ARS-2016/2016EB Mirror Smart 160 User’s Manual Version: 1.2 Copyright © 2005 ACARD Technology Corp.
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Table of Contents Chapter 1 About SCSIDE ................................... 5 1.1 Revolutionary Technology................................... 5 1.2 SCSIDE® Design ................................................. 6 Chapter 2 Introduction....................................... 7 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Overview ............................................................... 7 Features ................................................................ 7 Quick Start ...........................................
Appendix 1 Migrate Current HDD to Mirror ... 36 Appendix 2 Mirror Smart Utility ...................... 38 Appendix 3 SCSI Adapter Compatibility ........ 52 Technical Support Form ...................................
ARS-2016/2016EB Manual Chapter 1 About SCSIDE 1.1 Revolutionary Technology SCSIDE® is a revolutionary technology developed by ACARD Technology Corp. It can not only transform IDE data into SCSI type, but also save the expenditures. Through this technology any cheap IDE device can have high-performance SCSI applications. The following examples are simply a little portion of SCSIDE® applications. 1. To transform an IDE hard disk into an external SCSI one for notebook and desktop PC users to back up data. 2.
ARS-2016/2016EB Manual Figure 1-1 1.2 SCSIDE® Design The objectives of SCSIDE® design are given as follows: 1. Save the expenses of SCSI by using an inexpensive IDE device. 2. Create applications like SCSI CD-ROM and high speed SCSI DVD-ROM. 3. Apply ”plug and play” to the transformation of IDE device to SCSI one. It is not necessary to install a driver. We welcome you to be a new member of SCSIDE® and have a good time.
ARS-2016/2016EB Manual Chapter 2 Introduction 2.1 Overview ARS-2016 and ARS-2016EB Ultra 160 SCSI RAID 1 System are designed for mirroring. The former is for internal connection while the latter for external. Both of them consist of two hard drives for duplicating data as Figure 2-1 shows. But the computer regards them as a single drive. Via an on-board microcontroller, ARS2016 or ARS-2016EB makes high-level applications more flexible and stable.
ARS-2016/2016EB Manual n n n n n n n n n n n Supports HOT SWAP Has an auto-eject handle on the cabinet to indicate a failed hard drive Alarm warning for a failed hard drive Has an alarm-off resetting button Supports instant rebuilding (up to 2500MB/m) A full array of LED indicators Has an on-board System On Chip (SOC) SCSIDE® engine Has lower CPU system loading Supports multitasking Has aluminum & steel heat sink frame design Supports cross-platform operation systems like Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/ XP, Server
ARS-2016/2016EB Manual Install ARS-2016EB according to the following steps. Step 1: Prepare 2 hard drives of the same model at least, and set the jumper as Cable Select or Single/Master mode. Step 2: Take the 2 cabinets out of ARS-2016EB. Step 3: Put a hard drive into each cabinet and connect it with the internal IDE cable and power cord. Fasten the hard drive with screws if necessary. Step 4: Replace the 2 cabinets to ARS-2016EB. Step 5: Make sure that the auto-eject handles on the cabinets are closed.
ARS-2016/2016EB Manual n n AEC-67160 Ultra 160 SCSI adapter (optional) Two small plastic sticks (to loosen the handle of the cabinet) 2.5 Specifications 1.ARS-2016/2016EB Mirror Smart 160 Materials Aluminum & steel base, cover, ABS shell and front panel Temperature 0°C to 40°C for operation (not condensed) –5°C to 60°C for storage Humidity 15% to 90% Dimension (ARS-2016) Dimension (ARS-2016EB) Length: 21.5cm Width: 14.5cm Height: 8.5cm Length: 28cm Width: 18cm Height: 19cm 2.
ARS-2016/2016EB Manual IBM-Deskstar-IC35L040AVER07-0 (41.0GB) IBM-Deskstar-IC35L060AVV207-0 (61.4GB) IBM-Deskstar-IC35L080AVVA07-0 (82.3GB) IBM-Deskstar-IC35L120AVVA07-0 (123.5GB) IBM-Deskstar-IC35L180AVV207-1 (185.
ARS-2016/2016EB Manual SEAGATE Barracuda V ST3120023A (120GB) SEAGATE Barracuda 7200.7 ST3160021A (160GB) SEAGATE Barracuda 7200.7 ST380011A (80GB) Reassign function is used when read or write command is not progressing smoothly. The data sectors for reassignment are spare ones. The reassignment information is registered internally and is available right after the reassignment function comes to an end. Also the information is used on the next power-on reset or hard reset.
ARS-2016/2016EB Manual Chapter 3 The Control Panel ARS-2016/2016EB has a control panel composed of 5 LEDs and an alarm-off resetting button. From left to right and up to down they are defined as follows. 1. Hard Drive Power LED: It indicates if the hard drive is normal. 2. Hard Drive Access LED: It lights when the system is busy in reading/writing. 3. Hard Drive Error or Malfunction LED: It lights when the hard drive, the track or the fan fails, or the temperature is too high. 4.
ARS-2016/2016EB Manual NOTICE: Replace the handle to “Lock” after installing all devices otherwise the “Alarm” will be activated when power is on. The control panel of ARS-2016/2016EB is described in details below. Press here to lock A1 A2 A3 C1 C2 B1 B2 B3 Figure 3-2 l During normal operation, if the system detects a failed hard drive, the failed drive LED A3 or B3 will glitter 10 seconds in alarm. Then, it will keep lighting with handle ejecting.
ARS-2016/2016EB Manual Under different situations the beep of warning is different. Item Problem description Buzzer LED 1 Fan failure A short beep per 8 seconds Alarm LED lights with beep 2 High temperature Three short beeps per 8 seconds Alarm LED lights with beep 3 Bad sector in HDD Two short beeps per 8 seconds Alarm LED blinks per 0.5 second 4 HDD failure Beep in one second and mute in the next second, lasting 10 seconds Alarm LED blinks per 0.
ARS-2016/2016EB Manual Chapter 4 Hardware Installation 4.1 Installing a SCSI Adapter At first, install a SCSI adapter like AEC-67160. Then, install its driver. External connector Internal connector PCI Slot 4.2 Installing ARS-2016 Installation of ARS-2016 includes IDE hard drive connection, power connection, and cable connections. 4.2.1 Attentions Before installing ARS-2016, you should know the following important things. They are for ARS-2016EB, too.
ARS-2016/2016EB Manual 4.2.2 IDE Hard Drive Connection Before connecting an IDE hard drive to the cabinet of ARS-2016, you have to set the hard drive as “Master” or “Cable Select” mode by adjusting the jumper setting. In addition, if the hard drive has contained data, or has been installed with a certain version of OS, you had better back up your data first, and install the OS again after connection. The hard drive cannot work without installing the OS again.
ARS-2016/2016EB Manual Follow the steps below to connect an IDE hard drive to the cabinet. Step 1: Insert the plastic stick into the loophole to loosen the handle. Step 2: Hold the handle to pull out the cabinet. loophole Step 1 NOTICE: The handle is a switch to control the hard drive power, so do not open it arbitrarily during operation. Step 2 Figure 4-2 Step 3: Connect the IDE cable and 4-pin power connector to the IDE hard drive. Step 4: Screw the hard drive, and replace the cabinet.
ARS-2016/2016EB Manual 4.2.3 Power and Cable Connections After connecting 2 hard drives to ARS-2016, and inserting it into PC, please follow the steps below to do power and cable connections. Step 1: Connect a 4-pin power cord to the power supply inside PC. Step 2: Connect a SCSI cable to ARS-2016 and the SCSI adapter’s internal connector. Then add a terminator. Step 3: Fasten ARS-2016 with 4 screws.
ARS-2016/2016EB Manual 4.3 Installing ARS-2016EB 4.3.1 Attentions Please see 4.2.1. 4.3.2 IDE Hard Drive Connection Before connecting an IDE hard drive to the cabinet of ARS-2016EB, you have to set the hard drive as “Master” or “Cable Select” mode by adjusting the jumper setting. In addition, if the hard drive has contained data or installed with a certain version of OS, you had better back up your data first, and install the OS again after connection.
ARS-2016/2016EB Manual Before connecting an IDE hard drive to the cabinet, you have to power off the system, then follow the steps below to connect. Step 1: Insert the enclosed plastic stick into the loophole to loosen the handle. Step 2: Hold the handle to pull out the cabinet. loophole Step 1 Figure 4-6 Step 2 NOTICE: The handle is a switch to control the hard drive power, so do not open it arbitrarily during operation. Step 3: Connect the IDE cable and 4-pin power connector to the IDE hard drive.
ARS-2016/2016EB Manual 4.3.3 External Power Connection After connecting the IDE hard drive to the cabinet of ARS-2016EB, you can connect the power cord as shown below. Power Cord Figure 4-8 4.3.4 External Cable Connection Connect one ARS-2016EB Step 1: Insert one end of the LVD SCSI cable into the SCSI adapter’s external connector, and another end into ARS-2016EB’s external SCSI connector. Step 2: Add a terminator to ARS-2016EB’s another SCSI connector.
ARS-2016/2016EB Manual Connect more than one ARS-2016EBs Step 1: Insert one end of the LVD SCSI cable into the SCSI adapter’s external connector and another end into ARS-2016EB’s external SCSI connector. Step 2: Insert another SCSI cable into ARS-2016EB’s another SCSI connector. Step 3: Add a terminator to the last ARS-2016EB.
ARS-2016/2016EB Manual 4.4 DIP Switch Setting The DIP switch setting gives a unique SCSI ID number to the Mirror Smart 160. The figure shows the DIP switch of ARS-2016EB. It represents the DIP switch of ARS2016 without column 7 and 8. ON 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Figure 4-11 Please follow the instructions below to set DIP switch properly. Give a unique SCSI ID number to each ARS-2016EB in a daisy chain according to the following figure.
ARS-2016/2016EB Manual The SCSI ID number in ARS-2016EB is illustrated below.
ARS-2016/2016EB Manual The SCSI ID number in ARS-2016 is illustrated below.
ARS-2016/2016EB Manual Chapter 5 Troubleshooting This chapter is divided into two main sections: basic troubleshooting and advanced troubleshooting. 5.1 Basic Troubleshooting 1. SCSI card could not detect Mirror Smart or Mirror Disk l Confirm if Mirror Smart and every hard drive were connected well, and the power switch is ON. l Confirm if Mirror Smart was connected firmly to the SCSI card by the SCSI cable. l l l Confirm if a terminator was added to the end of SCSI bus.
ARS-2016/2016EB Manual l Confirm if the quality of SCSI cable and that of terminator are good enough. ARS-2016 or 2016EB communicates with SCSI card by 160MB/s of data transfer rate, so if the SCSI cable or terminator is bad, the communication will be unstable. Whenever there is a problem happening, try to lower the transfer speed to verify the problem. However, choose a SCSI cable and a terminator carefully. l If the problem is the hard drive, try to get another one to set Mirror Smart again. 5.
ARS-2016/2016EB Manual 5.2 Advanced Troubleshooting Let’s explain the troubleshooting of ARS-2016EB in Windows XP. At first, set the ID number of the SCSI host adapter like AEC-67160 as 7. 5.2.1 Verify the SCSI Adapter Check if the displayed device on the list of devices is just the installed SCSI adapter. The steps of entering “Device Manager” are as follows. Step 1. Double click “My Computer” to select “Control Panel”.
ARS-2016/2016EB Manual Step 2. Click “Control Panel” to select “Printers and Other Hardware”.
ARS-2016/2016EB Manual Step 3. Click “Printers and Other Hardware” to select “System”.
ARS-2016/2016EB Manual Step 4. Click “System”. In “System Properties” click “Hardware” and then “Device Manager”.
ARS-2016/2016EB Manual Step 5. In “Device Manager” double click “SCSI and RAID controllers” to check if the SCSI host adapter, AEC-67160 is installed well.
ARS-2016/2016EB Manual 5.2.2 Verify ARS-2016/2016EB If you can find ARS-2016/2016EB, the Mirror Smart 160 which you have installed with AEC-67160 in “Device Manager”, AEC-67160 is installed successfully. If you cannot find, but see a yellow question mark, inspect the IDE connector on AEC67160. It could be a bad connection or the device’s malfunction or AEC-67160’s failed driver. Please check your Mirror Smart 160 as follows. Step 1. Click “Disk drives” to show your hard disk drives.
ARS-2016/2016EB Manual Step 2. Double click “ATA MirrorSmart 160 SCSI Disk Device”. Then, click “General”, and in “Device Status” inspect if ARS-2016/2016EB is working properly.
ARS-2016/2016EB Manual Appendix 1 Migrate Current HDD to Mirror 1. Migrate the current IDE HDD (No. A for storing data only) into Mirror Smart to form a new mirroring disk Step 1. Take two empty cabinets out of Mirror Smart. Step 2. Put HDD A into one of the cabinets, install it and replace to Mirror Smart. Step 3. Connect Mirror Smart to SCSI card according to section 2.3. Step 4. Boot Mirror Smart and computer. Be sure that Mirror Smart’s hard drive power LED is normal.
ARS-2016/2016EB Manual boot from the OS on HDD B according to the above steps, or the OS is other than Windows like Linux, Mac, etc., please try the third method. 3. Install a new IDE HDD (No. C newly purchased or fine) and a new OS (such as Windows XP) into Mirror Smart Step 1. Take two empty cabinets out of Mirror Smart. Step 2. Put HDD C and HDD D into the cabinets, install them and replace to Mirror Smart separately. Step 3. Boot Mirror Smart and computer.
ARS-2016/2016EB Manual Appendix 2 Mirror Smart Utility The Mirror Smart Utility is used to manage and control ARS-2016/2016EB. With it you can easily set, change and check all things concerning the situation of hard drives. After entering the utility, if you want to change some basic settings, you can click “Setup” and select “Preference” as shown below.
ARS-2016/2016EB Manual The main items in “Preference” are explained as follows. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 1. Set the time to update the status of Mirror Smart. 2. Set the the time to save the event log. 3. Set to compare the data of 2 hard drives after rebuilding. 4. Set to pop up the main window when an error occurs. 5. Set to show the main window when the program is running.
ARS-2016/2016EB Manual If you want to set the functions of Mirror Smart, you can click “Setup” and select “Mirror Smart Setup” as shown below.
ARS-2016/2016EB Manual The main items in “Mirror Smart Setup” are explained as follows. 5. 1. 2. 6. 7. 3. 8. 4. 9. 10. 11. 13. 12. 1. Set to read the 2 hard drives’ data in turn. 2. Set the alarm above 10 seconds. 3. Set to detect Fan 2. 4. Set the warning buzzer. 5. Set to detect Fan 0. 6. Set to control Fan 0 automatically. 7. Set to control Fan 2 automatically. 8. Set the rebuilding rate. 9. Set alarm-off reset button. 10. Set to compare after rebuilding. 11. Set the SCSI speed limit. 12.
ARS-2016/2016EB Manual If you want to change the size of Mirror Smart, you can click “Setup” and select “Change Mirror Size” as shown below. 1. 2. 1. Set a new size equal to or larger than the current one. 2. Set the maximum size. If the current size is the maximum size, you cannot change the size again.
ARS-2016/2016EB Manual If you want to update the firmware of Mirror Smart, you can click “Setup” and select “Update Firmware” as shown below. 1. 2. 3. 1. The current F/W version. 2. Update to the newest version. 3. Click “Open” and then “Yes” to confirm.
ARS-2016/2016EB Manual If you want to receive a mail whenever a hard drive fails, you can click “Setup” and select “Mail Notification Setup” as shown below. Then, in “Mail Setup” be sure that Enable mail notification is activated. And type related data in the following three rows: 1. SMTP server, 2. User account, 3. Sender Email. 1. 2. 3.
ARS-2016/2016EB Manual Then click “Supervisor”, and type the receiver’s mail address in the row near to the bottom. After clicking “Add”, the address will be added to the list. Finally click “Event Filter”, and choose several events for which you want to send a mail to notify the supervisor. There are five events for choice: 1. HDD failed, 2. HDD is removed, 3. HDD is inserted, 4. Fan failed, 5. HDD over heat. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
ARS-2016/2016EB Manual If you want to know the version of Mirror Smart Utility, you can click “About!”. Click “Status List” to see the status of Mirror Smart. 2. 1. 1. Host Bus ID No. and the SCSI adapter. 2. Target ID No. and the Mirror Smart.
ARS-2016/2016EB Manual Click “Mirror Info” to see all the information about the hard drives. 4. 1. 5. 2. 6. 7. 8. 9. 3. 10. 1. The whole system as one hard drive in RAID 1. 2. The hard drive in the upper cabinet. 3. The hard drive in the lower cabinet. 4. Compare the 2 hard drives. 5. The fan in the upper cabinet. 6. The temperature of the hard drive in the upper cabinet. 7. Eject the hard drive in the upper cabinet. 8. The fan in the lower cabinet (X means a failed fan). 9.
ARS-2016/2016EB Manual Click “Compare HDDs” to see if the Source HDD and the Target HDD contain the same data. The percentage bar on the bottom of the figure shows the process of comparison. It is also used to indicate the process of rebuilding.
ARS-2016/2016EB Manual If a hard drive is detected not existing or having an error, the status will be shown as the figure.
ARS-2016/2016EB Manual If you want to read the record of an event log, click “Open Event Log” under “Event Log”. Then, choose the file you need.
ARS-2016/2016EB Manual Click the file to read as the following figure shows. The “Event Log” describes the status of every event time. It is helpful for you to solve the problems.
ARS-2016/2016EB Manual Appendix 3 SCSI Adapter Compatibility All the SCSI adapters listed below can be used together with ARS-2016/2016EB, the Mirror Smart Plus.
ARS-2016/2016EB Manual Technical Support Form Email: support@acard.com http://www.acard.com Model: ARS-2016 ARS-2016EB *F/W Version: System Configuration Motherboard * BIOS version SCSI adapter * Chipset Memory Display card Other I/O card OS version * Hard Disk Cabinet 1 Cabinet 2 Model/type * Capacity * Required columns are marked with asterisks (*) .
