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Model: CRC4HESU
LED Information:
Power LED: When power switch is turned on, the green LED lights up.
HPM Health LED: When the RAID volume fails, the LED blinks.
eSATA status LED: When eSATA port is used to connect to a system, the LED lights up.
USB status LED: When USB port is used to connect to a system, the LED lights up.
III. Initial RAID setup of the Cipher tower:
a.Insert the 4 AES
Cipher keyhole
b.Set the Rotary switch to the RAID configuration required.
c.Push the RAID Setting button with a ballpoint pen tip while the Cipher tower is turned off.
d.While holding the RAID setting button, turn on the Cipher tower and continue to hold for at least 5 seconds to confirm RAID mode setting.
e.Observed that the green Cipher power LEDs at the front of the Cipher tower are on. If they did not, reinsert the cipher keys and
4.For security purposes, remove the cipher keys from the Cipher tower after the drives are detected by the system. All the files being transferred into the drives are still encrypted even if the cipher key is removed.
5.When the Cipher tower is restarted, the 4 cipher keys must be inserted again in order to gain access to the drives.
V.Instruction for Special RAID Modes:
BIG 2 - 2 Drives Spanned
oNote: Do not connect more than 2 SATA drives to the hardware port multiplier. Doing so will hang the system when
you configure the raid.
o For SATA drives with different capacities, the hardware port multiplier will use the smallest drive capacity of the 2 drives connected to create the total partition size.
FAST 2 - 2 Drives Striped
oNote: Do not connect more than 2 SATA drives to the hardware port multiplier. Doing so will hang the system when you configure the raid.
VI. Verify RAID Setting on the Cipher tower
Note: Disconnect the Cipher tower from computer when verifying the RAID setting.
It is assumed that you have already connected the SATA drives and set up the raid mode when verifying the raid setting.
1.Turn on the power for Cipher tower.
2.Push the RAID setting button with a ballpoint pen. Using the table below, verify if the LEDs are lighting up. The selected LEDs will light up for 2 seconds followed by a blink and cycles back.
Note: The Cipher tower LED's for the eSATA status and USB status will start blinking while holding down the raid setting button. Once the raid setting button is released, the HPM Health LED will blink
If the HPM Health LED stops blinking, the raid set is set correctly. If the HPM Health LED lights up as solid green, it is a bad setup. You need to repeat setting up the raid again.
f.Go to the operating system’s management utility to verify raid volume detection. Partition, format and mount the encrypted drives.
IV. How to operate the Cipher tower after initial setup
1. Insert the 4 AES |
keyhole on the Diamond Cipher enclosures located at the |
RAID Mode
BIG 2
BIG 4
FAST 2
FAST 4
SAFE FAST
SAFE 2
RAID 3 + S
RAID 5 + S
LED reference:
LED 1 - eSATA Status
LED 2 - USB Status
LED 4 - HPM Health
Best Practice:
LEDs
LEDs 1, 2 & 4 all OFF 4 ON, 2 & 1 OFF
2 ON, 4 & 1 OFF
1 ON, 4 & 2 OFF
4 & 2 ON, 1 OFF
4 & 1 ON, 2 OFF
2 & 1 ON, 4 OFF 4, 2 & 1 all ON
| front of the Cipher tower. |
2. | Push the power switch of the Cipher tower to turn it on. |
| Observed that the green Cipher power LEDs at the front of |
| the Cipher tower are on. If they did not, reinsert the cipher |
| keys and |
3. | Use the system’s File Explorer to access the files on the |
| encrypted drive. |
Create a label to identify the SATA hard drive and the associated Cipher key used.
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