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© LINDY ELECTRONICS LIM ITED & LINDY -ELEKTRONIK GM BH - FIRST EDITIO N (Novem ber 2004) Low Profile SATA RAID 2 Port PCI Host User Manual English LINDY No.
- 2 - 1. Introduction This Low P r ofile SA T A RAID 2 Port P CI Host Adapter is a PC I to dual Serial A T A host controll er board w hi ch can support Low profil e PCI and regular siz e PC I b ot h.
- 3 - Dual hi gh speed S eri al ATA inte rface ports, each supporti ng 1st generation Serial ATA data rates (1.5Gb/s). P rovi des RA ID 0 (Stripping) to greatl y increase the perform ance of d at a transfer by sim ultaneousl y w ri ting data to 2 drives.
- 4 - fail ure. If a read fail ure occurs on one drive, the system reads the data from the other drive. 3. BIOS Inst allation ( RA ID Setting ) Creating and del eting RAID set s is a functi on found in the BIOS. During boot up , th e RA ID setting message w ill appear and p ause for a few m oment s to al l o w t he u se r t o c hoose what to d o.
- 5 - 3.3. D eleting R A ID Set s 1. As the BIOS boot s, Press CTRL+S or F4 to enter the rai d bios ut ilit y . 2. Select Delet e RA ID set. Press Ent er . 3. A ns w er Y to rem ove the RAID set. If the RA ID set bei ng deleted is a S tri ped set, then al l of th e d at a w ill be lo st .
- 6 - 4.1. Wi ndows 98/98SE Driver Inst allation For New Window s 98/98 SE System s 1. Af ter the SA T A RA ID PCI Host Adapter and att ached drives are confi gured, follow Microsof t procedures to install W i ndow s accordingl y . 2. Once W indows has been installed, doubl e cli ck My Com puter/C ontrol Pan el/System , then click Device M anager .
- 7 - 8. Rem o ve the Driver diskette and cl ick Y es to restart W i ndow s to com pl ete d riv er ins t allat ion. For Existing Windows ME Systems 1. Af ter the SA T A RA ID PCI Host Adapter and att ached drives are confi gured, boot up W i ndow s. 2.
- 8 - V erification of the Proper Inst allation for Window s NT 4.0 1. Double cl ick My Co m p u ter/Contr o l Pan el/SCSI A d apters . 2 . Highl ight Silicon I mage Sil-31 12 SA T A Raid Controller and click Proper ties . This device is w o r king proper ly i s d i sp l ay e d i n th e d i al o g bo x, the dri ver has been correctl y install ed.
- 9 - ins t allat ion. Note: W hen the Softwar e Inst allation w arning pops up, cli ck Y es . And w hen the Hardware I nst allation warning pops up, click Y es agai n. A dd Window s XP Driver on Original Booting Dev ice 1. Af ter the SA T A RA ID PCI Host Adapter and att ached drives are confi gured, boot up W i ndow s.
- 10 - Thi s de v ice com p li es w i th Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operat ion is s ubj ect to t he f o ll owin g two conditi ons: (1) t h i s de v i ce m ay not cause harmf ul interf erence, and (2) t h i s de v i ce m ust accept any i n t erfer ence receiv ed, i ncludi n g interf erence t hat may cause undesired oper ati ons .
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