4 Bay SATA to eSATA 3.5” HDD RAID Storage System RSV-S4-X User Manual
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3.3.2
INSTALLING SATARAID5 UTILITY............................................................................................................................................21
3.3.3 DISK DRIVE MODE SETUP.........................................................................................................................................................25
3.3.4 ALLOCATING PARTITION..........................................................................................................................................................25
3.4 INSTALLING ON WINDOWS XP (32/64-BIT).........................................................................................32
3.4.1 INSTALLING SATA RAID HOST BUS ADAPTER .....................................................................................................................32
3.4.2 INSTALLING SATARAID5 UTILITY............................................................................................................................................35
3.4.3 DISK DRIVE MODE SETUP.........................................................................................................................................................39
3.4.4 ALLOCATING PARTITIONS ON WINDOWS XP 32-BIT..........................................................................................................39
3.4.5 ALLOCATING PARTITIONS ON WINDOWS XP 64-BIT..........................................................................................................46
3.5 INSTALLING ON WINDOWS SERVER 2003 (32/64-BIT) ....................................................................55
3.5.1 INSTALLING SATA RAID HOST BUS ADAPTER .....................................................................................................................55
3.5.2 INSTALLING SATARAID5 UTILITY............................................................................................................................................58
3.5.3 DISK DRIVE MODE SETUP.........................................................................................................................................................62
3.5.4 ALLOCATING PARTITIONS........................................................................................................................................................62
3.6 INSTALLING ON WINDOWS VISTA (32/64-BIT)...................................................................................71
3.6.1 INSTALLING SATA RAID HOST BUS ADAPTER .....................................................................................................................71
3.6.2 INSTALLING SATARAID5 UTILITY............................................................................................................................................73
3.6.3 DISK DRIVE MODE SETUP.........................................................................................................................................................77
3.6.4 ALLOCATING PARTITIONS........................................................................................................................................................77
4 SATA RAID5 ARRAY MANAGER ..........................................................................84
4.1 OVERVIEW ...................................................................................................................................................84
4.2 CREATING RAID GROUPS.......................................................................................................................85
4.2.1 CONTIGUOUS RAID GROUPS..................................................................................................................................................85
4.2.2 CONCATENATED RAID GROUPS.............................................................................................................................................86
4.2.3 STRIPED RAID GROUPS............................................................................................................................................................86
4.2.4 MIRRORED RAID GROUPS .......................................................................................................................................................87
4.2.5 MIRRORED STRIPED RAID GROUPS ......................................................................................................................................87
4.2.6 PARITY RAID GROUPS...............................................................................................................................................................88
4.2.7 RAID GROUPS OVERVIEW........................................................................................................................................................89
4.3 ADDITIONAL MENU COMMANDS .........................................................................................................91
4.3.1 CONFIGURATION........................................................................................................................................................................92
4.3.2 EXIT................................................................................................................................................................................................97
4.3.3 CREATE SPARE...........................................................................................................................................................................98
4.3.4 DELETE SPARE............................................................................................................................................................................98
4.3.5 DELETE MEMBER.......................................................................................................................................................................99
4.3.6 DELETE ORPHAN........................................................................................................................................................................99