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SATARAID5™ Management Software User’s Guide Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 Creating RAID Groups Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) technology allows one or more disks to

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 Disk Mirroring (RAID 1) Disk mirroring creates an identical twin for a selected disk by having the data

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 In exchange for low overhead necessary to implement protection, Parity RAID degrades performance for al

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 • The yellow segments define the high-security volume. • The green segments represent the middle-secu

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 Create RAID Group dialog (for Contiguous, Concatenated and Striped configurations) Create RAID Gr

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 Field Definition Rebuild Priority Select a value to identify how quickly the controller should rebuild

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 Note: Depending on the manufacturer and capacity of the hard drives that you are using, a small amount

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 Additional SATARAID5 Manager Menu Options This section documents the options available in the SATARAID5

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 File Menu Options Configuration This menu option displays a tabbed dialog box to customize the setting

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 • The Popup tab allows you to define the type of events to trigger notification messages in popup wind

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Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 • The Advanced Options tab allows you to enable the following advanced features. Feature Explanation

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 Device Menu Options Create Spare This menu option displays a dialog box to create a spare disk drive.

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 Delete Spare This menu option displays a dialog box to select (highlight) one or more spare drives to d

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 Delete Orphan This menu option displays a dialog box to select (highlight) orphan segments to delete. A

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 To proceed with the conversion to Pass-Thru mode, click Yes. Otherwise, click No to return to the Mak

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 • Options > Sorting displays a dialog box to sort the rows based on the selected field. • Options

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 Rebuild RAID Group This menu option displays a dialog box to choose a replacement segment to rebuild a

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 RAID Group Summary This menu option displays a dialog box to show the group ID, label, configuration, a

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 • Options > Fields displays a dialog box to choose which fields will be shown in the RAID Group Sum

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 Window Menu Options Task Manager This menu option displays the Task Manager window, which lists all RA

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 Contents 1 Welcome ...

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 • Options > Fields displays a dialog box to choose which fields will be shown in the task list. •

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 • Task > Cancel lets you cancel the selected tasks, after confirming the cancellation. This option

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 The Event Log window has its own menu bar. • File > Exit closes the Event Log window. • Options &g

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 Resources This menu option displays the Resource Information window. This feature is for debugging pur

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 Create Legacy RAID Group This menu option is disabled if new RAID groups exist. If enabled, this menu o

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 Rebuild Legacy RAID Group This menu option displays a dialog box to choose a replacement segment to reb

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 Convert Legacy RAID Group This menu option displays a dialog box to select (highlight) legacy RAID grou

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 Convert Legacy Spare This menu option displays a dialog box to select (highlight) legacy spare drives

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 Help Menu Options Help Topics This menu option is not currently available. About This menu option dis

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 3 Managing Legacy RAID Groups with the BIOS RAID Utility On Windows and Linux platforms with RAID cont

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 Create RAID Group...

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 The RAID Configuration Utility screen is divided into four main sections and a command line. • The Ma

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 Reserved Logical Drives and RAID Set Sizes When you create a RAID set, spare drive, or JBOD on a physic

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 Creating RAID Groups (Sets) Select from RAID0, RAID1, and JBOD configurations when creating a new RAID

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 3. Select Auto configuration or Manual configuration of the RAID Set and press Enter. • If you select

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 4. Select the size of the RAID set with the ↑ and ↓ keys and press Enter. 5. When the Are You Sure?

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 Creating a JBOD Configuration The BIOS RAID utility does not report non-RAID drives to the system BIOS.

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 Additional BIOS RAID Main Menu Options This section documents additional actions you can perform by sel

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 Rebuild RAID1 Set Rebuilding a RAID1 set copies data from an existing drive to a replacement drive that

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 Resolve Conflicts When a RAID set is created, metadata of drive-connection information, including the c

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 Note: The Low Level Format actions are typically not required, because formatting the drive under Windo

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 Define a Volume on Mac OS X...

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 4 Allocating Partitions After you create RAID groups using the SATARAID5 Manager or BIOS Utility, defi

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 The Disk Management utility has three main sections to the right of the navigation tree: • System list

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 5. Select Primary partition and click Next. 6. Click Next to accept the designated partition size. B

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 7. Accept the default drive letter assigned to the partition or select a different drive letter if des

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 9. Verify the selections are correct and click Finish. The status of the newly created partition chan

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 11. When you are finished, close the Disk Management utility by clicking the X in the top right corner

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 4. Click on the “Erase” item along the top menu bar. The following dialog appears: 5. Select the t

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 6. To proceed with the formatting operation, click on the Erase button. After the volume is formatte

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 Appendix A Managing the BIOS When the SATARAID5 driver software is installed on a Windows system, a Co

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 This dialog box displays information about the current Flash BIOS and allows you to download an update

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 1 Welcome Silicon Image’s SATARAID5TM product consists of a Serial-ATA controller, RAID controller BIO

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 Click on the Flash BIOS tab to display the following dialog box: This dialog box displays information

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 SATARAID5 Features Data Security SATARAID5 provides our highest commitment to data security through th

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 2 Using the SATARAID5 Manager This section explains how to use the SATARAID5 Manager graphical user in

Document Number: MAN-000SR5-000 Revision 1.40 When you start the SATARAID5 Manager GUI, the following divided window appears. Note: All of the SATA