Tekram Technology TR-824 Manuel D’Utilisation

TR-824 User’s Manual 

 

After you install the TR-824 RAID Controller and HDDs in your computer and boot your system, you will 
see the screen that displays information about the card and HDDs installed. Press <CTRL-S> or F4 to enter 
RAID utility. An easy-to-use screen will appear with the following choices on the top left 
Create RAID Set 
Delete RAID Set 
Rebuild RAID1 Set 
Resolve Conflicts 
Low level Format 
Logical Drive Info 
The top right half shows direction and guiding information. 
The bottom left half of the screen displays the information of physical drives. The bottom right half lists 
logical drives’ information. 
There are the command keys: 
Arrows up and down are Select Keys 
ESC takes the user to the previous menu 
Enter selects the user’s choice 
Ctrl-E exits the utility 
 

1.  Select “Create RAID Set.” 
2.  Choose from the list of “RAID 0”, “RAID 1”, RAID 10” and “SPARE DRIVE”. 
3.  If the “RAID 0” is chosen, the utility will ask you to select how many drives for the raid0 set. You can 

choose from the list of numbers which is according to how many drives are connected to the computer. 
Then you can choose from Auto Configuration and Manual Configuration. Finally, the utility will ask 
“Are You Sure?” before completing the configuration. 

4.  If you select the second or third option, you’ll be asked to choose from Auto Configuration and 

Manual Configuration. Finally, the utility will ask “Are You Sure?” before completing the 
configuration. Afterward the utility will ask “Are You Sure?” before completing the configuration. 

5.  If the RAID 1 set has already been built, you can choose “SPARE DRIVE” to set a hot spare drive as a 

backup for the existing RAID 1. The utility will ask “Are You Sure?” before completing the 
configuration. 

 

1.  To remove one or more RAID sets, select “Delete RAID Set.” 
2.  Select desired set and press Y when asked “Are You Sure?” 
 

If a hard disk is damaged when running RAID 1, remove the damaged HDD, connect a workable one, 
rebuild the array and restore data by selecting Rebuild Mirrored set. This can be done either online or 
offline. 
 

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, 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. To resolve this, select “Resolve Conflict” and the correct metadata, including the correct drive 
connection information; will be written to the replacement disk.