RAIDAGE v7Age220-SAU, User Manual

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Page 2: ...titioning Volumes 2 2 eSATA interface 3 NOTE 4 Features 4 1 High speed exterinal storage solution USB2 0 480Mb s ESATA 3 0Gb s 4 2 Seriel ATA HDD 4 3 Four Working Mode 4 4 Support system Windows 98SE ME 2000 XP Mac os 9 0 or above version 4 4 1 System Expansion for Windows 4 4 2 System Expansion for Macintosh 4 4 3 System Expansion for Linux 4 4 3 System Expansion for Linux 5 Package contents ...

Page 3: ...Front Back 1 Product Introduction SATA HDD 2 TO USB 2 0 ESATA 3 0G interface 2 ...

Page 4: ...e doorknob and the installation will be completed This step will be presented in terms of following graphs Note Sway from side to side the lock at the instructed point which you could open the doorknob to install unload the hard disk In contrast when you sway from side to side the lock at the instructed point you might not open it ...

Page 5: ...ends blue light and has long lasting lightening which indicates the hard disk connection is correct Hard disk LED sends the pink light and does not stop glittering which indicates the hard disk performing wrong data transmission Hard disk LED sends red light and does not stop glittering which indicates the hard disk connecting error If you select the USB port connection to a computer host USB LED ...

Page 6: ... glitters with purple light while the HDD2 LED glitters by alternate blue red lights HDD1 LED presents blue light and HDD2 LED continues lightening by alternate blues red lights when data transmission finishing RAID1 JBOD BIG The HDD1 and the HDD2 LED glitter by alternate blue red lights LED presents blue light when self checking finishing HDD2 LED continues lightening by alternate blue blue light...

Page 7: ...art recovering and return the losing data 2 1 USB Interface 2 1 1 JBOD MODE The two drives were connected to the products HDD1 and HDD2 Connector USB Power Cable were connected Opening the power switch pulling MODE switch to JBOD and press RESET switch after a few seconds the computer will automatically capture USB devices and increased 2 drives If not drive there then the hard disk drive manageme...

Page 8: ...e Delete disk segmentation Click Segmentation additional disks followed by a clew to operate 2 1 2 BIG MODE The two drives were connected to the products HDD1 and HDD2 Connector USB Power Cable were connected Opening the power switch pulling MODE switch to BIG and press RESET switch after a few seconds the computer will automatically capture USB devices Click My Computer right clicking pop up menu...

Page 9: ...ive there then the hard disk drive management will re zoning which format At the moment you can Operate the disk Re zoning which drives formatted as follows All information will be eliminated when Format hard drives Click My Computer right clicking pop up menu click Options manage pop up computer management plan was pop up as follow Click Disks Management plan Right pop up the additional disks H m...

Page 10: ...the hard disk drive management will re zoning which format At the moment you can Operate the disk Re zoning which drives formatted as follows All information will be eliminated when Format hard drives Click My Computer right clicking pop up menu click Options manage pop up computer management plan was pop up as follow Click Disks Management plan Right pop up The additional disks H and the addition...

Page 11: ...S Windows Important Before reconfiguring a volume back up your data and delete previously defined SteelVine Storage Reference Design partitions If no hard disk drives are connected to the SteelVine Storage Processor the SteelVine Processor device the Not Initialized disk with no capacity allocated to it will appear Do not initialize or modify that device 1 Right click the My Computer icon on your ...

Page 12: ...nd select Revert to Basic Disk Within a few seconds the disk should be marked as a Basic disk If a disk is marked Not Initialized right click the disk icon and select Initialize Disk An additional dialog box appears allowing you to select which disks to initialize Uncheck the SteelVine Processor Disk item and click OK Within a few seconds the selected disk s should be marked as a Basic disk 3 Righ...

Page 13: ...6 Specify the partition size By default the partition occupies the entire volume Click Next 7 Assign a drive letter or mount path and click Next 12 ...

Page 14: ...isk 8 0 GB Config Disk Media will appear Do not remove or modify that partition After you configure and partition the new volumes restore the backed up data to the new configuration 1 Launch Disk Utility from the Application Utilities folder 2 Select a configured disk and click the Partition tab This procedure illustrates the BIG Storage Policy configuration which concatenates the capacity of all ...

Page 15: ...D0 FAST RAID1 SAFE use the machine must press the button after the RESET hand and can distinguish the change MODE BIG JBOD RAID0 FAST RAID1 SAFE 3 If you require faster speed of data reading and writing data of reading and written speed RAID0 FAST MODE will be suggested to use 4 If you require having higher data security RAID1 SAFE MODE will be suggested to use 5 If you require having a bigger har...

Page 16: ... a daisy chained hierarchy structure you can increase the total storage capacity of your system 4 3 Four Working Mode BIG JBOD RAID0 FAST RAID1 SAFE You can configure the 1328 SIL5744 to use any of the following Storage Policies to map the appliance s physical hard drives to virtual drives that are visible to the host computer The virtual drives are called volumes in the GUI The host operating sys...

Page 17: ...e drive is presented drive 0 No such limitation if using a USB host connection JBOD storage policy is available in the SteelVine Manager for a standalone non cascaded Storage Processor or the top level node of a cascaded configuration but not for subordinate nodes Even though you can use the switch to select JBOD mode In a JBOD configuration the SteelVine Storage Reference Design directly exposes ...

Page 18: ... the remaining drive until redundancy is restored at the end of the rebuild and verification process Host access takes precedence over the rebuild process If you continue to use the SAFE volume during the rebuild the rebuild process will take a longer time to complete and the host data transfer performance will also be affected 4 4 Support system Windows 98SE ME 2000 XP Mac os 9 0 or above version...

Page 19: ...in the SteelVine Manager GUI 1 Open a command prompt window by clicking Start Run then entering cmd 2 At a command prompt type diskpart 5 Type extend 6 Type exit to quit Diskpart exe The volume size will be updated to reflect the expanded physical storage capacity while maintaining all of the existing data that is stored on the volume 3 Type list volume to display the existing volumes on the compu...

Page 20: ...c OS X The following example illustrates a hard disk growing from a JBOD to a BIG Storage Policy A software tool named VolumeWorks from SubrosaSoft available from http www subrosasoft com OSXSoftware index php main_page product_info products_id 6 can be used to grow the partition that was created in JBOD Storage Policy to a BIG Storage Policy disk SubrosaSoft VolumeWorks easily organizes your hard...

Page 21: ... procedures needed with Linux for expanding file systems that have been created on volumes that have increased in size while preserving all of your existing data After you have added more hard disk drives to increase the storage capacity of a BIG volume you must use the supplemental procedure described below to allow the expanded capacity to be recognized by Linux The following example illustrates...

Page 22: ...geometry for dev hdc 0 000 800000 000 megabytes Disk label type msdos Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags 1 0 063 400000 000 primary ext2 3 Use the resize command extend the size of volume 1 listed above parted resize 1 0 063 400000 4 Type print to verify the resize of volume 1 parted print Disk geometry for dev hdc 0 000 800000 000 megabytes Disk label type msdos Minor Start End Type Filesystem...