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What is RAID..............................................................................3 KNOW HOW ......................................................................................3 PERFORMANCE HINTS AND RECOMMEND SETTING ............3 Step 1. Hardware Setup ..........................................................................5 HARD DRIVES SETUP......................................................................5 Step 2. Installing Software Drivers.........................................................8 WINDOWS 2000/XP ...........................................................................8 NEW WINDOWS 2000/XP INSTALLATION.............................................. 8 EXISTING WINDOWS 2000/XP INSTALLATION ..................................... 9 CONFIRMING WINDOWS 2000/XP DRIVER INSTALLATION ................ 9 Step 3. BIOS Utility Operation (for RAID only)..................................10 CREATING AN ARRAY FOR PERFORMANCE..........................11 CREATING A MIRROR ARRAY ...................................................13 CREATING A JBOD ARRAY .........................................................16 CREATING A STRIPE-MIRROR ARRAY ....................................18 Step 4. SIS 964 RAID Utility Operation ...............................................22 VIEWING THE “CREATE RAID” .................................................24 CREATE A RAID SET .....................................................................26 VIEWING THE RAIDTYPE MEANING ........................................33 DELETE A RAID SET .....................................................................35 RAID RECOVERY OPERATION...................................................38 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide Introduction The 964 S-ATA controller is a hybrid solution that combines two independent SATA ports and one Ultra ATA port for support of up to two Serial ATA (Serial ATA RAID) and two Ultra ATA (Ultra ATA RAID) drives. Specifications are as follows: Serial ATA Interface Serial ATA (SATA) is the latest generation of the ATA interface. SATA hard drives deliver blistering transfer speeds of up to 150MB/sec. Serial ATA uses long, thin cables, making it easier to connect your drive and improving the airflow inside your PC. . Supports 150 MB/s transfers with CRC error checking . Large LBA support for drives over 137 GB . Data handling optimizations including tagged command queuing, elevator seek and packet chain command Ultra ATA Interface . Standard ATA/IDE interface . Supports Ultra ATA/133, Ultra ATA/100, and Ultra ATA/66 drives . Supports CRC error checking for Ultra ATA drives . Separate timing control for two devices attached to one ATA channel Serial/Ultra ATA RAID Interfaces The Serial/Ultra ATA RAID is designed to provide a cost-effective, high performance RAID solution that adds performance and/or reliability to PC desktops and/or servers using Serial ATA/150, Ultra ATA/133, Ultra ATA/100, Ultra ATA/66 hard disks. Serial/Ultra ATA RAID function supports striping (RAID 0), mirroring (RAID 1), striping + mirroring (RAID 0+1) and span (JBOD). Please note that the function supports hard disk drives only. With striping, identical drives can read and write data in parallel to increase performance. Mirroring increases read performance through load balancing and elevator sorting while creating a complete backup of your files. Span would increase the logic hard disk space. Serial/Ultra ATA RAID striped arrays can double the sustained data transfer rate of Serial ATA/150 and Ultra ATA/133 drives. Serial/Ultra ATA RAID fully supports Serial ATA/150 and Ultra ATA/133 specification of up to 150MB/sec per drive, depending on individual drive specifications. 1 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide The technology also offers fault tolerant, data redundancy for entry-level network file servers or simply for desktop PC users wanting to continually protect valuable data on their PC. The Serial/Ultra ATA RAID offers RAID 1 mirroring (for two drives) to protect data. Should a drive that is part of a mirrored array fail, Serial/Ultra ATA RAID technology uses the mirrored drive (which contains identical data) to assume all data handling. When a new replacement drive is later installed, Serial/Ultra ATA RAID rebuilds data to the new drive from the mirrored drive to restore fault tolerance. 2 Serial ATA RAID Quick User’s Guide Step 0. What is RAID Know How This section will give you an overview about the RAID system and introduce the basic background and glossary which you need to know before using “SiS 964 RAID Controller Application”. 1. RAID: (Redundant Array of Independent Disk Drives) use jointly several hard drives to increase data transfer rates and data security. It depends on the number of drives present and RAID function you select to fulfill the security or performance purposes or both. 2. RAID 0: Also known as “Stripping”. All of the data are distributed evenly to all of the existing drives. You gain be...