HighPoint ATA-133 RAID Manuel utilisateur

HPT370/372 RAID Controller

User’s Manual

Revision: 1.1

Date: Mar. 2002

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Table of Contents

Management Functions ...... .................................................................3-9

View Information .................................................................................3-11

Rebuild Broken RAID 1/0+1 array ......................................................3-15

Appendix A

Glossary

Appendix B

Contact Technical Support

Table of Contents

Chapter 1

Introduction

RAID Basics ..................................................................................... 1-1

IDE RAID......................................................................................... 1-2

Hard Drive Connection ..................................................................... 1-3

Driver Installation ............................................................................. 1-4

Chapter 3

RAID Administrator

Installation .............................................................................................3-1

Getting Start .. .................. ...................................................................3-1

Configuration Functions ......................................................................3-3

Chapter 2

BIOS Configuration Utility

Enter BIOS Configuration Utility.......................................................2-1

Create Disk Array...............................................................................2-1

Delete Disk Array ..............................................................................2-4

Add/Delete Spare Disk..................................................... ................ 2-5

Set Boot Device..................................................................................2-5

Duplicate Critical RAID 1/0+1 array..................................................2-6

Rebuild Broken RAID 1/0+1 array.....................................................2-7

Chapter 1

Introduction

This chapter will give you a brief introduction on the background

knowledge of RAID as well as the hard drive connection on your

motherboard which is embedded with HPT370/372 RAID Controller.

The driver installation of HPT370/372 RAID Controller is also in-

cluded in this chapter.

RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) is a method of combining

several hard drives(physical drives) into one logical unit(logical drive). Such

combining can offer either or both fault tolerance and higher data throughput

than a single hard drive.

1.1 RAID Basics

There are usually a few methods through which hard drives can be combined

together. The different methods are refered as different RAID Levels. Different

RAID levels represent different performance level, security level and cost.

The most frequently used RAID levels include RAID 0, 1, 0+1 and 5. Also

there are some combined RAID levels, for example, RAID 0+1 is the combina-

tion of RAID 0 and RAID 1. Here is a briefing table of these popular RAID

levels:

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Benefits

Data protection through

redundancy

Highest performance with

data protection

No data protection and

performance improving,

but full usage of disk

space

Description

Minimum

# of Drives

RAID 1 Disk mirroring 2

RAID 0 Data striping

Highest Performance

without data protection

RAID

0+1

RAID 0 and RAID 1

combined 4

JBOD Disk Spanning

1.2 IDE RAID

For a long time, RAID technology has been based on SCSI interface, and

mainly focused on high-end application. PC users and low-end business

application has been excluded from the RAID application due to the high cost

of SCSI RAID.

It is very lucky that, as the IDE RAID technology emerges recently, people now

can enjoy the RAID benefits at a pretty low cost.

IDE is another computer interface widely used by PCs. Due to the great

development of the PC market, the IDE interface devices’ price has dramati-

cally dropped, while at the same time, their performance has greatly improved.

Below is a performance&cost brief comparison between IDE RAID and SCSI

RAID:

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Note:

1. “ ”means it is better to connect hard drive at this position.

2. When connecting hard disk, pay much attention to its Master -Slave jumper

setting: if two hard disks are connected onto one IDE cable, one disk

should be set as master while the other as slave.

1.3 Hard Drive Connection

Note: The price may vary depending on different period and different market.

Due to the high performance and low cost, IDE RAID has been widely ac-

cepted by the market as a cost-effective RAID solution.

IDE RAID SCSIRAID

PCI to ATA133 PCI to Ultra160 SCSI

Number of Channels 21

Maximum number of Drives 415

Maximum Data Throughput 133 x 2 MB/s 160 MB/s

Supported RAID Levels 0, 1, 0+1, JBOD 0, 1, 0+1, 3, 5, JBOD

Price 100$ 499$

Spin(rpm) 7200 10000

Capacity 40G 33G

Price 120$ 500$

C o ntr o lle r

Card

Hard

Drive

Interface

1.4 Driver Installation

As for the HPT370/372 driver installation, you may have the following informa-

tion as reference .

Windows 98/ME

Automatic Installation

After the computer start-up, Windows system will find the RAID function and

prompt user to install its driver. Please follow the prompts to finish driver

installation.

1. Close all programs;

2. Click Start-->Settings-->Control Panel, then double-click on Add New

Hardware icon;

3. Click Next in the follow-up window to continue;

4. A dialog box will appear and ask whether to let windows search new

hardware. Select No, I want to select the hardware form a list, and

then click Next to continue;

5. Different hardware types will be listed in the follow-up window, Select

SCSI Controllers from the list and then click Next to continue;

6. Insert the driver diskette, then click Have Disk...;

7. A dialog box will pop out, please input the path of driver location

A:\Win98_ME,, then click OK to continue;(if users install driver from

CD make sure input the correct path, for example D:\HPT370\Driver

\Win98_ME)

8. In the follow-up window, select HPT370 UDMA/ATA100 RAID Con-

troller or HPT372 UDMA/ATA 133 RAID Controller, then click Next

to continue;

9. Follow the system prompts to finish driver installation. When finished,

restart the computer.

Verify Installation

After the driver installation finished and the computer restarted:

1. Right-click My Computer icon on desktop, and then select Properties

item from the popup menu;

2. Activate Device Manager item from the popup window.

If there are the two device items under SCSI Controllers tree as shown below, it

indicates that the driver has been installed correctly.

Manual Installation

If Windows does not find new hardware, the driver can be manually installed

through the following steps :

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If you cannot find these two device items,or there is ?or ! on device icon, it

indicates that the driver has not been correctly installed and needs reinstallation.

Install driver under existing Windows NT4.0

1. Click Start-->Settings-->Control Panel, then double-click SCSI

Adapter icon;

2. In the follow-up window, select Driver item, then click Add button;

3. In the follow-up window, select Have Disk...;

4. Insert the driver diskette, and input the path of driver location A:\WinNT,

then click OK;(if users install driver from CD make sure input the

correct path, for example D:\HPT370\Driver\WinNT)

5. In the follow-up window, select HPT370 UDMA/ATA100 RAID Con-

troller or HPT372 UDMA/ATA 133 RAID Controller item, then click

OK;

6. Follow the system prompts to finish driver installation. When finished,

restart the computer.

Install driver during the process of Windows NT4.0 installation

( For install HPT driver during Windows NT4.0/Windows2000/WindowsXP

installation, recommend users copy the driver to a floppy diskette's root

directory)

1. Press F6 key when the system prompts Setup is inspecting your

computer’s hardware configuration;

2. The installation will continue. Later, installation program will prompt

user to press Skey to specify other devices, please press S key;

3. In the follow-up Device Type window, select Other item, then press

ENTER to confirm;

4. The installation program will prompt user to insert the driver diskette.

Please insert it and then press ENTER to confirm;

WINDOWS NT4.0

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5. In the follow-up window, select HPT370/372/372A ATA RAID

Controller, then press ENTER to confirm;

6. The follow-up window will list out the devices to be installed, in which

HPT370/372/372A ATA RAID Controller item should be included( If

users want to install other devices, please operate at this time. If all

devices have been successfully installed, please go to next step);

7. Press ENTER to continue the installation of Windows NT4.0.

Verify Installation

When the driver has been successfully installed and the computer restarted:

1. Click Start-->Setup-->Control Panel, and then double-click SCSI

Adapter item;

2. If there is HPT370 UDMA/ATA100 RAID Controller or HPT372

UDMA/ATA 133 RAID Controller item in the popup window, it

indicates that the driver has been successfully installed. Otherwise,

users need to reinstall the driver.

Windows 2000

Install driver under existing Windows 2000

Automatic Installation

Start the computer and boot into Windows 2000, the system will automatically

detect new hardware and prompt users to install the driver. Please insert the

driver diskette and follow the system prompts to finish the driver installation

and then restart the computer.

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Manual Installation

If Windows can not find new hardware, the driver should be manually installed

through the following steps :

1. Click Start-->Settings-->Control Panel, double click Add/Remove New

Hardware. In the follow-up window, Click Next to continue;

2. In the follow-up window, select the first item Add/Troubleshoot a device,

then click Next to continue;

3. In the follow-up window of device list, select the first item Add New

Device, then click Next to continue;

4. Then the system will ask whether to let Windows to search new hardware.

Please select No, I want to select the hardware from a list. then click

Next to continue;

5. In the follow-up window of device types, select SCSI and RAID

controllers, then click Next to continue;

6. In the follow-up window, select Have Disk...;

7. Please insert the driver diskette and input the path of driver location:

A:\Win2000 into Copy manufacturer’s files from: column, then click

OK; (if users install driver from CD make sure input the correct path,

for example D:\HPT370\Driver\Win2K)

8. In the follow-up window, select HPT370 UDMA/ATA100 RAID Con-

troller or HPT372 UDMA/ATA 133 RAID Controller;

9. Follow the system prompts to finish driver installation, and restart the

computer.

Install driver during the process of Windows 2000 installation

1. If Windows 2000 is installed from diskette booting , please let the install

program run automatically. If Windows 2000 is installed from the CD-

ROM,

please F6 key when the message Press F6 if you need to install a third

party SCSI or RAID driver appears. If start installation by typing Winnt,

after files have been copied and the computer restarted, press F6 key when

the message Setup is inspecting your computer’s hardware configura-

tion appears;

2. Press Skey to specify additional devices when the Windows 2000 Setup

window appears;

3. In the follow-up window for selecting device type, please select Other

and press ENTER to continue;

4. Insert the driver disketee, then press ENTER to continue;

5. The system will ask whether to install driver for WinNT or for Windows

2000, please select to install driver for Windows 2000;

6. The follow-up window will list out the devices to be installed, in which

HPT370/372/372A ATA RAID Controller item should be included;( If

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