Edge10 DAS501t User Manuals

Table of Contents

• WELCOME

  4
• INTRODUCTION

  4
• PRECAUTION

  4
• FEATURES

  4
• DATA SECURITY

  4
• DATA PERFORMANCE

  5
• DATA VERSATILITY

  5
• EASE OF USE

  5
• SPECIFICATIONS

  5
• SYSTEMS REQUIREMENTS

  5
• PC SYSTEMS

  5
• MACINTOSH SYSTEMS

  6
• PRODUCT CONTENTS

  6
• AN INTRODUCTION TO RAID

  7
• RAID VOLUMES

  7
• SEGMENTING DISKS

  7
• RAID LEVELS

  8
• DISK STRIPING (RAID 0)

  8
• DISK MIRRORING (RAID 1)

  8
• DISK MIRRORING AND STRIPING (RAID 10)

  8
• PARITY RAID (RAID 5)

  9
• CONCATENATION (COMBINE DRIVE)

  9
• SINGLE DRIVE / SEGMENT

  9
• RAID VOLUME STATUS

  10
• INSTALLATION

  11
• COMPONENTS

  11
• INSTALLING HARDWARE

  11
• INSTALLING ON WINDOWS 2000

  11
• INSTALLING SATA RAID HOST BUS ADAPTER

  11
• INSTALLING SATARAID5 UTILITY

  15
• DISK DRIVE MODE SETUP

  19
• ALLOCATING PARTITION

  19
• INSTALLING ON WINDOWS XP

  25
• INSTALLING SATA RAID HOST BUS ADAPTER

  25
• INSTALLING SATARAID5 UTILITY

  26
• DISK DRIVE MODE SETUP

  30
• ALLOCATING PARTITIONS ON WINDOWS XP 32-BIT

  30
• ALLOCATING PARTITIONS ON WINDOWS XP 64-BIT

  36
• INSTALLING ON WINDOWS SERVER 2003

  42
• INSTALLING SATA RAID HOST BUS ADAPTER

  42
• INSTALLING SATARAID5 UTILITY

  44
• DISK DRIVE MODE SETUP

  47
• ALLOCATING PARTITIONS

  47
• 3.6 INSTALLING ON WINDOWS VISTA

  54
• 3.6.1 INSTALLING SATA RAID HOST BUS ADAPTER

  54
• 3.6.2 INSTALLING SATARAID5 UTILITY

  55
• 3.6.3 DISK DRIVE MODE SETUP

  59
• 3.6.4 ALLOCATING PARTITIONS

  59
• 3.7 INSTALLING ON MACINTOSH OS X

  64
• 3.7.1 RELEASE NOTES

  64
• 3.7.2 INSTALLING SATA RAID HOST BUS ADAPTER AND SATARAID5 UTILITY

  64
• 3.7.3 DISK DRIVE MODE SETUP

  68
• 3.7.4 ALLOCATING PARTITIONS

  68
• SATARAID5 ARRAY MANAGER

  73
• 4.1 OVERVIEW

  73
• 4.2 CREATING RAID GROUPS

  74
• 4.2.1 CONTIGUOUS RAID GROUPS

  74
• 4.2.2 CONCATENATED RAID GROUPS

  74
• 4.2.3 STRIPED RAID GROUPS

  75
• 4.2.4 MIRRORED RAID GROUPS

  75
• 4.2.5 MIRRORED STRIPED RAID GROUPS

  76
• 4.2.6 PARITY RAID GROUPS

  76
• 4.2.7 RAID GROUPS OVERVIEW

  77
• 4.3 ADDITIONAL MENU COMMANDS

  78
• 4.3.1 CONFIGURATION

  79
• 4.3.2 EXIT

  81
• 4.3.3 CREATE SPARE

  82
• 4.3.4 DELETE SPARE

  82
• 4.3.5 DELETE MEMBER

  83
• 4.3.6 DELETE ORPHAN

  83
• 4.3.7 MAKE PASS-THRU

  83
• 4.3.8 DEVICE SUMMARY

  84
• 4.3.9 CREATE RAID GROUP

  85
• 4.3.10 REBUILD RAID GROUP

  85
• 4.3.11 DELETE RAID GROUP

  86
• 4.3.12 BRING RAID GROUP ONLINE

  86
• 4.3.13 RAID GROUP SUMMARY

  86
• 4.3.14 TASK MANAGER

  87
• 4.3.15 EVENT LOG

  89
• 4.3.16 RESOURCES

  90
• 4.3.17 CREATE LEGACY RAID GROUP

  91
• 4.3.18 HELP TOPICS

  91
• 4.3.19 ABOUT

  91