Rosewill RSV-S8 - Manual (Page 2)

Server RSV-S8 User Manual
Content
1 WELCOME....................................................................................3
1.1 PRECAUTION....................................................................................................................................... 3
1.2 FEATURES............................................................................................................................................ 3
1.2.1 DATA SECURITY ........................................................................................................................ 3
1.2.2 DATA PERFORMANCE .............................................................................................................. 3
1.2.3 DATA VERSATILITY .................................................................................................................... 3
1.3 EASE OF USE....................................................................................................................................... 4
1.4 SPECIFICATIONS................................................................................................................................. 4
1.5 SUPPORTED OPERATING SYSTEMS ................................................................................................. 4
1.6 PRODUCT CONTENTS ........................................................................................................................ 4
2 AN INTRODUCTION TO RAID.....................................................5
2.1 RAID VOLUMES ................................................................................................................................... 5
2.2 SEGMENTING DISKS .......................................................................................................................... 5
2.3 RAID LEVELS ....................................................................................................................................... 6
2.3.1 DISK STRIPING (RAID 0) ........................................................................................................... 6
2.3.2 DISK MIRRORING (RAID 1) ....................................................................................................... 6
2.3.3 DISK MIRRORING AND STRIPING (RAID 10) ........................................................................... 6
2.3.4 PARITY RAID (RAID 5) ............................................................................................................... 6
2.3.5 CONCATENATION ..................................................................................................................... 7
2.4 RAID VOLUME STATUS ....................................................................................................................... 7
3 INSTALLATION .............................................................................8
3.1 COMPONENTS .................................................................................................................................... 8
3.2 INSTALLING HARDWARE .................................................................................................................... 8
3.3 INSTALLING ON WINDOWS 2000 ....................................................................................................... 8
3.3.1 INSTALLING SATA RAID HOST BUS ADAPTER........................................................................ 8
3.3.2 INSTALLING SATARAID5 UTILITY ........................................................................................... 13
3.3.3 DISK DRIVE MODE SETUP ..................................................................................................... 16
3.3.4 ALLOCATING PARTITION........................................................................................................ 16
3.4 INSTALLING ON WINDOWS XP (32/64-BIT) ..................................................................................... 22
3.4.1 INSTALLING SATA RAID HOST BUS ADAPTER...................................................................... 22
3.4.2 INSTALLING SATARAID5 UTILITY ........................................................................................... 24
3.4.3 DISK DRIVE MODE SETUP ..................................................................................................... 28
3.4.4 ALLOCATING PARTITIONS ON WINDOWS XP 32-BIT........................................................... 28
3.4.5 ALLOCATING PARTITIONS ON WINDOWS XP 64-BIT........................................................... 34
3.5 INSTALLING ON WINDOWS SERVER 2003 (32/64-BIT) ................................................................... 40
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