Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product 70536 Lindy
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© LINDY ELECTRONICS LIM ITED & LINDY -ELEKTRONIK GM BH - FIRST EDITIO N (Novem ber 2004) Raid SATA-150+USB2.0 Combo Low Profile PCI User Manual English LINDY No.
- 2 - 1. Introduction This Low P r ofile PCI Host Adapter is a PCI controller board to support Low p ro file P C I and regular si ze PC I both in one card. The card can upgrade your desktop com puter to have 2 port s Serial A T A to support RAID 0 / RAID 1 features, and five USB2.
- 3 - Provides RAID 1 (M i rroring) to protect the data from a di sk fail ure by w ri ting identi cal data on 2 drives. Full y com pl iant with Serial ATA 1.0 speci ficati ons. Independent 256-byte FIFOs (32 bit * 64 deep) per Serial ATA channel for host reads and w r ites.
- 4 - Dis k Mirro rin g (R AI D 1) Disk m i rroring creates an i dentical twin for a selected disk by havi ng the dat a s im ult aneously w r itten to tw o disks. This redundancy provi des i n sta n t aneous protection from a si ngle disk fail ure. If a read fail ure occurs on one drive, the system reads the data from the other drive.
- 5 - 6. Press CT RL+E and then press Y to exit the setup. 7. Continue w i th conventional Fdisk and Form at steps as if you are i n sta l ling a conventi onal hard drive. 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.
- 6 - Fo llow th e in st ru ct ion s in th is s ec tio n if yo u a re p er for m ing a ne w ins ta lla tio n of W i ndow s 2000/XP, and you w i sh to boot from a device attached to the S AT A p or t. 1 . Pow er off the system . Insert Combo Card into an avail able PCI slot.
- 7 - install ing the driver . 1 3 . Th e w iza rd w ill no w co py th e r equi red fil es to the system and start the D r i ve r . Aft e r st art ing t he d rive r th e w iza rd w ill disp lay a com p let ion d ia l o g , c l i c k ' Finish ' to ex i t the w i zard.
- 8 - U S B R o o t H u b The dri ver has started correctly. 4 . Double cl ick on ' SCSI and RAI D Controllers ', if there i s no yello w ' ! ' or ' ? ' in front of ' Silicon I mage SiI 3112 SATARaid Contr o ller ' the dri ver has st ar te d co rre ct ly .
- 9 - stan dard P CI -to-PCI bridge ', cli ck ' Next '. S el ec t ' Search for the be st dr ive r fo r yo ur dev ice [Recom mended] ' and click ' Next '. 3. S ele ct ' Fl oppy disk dr ives ' and click ' Next '.
- 10 - SiI 31 12 Controll er . 4.7. Window s M E inst allation 1. Pow er off the system . Insert Com bo Card i nto an avail able PCI slot. Power up the system .
- 11 - ' Gener al '. 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 .
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