Silicon Image SataRaid User Manual

SiI3132 SATARAID5™ Storage Management Software User Manual Home Edition Silicon Image, Inc. 1060 East Arques Ave. Sunnyvale CA 94085

Copyright © 2004 Silicon Image Inc. SATARAID5 User’s Manual 10 Click “Next” to pass the welcome screen. Click the Next button to install the SA

SATARAID5 User’s Manual Copyright © 2004 Silicon Image Inc. 11 3.3.2 Installing the JAVA Run Time Environment The Java Run Time Environment inst

Copyright © 2004 Silicon Image Inc. SATARAID5 User’s Manual 12 Choose the Typical setup type and click Next. When the installation completes, c

SATARAID5 User’s Manual Copyright © 2004 Silicon Image Inc. 13 Once the Device Manager is started, select “SCSI and RAID controllers” as shown bel

Copyright © 2004 Silicon Image Inc. SATARAID5 User’s Manual 14 4 SATARAID5 Manager 4.1 Overview The SATARAID5 Manager is the Graphical User Inter

SATARAID5 User’s Manual Copyright © 2004 Silicon Image Inc. 15 The fields are defined as follows: RAID Group Label: Provides an identifiable nam

Copyright © 2004 Silicon Image Inc. SATARAID5 User’s Manual 16 RAID Level Min # of Disks 0 2 1 2 5 3* 10 4* JBOD 1 Concatenated 1 Once all param

SATARAID5 User’s Manual Copyright © 2004 Silicon Image Inc. 17 Legacy Spare The commands are documented on the pages that follow.

Copyright © 2004 Silicon Image Inc. SATARAID5 User’s Manual 18 4.3.1 Configuration SATARAID5 configuration options include customization of the s

SATARAID5 User’s Manual Copyright © 2004 Silicon Image Inc. 19 Popup Tab SATARAID5 can be configured to notify the user of events using messages i

Copyright © 2004 Silicon Image Inc. SATARAID5 User’s Manual 2 Copyright © 2004, Silicon Image, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publicat

Copyright © 2004 Silicon Image Inc. SATARAID5 User’s Manual 20 Advanced Options The Advanced Options tab is used to control advanced features of

SATARAID5 User’s Manual Copyright © 2004 Silicon Image Inc. 21 4.3.3 Create Spare This command displays a dialog box to let user create Spare Driv

Copyright © 2004 Silicon Image Inc. SATARAID5 User’s Manual 22 4.3.6 Delete Orphan An orphan device segment is part of a RAID group that cannot

SATARAID5 User’s Manual Copyright © 2004 Silicon Image Inc. 23 4.3.7 Device Summary This command displays the Segment Summary window to show all p

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SATARAID5 User’s Manual Copyright © 2004 Silicon Image Inc. 25 Fields This command displays a dialog box to let user choose which fields will be s

Copyright © 2004 Silicon Image Inc. SATARAID5 User’s Manual 26 4.3.8 Rebuild RAID Group This command displays a dialog box to let user choose a r

SATARAID5 User’s Manual Copyright © 2004 Silicon Image Inc. 27 The RAID Group Summary window has it’s own menu bar. All options available via th

Copyright © 2004 Silicon Image Inc. SATARAID5 User’s Manual 28 Sorting This command displays a dialog box to let user choose up to 3 items to sor

SATARAID5 User’s Manual Copyright © 2004 Silicon Image Inc. 29 4.3.11 Task Manager This command displays the Task Manager window. The Task Manage

SATARAID5 User’s Manual Copyright © 2004 Silicon Image Inc. 3 Table of Contents 1 WELCOME...

Copyright © 2004 Silicon Image Inc. SATARAID5 User’s Manual 30 This option will be available in future revisions. 4.3.13 Exit This command c

SATARAID5 User’s Manual Copyright © 2004 Silicon Image Inc. 31 Suspend This command allows user to suspend the selected task items. Resume This

Copyright © 2004 Silicon Image Inc. SATARAID5 User’s Manual 32 Cancel This command allows user to cancel the selected task items. Delete This c

SATARAID5 User’s Manual Copyright © 2004 Silicon Image Inc. 33 4.3.15 Event Log This command displays the Event Log window. The Event Log window

Copyright © 2004 Silicon Image Inc. SATARAID5 User’s Manual 34 Sorting This command displays a dialog box to let user choose up to 3 items to sor

SATARAID5 User’s Manual Copyright © 2004 Silicon Image Inc. 35 4.3.18 Create Legacy RAID Group This command displays a dialog box to let user c

Copyright © 2004 Silicon Image Inc. SATARAID5 User’s Manual 36 4.3.20 Delete Legacy RAID Group This command displays a dialog box to let user

SATARAID5 User’s Manual Copyright © 2004 Silicon Image Inc. 37 4.3.22 Create Legacy Spare This command displays a dialog box to let user create

Copyright © 2004 Silicon Image Inc. SATARAID5 User’s Manual 38 4.3.24 Convert Legacy Spare This command displays a dialog box to let user choose

SATARAID5 User’s Manual Copyright © 2004 Silicon Image Inc. 39 4.3.25 Help Topics This command opens an interactive help dialog using the standard

Copyright © 2004 Silicon Image Inc. SATARAID5 User’s Manual 4 4.3.5 DELETE MEMBER ...

Copyright © 2004 Silicon Image Inc. SATARAID5 User’s Manual 40 5 Creating and Deleting Legacy RAID Groups with BIOS Utility Legacy RAID sets and

SATARAID5 User’s Manual Copyright © 2004 Silicon Image Inc. 41 Main Menu The Main Menu in the upper left corner is used to choose the operation to

Copyright © 2004 Silicon Image Inc. SATARAID5 User’s Manual 42 5.1 Creating RAID Groups As previously discussed, the Silicon Image SATA host adap

SATARAID5 User’s Manual Copyright © 2004 Silicon Image Inc. 43 4. If manual configuration is selected, the chunk size of Striped Sets can be sel

Copyright © 2004 Silicon Image Inc. SATARAID5 User’s Manual 44 8. RAID sets can be created in both BIOS and in the SATARAID5 GUI. If you have e

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Copyright © 2004 Silicon Image Inc. SATARAID5 User’s Manual 46 5.5 Rebuild RAID 1 Set This menu selection is used to initiate the copying of dat

SATARAID5 User’s Manual Copyright © 2004 Silicon Image Inc. 47 5.6 Resolving Conflicts When a RAID set is created, the metadata written to the dis

Copyright © 2004 Silicon Image Inc. SATARAID5 User’s Manual 48 3. Note that some conflict resolutions may result in the drive letter assignment

SATARAID5 User’s Manual Copyright © 2004 Silicon Image Inc. 49 5.7 Low Level Formatting The Low Level Format menu selection allows the complete e

SATARAID5 User’s Manual Copyright © 2004 Silicon Image Inc. 5 1 Welcome Silicon Image’s SATARAID5TM software enhances your data storage by combini

Copyright © 2004 Silicon Image Inc. SATARAID5 User’s Manual 50 user deletes the set or drive. For this reason, after a set or drive is deleted,

SATARAID5 User’s Manual Copyright © 2004 Silicon Image Inc. 51 6 Allocating Partitions in Windows After the RAID groups have been created either

Copyright © 2004 Silicon Image Inc. SATARAID5 User’s Manual 52 Instead of “Basic,” a disk may also report as either “Unknown” or “Dynamic.” If th

SATARAID5 User’s Manual Copyright © 2004 Silicon Image Inc. 53 4. The third window designates the partition size. Since this is a Striped RAID s

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SATARAID5 User’s Manual Copyright © 2004 Silicon Image Inc. 55 6. The next window allows the volume label to be set and selection of the type of

Copyright © 2004 Silicon Image Inc. SATARAID5 User’s Manual 56 The status of the newly created partition in the Disk Management window should cha

Copyright © 2004 Silicon Image Inc. SATARAID5 User’s Manual 6 2 An Introduction to RAID 2.1 RAID Volumes RAID technology allows one or more disk

SATARAID5 User’s Manual Copyright © 2004 Silicon Image Inc. 7 2.3 RAID Levels 2.3.1 Disk Striping (RAID 0) Striping is a performance-oriented, non

Copyright © 2004 Silicon Image Inc. SATARAID5 User’s Manual 8 written to different disks. There are at least 3 members to a Parity RAID set. The

SATARAID5 User’s Manual Copyright © 2004 Silicon Image Inc. 9 3 Installation 3.1 Upgrading From Previous Silicon Image RAID Software If you are u