Digitus DS-30103 User Manual

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2-CHANNEL SATA II

PCI EXPRESS CARD

User Manual

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Features and Benefits

 Compliant with one-lane 2.5Gb/s PCI Express specificat ion
 Compliant with Serial ATA 1.0 specification
 Supports Serial ATA Generation 2 transfer rate of 3.0Gb/s
 Supports Native Command Queue (NCQ) on SATA ports
 Provides three independent channels to connect two SATA

and one PATA hard disk drive

 Supports up to UDMA6 transfer mode of PATA
 Supports up to 4 storage device connection
 Supports RAID 0, 1, 0+1 and JBOD functions
 Supports Windows 7, Vista, XP and 2000
 Connectors:

2 x internal SATA connectors,
2 x external eSATA connectors
1 x PATA connector

Package Contents

 1x PCIe SATA II 300 + PATA Raid Card

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 1x Manual  1x Driver CD
 2x SATA Data Cable  2x SATA Power Cable

 1x ATA 133 IDE Cable

System Requirements

 Windows® 2000, Window s XP/2003/Vista 32/64 bit
 PCI Express-enabled system with an available PCI Express

slot

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Hardware Description

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Jumper Settings
J1-J4: Enable CON1 or CON3 (Default: CON1)
J5-J8: Enable CON2 or CON4 (Default: CON2)

JP Description Default

J1-J4 1-2 close Enable SATA CON1 1-2 close

2-3 close Enable SATA CON3

J5-J8 1-2 close Enable SATA CON2 1-2 close

2-3 close Enable SATA CON4

Hardware Installation

1. Turn Off the power to your computer.

2. Unplug the power cord and remove your computer’s cover.

3. Remove the slot bracket from an available PCIe slot.

4. To install the bard, carefully align the card’s bus connector with the

selected PCIe slot on the motherboard. Push the board down firmly.

5. Attach your internal or external devices to the PCIe SATA II 300 +

PATA Raid Card.

6. Replace the slot bracket’s holding screw to secure the card.

7. Replace the computer cover and reconnect the power cord.

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RAID Arrays

RAID Arrays are setup in the PCIe SATA II 300 + PATA Raid
Card’s BIOS.

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 2
RAID 0+1 Disk Striping

+ Mirroring

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JBOD Disk Concatenation 2 or 3 or 4

RAID 0 (Striping)

1. As the BIOS boots 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. Please use arrow keys ↑ and ↓to switch the RAID level

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to 0-Stripe, then press Enter.

5. Please use arrow keys ↑ and ↓to switch the disk, use the
“space” key to mark the selected disk, then press Enter.

6. Please 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 Created RAID on the select HDD (Y/N)?,

press Y to accept.

9. At the next screen select Save And Exit Setup, press
Enter. When asked Save to disk &Exit (Y/N)?, press Y to
exit the BIOS.

RAID 1 (Mirroring)

1. As the BIOS boots 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. Please use arrow keys ↑ and ↓to switch the RAID level

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to 1-Mirror, then press Enter.

5. Please 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 Created RAID on the select HDD (Y/N)?,

press Y to accept.

8. At the next screen select Save And Exit Setup, press
Enter. When asked Save to disk &Exit (Y/N)?, press Y to
exit the BIOS.

CONCATENATION (JBOD)

1. As the BIOS boots 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. Please use arrow keys ↑ and ↓to switch the RAID level

to JBOD-Concatenate, then press Enter.

5. Please use arrow keys ↑ and ↓to switch the disk, use the

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“space” key to mark the selected disk, then press Enter.

6. Input the RAID size, press Enter.

7. When asked Created RAID on the select HDD (Y/N)?,

press Y to accept.

8. At the next screen select Save And Exit Setup, press
Enter. When asked Save to disk &Exit (Y/N)?, press Y to
exit the BIOS.

RAID 0+1 (Striping + Mirroring)

1. As the BIOS boots 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. Please use arrow keys ↑ and ↓to switch the RAID level

to 01-Stripe+Mirror, then press Enter.

5. Please use arrow keys ↑ and ↓ to select chunk size from

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4K, 8K, 16K, 32K, 64K or 128K, then press Enter.

6. Input the RAID size, press Enter.

7. When asked Created RAID on the select HDD (Y/N)?,

press Y to accept.

8. At the next screen select Save And Exit Setup, press
Enter. When asked Save to disk &Exit (Y/N)?, press Y to
exit the BIOS.

Delete RAID Disk Drive

1. As the BIOS boots press Ctrl+J when prompted to enter the
RAID BIOS.

2. At the next screen select Delete RAID Disk Drive, press
Enter.

3. Please use arrow keys ↑ and ↓to select the array you
want to delete, use the “space” key to mark the selected
array, then press DEL.

4. When asked ALL DATA ON THE RAID WILL LOST!! ARE
YOU SURE TO DELETE (Y/N), press Y to accept.

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Solve Mirror Conflict

When a RAID set is created, then metadata written to the disk
includes drive connection information. 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. 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, from the
main BIOS window select Solve Mirror Conflict, then press
Enter, the correct metadata,

including the correct drive connection information, will be w ritten
to the replacement disk.

Rebuild Mirror Drive

When a failure to one member occurs, you wi ll be notifi ed by the
RAID BIOS during boot. The steps below will guide you in
rebuilding a failed mirror set.

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1. Replace he failed drive(s) with one of equal or greater

capacity, then start the computer.

2. During boot press Ctrl+J to enter the RAID BIOS.

3. Select Rebuild Mirror Drive press Enter.

4. Please use arrow keys ↑ and ↓to select the array you

want to rebuild, press Enter.

5. Please use arrow keys ↑ and ↓to select the destination
disk, press Enter.

6. When rebuilding is finished, select Save And Exit Setup,
press Enter. When asked Save to disk &Exit (Y/N)?, press
Y to exit the BIOS.

BIOS Configuration

The PCIe SATA II 300 + PATA Raid Card BIOS will appear every
time your system starts up. During this (POST) process, the
BIOS will show up and indicate the devices attached to it.

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Driver Installation

For New Installation

For Windows® 2000, XP/2003 32/64bit

A new installation requires a floppy disk for the driver
installation. To create a pre-install disk for 32-bit
Win2K/WinXP/Win2003, copy the contents of the
“DS-30103\Windows\Floppy32” folder, found on the driver CD,
onto a blank floppy disk; To create a pre-install disk for 64-bit
WinXP/Win2003, copy the contents of the
“DS-30103\Windows\Floppy64” folder, found on the driver CD,
onto a blank floppy disk.

1. Setup the RAID Array prior to Windows installation.

2. Follow Microsoft’s Windows installation procedure.

3. At the Windows Setup screen, press F6 to install the RAID

driver.

4. When prompted, press S to specify the location of the driver.

5. Insert the floppy disk, then press Enter.

6. Choose the proper item t o fit the OS an RAID cont roller you

are installing. Each item shows the matched OS for it.

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7. Press Enter to finish driver installation, then follow the

on-screen instructions to complete the Windows installation.

For Windows® Vista 32/64 bit

A new installation requires a floppy disk for the driver
installation. To create a pre-install disk for 32-bit Vista, copy the
contents of the “DS-30103\Windows\Floppy32” folder, found on
the driver CD, onto a blank floppy disk; To create a pre-install
disk for 64-bit Vista, copy the contents of the
“DS-30103\Windows\Floppy64” folder, found on the driver CD,
onto a blank floppy disk

1. Setup the RAID Array prior to W indows installation.

2. Follow Microsoft’s Windows installation procedure.

3. At the Windows Setup screen, press Load Driver to install the

driver.

4. Insert the floppy disk, please select JMicron JMB36X

Controller (A:\jraid_f.inf), then press Next. (Change A:\ to
match your floppy drive letter)

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5. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the Windows

installation.

For An Existing Installation

For Windows® 2000, XP/2003 32/64bit, Vista 32/64bit

1. Setup the RAID Array prior to driver installation and boot up

to Windows.

2. At the Found New Hardware Wizard window pop-up,

please click Cancel button to cancel the driver installation
for the device at this moment. The driver for this device will
be installed in the next step.

3. Please insert the CD driver bound with PCIe SATA II 300 +

PATA Raid Card into your CD-ROM Drive.

4. At the Windows desktop, click Start, then Run.

5. Type D:\DS-30103\Windows\Setup.exe, click OK. (Change

D:\ to match your CD-ROM drive letter)

6. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the

installation.

7. Restart Windows to complete the installation.

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To Verify Driver Installation

Click on the “Device Manager” tab in System Properties, which
you access from the Windows Control Panel. You should see an

“JMicron JMB36X RAID Controller” installed under “SCSI and
RAID controllers (Storage controllers-Vista)” item.