SATARaid User’s Manual Copyright © 2003 Silicon Image Inc.
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Table of Contents
1 Welcome .............................................................................................................................................4
SATARaid Features..................................................................................................................................4
2 An Introduction to RAID....................................................................................................................5
3 Installing Drivers for Windows XP/2000/98/NT..............................................................................6
4 JAVA 2 Runtime Environment Installation .....................................................................................7
5 SATARaid GUI Installation ...............................................................................................................9
6 Creating and Deleting RAID Sets .................................................................................................11
Creating RAID Sets................................................................................................................................ 13
Deleting RAID Sets................................................................................................................................. 14
Rebuild RAID 1 Set................................................................................................................................ 15
Resolving Conflicts................................................................................................................................ 16
Low Level Formatting............................................................................................................................ 18
Logical Drive Information...................................................................................................................... 18
7 Allocating Partitions........................................................................................................................19
Windows XP & 2000............................................................................................................................... 19
Windows NT........................................................................................................................................... 24
Windows 98 & Me .................................................................................................................................. 27
8 SATARaid GUI Overview...............................................................................................................32
Devices and Information Windows........................................................................................................ 32
Event Viewer and Events Windows........................................................................................................ 34
SATARaid Toolbar and Menu Commands.............................................................................................. 34
RAID Management................................................................................................................................. 35
System View.......................................................................................................................................... 35
Configure SATARaid.............................................................................................................................. 35
Send Configuration................................................................................................................................ 35
Save Configuration................................................................................................................................ 35
Copy Configuration................................................................................................................................ 35
SATARaid Help...................................................................................................................................... 35
Exit........................................................................................................................................................ 35
About SATARaid.................................................................................................................................... 36
9 SATARaid Configuration................................................................................................................37
10 RAID Set Management Under Windows 2000 & XP....................................................................45
Creating RAID Sets................................................................................................................................ 46
Deleting RAID Sets................................................................................................................................. 54
Modifying RAID Sets.............................................................................................................................. 56
Creating a Spare RAID 1 Drive............................................................................................................... 62
Deleting a Spare RAID 1 Drive............................................................................................................... 64
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