User manual IOGEAR RAID 5 INSTALLATION

[. . . ] · RAID 0 and RAID1 setups require at least 2 drives, with RAID5 requiring 3 drives and RAID10 requiring 4 drives. · If one hard drive only, make sure to have "Concatenate" or "Contiguous" setting. · The setting of Raid 0, 1, 10, 5 and JBOD will appear on screen accordingly and automatically when Port Multiplier and multiple Drives be connected. 5 Introduction The Low Profile PCI-Express Host Adapter allows support for both Low profile PCI and standard size PCI connections. [. . . ] If you connect any used HDDs to the SATA Ports, Press CTRL+S or F4 and delete any RAID settings that may be on the drives when using the BIOS boot method. 12 11. If using 1 Disk, please select "Concatenate" or "Contiguous" settings only. If using 2 Disks, do NOT select "Parity RAID" or "Mirrored Stripe" settings. If using 3 Disks, do NOT select the "Mirrored Stripe" setting. Open "Task Manager" to make sure the RAID setup is completed. RAID5 can take hours to complete, please be aware of these time requirements. Use Device Manager for hard disk initialization, partition and formatting within Windows. 13 BIOS (RAID Settings) Creating and deleting RAID sets is a function found in the BIOS. During boot up, the RAID setting message will appear and pause for a few moments to allow the user access to its settings. The board will act as a normal NON-RAID card when the BIOS does not have it configured for RAID. If you're using traditional parallel ATA HDDs, make sure your hard drives are set to master mode before accessing the RAID settings. Continue with conventional Fdisk and Format steps to prepare the hard drives. Continue with conventional Fdisk and Format steps to prepare the hard drives. Continue with conventional Fdisk and Format steps to prepare the hard drives. If the RAID set being deleted is a Striped, then all of the data will be lost. If the set being deleted is a Mirrored set, then the data will remain intact and accessible on both drive sets. After replacing the failed hard drives boot the BIOS, Press CTRL+S or F4 to enter the RAID bios utility. Answer Y to rebuild the Mirrored set of hard drive. 18 Software Installation Windows XP Fresh Installation 1. Insert the controller card into a PCI slot and connect the hard drives to the controller card. [. . . ] Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines, Inc. Macintosh, G3/G4 and iMac are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. [. . . ]