Addonics Technologies ADI2S3GPX1-2E User Manual

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Detailed View of Jumper Pins

To enable CON3 and disable CON1,
transfer jumper to pins 2 & 3 on J1, J2, J3 & J4

To enable CON4 and disable CON2,
transfer jumper to pins 2 & 3 on J5, J6, J7 & J8

Recommendations on using the ADI2S3GPX1-2E

There are two ways of configuring raid sets on the

ADI2S3GPX1-2E

. Use the

RAID BIOS of the controller card which shows up after POST or install the
JMB36X RAID Configurer in Windows to create raid volumes. The JMB36X RAID
Configurer will not run when no devices are attached to the controller.

Using the RAID BIOS to create RAID Volumes

There are four configurations supported:

RAID level/Type

Configurations

Number of disks needed

RAID 0

Disk Striping

2 or 3 or 4

RAID 1

Disk Mirroring

RAID 0+1

Disk Striping + Mirroring

JBOD

Disk Concatenation

2 or 3 or 4

RAID 0 (Striping)
1. Press Ctrl+J when prompted to enter the RAID BIOS.
2. At the next screen select Create RAID Disk Drive, press Enter.
3. Enter RAID name, press Enter.
4. Use arrow keys

• and •to switch the RAID level to 0-Stripe, then press

Enter.

5. Use arrow keys

• and •to switch the disk, use the “space” key to mark the

selected disk, then press Enter.

6. Use arrow keys

• and • to select chunk size from 4K, 8K, 16K, 32K, 64K

or 128K, then press Enter.

7. Input the RAID size, press Enter.
8. When asked Create RAID on the select HDD (Y/N)?, press Y to accept.
9. At the next screen select Save And Exit Setup, press Enter.
10. When asked Save to disk &Exit (Y/N)?, press Y to exit the RAID BIOS.

RAID 1 (Mirroring)
1. Press Ctrl+J when prompted to enter the RAID BIOS.
2. At the next screen select Create RAID Disk Drive, press Enter.
3. Enter RAID name, press Enter.
4. Use arrow keys

• and •to switch the RAID level to 1-Mirror, then press

Enter.

5. Use arrow keys

• and •to switch the disk, use the “space” key to mark the

selected disk, then press Enter.

6. Input the RAID size, press Enter.
7. When asked Create RAID on the select HDD (Y/N)?, press Y to accept.
8. At the next screen select Save And Exit Setup, press Enter.
9. When asked Save to disk &Exit (Y/N)?, press Y to exit the BIOS.

CONCATENATION (JBOD)
1. Press Ctrl+J when prompted to enter the RAID BIOS.
2. At the next screen select Create RAID Disk Drive, press Enter.
3. Enter RAID name, press Enter.
4. Use arrow keys

• and •to switch the RAID level to JBOD-Concatenate,

then press Enter.

5. Use arrow keys

• and •to switch the disk, use the “space” key to mark the

selected disk, then press Enter.

6. Input the RAID size, press Enter.
7. When asked Create RAID on the select HDD (Y/N)?, press Y to accept.
8. At the next screen select Save And Exit Setup, press Enter.
9. When asked Save to disk &Exit (Y/N)?, press Y to exit the BIOS.

RAID 0+1 (Striping + Mirroring)
1. Press Ctrl+J when prompted to enter the RAID BIOS.
2. At the next screen select Create RAID Disk Drive, press Enter.
3. Enter RAID name, press Enter.
4. Use arrow keys

• and •to switch the RAID level to 01-Stripe+Mirror, then

press Enter.

5. Use arrow keys

• and • to select chunk size from 4K, 8K, 16K, 32K, 64K

or 128K, then press Enter.

Pin 1