Syba SB-ATA8212-133R - Manual (Page 20)

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RAID Card Configuration
Press “5” on the Main Menu then the RAID Card Configuration menu will appear.
You can use arrow keys → and ← and the “space” bar key to enable or disable
Auto-Rebuild option.
When Auto-Rebuild enables, the RAIDExpress 133 card can rebuild your mirrored
array automatically. If a failed mirrored drive is replaced without shutting down your
PC, the RAIDExpress 133 card can detect the hot-swap action and start rebuilding
automatically. When Auto-Rebuild is disabled, you need to rebuild your mirrored
array manually from Application (Please refer to page 76) or from Rebuild RAID
Menu (Please refer to page 30).
Note: You need to install removable docking case to support hard drive
hot-plug.
On the RAID Card Resource section, you can see the PCI slot interrupt and I/O port
address used by the RAIDExpress 133 card. You can also see the status of each
hard drive from the Drive Status section. For the meanings of “Channel ID”, “Drive
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Name ” and “Size”, please refer to Define RAID sub-Menu on page 22. Column
“Array No” shows hard drive’s array number. If a hard drive is not assigned to an array,
it ’s shown as free. A free hard drive is taken as a normal one. Column “Mode” shows
hard drive ’s data transfer mode. “U” represents Ultra DMA (UDMA) mode, “D”
represents Multiword DMA (DMA) mode and “P” represents PIO mode. PIO modes 0,
1, 2, 3, and 4 correspond to maximum transfer rates of 3.3, 5.2, 8.3, 11.1 and 16.7
megabytes per second (MB/s) respectively. Multiword DMA modes 0, 1, and 2 have
maximum transfer rates of 4.2, 13.3, and 16.7 MB/s respectively. Ultra DMA modes 0,
1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 have maximum transfer rates of 16.7, 25, 33.3, 44.4, 66.7, and 100
MB/s respectively.