Serial ATA PCI Card Users Manual

SERIAL ATA PCI CARD

UT-SATA PCI Card. Serial ATA Cable X 2 User Manuals. UT-SATA PCI Card Driver CD-ROM.
This package contains each of products listed above.

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Introduction:

he perfect way to get all the performance and data protection of Serial ATA RAID for Serial ATA technology. The UT-SATA_C PCI Card supports Serial ATA Devices. For optimal performance, install identical drives of the same model and capacity when creating RAID sets. The UT-SATA_C PCI Card includes the silicon image Sil 3112A controller chipset and two Serial ATA interfaces to supports Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) configuration. This feature supports Serial ATA hard disks. Use the SATARaid utility to configure the RAID sets.

Features:
General Serial ATA 150MB/s Compliant with Serial ATA 1.0 specification Integrated Serial ATA Transport, Link logic and PHY 48-bit sector addressing Dual independent DMA channels with 256B FIFO per channel Virtual DMA Register compatible with parallel ATA Driver support for Windows 98, 98SE, ME, Windows 2000, Windows Supports RAID 0 (Striping) and RAID 1 (Mirroring) Silicon Image Supplies the Sil-3112A chipset, supporting the ultracompact 7-pin Serial-ATA IDE device support. PCI Bus Compliant with 32 bit, 33/66 MHz PCI slot PCI 2.2 Compliant Power 5V operating voltage PCI bus ACPI: PCI Bus Power Management Spec 1.1 Compliant

System Requirements:
Use with IBM PC compatible Windows 98, 98SE, ME, Windows 2000/ NT4.0 and Windows XP One 33/66 MHz PCI expansion slot. 2X CD-ROM Floppy Diver WARNING: Unplug your power supply when adding or removing expansion cards or others system components. Failure to do so many causes you physical injury and damage motherboard components.

Installing the Serial ATA PCI Card:

Follow these steps to install the UT-SATA C card 1. Before installing the Serial ATA PCI Card read the document that came with it and make the necessary hardware settings. 2. Discharge any electricity from your body by touching a grounded metal object (such as the exposed metal parts on the back of your computer). 3. Turn the power off on your computer and disconnect the power cord. 4. Open the computer case. See your computer documentation for specific instructions, if needed. 5. Secure the card to the chassis with screw you removed earlier. 6. Select an unused 32-bit or 64-bit PCI slot. Remove the expansion slot cover.

7. Align the card to connector with the slot and Replace the slot cover screw. 8. Press firmly until the card is completely seated on the slot. And close the computer case. 9. Replace the system cover. 10. Set up the BIOS if necessary and restart computer.
Two ports in parallel at backside of PCI card

11. Direct install software utility to monitor and manipulate Silicon Image Serial ATA.

First time installation with WindowsNT4.0 or Windows2000/XP:

Follow the instructions in this section if you are performing a new installation of Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000/XP, and you wish to boot from a device attached to the SiI 3112 SATARaid controller. First you must copy Driver CD: \ floppy disk\*.* to Floppy disk, make a Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATARaid Controller Installation Disk.

1. Put your Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000/XP CD into the CD/DVD-ROM drive or the Win 2000 boot diskette #1 in the floppy drive if your system cannot boot from the CD-ROM.

2. Press [F6] for third party SCSI or driver installation at the beginning of text mode installation.

3. Press S From the list that appears.

4. Please insert the Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATARaid Controller Installation Disk Into Drive A: and press Enter to continue with installation.

5. Windows XP users please choose Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATARaid Controller for Windows XP From the list that appears on screen and then press Enter.

6. If you are setup with Windows NT4.0/2000 users please choose Silicon Image Sil 3x12 SATARaid controller for Windows NT 4.0 and 2000 From the list that appears on screen and then press Enter.

7. Press Enter again when prompted to continue on with text mode setup. The Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000/XP Setup screen will appear again Setup will load support for the following mass storage devicesSilicon Image SiI 3112 SATARaid Controller

NOTE If there are any additional devices to be installed, specify them now. When all devices are specified, continue to the next step.

8. Follow the setup instructions to select your choice for partition and file system. Press Enter to Install.

9. The Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000/XP Setup screen, press the Enter Setup will now load all device files and then continue the Windows2000/XP installing.

Update Driver an Existing Windows2000 / XP Installation: Follow the instructions in this section to install the Silicon ImageSiI 3112 driver on a system already running Windows 2000/XP. 1. Power off the system. Connect the hard drives to the SiI 3112 controller and insert the controller into a PCI slot. Power ON the system. 2. Insert the Driver CD into the CD-ROM. 3. Right click on My Computer icon, select Properties, left click on Hardware tab, and then on Device Manager button. Double click on SCSI and RAID Controllers, if there is no yellow! or ? in front of Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATA Controller, the driver has started correctly. 4. During OS boot up, Windows will display the Found New Hardware Wizard. Click Next. Select Search for a suitable driver for my device (Recommended)and Click Next.

5. Under Optional search locations insure that Floppy disk drives is checked; insert the Driver CD into CD-ROM: and click Next.

6. If the Digital Signature Not Found dialog appears, click Continue Anyway installing the driver.

7. The wizard will now install the software to the system driver.

8. The wizard will display a completion dialog, click Finish to exit the wizard.

9. Right click on My Computer icon, select Properties, left click on Hardware tab, and then on Device Manager button. Double click on SCSI and RAID Controllers, The Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATA Controller setup correctly.

First Time Fresh Installation with Windows 98SE / ME:

Follow the instructions in this section if you are performing a new installation of Windows 98SE/ME and you wish to boot from a device attached to the SiI 3112 controller. First You Must Copy the Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATARaid Controller Installation Disk Driver\3112Raid_10027\si3112r.inf from CD to Floppy. 1. Power off the system. Insert the SiI 3112 controller into an available PCI slot. Connect serial ATA cable(s) between the SiI 3112 controller and the serial ATA device(s). Power up the system. 2. Put your Windows 98SE/ME CD into the CD-ROM/DVD drive, and the Windows 98SE/ME boot diskette in the floppy drive if your system cannot boot from the CD. 3. Follow the normal Windows 98SE/ME setup instructions to select your choice for partition and file system. 4. Wait until Windows 98SE/ME finishes installing devices, regional settings, networking settings, components, and final set of tasks, reboot the system. 5. After the system reboots, right click on My Computer and select Properties'. From system Properties select Device Manager , right click on the ? PCI Mass Storage controller and select Properties from the context menu.

6. Click Driver, Update Driver and select Automatic search for a better driver [Recommended].

7. Insert the diskette labeled Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATALink Driver Installation Disk into floppy drive. Click Next and complete the driver installation.

8. System will go through the enumeration process and install the driver. At the end of the process, click Finish to reboot your system.

Update Driver an Existing Windows 98SE/ME Installation:

1. Power off the system. Connect the hard drives to the SiI 3112 SATARaid controller and insert the controller into a PCI slot, Power on the system. During the system boot up, the Hardware Wizard will display that it found a PCI RAID Controller, click Next. ,

2. Select Search for the best driver for your device [Recommended] and click Next.

3. Check the Floppy disk drives and insert the driver diskette into floppy drive. Click Next.

4. System will go through the enumeration process and install the driver. At the end of the process, Click Finish to complete the installation. Reboot the system if your Windows 98SE/ME drive is connected on the SiI 3112SATARaid Controller.

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RAID 0 & RAID 1 Configurations :

The Sil 3112A chipset supports Serial ATA hard disk drives. For optimal performance, install identical drives of the same model and capacity when creating RAID sets. What is RAID 0 & RAID 1? If you are creating a RAID 0(striping) array for performance, use two new drives. If you are creating a RAID1 (mirroring) array for protection, you can use two new drives or use an existing drive and a new drives (the new drives must be of the same size or larger than the existing drive). If you use two drives with different sizes, the smaller capacity hard disk will be the base storage size. For example, hard disk A with an 80GB storage capacity and hard disk B with 60GB storage capacity for your RAID1 set will be 60 GB.

Follow these steps to install the hard disks for RAID configuration. 1. Install the Serial ATA hard disk into the drive bays. 2. Connect one Serial ATA HDD to each Serial ATA connector, using separate serial ATA cables. 3. Connect the power cable to the power connector on each drive. 4. Proceed to Creating and Deleting Raid sets for the next procedure.

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Creating & Deleting RAID Sets:

Creating and deleting RAID sets is a built-in function found in the BIOS. The following sub-sections describe how to use the RAID Configuration Utility.

Loading the RAID Configuration Utility 1. During POST, pressCTRLS [F4] to enter RAID Configuration Utility. The following menu options will appear.

2. Select Create RAID Set.

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3. Choose either a Striped or Mirrored RAID Set.

Striped (RAID 0)

Mirrored (RAID 1)

4. Select if you want the utility to Auto Configure the RAID set.

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5. The utility will ask Are You Sure (Y/N) before completing the configuration. Press [Y] to confirm or [N] to go back to the configuration options.

6. If you want to manually configure the RAID set. For Striped Sets, you can change the chunk size. For Mirrored Sets, you assign which is the Source and Target drives, as well as if you want a Disk Copy.

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What is a chunk? The chunk size is the stripe on each disk. It is the unit of storage equivalent to one strip on a RAID 0 set. Available chunk sizes: 248163264128 When manually setting the chunk size for your RAID, it is recommended to use the smaller chunk size for server applications and the larger chunk size for AV applications. What is Disk Copy? If the disk assigned as the source disk has been partitioned and has data stored on it, and a second disk is added, the data on the source Drive can be copied to the destination drive so the disks are identical, and all subsequent data will be written to both drives as a Mirrored set. If, however, the source disk does not have data stored on it, there is no need for Disk Copy.

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7. The utility will ask Are You Sure (Y/N) ? before completing the configuration. Press [Y] to confirm or [N] to go back to the configuration options.

Deleting RAID Sets 1. To remove one or more RAID sets, select Delete RAID Set and Set (Number)

2. Select desired set and press [Y] when asked Are You SureY/N.

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Resolving Conflict When a RAID set is created the metadata written to the disk includes drive connection information (Primary Channel, Secondary Channel). If after a disk failure, the replacement disk was previously part of a RAID set (or used in another system), it may have conflicting metadata, specifically in reference to the drive connection information if so, and this will prohibit the RAID set from being either created or rebuilt. In order for the RAID set to function properly, this old metadata must be first overwritten with the new metadata, including the correct drive connection information, will be written to the replacement disk. 1. Select the Resolving conflicts

2. Select the Delete RAID SET and Chose Set 0

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Specification:
Interface Standards Compliance Serial ATA /150 port X 2 RAID Levels RAID 1 mirroring Data Transfer Rate Up to 266MB/sec (66MHz PCI) RAID Levels RAID 0 striping Data Transfer Rate Up to 133MB/sec (33MHz PCI) Dimension 124.5mm (L) x 62.9mm (W) x 10.7mm (H) Weight 51 gram Data transfer rates may depending on drive make motherboard and PCI bus speed.

Packing List:
UT-SATA PCI Card. Serial ATA Cable X 2 User Manuals. UT-SATA PCI Card Driver CD-ROM.

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