Rosewill RAID5 SATA II - 3GBPS HOST ADAPTER RC211 manual

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    Raid5 SA T A II - 3Gbps Host Adapter RC211 User Manual[...]

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    1 Installation Instruction RC211 This Manual for many Models of SA T A2 RAID5 PCI Express host cards which use Silicon Image SA T A II- 3Gbps SiI3132 chipset. Important Message for User: 1. Before contr oller card installation, we recommend the users to study this manual and the PDF file of SA T ARaid5 Manual at enclosed CD folderSA T A PCIe_Raid[...]

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    2 Installation Instruction RC211 1. Intr oduction This Low Profile PCI-Expr ess Host Adapter is a controller board to support Low pr ofile PCI and regular size PCI both in one car d. The card can upgrade your desktop computer to have 2 ports Serial A T A II transfer rate of 3 Gb/s (300 MB/s). The board can be used to upgrade your desktop computer[...]

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    3 Installation Instruction RC211 14. Supports FIS-based switching with Port Multipliers. 15. Commands and Scatter/Gather T ables per Port. 16. T wo Pin headers on boar d for LED connection. 17. Completely with drivers for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. 18. Provides RAID 0 (Stripping) to gr eatly increase the performance of data t[...]

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    4 Installation Instruction RC211 Mirr or ed-Striping (RAID 0+1 also known as RAID 10) A Mirror ed-Striping Set does just what it says, combining both Striping and Mirroring technologies to provide both the performance enhancements that come fr om Striping and the data availability and integrity that comes from Mirr oring. When data is written to a [...]

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    5 Installation Instruction RC211 11. Use SA T ARAID5 Manager GUI for RAID configuration setting. If 1 Disk, please select “Concatenate” or “Contiguous” setting only . If 2 Disks, don’t select “Parity RAID” or “Mirr ored Striped” setting If 3 Disks, don’t select “Mirr ored Striped” setting 12. Click “T ask Manager” to ma[...]

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    6 Installation Instruction RC211 4. Select Auto configuration. Press Enter . 5. Press Y to save your settings. 6. Press CTRL+E and then pr ess Y to exit the setup. 7. Continue with conventional Fdisk and Format steps as if you are installing a conventional har d drive. 8. Y our RAID configuration is complete. Please proceed to software installati[...]

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    7 Installation Instruction RC211 4.6. Cr eating Spar e Drive 1. As the BIOS boots, Press CTRL+S or F4 to enter the raid bios utility . 2. Select Create RAID set. Pr ess Enter . 3. Select Spare Drive then pr ess Enter . 4. Select Spare Drives. Pr ess Enter . 5. Select RAID size. Press Enter . 6. Press Y to save your settings. 4.7. Deleting RAID Sets[...]

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    8 Installation Instruction RC211 5. Softwar e Installation 5.1. Windows 2000/XP/2003 Fr esh Installation 1. Power off the system. Connect the har d drives to the controller card and insert the contr oller card into a PCI Expr ess slot. Power up the system. 2. Put your Windows 2000/XP CD into the CD-ROM/DVD drive, or the 2000/XP boot diskette #1 in [...]

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    9 Installation Instruction RC211 5.3. V erifying controller installation under Windows 2000/ XP/2003 1. Right click on 'My Computer' icon, select 'Properties', left click on 'Har dware' tab and then on 'Device Manager' button. 2. Double click on 'SCSI and RAID Controllers', If ther e is no yellow &a[...]