User Guide

VT6410 User Manual – IDE RAID Controller
Preliminary Revision 0.2, November 11, 2002 3 Introduction
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JBOD (Spanning)
A spanning disk array is equal to the sum of the all drives in the array. Spanning stores data on to a drive until it is full then
proceeds to store files onto the next drive in the array. When any disk member fails, the failure affects the entire array. JBOD is
not really a RAID and does not support fault tolerance.
Key Features
The VIA IDE RAID solution uses the VT6410 chip (a two-channel ATA 133 solution) as a RAID controller. The RAID software
is a Windows-based software utility. Its graphical user interface provides an easy way to configure and manage disk drives or disk
arrays connected to the VT6410 controller. Listed below are the main features and benefits of VIA IDE RAID:
1. Supports ATA 133 high performance hard disk drive.
2. Supports hard disk drive larger than 137 GB (48-bits LBA).
3. Dual independent ATA channels and maximum connection of four hard disk drives allowed.
4. Supports Ultra DMA mode 6/5/4/3/2/1/0, DMA mode 2/1/0, and PIO mode 4/3/2/1/0.
5. Supports PCI Plug and Play. PCI interrupt sharing and coexists with mainboard IDE controller.
6. Supports IDE bus master operation.
7. Supports RAID 0, 1, 0+1, and JBOD.
8. 4 KB to 64 KB striping block size support.
9. Bootable disk or disk array support.
10. Windows-based RAID configure and management software tool. (Compatible with BIOS)
11. Real-time monitoring of device status and error alarm with popup message box and beeping.
12. Supports hot-swap failed disk drive in RAID 1 and 0+1 array.
13. Mirroring automatic background rebuilds support.
14. ATA SMART function support.
15. Microsoft Windows 98, Me, NT4.0, 2000, XP operating systems support.
16. Event log for easy troubleshooting.
17. On-line help for easy operation for RAID software.