Addonics Technologies ADSA4R5, User Manual

Page 1: ...Addonics T E C H N O L O G I E S 4 Port SATA II PCI RAID5 JBOD Controller Card ADSA4R5 User s Guide Revision 1 0 ...

Page 2: ...rkmanship during the warranty period specified for each product when used within the limits set forth in the Specifications section in the user guide Unauthorized tempering of the product or using it outside the scope of the product specifications will result in voiding the warranty If the product proves defective during this warranty period call Addonics Technical Support to obtain a Return Autho...

Page 3: ... Chapter 1 Specifications 3 Chapter 2 RAID Tutorial 4 5 Chapter 3 BIOS Installation 6 7 Chapter 4 New Windows System fresh installation 8 12 Chapter 5 Existing Windows System installation 13 18 Windows 2000 Driver 13 14 Windows XP Driver 15 16 Windows 2003 Server 17 18 Verifying controller driver 18 Technical Support Contact Information 19 ...

Page 4: ...SATA 1 0 Port Multiplier Native Command Queuing NCQ First Party DMA Four independent DMA channels with 2KB FIFO per channel Independent command fetch scatter gather and command execution Supports ATAPI devices CD ROM DVD ROM etc Supports hot plug of SATA devices Built in RAID 0 RAID 1 RAID 1 0 RAID 5 and JBOD support Silicon Image chipset SiI 3124 PCI Interface Supports PCI bus host cards with 32 ...

Page 5: ...2 2 Disk Mirroring RAID 1 Disk mirroring creates an identical twin for a selected disk by having the data simultaneouslywritten 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 2 3 Mirrored Striping RAID 1 0 A Mirrored Striping Set does just what it says combining both Stri...

Page 6: ...ormation with the data Parity RAID dedicates the equivalent of one disk for storing parity stripes The data and parity information is arranged on the disk array so that the parity is written to different disk There are at least 3 members to a Parity RAID set 2 6 JBOD Just Bunch of Disks The JBOD is a virtual disk that can either be an entire disk drive or a segment of a single disk drive ...

Page 7: ...to exit the setup 7 Your RAID configuration is complete Please proceed to software installation section 3 2 Creating Mirrored Sets RAID 1 1 As the BIOS boots Press CTRL 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 or manually select the drives Press Enter 5 Press Y to save your settings 6 Press CTRL E and...

Page 8: ...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 6 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 Press Enter 3 Select Online rebuild or Offline rebuild 4 Answer Y to rebuild the Mirrored set...

Page 9: ...rd 8 Chapter 4 New Windows Systems Fresh Installation Hardware Configuration Note To do a fresh install of Windows your hard drive must be connected to Port 1 of the host controller For New Windows Systems Fresh Installation with Multilane Bridge Hardware Configuration Port 1 Port 1 ...

Page 10: ...tilane Bridge for SATA Controller Before installation extract the driver files to a floppy diskette a Open the Addonics Technologies Driver Disk b On the main menu select SATA Controller Drivers ADSA45R c The Winzip Self Extractor ADSA4R5 opens Click Browse and select My Documents d The folder ADSA4R5 will be created e Select the folder with your corresponding operating system and extract the file...

Page 11: ... Configuration Utility Press CTRL S or the F4 key to enter the BIOS RAID Utility 3 The RAID Utility menu screen will be displayed Select Create RAID set 4 Choose CONCATENATION Press Enter Press Enter to select first drive of the RAID set 5 Are You Sure Press Y 6 Under the Logical Drive Component you should see SiI Concatenation and the Drive Capacity 7 Press CRTL E to Exit 8 Are you sure to exit P...

Page 12: ...e driver 12 Insert the Floppy Driver diskette containing the driver from step 1 above Press S then press Enter 13 Select Silicon Image SiI 3124 SATARaid Controller for Windows XP Server 2003 or Silicon Image SiI 3124 SATARaid Controller for Windows 2000 press Enter 14 Press Enter to continue and follow on screen instructions to complete installation C MIRRORED RAID Set Configuration in RAID BIOS 1...

Page 13: ...y to enter the BIOS RAID Utility 3 The RAID Utility menu screen will be displayed Select Create RAID set 4 Choose RAID 5 Press Enter 5 Select how many drives for the raid set Press Enter to select 3 6 Press Enter to automatically create raid set 7 Press Enter to select the Raid size 8 Are You Sure Press Y 9 Under the Logical Drive Component you should see SiI Raid5 Set and the Drive Capacity 10 Pr...

Page 14: ...e WinZip Self Extractor SiI_3124 exe window pops up Click the Browse button and locate My Documents click OK Click the Unzip button 3 Go to My Documents double click the SiI 3124 folder and select the SATARAID Tools folder Select the folder with your operating system 4 Install the SATARAID5 software by clicking the 3124 W I32 R a Welcome to the 3124 W I32 R SATARAID5 Setup Wizard Click Next b Lice...

Page 15: ...5 Controller is identified Do you want to continue the installation Click Yes 10 Please wait while the wizard installs the software 11 When the new hardware wizard has finished installing the Serial ATA Controller Card click Finish to complete the installations 12 The Found New Hardware Wizard pops on the screen and the Silicon Image s Pseudo Processor Device is identified Do you want to continue ...

Page 16: ...c Do you want to add a shortcut to your Desktop Click Next d Select Installation Folder Click Next e Confirm Installation Click Next f The J2SE Runtime Environment 5 0 Update 5 License window opens Select I accept the terms in the license agreement then click Next g J2SE Runtime Environment 5 0 Update 5 Setup Type Click Next h J2SE Runtime Environment 5 0 Update 5 Complete Click Finish i 3124 W I3...

Page 17: ...rd pops on the screen and the Silicon Image s Pseudo Processor Device is identified What do you want the wizard to do Install the software automatically Recommended is selected by default Click Next 14 Please wait while the wizard installs the software 15 When the new hardware wizard has finished installing the Silicon Image s Pseudo Processor Device click Finish to complete the installations 16 R...

Page 18: ...ement Select I Agree click Next c Do you want to add a shortcut to your Desktop Click Next d Select Installation Folder Click Next e Confirm Installation Click Next f The J2SE Runtime Environment 5 0 Update 5 License window opens Select I accept the terms in the license agreement then click Next g J2SE Runtime Environment 5 0 Update 5 Setup Type Click Next h J2SE Runtime Environment 5 0 Update 5 C...

Page 19: ...utomatically Recommended is selected by default Click Next 14 Please wait while the wizard installs the software 15 When the new hardware wizard has finished installing the Silicon Image s Pseudo Processor Device click Finish to complete the installations 16 Restart the PC for the new settings to take effect Verifying Host Controller Driver installation under Windows 2000 XP 2003 1 Right click on ...

Page 20: ...out MODEL NUMBER Please have this number on hand SYSTEM INFORMATION Type of computer peripherals etc OPERATING SYSTEM What version of Windows WHAT S THE TROUBLE Give enough information about your problem so that we can recreate and diagnose it FREE Software Drivers for all Addonics Technologies Products are available 24 hours per day at the World Wide Web Site www addonics com Contact Information ...