Magma ROBEN-3TM Manual do Utilizador

Roben-3 User Manual Thunderbolt™ to PCIe Expansion & PCIe to PCIe Expansion ROBEN-3

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 1 Introduction 10 24 Lanes Available for 3 PCIE slots Roben 3 – Thunderbolt Specifications Item Description Technolo

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 11 Pre-Installation Information Before using the Magma Expansion chassis you should perform the

3TX (3 Slot Thunderbolt – Expansion Only) Qty Item 1 Power Cord 1 Thunderbolt Interface Card (Installed)1 set Rackmount Kit (Optional). For

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 13 Open Enclosure Loosen the thumbscrew that retains the top cover of the chassis and slide the

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 14 Remove slot covers and install PCIe cards. Make sure that all cards are fully seated in the

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 15 High Power PCIe card installation High Power PCIe cards also known as High End PCIe cards su

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 16 Plug-in Power Cord NOTE If at all possible, plug all power cords from the expansion chass

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 17 Connect Thunderbolt Cable Attach Thunderbolt cable into either top or bottom port on the Rob

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 18 Verify Hardware Connection Check the status of the LEDs on the Interface cards and backplane

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 19 IMPORTANT If there is no Display Monitor attached to Thunderbolt™ 1 Interface card it woul

Magma Roben 3 | 2 Contents Preface ...

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 20 Thunderbolt™ 2 Interface Card & LEDs There are 10 LEDs on the Thunderbolt™ 2 Interface

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 21 If there is no Display Monitor attached to Thunderbolt™ 2 Interface card it would only show

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 22 LEDs D6 and D8 are illuminated when power cord is attached to expansion unit. This means

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 23 Backplane & LEDs A functional / operational backplane will illuminate three solid green

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 24 PCIE SLOT Link up LEDS Each PCIe slots have designated LED indicators. SLOT Link up LED ill

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 25 Standby-power Cable IMPORTANT Make sure the standby-power cable is connected to the backp

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 26 Thunderbolt Interface Card Installation The following steps are applicable on how to replace

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 27 Internal Front Fan (Control Settings) Some PCI Express cards produce substantial heat and mu

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 28 Daisy Chaining Here’s an example of a Daisy Chain Configuration of 6 Roben-3T Expansion unit

3TS (3 Slot Thunderbolt – Storage)Chassis Features 1. Eight (8) 2.5” hot swap drive bays 2. Supports up to eight (8) SATA/SAS HDD or SSD drives.Pa

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Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 30 Drive Installation Install the disk drives first. Remove drive tray from the storage bay.

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 31 Controller Card Installation Use a disk controller card that can support 8 drives. We

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 32 1. Connect the SAS / SATA Cable to controller card. a) If you have four drives installed

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 33 2. Turn power switch to ON position. 3. Thunderbolt expansion unit goes into stand-by mo

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 34 2. Connect the other end of the cable to host computer via thunderbolt port Powering on

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 35 3TM (3 Slot Thunderbolt – Mac mini) Additional Chassis Features 1. Mounting bracket for int

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 36 2. Connect all Audio Cable, 4 USB Cables, HDMI cable, and Firewire cable, Ethernet Cable, T

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 37 Install Thermal Pad Go to page 60 for instructions on how to install Thermal pad. Connect

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 38 Lockable ILok This is another feature of Roben 3 Mac mini that allows you to lock your valua

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 39 3. Mount ILok Security lock 4. Push the key and rotate counter clockwise until it stops

Magma Roben 3 | Preface 4 Preface Advisories Five types of advisories are used throughout this manual to provide helpful information, or to alert y

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 40 Roben 3 PCI Express® Expansion Ideal connection for small, local networks that require high-

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 41 How it Works Features: • High-speed x8 PCI Express connection • Low profile bra

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 42 Roben 3 – PCI Express Specifications Item Description Technology PCI Express Bus Specificat

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 43 3PX2 (3 Slot iPass Expansion –Gen2) Part List Qty Item 1 Expansion Interface card (Inst

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 44 Installation Expansion Interface Card Installation By default the Expansion Interface card

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 45 Host Interface card Installation Begin the installation of your PCI Express (PCIe) host card

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 46 3. Insert the PCI Express host card into a vacant x8 (or x16) PCIe slot by gently pushing t

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 47 2. Connect the other end of the cable to host computer via Host Interface card. To Disc

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 48 To Turn Off (Always power down the Host computer first before the chassis.) 1. Press Off or

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 49 3PS (3 Slot iPass Storage – Gen2) This model comes with 8 storage drive bays that can accom

Magma Roben 3 | Preface 5 Safety Instructions Always use caution when servicing any electrical component. Before handling the Magma Expansion chass

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 50 Drive Installation: Install the drive first. Remove drive tray from the storage bay.

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 51 Controller Card Installation: Use a disk controller card that can support 8 drives. We

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 52 1. Connect the SAS / SATA Cable to the controller card. Depending on how many drives you

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 53 Install Host Interface card Install the Host Interface card in a PCIE slot of a motherboard

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 54 To Disconnect Ipass Cable 1. Pull the green tab while slowly pulling out the cable from t

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 55 Verify Connection Once you have installed the Interface cards correctly and both computer an

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 56 Rack-Ears Installation 1. Remove the left and right metal brackets as shown from the pictu

Rackmount and Storage Kits Rackmount kit is composed of the following items (or sees pictures below)1. 2 Front Rack Ears 2. 2 Rear Inner Ears with

Rear Ear Short (4 inch extender), QTY 2 Rear Ear Long (8 inch extender), QTY 2 Storage Kit comes with 32 screws for mounting the disk drives. This

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 59 Securing the Top Cover It is best to secure the top cover with the three thumb screws on the

Magma Roben 3 | Preface 6 Protecting Against Electrostatic Discharge Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) Warning Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) is the

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 60 Thermal Pad (thermally conductive pad or thermal interface pad) Thermal pads are used to re

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 61 3. Install and secure Top Cover Thermal Pad Specs

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Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 3 Verify Installation 63 Chapter 3 Verify Installation Hardware Verify Link Status on Models: 3TX, 3TS, 3TM Thunder

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 3 Verify Installation 64 Thunderbolt™ 2 When the Roben-3 unit is fully operational the following GREEN LEDs are illumi

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 3 Verify Installation 65 Verify Link Status on Models: 3PX & 3PS2 Once you have installed the Interface cards corre

Software How to check Magma device - IMPORTANT Magma requires no driver in Apple Mac Operating System.To verify a successful installation of Magma

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 3 Verify Installation 67 The picture below applies for Thunderbolt™ 2. “Tbolt2 Series” is the new device name for Thu

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 3 Verify Installation 68 How To Check PCIe cards - Mac OS X IMPORTANT For Mac OS, a driver modification is required f

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 3 Verify Installation 69 Thunderbolt Aware Driver is required for PCIe cards For Mac OS, a Thunderbolt Aware (Compatibl

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 1 Introduction 7 Chapter 1 Introduction The ROBEN-3 is available in FIVE model configurations that include Thunderb

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 3 Verify Installation 70 System Profiler showing two PCIE cards with One PCIe card with a non-thunderbolt driver

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 3 Verify Installation 71 How to Check Magma Device - Windows 7 and 8 Open ACPI (BIOS) à Open PCI BusàClick the ‘+’ sign

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 3 Verify Installation 72 How To Check PCIe cards - Windows7 and 8 No special drivers have been required for Thunderbolt

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 3 Verify Installation 73 IMPORTANT Third party driver can be obtained from the manufacturer / vendor of the PCIe card

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 3 Verify Installation 74 How to Configure SAS / SATA Raid IMPORTANT This chapter describes how to configure the disk

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Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 1 Introduction 8 Additional Chassis Features Two (2) 5.25” option bays Internal Hardware Parts

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Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 3 Verify Installation 81 After completing the Raid setup you must activate the drive and create partition. Different Op

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 3 Verify Installation 82 Start Disk Utility Once you find Disk Utility, launch it and you should see a window something

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Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 3 Verify Installation 84 Disk Management on Windows OS What is Disk Management? Disk Management is an extension of th

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Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 3 Verify Installation 88 Troubleshooting Q: If the Thunderbolt card fails to power up, what should I check? A: Check th

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 3 Verify Installation 89 Q: How can I determine if the driver for my PCIe card is Thunderbolt Compatible? A: Thunderbo

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 1 Introduction 9 Expansion Board and Backplane PCI Express Features • Supports three full-length cards • Physical co

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 3 Verify Installation 90 Q: Will Roben-3show up in Apple System Profiler or Windows Device Manager without any PCIe car

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 3 Verify Installation 91 In Windowsà Control Panel à Device Manager à View by connection You should see these three PC

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 4 How to Get More Help 92 Chapter 4 How to Get More Help You can visit the Magma Technical Support FAQ pages on the

Magma Roben 3 | Chapter 4 How to Get More Help 93 Appendix A Compliance FCC NOTE: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with

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