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    Manual Revision: 01/30/2012 DE: Bedienungsanleitung - de.startech.com FR: Guide de l'utilisateur - fr .startech.com ES: Guía del usuario - es.startech.com IT: Guida per l'uso - it.startech.com NL: Gebruiksaanwijzing - nl.startech.com PT: Guia do usuário - pt.startech.com For the most up-to-date information, please visit: www.startech.co[...]

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    FCC C ompliance Statement This equipment has been tested and f ound to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules . These limits are desig ned to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installa tion. This equipment generates, uses and can radia te radio frequency en[...]

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    Instruction Manual i T able of Con tents Introduction ........................................................................................................................................................1 Packaging Contents ...........................................................................................................................[...]

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    Instruction Manual 1 Introduction Make the jump to Serial A T A performance with a four-port RAID card from StarT ech.com. Y ou get four RAID-ready internal Serial A T A ports for your high performance Serial A T A hard drives. Whether you need Striping (RAID 0), Mirroring (RAID 1), or both (RAID 0+1), this card has you covered . The PCISA T A4R1 a[...]

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    Instruction Manual 2 Driver Installation Window s 2000/XP 1. Windows will launch the A dd New Hardware W izard. Click Next. 2. Choose the Search for a suitable driver ... option and click Next. 3. Check only the CD-ROM drives option. Ensure the installation CD is inserted in the CD-ROM or other optical drive. Click Next. 4. Windows will display a m[...]

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    Instruction Manual 3 Ac cessing the RAID BIOS Utilit y The PCISA T A4R1 comes with an integrated BIOS-level conguration utility that allows y ou to congure the RAID setup, r ebuild your array in the event of failure, and r esolve conicts with the arrays you hav e setup. Once you have installed the car d according to the instructions and at[...]

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    Instruction Manual 4 The Main Menu option allows you to carry out various tasks related to conguring and maintaining your RAID . Y ou can navigate the menu using the arrow keys on the keyboard and select an item by pressing [Enter]. The Main Menu options are described below: Create RAID set: Create a RAID for the rst time , or change the con?[...]

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    Instruction Manual 5 Conguring an Arr ay When you choose Create a RAID set fr om the Main M enu of the RAID utility , you will be presented with the following menu: For each option/RAID level ar e as follows: RAID0: Also called “ disk striping, ” where multiple physical drives are merged to crea te a single logical volume. • Minimum num[...]

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    Instruction Manual 6 After you select which RAID level you wish to use, y ou will have to select drives to include in the array . Follow the on-screen prompts t o complete the conguration. Please note: If you wish to use the RAID 1+S (“spare driv e”) option, you must congure a RAID 1 array rst. Deciding which RAID solution to implement[...]

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    Instruction Manual 7 Resolving Conicts When a RAID set is created, the metadata written t o the disk includes drive connection information including the channel on the host adapter to which it is connected. If after a disk failure the replacement disk was pr eviously par t of a RAID set or used in another system, it may have conicting metadat[...]

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    Instruction Manual 8 SA T ARaid GUI O ver view The SA T AR aid GUI Installation program c ongures the SA T ARaid GUI to automatically start when Windows is started. If the SA T AR aid GUI does not automatically start or is closed by the user , choose the JA V A SA T ARaid program from the Start Menu to launch the GUI. This section explains how t[...]

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    Instruction Manual 9 SA T AR aid T oolbar and Menu Commands 1 - RAID Management This command allows the management of the RAID sets and drives on the SA T A host adapter . I t is available only under Windows 2000 and XP . 2 - System View This command displays a graphical r epresentation of the host adapter and RAID sets. Clicking on each of the com[...]

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    Instruction Manual 10 SA T AR aid C onguration SA T ARaid conguration options include customization of the settings for E vent Notication, E-mail Notication, Log F ile, Audio, and P opup. The rst tab displayed when SA T ARaid conguration is opened is for Event T able conguration. This setting determines which events are display[...]

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    Instruction Manual 11 The Event Time tab is used to set the interval time in seconds for the prog ram to poll the status of the host adapter and devices. Lo wer settings may have an impact on system performance. If the RAID sets are subject to heavy activity, the Event Time interval should be increased. The SMTP tab allows the server name to be set[...]

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    Instruction Manual 12 The current SA T ARaid conguration may be sent via e-mail. This featur e is most often used when contacting the system administrator for t echnical suppor t. Select the E-mail tab in the SA T ARaid Conguration Menu and enter the default e-mail address and subject line for the party receiving the conguration data. The [...]

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    Instruction Manual 13 The log le is used to store ev ent information received from all Silicon Image RAID drivers. The log le is a text le and can be viewed with any text viewer (such as Notepad) or with the Ev ent Property page of SA T ARaid. Use the Log F ile tab to set location and the desired lename for the log le. The Audio tab [...]

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    Instruction Manual 14 SA T ARaid can be congured to notify the user of events using messages in popup windo ws. These alerts can occur separately or in conjunction with audio alerts and email notication. Use the slider control to set the even t level for popups to occur: Error Level - The following ev ents will trigger a popup window : Errors[...]

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    Instruction Manual 15 Specications Bus Interface 32-bit PCI v2.2 (3.3V/5 V ) SA T A rev 1.0 Internal Connectors 4 x 7-pin SA T A Chipset Silicon Image SiI3114R RAID Modes RAID 0, 1, 0+1, JBOD Maximum Data T ransfer Rate 150 MBps LBA Support 48-bit Compatible Opera ting Systems Windows 2000/ XP(32/64-bit)/ 2003 Server(32/64-bit)/ Vista(32/64-bit)[...]

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    Instruction Manual 16 T echnical Suppor t StarT ech.com’ s lifetime technical support is an integr al part of our commitment to provide industr y- leading solutions. I f you ever need help with your product, visit w ww .star tech.com/support and access our comprehensive selection of online tools , documentation, and downloads. For the lat est dri[...]

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    Hard-to-nd made easy . At StarT ech.com, that isn ’t a slogan. It ’ s a promise. StarT ech.com is your one -stop source for every connec tivity par t you need. From the latest technology t o legac y pr oduc ts — and all the parts that bridge the old and new — we can help you nd the parts that connect your solutions. We make it easy to[...]