Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product 70548 Lindy
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© LINDY ELECTRONICS LIM ITED & LINDY -ELEKTRONIK GM BH - FIRST EDITIO N (Novem ber 2004) RAID SATA II – 3Gbps 4 Ports PCI-X Host User Manual English LINDY No.
- 2 - 1. Introduction This R AI D S A T A II –3 Gb p s 4 P ort s PCI-X Host Adapter i s a PCI to 4P ort s Serial A T A host controll er board. I t p ro vid es a 64bit, 133 MH z PCI interface on the host side and four , full y com pli ant Serial A T A II – 3Gbps port s on the device si de to access SA T A Hard di sk drive.
- 3 - F o u r high speed Serial ATA inte rface ports, each supporting 1st generati on & 2 nd generation Serial ATA data rates 1.5Gbps/ 3Gbps. 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 - dat a. This card provides tw o RAID Set types, S triped (RAID 0) and M i rrored (RAID 1). Disk Str iping (RAID 0) S tri ping i s a perform ance-ori ented, non-redundant dat a m appi ng technique. W hil e S tripi ng is di scussed as a RA ID Set type, it is actual ly does not provi de fa ul t t o l er a nc e.
- 5 - 8. Y our RA ID configurati on is com pl ete. P lease proceed to softw are i ns tal l a ti o n s ec ti o n. 3.2. Creating M irrored Set s (RA I D 1) 1. As the BIOS boots, Press CTRL+ S or F4 to enter the raid bios ut ilit y . 2. Select Create RA ID set.
- 6 - 3.5. Resolving Confli ct W hen a RAID set is created, the m etadat a written to the di sk incl udes drive connection inform ation (Primary and S econdary).
- 7 - required. 8. See instructi ons in section 4.4 to veri fy HBA was installed correctl y . 4.2. A dding the HB A to an exi sting W indows NT Installation Follow the instructions in this section to install this HBA on a system already running Windows NT 4.
- 8 - 8. The w iza rd w ill no w cop y th e r equired fil es to the system and start the driver . Af ter st art ing t he d rive r th e w iza rd w ill dis play a c om ple tion dialo g, c lick 'Finis h' t o ex it th e wi z ar d . 9. See instructi ons in secti on 4.
- 9 - 4.6. Update new RA ID dri ver on W indow s 2000/XP wi th exi sting old driver 1. Right cl ick on 'My Com puter' and sel ect 'Properties'.
- 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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