 4 10 SATARaid Manual Rev 0 92 P R E L I M I N A RY ...

Page 21: ...fixed drive set at the disk needing to be partitioned Select 1 and press Enter The following window will appear Select 2 to create an extended partition and press Enter 4 11 SATARaid Manual Rev 0 92 P R E L I M I N A RY ...

Page 22: ...w will appear Once the percentage counter reaches 100 the following window will appear This window explains how much space will be available in the partition Press Enter 4 12 SATARaid Manual Rev 0 92 P R E L I M I N A RY ...

Page 23: ...w shows that the partition has been created Press Esc FDISK is now creating a logical drive Once the percentage counter reaches 100 the following window appears 4 13 SATARaid Manual Rev 0 92 P R E L I M I N A RY ...

Page 24: ...nce again this window reports size Press Enter and the following window appears This window now shows the drive and its drive letter and size Press Esc 4 14 SATARaid Manual Rev 0 92 P R E L I M I N A RY ...

Page 25: ... be partitioned repeat the process starting by changing the fixed disk drive Press 5 If done press Esc The following window will appear This window is a reminder to RESTART the computer 4 15 SATARaid Manual Rev 0 92 P R E L I M I N A RY ...

Page 26: ...ive and select Format Only a FULL format will be accepted at this point Select Full Format enter the Label Name for the drive or RAID set if desired and click OK Once the drive has been formatted repeat for each new drive The new drives should now be ready to be used 4 16 SATARaid Manual Rev 0 92 P R E L I M I N A RY ...

Page 27: ...top find where the appli cation was saved and launch from there Upon launching the GUI the the first window which identifies the computer running SATARaid should appear similar to the following 5 1 SATARaid Manual Rev 0 92 P R E L I M I N A RY 5 USING SILICON IMAGE SATARaid GUI Save configuration to a file button The Events tab reports logged events Configuration Tree Copy configuration to clip bo...

Page 28: ...in the configuration tree provides specific information for that com ponent such as the chip Selecting a specific channel either Primary or Secondary the following information is reported 5 2 SATARaid Manual Rev 0 92 P R E L I M I N A RY ...

Page 29: ...Selecting a specific drive reports all pertinent information to that drive including Configuration and Disk Identification information 5 3 SATARaid Manual Rev 0 92 P R E L I M I N A RY ...

Page 30: ... in the configuration tree and provides information on RIO Version By selecting a specific RAID set such as Set 0 the type of RAID set the number of members and capacity is reported 5 4 SATARaid Manual Rev 0 92 P R E L I M I N A RY ...

Page 31: ... as add a designated Spare drive to a Mirrored set that has experienced a disk failure A drive can NOT be removed from a Striped set as this would destroy all data Note that when a Mirrored Set is first created the State of the destination drive may report as Rebuild for as much as 30 90 minutes depending on the size of the disk 5 5 SATARaid Manual Rev 0 92 P R E L I M I N A RY The Device Location...

Page 32: ...SMART and Configuration information as well as Data Identification is again provided for each Set 5 6 SATARaid Manual Rev 0 92 P R E L I M I N A RY ...

Page 33: ...g File Audio and Popup SMTP The SMTP server is the server that is used to send e mails Normally the network administra tor knows what this name is Both the name and domain must be entered E Mail The current SATARaid configuration may be sent via e mail Using the e mail tab in the SATARaid Configuration Menu the user may set the default e mail address and subject line to where the configuration wou...

Page 34: ...entered Event Level There are different types of e mail notifications that may be sent which are set with the Event Level tab The different levels are Disabled No event logs will be sent Informational The following events will be sent Informational Warnings Errors Warning The following events will be sent Warnings Errors Errors The following events will be sent Errors 5 8 SATARaid Manual Rev 0 92 ...

Page 35: ...tion received from all the Silicon Image RAID driv ers The log file is a text file and can be viewed with Notepad or SATARaid Use the Log File tab to set where the log file should be stored and the name of the file as well Audio The user may set different audio alerts for the different levels of events ...

Page 36: ...ferent levels are Disabled No popup will occur Informational The popup window will be displayed for the following events Informational Warnings Errors Warning The popup window will be displayed for the following events Warnings Errors Errors The popup window will be displayed for the following events Errors 5 10 SATARaid Manual Rev 0 92 P R E L I M I N A RY ...