User`s guide

Addonics Technologies Users Guide v1.0

2-Port SATA II RAID5/JBOD PCI Express Controller Card

Note: You cannot create a RAID 5 Set for a Fresh Windows Operating

System Installation.

A. CONCATENATED RAID Set Configuration in RAID BIOS:

1. Power ON your PC.

2. Wait until the system prompts for the RAID BIOS Configuration Utility.

Press CTRL+ S or the F4 key to enter the BIOS RAID Utility.

3. The RAID Utility menu screen will be displayed. Select Create RAID

set.

4. Choose CONCATENATION. Press Enter. Press Enter to select first

drive of the RAID set.

5. Are You Sure? Press Y.

6. Under the Logical Drive Component, you should see SiI Concatenation

and the Drive Capacity.

7. Press CRTL+E to Exit.

8. Are you sure to exit? Press Y.

9. The PC will reboot.

10. At the Windows Set-up screen, press F6 to specify and add the driver.

11. Insert the Floppy Driver diskette containing the driver from step 1 above.

Press S, then press Enter.

12. Select

Silicon Image SiI 3132 SoftRAID 5 Controller for Windows XP/

Server 2003 or

Silicon Image SiI 3132 SoftRAID 5 Controller for Windows 2000,

press Enter.

13. Press Enter to continue and follow on-screen instructions to

complete installation.

B. STRIPPED RAID Set Configuration in RAID BIOS:

1. Power ON your PC.

2. Wait until the system prompts for the RAID BIOS Configuration Utility.

Press CTRL+ S or the F4 key to enter the BIOS RAID Utility.

3. The RAID Utility menu screen will be displayed. Select Create RAID

set.

4. Choose RAID 0. Press Enter. Press Enter to automatically create RAID

set.

5. Press Enter to select the Raid size.

6. Are You Sure? Press Y.

7. Under the Logical Drive Component, you should see SiI Raid0 Set and

the Drive Capacity.

8. Press CRTL+E to Exit.

9. Are you sure to exit? Press Y.

10. The PC will reboot.

11. At the Windows Set-up screen, press F6 to specify and add the driver.