ECS SiS964 Operation & User’s Manual

ECS SiS964 23 8. Press until exit this BIOS utility and the red message frame will show as the same as the creation of the RAID 0 array. Press and to save changes. 9. Once the array has been created, you will need to FDISK and FORMAT the array as if it were a new single hard drive. Creating a JBOD Array NOTE: 1. SiS1 ...

ECS SiS964 15 Create RAID NOTE: z SiS180 controller support RAID 0, RAID 1, JBOD and RAID 0+1. z SiS964 SATA controller support RAID0, RAID 1 and JBOD. z The selection of RAID 0+1 will appear when 4 single HDD existing. Creating a RAID 0 (Stripe) Array for Performance NOTE: 1. SiS180 enables users to create striped arrays with 2, 3, ...

ECS SiS964 13 [b]. No available disk existing but have RAID existing: [c]. Available disks and RAID existing simultaneously: ...

24 3. You will have two selections to create a JBOD array. The default value is <1>. If you select <1>Auto Create, you can create a JBOD array faster and easier. The result after creating will be shown on step 5. Besides, you also can select <2>Manual Create, see following steps. 4. Use<↑> <↓> to select disk , and pre ...

ECS SiS964 43 When this operation is beginning, you still can click the destroy button on the “Create Stripe RaidSet” dialog to stop this operation. But this action will cause the data of the source disk broken. And the following message will be popup to remind you. 8. If the operation is “Source is a boot device” of

12 e. The Raid is wrong!! Do you want to fix it??(Y/N) Æ Occurs when the locations of two SATA HDD change owing to ATA HDD existing or not. 2. Press keys to display the SiS964/SiS180 Utility Main Menu. 3. Press to display the RAID setup menu below. This is the fastest and easiest method to create your firs ...

ECS SiS964 6 Step 1. Hardware Setup Hard Drives setup The SiS180 controller supports up to two Serial ATA hard drives and two Parallel ATA hard drives. The South Bridge SiS964 SATA controller only supports two Serial ATA hard drivers. For RAID 0 (Striping array) z Any combination to 2, 3 or 4 Hard disks would combine to a stripe sy ...

ECS SiS964 53 About Raid Recovery Click the tab “Raid Recovery”, you can find two panes and some buttons. Those meaning will be showing below. Raid Recovery Operation NOTE: The recovering operation is workable only when error RAID1 set or error RAID 0+1 set (must at least an error RAID0 set) exist. a) First, you can click the ...

ECS SiS964 52 2. If you want to delete a disk array you selected, you can highlight the disk array and then click the button “Delete”. Then a warning message will be popup, and pay attention to the warning message. 3. Next, you can click the button “Delete” to delete this RAID 0+1 array and all disk will become single di ...

ECS SiS964 28 3. Press until exit this BIOS utility and the red message frame will show as the same as the creation of the RAID 0 array. Press and to save changes. Delete RAID Starting to delete a RAID array 1. After enter the SiS964/SiS180 Utility Main Menu, press to display the RAID setup menu below. This is th ...

4 Step 0. What is RAID Know How This section will give you an overview about the RAID system and introduce the basic background and glossary which you need to know before using “SiS RAID Controller Application”. 1. RAID: (Redundant Array of Independent Disk Drives) use jointly several hard drives to increase data tran ...