PCI SATA RAID Card User Manual
Product Features : Chipset: Silicon Image Sil3112 SATA controller chip. Compliant with PCI Specification, Rev. 2.2. Compliant with PCI Plug & Play. 32-bit 33 MHz PCI interface. RAID 0 and RAID1. Hot Spare and On-line Mirror Rebuilding. System GUI Monitoring Utility -Displays/sLogs/Alerts Users to Vital RAID Set Information -Manages RAID Set Functions (configures, rebuilds, etc.) RAID Set Accommodates Multiple Size HDDs HDDs Function Normally When Not in RAID Sets Adjustable Stripe Size for RAID 0 Automatically Selects Highest Available Transfer Speed for All ATA and ATAPI Devices. Supports UDMA up to 150MB/Sec. Supports all UDMA and PIO Modes Supports up to 2 SATA Devices Supports ACPI and ATA/ATAPI6 Supports Windows 98, 98SE, ME, 2000, XP and NT 4.0. Supports RAID 0 (striped), RAID 1 (mirrored) by installing the software. Please note that in order to use RAID, the boot drive should be connected to the Primary Channel of the SATA Controller.
Driver Installations (Windows XP) 1. Power off the computer. 2. Install the PCI Card in a PCI slot. 3. Power on the computer and let the operating system detects the Card. 4. System will detect RAID Controller in Other devices. 5. Right Click RAID Controller and choose Update Driver.
6. Choose Install from a list or specific location (Advanced). 7. Choose Search for the best driver in these locations. and enter the directory SIL3112\RAID of the CD Drive, then press Next button.
8. After the Drivers installation completed, Windows will detect Silicon Image Sil 3112 SATARaid Controller.
9. Device Manager will show Silicon Image Sil3112 SATARaid Controller in SCSI and RAID Controller. 10. After Driver installation completes, please install the RAID GUI Utility, ie. InstsallSATARaid.exe, in the driver CD. Driver Installations (Windows 2000) 1. Power off the computer. 2. Install the PCI Card in a PCI slot. 3. Power on the computer and let the operating system detects the Card.
4. System will detect RAID Controller in Other devices. 5. Right Click RAID Controller and choose Update Driver.
6. Choose Search for a suitable driver for my device (recommended) 7. Choose Specify a location.
8. Type the CD directory of the drivers, ie. G:\SIL3112\RAID. 9. Windows will detect g:\sil3112\raid\si3112r.inf.
10. After driver installation completes, Device Manger shows Silicon Image Sil 3112 SATARaid Controller in SCSI and RAID controllers. 11. After Driver installation completes, please install the RAID GUI Utility, ie. InstallSATARaid.exe, in the driver CD. Driver Installations (Windows ME) 1. Power off the computer. 2. Install the PCI Card in a PCI slot. 3. Power on the computer and let the operating system detects the Card.
4. System will detect RAID Controller in Other devices. 5. Right Click RAID Controller and choose Update Driver.
6. Choose Install from a list or specific location (Advanced). 7. Choose Search for the best driver in these locations. and enter the directory SIL3112\RAID of the CD Drive, then press Next button.
8. After the Drivers installation completed, Windows will detect Silicon Image Sil 3112 SATARaid Controller. 9. Device Manager will show Silicon Image Sil3112 SATARaid Controller in SCSI and RAID Controller.
10. After Driver installation completes, please install the RAID GUI Utility, ie. InstallSATARaid.exe, in the driver CD. Driver Installations (Windows 98) 1. Power off the computer. 2. Install the PCI Card in a PCI slot. 3. Power on the computer and let the operating system detects the Card. 4. System will detect RAID Controller in Other devices.
5. Right Click RAID Controller and choose Update Driver. 6. System will detect the update driver 7. Choose Search for a better driver than the one your device is using now.
(recommended) 8. Choose Specify a location.
9. Type the CD directory of the drivers, ie. G:\SIL3112\RAID. 10. Windows will detect g:\sil3112\raid\si3112r.inf.
11. After driver installation completes, Device Manger shows Silicon Image Sil 3112 SATARaid Controller in SCSI and RAID controllers. 12. After Driver installation completes, please install the RAID GUI Utility, ie. InstallSATARaid.exe, in the driver CD.