User manual TYAN SATA RAID

[. . . ] SATARaidTM Serial ATA RAID Management Software 09/26/03 Silicon Image, Inc. Sunnyvale CA 94085 (408) 616-4000 www. siliconimage. com Copyright © 2003, Silicon Image, Inc. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, or translated into any language or computer format, in any form or by any means without prior written permission of: Silicon Image, Inc. reserves the right to make changes to the product(s) or specifications to improve performance, reliability, or manufacturability. [. . . ] Report of partition status, disk letter, and volume name. SATARaid User's Manual Copyright © 2003 Silicon Image Inc. 19 In the physical connection window, every disk should report as: Basic Disk Size (the actual available disk space will be reported here) Online Instead of "Basic, " a disk may also report as either "Unknown" or "Dynamic. " If the disk reports as "Unknown" right-click on the disk icon and click "Write Signature. " A window will appear with the disk in question (all "Unknown" disks may appear in this window). The disk should now report as "Basic. " If a disk reports as "Dynamic, " right-click on the icon of that disk, and click on "Convert to Basic Disk. . . " Within seconds the disk should report as Basic. Creating the Partitions In the Report of physical connection of disks/RAID Sets section, the order in which the drives are displayed corresponds directly to the order the Sets appear in the BIOS. Therefore, the first Unallocated Partition represents Set 1, and so on. Right-click on the partition of the first disk and click on "New Partition. " 2. Choose primary partition and click Next. Copyright © 2003 Silicon Image Inc. SATARaid User's Manual 20 4. The third window designates the partition size. Since this is a Striped RAID set utilizing 2 disk drives, the size of the partition will be approximately twice the size of the smallest single disk drive. Click Next. 5. The fourth window designates the drive letter of the partition. Click Next. SATARaid User's Manual Copyright © 2003 Silicon Image Inc. 21 6. The next window allows the volume label to be set and selection of the type of formatting to take place upon the creation of the partition. Name the volume as desired (suggestions are generic names such as STRIPED SET or something specific to use such as FINANCIAL, CRITICAL, MISCELLANEOUS, etc. ). Click Next. 7. The last window is a summary window listing all of the selections made. After verifying that everything is correct, click Finish. Copyright © 2003 Silicon Image Inc. SATARaid User's Manual 22 The status of the newly created partition in the Disk Management window should change to Formatting and the percentage complete will be displayed. Depending upon the size of the partition, the format process may take several minutes. When complete, the status will change to "Healthy" and the name and drive letter will be updated. Once the disk reports Healthy, it appears in the listing in System Listing section with all of its pertinent information as well. Repeat the above procedure as needed for any other partitions. Close the Data Management window by clicking on the small boxed "X" in the top right corner of the window. The new disks are available for use. SATARaid User's Manual Copyright © 2003 Silicon Image Inc. 23 Windows NT Before creating any partitions, RAID sets must first be created using the BIOS RAID Utility. Once Windows is running, open the Disk Management window located at: Control Panel> Administrative Tools> Computer Management> Storage> Disk Management A window similar to the following should appear: This Write Signature window may appear first: If so, answer YES for each disk reported with no signature found. Copyright © 2003 Silicon Image Inc. SATARaid User's Manual 24 After any required disc signatures have been written, a window similar to the following will appear: The first button on the toolbar opens the Disk Administrator Volumes window, which lists the recognizable Volumes, their capacity, free space, type of format, etc. The second button opens the Disk Configuration window (shown above), detailing all disks (or RAID Sets), partitions, and allows he user to format and name each partition and volume. Section 2 reports each partition, and allows the user to format or delete partitions. Creating the Partitions 1. If any disk in the RAID set appears to be formatted, right click on that partition (Section 2) and select Delete. Once all disks are reporting as Free Space, right-click on each partition and select Create. . . A window will appear stating that this will take place on the next reboot. [. . . ] After allocating any other RAID sets, you will need to create and format the new partitions. See Section 7 - Allocating Partitions for instructions. Copyright © 2003 Silicon Image Inc. SATARaid User's Manual 52 SATARaid User's Manual Copyright © 2003 Silicon Image Inc. 53 Deleting RAID Sets For various reasons it may be necessary or desired to delete an existing RAID Set. Select "Delete RAID Set" and click Next. 2. Select the type of set to be deleted and click Next. Copyright © 2003 Silicon Image Inc. SATARaid User's Manual 54 3. Select the set to be deleted and click Next. 4. An acknowledgement window will appear. A moving bar will appear in the window while the operation is in progress. [. . . ]