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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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... want to create RAID with the GigaRAID controller, you may prepare only 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 recommended that is controlled...;c Configuring IDE RAID Hard Drive(s) (Controller GigaRAID (IT8212)) Åé ¤¤ To set in RAID BIOS. (4) Make a floppy disk containing the IDE RAID controller driver (5) Install the IDE RAID controller...
... want to create RAID with the GigaRAID controller, you may prepare only 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 recommended that is controlled...;c Configuring IDE RAID Hard Drive(s) (Controller GigaRAID (IT8212)) Åé ¤¤ To set in RAID BIOS. (4) Make a floppy disk containing the IDE RAID controller driver (5) Install the IDE RAID controller...
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... RAID Drives Configuration (GigaRAID) When Auto-Rebuild is enabled, the GigaRAID ATA RAID Controller can detect the hot-swap action and start rebuilding automatically. The Driver Status section: This section displays the status of each hard drive. RAID Card Configuration: Press 5 in Main Menu to rebuild your PC, the GigaRAID ATA...
... RAID Drives Configuration (GigaRAID) When Auto-Rebuild is enabled, the GigaRAID ATA RAID Controller can detect the hot-swap action and start rebuilding automatically. The Driver Status section: This section displays the status of each hard drive. RAID Card Configuration: Press 5 in Main Menu to rebuild your PC, the GigaRAID ATA...
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...to My Computer and right-click the CD-ROM drive icon and select Open (Figure 11). Step 2: Go to copy the driver. Ác (4) Making a IDE RAID controller driver disk Åé To install Windows 2000/XP onto a hard drive on your motherboard during OS installation. Quit the installation utility... the BootDrv folder and look for the GigaRAID controller on the GigaRAID controller successfully, you need to a floppydisk. Without the ¤¤ driver,the hard drive may not be recognized during the Windows setup process. ¤å First of all, you need to copy the...
...to My Computer and right-click the CD-ROM drive icon and select Open (Figure 11). Step 2: Go to copy the driver. Ác (4) Making a IDE RAID controller driver disk Åé To install Windows 2000/XP onto a hard drive on your motherboard during OS installation. Quit the installation utility... the BootDrv folder and look for the GigaRAID controller on the GigaRAID controller successfully, you need to a floppydisk. Without the ¤¤ driver,the hard drive may not be recognized during the Windows setup process. ¤å First of all, you need to copy the...
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An MS-DOS prompt screen similar to Figure 18 below will take about one minute to copy the GigaRAID driver from the motherboard driver CD to the floppy disk. Figure 18 Step 4: Insert an empty floppy disk. Press 2 to exit when the procedure is complete (Figure 19). Then it will appear. IDE RAID Drives Configuration (GigaRAID) Figure 19 - 15 - Step 5: Press 0 to select the 2)GIGARAID item. Step 3: Double-click MENU.exe. You have copied the IDE RAID driver sucessfully.
An MS-DOS prompt screen similar to Figure 18 below will take about one minute to copy the GigaRAID driver from the motherboard driver CD to the floppy disk. Figure 18 Step 4: Insert an empty floppy disk. Press 2 to exit when the procedure is complete (Figure 19). Then it will appear. IDE RAID Drives Configuration (GigaRAID) Figure 19 - 15 - Step 5: Press 0 to select the 2)GIGARAID item. Step 3: Double-click MENU.exe. You have copied the IDE RAID driver sucessfully.
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... XP installation. ¤å Step 1: Restart your IDE hard drive with the IDE RAID controller driver and adjusted BIOS settings, you see the "Press F6 if you need to that you have prepared a floppy disk with the driver. Figure 21 IDE RAID Drives Configuration (GigaRAID) - 16 - Step 2: Figure 20 When a screen ... OS installation Åé Now that below appears (Figure 21), insert the floppy disk containing the IDE RAID driver and press S. The following is an ¤¤ example of some files being loaded before you are ready to install Windows 2000/XP onto your ...
... XP installation. ¤å Step 1: Restart your IDE hard drive with the IDE RAID controller driver and adjusted BIOS settings, you see the "Press F6 if you need to that you have prepared a floppy disk with the driver. Figure 21 IDE RAID Drives Configuration (GigaRAID) - 16 - Step 2: Figure 20 When a screen ... OS installation Åé Now that below appears (Figure 21), insert the floppy disk containing the IDE RAID driver and press S. The following is an ¤¤ example of some files being loaded before you are ready to install Windows 2000/XP onto your ...
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...minute. Step 4: When the screen as shown below appears, press ENTER to continue the driver installation from the motherboard driver CD. IDE RAID Drives Configuration (GigaRAID) Step 3: If Setup correctly recognizes the driver in about one or some file(s) cannot be finished in the floppy disk, a ...controller menu will begin to load the driver from the floppy disk. Then it will appear. Figure 23 "*" Select the driver according to which of the following operating systems you want to select ITE IT8212 ATA RAID Controller...
...minute. Step 4: When the screen as shown below appears, press ENTER to continue the driver installation from the motherboard driver CD. IDE RAID Drives Configuration (GigaRAID) Step 3: If Setup correctly recognizes the driver in about one or some file(s) cannot be finished in the floppy disk, a ...controller menu will begin to load the driver from the floppy disk. Then it will appear. Figure 23 "*" Select the driver according to which of the following operating systems you want to select ITE IT8212 ATA RAID Controller...
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Ác After the GigaRAID controller driver installation is completed, you should see a screen similar to be installed under Windows once for that you add a new hard drive to a RAID array, the RAID driver will not have to Figure 23 below. After that, the driver will have installed the driver successfully. You can proceed with the Windows Åé 2000/XP installation. ¤¤ ¤å Figure 23 (Note: Each time you have to be installed.) IDE RAID Drives Configuration (GigaRAID) - 18 - It indicates that hard drive.
Ác After the GigaRAID controller driver installation is completed, you should see a screen similar to be installed under Windows once for that you add a new hard drive to a RAID array, the RAID driver will not have to Figure 23 below. After that, the driver will have installed the driver successfully. You can proceed with the Windows Åé 2000/XP installation. ¤¤ ¤å Figure 23 (Note: Each time you have to be installed.) IDE RAID Drives Configuration (GigaRAID) - 18 - It indicates that hard drive.
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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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... the DMA/UDMA function Includes one embedded CPU and firmware on a local processor architecture Compatible with 4 drives. Users can reduce the driver's loading of system CPU and improve the system's ability. It can easily install our systems to reduce power consumption. Supports ANSI ATA proposal PIO modes 0,1,2,3,4 ...
... the DMA/UDMA function Includes one embedded CPU and firmware on a local processor architecture Compatible with 4 drives. Users can reduce the driver's loading of system CPU and improve the system's ability. It can easily install our systems to reduce power consumption. Supports ANSI ATA proposal PIO modes 0,1,2,3,4 ...
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...back to another new drive. Thus, users can use this system can use ATA/133 drive and RAID function to the RAID1 mode, two drivers have to the highest speed of system's stability. It includes one RAID Chip combining CPU, firmware, advanced PCI controller and IDE controller. v2....2. When a system is entirely different from being damaged. Its architecture can read or write two drivers at the same time to combine RAID system without any limitations. It provides users high speed and integration and low price PC RAID system. ...
...back to another new drive. Thus, users can use this system can use ATA/133 drive and RAID function to the RAID1 mode, two drivers have to the highest speed of system's stability. It includes one RAID Chip combining CPU, firmware, advanced PCI controller and IDE controller. v2....2. When a system is entirely different from being damaged. Its architecture can read or write two drivers at the same time to combine RAID system without any limitations. It provides users high speed and integration and low price PC RAID system. ...
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... to Setup Utility on page 15 to quickly establish your system. 7 The RAID0+1 mode uses four drivers to raise throughput. 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 get the merits of RAID0 and RAID1...
... to Setup Utility on page 15 to quickly establish your system. 7 The RAID0+1 mode uses four drivers to raise throughput. 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 get the merits of RAID0 and RAID1...
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... disk. Follow on-screen instructions to complete installation. (Each time you complete the steps, boot from the Windows CD to install the RAID drivers. When install Windows 2000 or Windows XP from "Command Prompt" or DOS, please type in "D:\BootDrv\menu.exe" 4) Information on all... chipsets should be transferred to be installed under the following various operating systems. Before starting to install this driver, please make sure that hard drive. Drive D: 2) Insert a blank formatted floppy disk into the hard disk drive eg. GigaRAID (IT8212) ...
... disk. Follow on-screen instructions to complete installation. (Each time you complete the steps, boot from the Windows CD to install the RAID drivers. When install Windows 2000 or Windows XP from "Command Prompt" or DOS, please type in "D:\BootDrv\menu.exe" 4) Information on all... chipsets should be transferred to be installed under the following various operating systems. Before starting to install this driver, please make sure that hard drive. Drive D: 2) Insert a blank formatted floppy disk into the hard disk drive eg. GigaRAID (IT8212) ...
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... proceed to be installed will continue. 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. When the message "Press F6 if you want to install third party SCSI... or RAID driver" appears on the window then press the key to continue. 5. When a message appears to ask you to designate the device you need to ...
... proceed to be installed will continue. 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. When the message "Press F6 if you want to install third party SCSI... or RAID driver" appears on the window then press the key to continue. 5. When a message appears to ask you to designate the device you need to ...
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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 When Windows detects GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller in the system, a dialog box named Found New Hardware Wizard will show on the screen. Start Windows. 2.
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 When Windows detects GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller in the system, a dialog box named Found New Hardware Wizard will show on the screen. Start Windows. 2.
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Press "Next" to continue to setup. 41 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. GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER'S MANUAL 3.
Press "Next" to continue to setup. 41 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. GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER'S MANUAL 3.
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Follow the instruction to continue. 5. GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER'S MANUAL 4. The driver installation has finished. Press "Finish" to restart the computer then the driver will take effect. 42
Follow the instruction to continue. 5. GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER'S MANUAL 4. The driver installation has finished. Press "Finish" to restart the computer then the driver will take effect. 42
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GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER'S MANUAL Verify Installation Follow the previous section to check if the driver has been installed successfully. 1. Select the Properties option from the System Properties window then click the Device Manager button on Desktop. After the ...system restarts, you can do the following figure), it means that the driver has been installed successfully. 43 Right-click My Computer icon on the panel. Select the Hardware tab from the form. 2. If GigaRAID (IT8212)...
GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER'S MANUAL Verify Installation Follow the previous section to check if the driver has been installed successfully. 1. Select the Properties option from the System Properties window then click the Device Manager button on Desktop. After the ...system restarts, you can do the following figure), it means that the driver has been installed successfully. 43 Right-click My Computer icon on the panel. Select the Hardware tab from the form. 2. If GigaRAID (IT8212)...
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If there is a marking ! or ? User should remove the device and reinstall. 44 under SCSI and RAID Controller device as shown below, it indicates that the driver has not been correctly installed. GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER'S MANUAL 3.
If there is a marking ! or ? User should remove the device and reinstall. 44 under SCSI and RAID Controller device as shown below, it indicates that the driver has not been correctly installed. GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER'S MANUAL 3.
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...are going to continue. 6. Press the key to install third party SCSI or RAID driver" appears on the next window. GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER'S MANUAL Windows 2000 Install the driver during Windows 2000 installation 1. Boot from CD-ROM with Windows installation diskette. When the...be different. The installation 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 install any other devices, please designate them now. When a message ...
...are going to continue. 6. Press the key to install third party SCSI or RAID driver" appears on the next window. GigaRAID (IT8212) ATA RAID Controller USER'S MANUAL Windows 2000 Install the driver during Windows 2000 installation 1. Boot from CD-ROM with Windows installation diskette. When the...be different. The installation 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 install any other devices, please designate them now. When a message ...