Sis964/sis180 sata w/ raid user’s manual quick user’s guide version 0.3.
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide edition december 2003 copyright © 2003 silicon integrated systems corp. Trademarks sis is a registered trademark of silicon integrated systems corp. All brand or product names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. Revision h...
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide contents introduction ................................................................................................ 1 features ....................................................................................................... 2 support operating systems ......
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide delete raid..................................................................................... 28 starting to delete a raid array ................................................. 28 step 4. Sis964/sis180 raid utility ................................................
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide 1 introduction the sis180 sata 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. However the south bridge sis964 sata cont...
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide 2 supports serial ata/150 and ultra ata/133 specification of up to 150mb/sec per drive, depending on individual drive specifications. The technology also offers fault tolerant, data redundancy for entry-level network file servers or simply for desktop pc users want...
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide 3 z microsoft windows me z microsoft windows 2000 professional and server z microsoft windows xp.
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide 4 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 raid controller application”. 1. Raid : (redundant array of independent disk drives...
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide 5 5. Always use 80-conductor cables. 6. We strongly recommend you should use “dma” transfer mode. 7. The recommended block size is “64k” when creating raid 0 and raid 0+1. 8. The best performance of raid 0+1 is set the sequence as disk 1 -> disk 3 -> disk 2 -> disk...
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide 6 step 1. Hardware setup hard drives setup the sis180 controller supports up to two serial ata hard drives and two parallel ata hard drives. The south bridge sis964 sata controller only supports two serial ata hard drivers. For raid 0 (striping array) z any combina...
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide 7 for raid 1 (mirror array) z any of 2 hard disks would make a mirror system. Z the south bridge sis964 sata controller only supports combination 6 and the sis180 controller supports all combinations. Hdd population rules for raid 1 (mirroring) ultra ata (master) u...
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide 8 for jbod (spanning array) z any combination to 2, 3 or 4 hard disks would combine to a jbod system. Z the south bridge sis964 sata controller only supports combination 6 and the sis180 controller supports all combinations. Hdd population rules for jbod (spanning)...
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide 9 step 2. Installing software drivers z sis raid driver support microsoft windows xp/2000/me/98se 1. Sis180 controller support serial ata/ultra ata w/ raid0, raid1, raid0+1 and jbod by installing sis raid driver . 2. South bridge sis964 sata controller support seri...
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide 10 5. Press enter to continue with installation or if you need to specify any additional devices to be installed, do so at this time. Once all devices are specified, press enter to continue with installation. 6. From the windows xp/2000 setup screen, press the ente...
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide 11 step 3. Bios utility operation note: for the best performance and reliability, please read “performance hints and recommend setting” section in step 0 . Starting bios utility 1. Boot your system. If this is the first time you have booted with the sis964 or sis18...
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide 12 e. The raid is wrong!! Do you want to fix it??(y/n) Æ occurs when the locations of two sata hdd change owing to ata hdd existing or not. 2. Press keys to display the sis964/sis180 utility main menu. 3. Press to display the raid setup menu below. This is the fast...
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide 13 [b]. No available disk existing but have raid existing : [c]. Available disks and raid existing simultaneously :.
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide 14 [d]. Available disk is not enough to create raid :.
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide 15 create raid note: z sis180 controller support raid 0, raid 1, jbod and raid 0+1. Z sis964 sata controller support raid0, raid 1 and jbod. Z the selection of raid 0+1 will appear when 4 single hdd existing. Creating a raid 0 (stripe) array for performance note: 1...
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide 16 3. You will have two selections to create a raid 0 array. The default value is . If you select auto create , you can create a raid 0 array faster and easier. The blocksize will be selected by its default value “64k” . The result after auto creating will be shown...
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide 17 will be changed from single to raid 0 . And the disk you select first will be the source disk. 6. Next, you will see a message “ split the source(disk x) data to raid disks? ”. Press and to create raid 0 array only or press and to split the data from source disk...
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide 18 8. After all steps finished, press until escape the setup menu and raid 0 array will be shown on the top of the main frame. 9. Press until exit this bios utility and the red message frame will show. Press and to save changes..
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide 19 10. Once the array has been created, you will need to fdisk and format the array as if it were a new single hard drive. Creating a raid 1 (mirror) array note: z sis964/sis180 enables users to create mirror arrays with pair of drives only. To create a mirror arra...
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide 20 3. You will have two selections to create a raid 1 array. The default value is . If you select auto create , you can create a raid 1 array faster and easier. The result after creating will be shown on step 5 . Besides, you also can select manual create , see fol...
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide 21 will be changed from single to raid 1 . The same as raid 0, the disk you select first will be the source disk. 5. Next, you will see a message “ duplicate the source(disk x) data to raid disks? ”. Press and to create raid 1 array only or press and to duplicate t...
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide 22 6. Starting duplicating action, the following frame will be showing. 7. After all steps finished, press until escape the setup menu and raid 1 array will be shown on the top of the main frame..
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide 23 8. Press until exit this bios utility and the red message frame will show as the same as the creation of the raid 0 array. Press and to save changes. 9. Once the array has been created, you will need to fdisk and format the array as if it were a new single hard ...
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide 24 3. You will have two selections to create a jbod array. The default value is . If you select auto create , you can create a jbod array faster and easier. The result after creating will be shown on step 5 . Besides, you also can select manual create , see followi...
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide 25 5. After all steps finished, press until escape the setup menu and jbod array will be shown on the top of the main frame..
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide 26 6. Press until exit this bios utility and the red message frame will show as the same as the creation of the raid 0 array. Press and to save changes. 7. Once the array has been created, you will need to fdisk and format the array as if it were a new single hard ...
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide 27 winme or win98se, you must install raid driver first and you can use ms-dos tool to format it. To create an stripe-mirror array, follow these steps: 1. Press to start creating a raid array. 2. After step 2, raid 0+1 array will be shown on the top of the main fra...
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide 28 3. Press until exit this bios utility and the red message frame will show as the same as the creation of the raid 0 array. Press and to save changes. Delete raid starting to delete a raid array 1. After enter the sis964/sis180 utility main menu, press to display...
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide 29 2. Press to start deleting a raid array, and use ↑> to select raid array you wanted to delete. 3. Press to select the raid array that you want to delete. And a message “ are you sure to delete this raid? ” will show on this frame. ↑> to select raid array you wan...
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide 30 4. Press and , the deleting action finish. And the raid type of all disk members of this raid array will be changed from raid 0 to single . 5. Press until escape the bios utility, and the red message frame will show on it..
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide 31 6. Press and to save all changes..
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide 32 step 4. Sis964/sis180 raid utility note: 1. For the best performance and reliability, please read “performance hints and recommend setting” section in step 0 . 2. This utility only supports windows xp/2000 . Starting to use sis964/sis180 raid utility 1) after in...
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide 33 2) this sis raid utility will be resident in the toolbar. You can click the right button of the mouse on the sis raid utility’s icon and some selection will be popup. You can click “exit” to close this resident utility or let it always be resident in the toolbar...
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide 34 besides, if this controller has some broken raid existing, this ap will show some warning message on initial time. If this broken raid is raid 1 or raid 0+1, it will tell you that you can go to the “raid recovery” tab to recovery this broken raid 1 or raid 0+1. ...
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide 35 about create raid click the tab “create raid”, you can find three drop-down box and three panes. Those meaning will be showing below. Viewing the “create raid” a) raid type: click the drop-down box “raid type”. This box enables the user to select array type. The...
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide 36 b) block size: if user selected raid 0 and raid 0+1 array types in the “array type” box, the “block size” drop-down box will be enabled and user must select a block size. Clicking the drop-down box “block size”, there are seven block size that the user can selec...
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide 37 c) mode type: click the drop-down box “mode type”. This box enables the user to select mode type. There are two mode types that the user can select: pio and dma. User can select any one mode type to create a raid set. The default selection is dma . D) available ...
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide 38 e) selected disks: this pane will list out all the disks that have been selected to create a raid set. User can highlight the specific disk that we wants in the “available disks” pane and click the downward arrow icon or double click the marked disk to select th...
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide 39 pane. 4. When the jbod array’s configuration is finished, click the button “create”. Then a warning message will be popup. Pay attention to the warning message, and then click “yes” button to finish the creation of jbod array, or click “no” button to cancel. Not...
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide 40 5. Next, another message box will be popup to tell user that disk setting has been changed and ask whether to restart the computer or not. Click “yes” button to restart the computer and you can get new setting. Or click “cancel” button to skip restarting. B) to ...
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide 41 4. From the “available disks” pane, select the disk and click downward arrow icon or double click it to add the disk on the “selected disks” pane. This action is the same as the operation to create a jbod array. 5. When the raid0 array’s configuration is finishe...
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide 42 note: minicapacity x n > sourcecapacity minicapacity: the minimum size of all selected disks. Sourcecapacity: the size of source disk. N: total disk numbers. 6. Next, you can click “ok” button to continue after the operation being selected. The differential warn...
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide 43 when this operation is beginning, you still can click the destroy button on the “create stripe raidset” dialog to stop this operation. But this action will cause the data of the source disk broken . And the following message will be popup to remind you. 8. If th...
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide 44 next, you can click “ok” button to restart the windows and start the operation “source is a boot device” of . Or click “cancel” button to suspend this operation. But, this operation is still done after restarting the windows next time. C) to create a raid 1 (mir...
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide 45 source: the first selected disk. Target: the second selected disk. Create only: this operation will destroy all data on all the selected disks and create a clean mirror array without any data on it. Create and duplicate: duplicate operation will reserve data on ...
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide 46 next, you can click “yes” button to start the operation or click “no” button to cancel. When you click “yes” button to start this operation, the following warning message will be popup. Click “ok” button to start this duplicating action. Don’t restart your compu...
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide 47 2. From the drop-down box “block size”, select the block size you want or use the default value “64k” . 3. From the drop-down box “mode type”, select the mode type you want or use the default value “dma” . 4. From the “available disks” pane, select the disk and ...
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Serial ata raid quick user’s guide 50 delete a raid set a) to delete a jbod, raid0 or raid1 array, follow these steps: 1. “configuration” → “delete raid”, the following windows will appear: 2. Highlight the disk array in the “current raidtype” pane, and then click the “information” button or double ...
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide 51 3. If you want to delete a disk array you selected, you can highlight the disk array and then click the button “delete”. Then a warning message will be popup, and pay attention to the warning message. You can click “yes” to delete the selected disk array or clic...
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide 52 2. If you want to delete a disk array you selected, you can highlight the disk array and then click the button “delete”. Then a warning message will be popup, and pay attention to the warning message. 3. Next, you can click the button “delete” to delete this rai...
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide 53 about raid recovery click the tab “raid recovery”, you can find two panes and some buttons. Those meaning will be showing below. Raid recovery operation note: the recovering operation is workable only when error raid1 set or error raid 0+1 set (must at least an ...
Serial ata raid quick user’s guide 54 b) after “available raid” selected, click the button “available disk” to find whether any empty hard disk existing. See below: next, highlight the empty hard disk you want to select. And you can click the button “ok” to continue or click “cancel” to give up this...
