Guide to SiS RAID Utility for Windows XP / 2000
1. General
1. After installing the SiS RAID utility, go to “Start” menu and choose
“Programs.” From the “Programs” menu, choose “SiS RAID Utility” and
click on “SiSRaid”
NOTE
If your working OS is installed in the SATA hard disk(s) and you want to
re-configure the RAID type, we suggest you to re-configure it in “SiS
RAID BIOS Setting Utility” rather than this “SiS RAID Utility for Windows.
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2. The SiS RAID Utility window opens as below. The main interface has two
tabs: View and Configuration. You can switch to different tabs by
clicking on it. On “View” tab, we can see some device information on
different controllers. You can click the drop-down box “Adapter” to select the controller you want to use. The default value is the information of
the first device on “SiS RAID controller 1”.
3. Click the tab Configuration, you can find three tabs: Create Raid,
Delete Raid, and Raid Recovery. In the same way, you can switch to
different tabs by clicking on it.
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2. Viewing the “Create Raid”
Click the tab Create Raid, you can find three drop-down box and three
panes. Those meaning will be showing below.
1. Raid Type:
Click the drop-down box “Raid Type”. This box enables the user to select
array type. There are three array types that the user can select: JBOD,
RAID 0, and RAID 1. User can select any one array type to create a RAID
set.
NOTE
If your SATA hard disks are already configured in any RAID type,your
SATA hard disks could not appear in the <Availa ble Disks> pane.
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2. Block Size:
If user selected RAID 0 array types in the “RAID Type” box, the “Block
Size” drop-down box will be enabled and user must select a block size.
Clicking the drop-down box “Block Size”, there are seven block size that
the user can select: 8k, 16k, 32k, 64k, 128k, 256k and 512k. User can
select any one block size to create a RAID 0 set. The default selection is
64k.
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3. Mode Type:
Click the drop-down box “Mode Type”. This box enables the user to
select mode type. There are two mode types that the user can select:
PIO and DMA. User can select any one mode type to create a RAID set.
The default selection is DMA.
NOTE
For the “Mode” option, you may select between “DMA” and “PIO” modes,
but it is recommended to select “DMA” mode.
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4. <Available Disks>:
This pane will list out all the disks that can be used to create a RAID set
currently. It will show some disk information (ex. Location, serial numbers,
the ability of boot and the status of recovering).
5. <Selected Disks>:
This pane will list out all the disks that have been selected to create a
RAID set. User can highlight the specific disk that we wants in the
<Available Disks> pane and click the downward arrow icon or double
click the marked disk to select that disk into the <Selected Disks> pane. In
the same way, user can click the upward arrow icon or double click the
marked disk in the <Selected Disks> to get back the disk that we might
select wrong to the <Available Disks> pane.
6. <Information>:
This pane will show the information about creating a RAID set after
clicking the Create button. The information may be “Please select the
<Raid Type> f irst!”, “Please select the <Mode Type> first!”, “Please sele ct
the <Block Size> first!”, “Please select the disk you want first!”, “Mirror
supports TWO DISKS only.”, “Raid Created successful! Reboot please!!”
or “Raid Creation failed!”.
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3. Create Raid
A. To create a JBOD array, follow these steps:
1. Configuration “Create Raid” “Raid Type” JBOD.
2. From the drop-down box “Mode Type”, select the mode type you
want or use the default value “DMA”.
3. From the <Available Disks> pane, select the disk and click down-
ward arrow icon or double click it to add the disk on the <Selected
Disks> pane.
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4. When the JBOD array’s configuration is finished, click the Create
button. Then a warning message will pop up. Pay attention to the
warning message, and then click Yes button to finish the creation of
JBOD array, or click No button to cancel.
NOTE
If the disk you selected has the ability of booting,
another warning message will pop up before “SiS
Software RAID” message. You may click Yes button
to continue or click No button to cancel.
5. Next, another message box will pop up to tell user that disk setting
has been changed and ask whether to restart the computer or not.
Click Yes button to restart the computer or click Cancel button to
skip restarting.
NOTE
New Setting will be activated only after you restart
the computer.
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