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Table of Contents Configuring IDE RAID Hard Drive(s) (Controller GigaRAID (IT8212 2 (1) Installing IDE hard drive(s) in your system 2 (2) Configuring GigaRAID controller mode and boot sequence in BIOS Setup 3 (3) Configuring RAID set in RAID BIOS 5 (4) Making a IDE RAID controller driver disk 14 (5) Installing IDE RAID controller driver during OS installation 16
Table of Contents Configuring IDE RAID Hard Drive(s) (Controller GigaRAID (IT8212 2 (1) Installing IDE hard drive(s) in your system 2 (2) Configuring GigaRAID controller mode and boot sequence in BIOS Setup 3 (3) Configuring RAID set in RAID BIOS 5 (4) Making a IDE RAID controller driver disk 14 (5) Installing IDE RAID controller driver during OS installation 16
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... (IT8212)) Åé ¤¤ To set in RAID BIOS. (4) Make a floppy disk containing the IDE RAID controller driver (5) Install the IDE RAID controller driver during OS installation. Before you use two hard drives with the GigaRAID controller, you may prepare only one end of the IDE cable...IDE port that is recommended that your system Attach one hard drive. (b) An empty formatted floppy disk. (c) Windows XP/2000 setup disk. (d) Driver CD for your motherboard. (1) Installing IDE hard drive(s) in your IDE CD-ROM drive can work properly, please connect it is controlled by ...
... (IT8212)) Åé ¤¤ To set in RAID BIOS. (4) Make a floppy disk containing the IDE RAID controller driver (5) Install the IDE RAID controller driver during OS installation. Before you use two hard drives with the GigaRAID controller, you may prepare only one end of the IDE cable...IDE port that is recommended that your system Attach one hard drive. (b) An empty formatted floppy disk. (c) Windows XP/2000 setup disk. (d) Driver CD for your motherboard. (1) Installing IDE hard drive(s) in your IDE CD-ROM drive can work properly, please connect it is controlled by ...
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... Card Resource section: This section displays PCI slot interrupt and I/O port address used by the GigaRAID ATA RAID Controller. IDE RAID Drives Configuration (GigaRAID) The Driver Status section: This section displays the status of each hard drive. Figure 15 - 13 - If a failed mirrored drive is enabled, the GigaRAID ATA RAID Controller...
... Card Resource section: This section displays PCI slot interrupt and I/O port address used by the GigaRAID ATA RAID Controller. IDE RAID Drives Configuration (GigaRAID) The Driver Status section: This section displays the status of each hard drive. Figure 15 - 13 - If a failed mirrored drive is enabled, the GigaRAID ATA RAID Controller...
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... 16 Step 3: Go to My Computer and right-click the CD-ROM drive icon and select Open (Figure 11). Ác (4) Making a IDE RAID controller driver disk Åé To install Windows 2000/XP onto a hard drive on the GigaRAID controller successfully, you need to install required... driver for the GigaRAID controller on your motherboard during the Windows setup process. ¤å First of all, you need to copy the driver for an executable program named MENU.exe (Figure 17). Step 2: Go to the...
... 16 Step 3: Go to My Computer and right-click the CD-ROM drive icon and select Open (Figure 11). Ác (4) Making a IDE RAID controller driver disk Åé To install Windows 2000/XP onto a hard drive on the GigaRAID controller successfully, you need to install required... driver for the GigaRAID controller on your motherboard during the Windows setup process. ¤å First of all, you need to copy the driver for an executable program named MENU.exe (Figure 17). Step 2: Go to the...
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You have copied the IDE RAID driver sucessfully. Figure 19 - 15 - An MS-DOS prompt screen similar to the floppy disk. Then it will take about one minute to copy the GigaRAID driver from the motherboard driver CD to Figure 18 below will appear. IDE RAID Drives Configuration (GigaRAID) Press 2 to exit when the procedure is complete (Figure 19). Figure 18 Step 4: Insert an empty floppy disk. Step 5: Press 0 to select the 2)GIGARAID item. Step 3: Double-click MENU.exe.
You have copied the IDE RAID driver sucessfully. Figure 19 - 15 - An MS-DOS prompt screen similar to the floppy disk. Then it will take about one minute to copy the GigaRAID driver from the motherboard driver CD to Figure 18 below will appear. IDE RAID Drives Configuration (GigaRAID) Press 2 to exit when the procedure is complete (Figure 19). Figure 18 Step 4: Insert an empty floppy disk. Step 5: Press 0 to select the 2)GIGARAID item. Step 3: Double-click MENU.exe.
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...and press F6 as soon as you are ready to install Windows 2000/XP onto your system to install a 3rd party SCSI or RAID driver" message (Figure 20). Step 2: Figure 20 When a screen similar to that you have prepared a floppy disk with the IDE RAID controller...next screen. After pressing F6, there will be a few moments of Windows XP installation. ¤å Step 1: Restart your IDE hard drive with the driver. Ác (5) Installing IDE RAID controller driver during OS installation Åé Now that below appears (Figure 21), insert the floppy disk containing the IDE RAID...
...and press F6 as soon as you are ready to install Windows 2000/XP onto your system to install a 3rd party SCSI or RAID driver" message (Figure 20). Step 2: Figure 20 When a screen similar to that you have prepared a floppy disk with the IDE RAID controller...next screen. After pressing F6, there will be a few moments of Windows XP installation. ¤å Step 1: Restart your IDE hard drive with the driver. Ác (5) Installing IDE RAID controller driver during OS installation Åé Now that below appears (Figure 21), insert the floppy disk containing the IDE RAID...
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...) and press ENTER. Figure 23 "*" Select the driver according to which of the following operating systems you want to continue the driver installation from the floppy disk. The driver installation will appear. Step 3: If Setup correctly recognizes the driver in about one minute. Figure 22 If a message... be finished in the floppy disk, a controller menu will be found, please check the floppy disk or copy the correct GigaRAID controller driver again from the floppy disk. IDE RAID Drives Configuration (GigaRAID) Step 4: When the screen as shown below appears, press ENTER to ...
...) and press ENTER. Figure 23 "*" Select the driver according to which of the following operating systems you want to continue the driver installation from the floppy disk. The driver installation will appear. Step 3: If Setup correctly recognizes the driver in about one minute. Figure 22 If a message... be finished in the floppy disk, a controller menu will be found, please check the floppy disk or copy the correct GigaRAID controller driver again from the floppy disk. IDE RAID Drives Configuration (GigaRAID) Step 4: When the screen as shown below appears, press ENTER to ...
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You can proceed with the Windows Åé 2000/XP installation. ¤¤ ¤å Figure 23 (Note: Each time you add a new hard drive to a RAID array, the RAID driver will not have to be installed under Windows once for that hard drive. It indicates that , the driver will have installed the driver successfully. After that you should see a screen similar to Figure 23 below. Ác After the GigaRAID controller driver installation is completed, you have to be installed.) IDE RAID Drives Configuration (GigaRAID) - 18 -
You can proceed with the Windows Åé 2000/XP installation. ¤¤ ¤å Figure 23 (Note: Each time you add a new hard drive to a RAID array, the RAID driver will not have to be installed under Windows once for that hard drive. It indicates that , the driver will have installed the driver successfully. After that you should see a screen similar to Figure 23 below. Ác After the GigaRAID controller driver installation is completed, you have to be installed.) IDE RAID Drives Configuration (GigaRAID) - 18 -
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Contents Introduction ...4 Features ...5 What is the GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller 6 Quick Start ...7 Create Your Disk Array 9 Setup Utility...15 Using the GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller Setup Utility 15 Auto Configuration 17 Define RAID...22 Delete RAID...28 Rebuild RAID 31 RAID Card Configuration 36 Driver Installation ...38 Windows XP 39 Windows 2000 45 Windows SE/ME 53 Windows NT 61 Linux ...69 Install the GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller on Red Hat 7.3 69 Application ...72 Installation ...72 Functions Description 75 How to...86 Q&A ...88
Contents Introduction ...4 Features ...5 What is the GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller 6 Quick Start ...7 Create Your Disk Array 9 Setup Utility...15 Using the GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller Setup Utility 15 Auto Configuration 17 Define RAID...22 Delete RAID...28 Rebuild RAID 31 RAID Card Configuration 36 Driver Installation ...38 Windows XP 39 Windows 2000 45 Windows SE/ME 53 Windows NT 61 Linux ...69 Install the GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller on Red Hat 7.3 69 Application ...72 Installation ...72 Functions Description 75 How to...86 Q&A ...88
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Users can reduce the driver's loading of system CPU and improve the system's ability. Supports ANSI ATA proposal PIO modes 0,1,2,3,4 with flow control, DMA Modes 0,1,2,3,4,5,6. 512 bytes FIFO for auto ... RAID 0/1/0+1 function Supports the JBOD function Supports the Scatter/Gather function for windows 98SE/Me/XP, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 and Linux v2,4,1,0 5 Supports the drivers for the DMA/UDMA function Includes one embedded CPU and firmware on a local processor architecture Compatible with 4 drives. Low CPU utilization based on system to...
Users can reduce the driver's loading of system CPU and improve the system's ability. Supports ANSI ATA proposal PIO modes 0,1,2,3,4 with flow control, DMA Modes 0,1,2,3,4,5,6. 512 bytes FIFO for auto ... RAID 0/1/0+1 function Supports the JBOD function Supports the Scatter/Gather function for windows 98SE/Me/XP, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 and Linux v2,4,1,0 5 Supports the drivers for the DMA/UDMA function Includes one embedded CPU and firmware on a local processor architecture Compatible with 4 drives. Low CPU utilization based on system to...
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...it will start the rebuild function automatically and save data back to another new drive. v2.2. When a system is programmed to the RAID1 mode, two drivers have the same data and it 's unnecessary to share CPU's performance. It is entirely different from being damaged. Similarly, this system can use 6...133 drive and RAID function to achieve the best performance and get the merit of ATA/133 drive. Besides, we provide each OS a corresponding driver so that users don't have to worry that your systems and the IDE RAID system have any limitations. Users can support the RAID0 (striping),...
...it will start the rebuild function automatically and save data back to another new drive. v2.2. When a system is programmed to the RAID1 mode, two drivers have the same data and it 's unnecessary to share CPU's performance. It is entirely different from being damaged. Similarly, this system can use 6...133 drive and RAID function to achieve the best performance and get the merit of ATA/133 drive. Besides, we provide each OS a corresponding driver so that users don't have to worry that your systems and the IDE RAID system have any limitations. Users can support the RAID0 (striping),...
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...does not have the RAID function and its merit. Quick Start This section leads you start to raise throughput. The RAID0+1 mode uses four drivers to prevent any data loss resulting from ! Warning: In order to get the merits of RAID0 and RAID1. GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID... Controller USER'S MANUAL this data-copying characteristic to let two drivers transmit at the same time and balance the performance to install your system. 7 inappropriate operation, please backup data before you to achieve your ...
...does not have the RAID function and its merit. Quick Start This section leads you start to raise throughput. The RAID0+1 mode uses four drivers to prevent any data loss resulting from ! Warning: In order to get the merits of RAID0 and RAID1. GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID... Controller USER'S MANUAL this data-copying characteristic to let two drivers transmit at the same time and balance the performance to install your system. 7 inappropriate operation, please backup data before you to achieve your ...
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... Windows 2000 or Windows XP from the Windows CD to a floppy disk. Your system will have to be transferred to install the RAID drivers. After that, the driver will not have to be installed under the following various operating systems. Before starting to install this... driver file to a RAID array, the RAID driver will then automatically zip and transfer this driver, please make sure that hard drive. Drive D: 2) Insert a blank formatted floppy disk into the hard disk drive eg. ...
... Windows 2000 or Windows XP from the Windows CD to a floppy disk. Your system will have to be transferred to install the RAID drivers. After that, the driver will not have to be installed under the following various operating systems. Before starting to install this... driver file to a RAID array, the RAID driver will then automatically zip and transfer this driver, please make sure that hard drive. Drive D: 2) Insert a blank formatted floppy disk into the hard disk drive eg. ...
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The installation will be different. If you want to install third party SCSI or RAID driver" appears on the next window. When a message appears to ask you to designate the device you need to install, press the key. 4. Follow the instruction ... installation methods, the time when step2 starts will be listed on the bottom of the installation program to insert the GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller Driver diskette into the floppy disk drive then press the key to the next step. 7. The devices that are going to continue. 6. Boot from the device...
The installation will be different. If you want to install third party SCSI or RAID driver" appears on the next window. When a message appears to ask you to designate the device you need to install, press the key. 4. Follow the instruction ... installation methods, the time when step2 starts will be listed on the bottom of the installation program to insert the GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller Driver diskette into the floppy disk drive then press the key to the next step. 7. The devices that are going to continue. 6. Boot from the device...
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GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER'S MANUAL Install the driver under existing Windows XP 1. Select the Install from a list or specific location (Advanced) option then click "Next" to continue to setup. 40 Start Windows. 2. When Windows detects GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller in the system, a dialog box named Found New Hardware Wizard will show on the screen.
GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER'S MANUAL Install the driver under existing Windows XP 1. Select the Install from a list or specific location (Advanced) option then click "Next" to continue to setup. 40 Start Windows. 2. When Windows detects GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller in the system, a dialog box named Found New Hardware Wizard will show on the screen.
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GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER'S MANUAL 3. Insert the GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller Driver diskette into the floppy disk drive then check the Search for the best driver in these locations option and type A:\WIN2K_XP on the field designating the file's location. Press "Next" to continue to setup. 41
GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER'S MANUAL 3. Insert the GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller Driver diskette into the floppy disk drive then check the Search for the best driver in these locations option and type A:\WIN2K_XP on the field designating the file's location. Press "Next" to continue to setup. 41
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GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER'S MANUAL 4. The driver installation has finished. Follow the instruction to continue. 5. Press "Finish" to restart the computer then the driver will take effect. 42
GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER'S MANUAL 4. The driver installation has finished. Follow the instruction to continue. 5. Press "Finish" to restart the computer then the driver will take effect. 42
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... Controller device is shown below the SCSI and RAID controllers item (see the following steps to install the driver. After the system restarts, you can do the following figure), it means that the driver has been installed successfully. 43 Select the Properties option from the System Properties window then click the Device...
... Controller device is shown below the SCSI and RAID controllers item (see the following steps to install the driver. After the system restarts, you can do the following figure), it means that the driver has been installed successfully. 43 Select the Properties option from the System Properties window then click the Device...
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GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER'S MANUAL 3. If there is a marking ! under SCSI and RAID Controller device as shown below, it indicates that the driver has not been correctly installed. User should remove the device and reinstall. 44 or ?
GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER'S MANUAL 3. If there is a marking ! under SCSI and RAID Controller device as shown below, it indicates that the driver has not been correctly installed. User should remove the device and reinstall. 44 or ?
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...need to continue the installation of the screen, please press the key. 3. Press the key to install third party SCSI or RAID driver" appears on the list. Boot from floppy with Windows installation diskette. Boot from CD-ROM with un-installable diskette. Select GigaRAID (IT8212..., press the key. 4. Warning: Because of the different selections of the installation program to insert the GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller Driver diskette into the floppy disk drive then press the key to continue. 6. Boot from the device list shown on the next window. GigaRAID...
...need to continue the installation of the screen, please press the key. 3. Press the key to install third party SCSI or RAID driver" appears on the list. Boot from floppy with Windows installation diskette. Boot from CD-ROM with un-installable diskette. Select GigaRAID (IT8212..., press the key. 4. Warning: Because of the different selections of the installation program to insert the GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller Driver diskette into the floppy disk drive then press the key to continue. 6. Boot from the device list shown on the next window. GigaRAID...