SOYO SY-K7V DRAGON Plus User Manual page 169

A: The FastTrak100-Lite is fully PnP. This means all the resources that
it uses are given to it by the PnP BIOS on the motherboard. The
FastTrak100-Lite does support IRQ sharing, but this will not work
unless ALL the concerned devices support the feature. If your
motherboard allows you to control the assignment of these resources,
you may be able to remedy the problem by "playing around" with them.
You can also try resetting the configuration data in your CMOS. This is
usually an option in the PnP section of your CMOS. Otherwise, the
only way you might be able to affect these assignments is to switch the
PCI slot that the card is in.
Q: How does the FastTrak100-Lite RAID controller provide storage
and/or data protection with their arrays?
A: FastTrak100-Lite implements three different types of RAID levels as
follows:
RAID 0 (stripe)
For capacity -- The FastTrak100-Lite array will be as big as the
smallest HDD in the array times however many HDDs are in the array.
Any larger HDDs will simply be truncated. The truncated space on
the bigger HDDs will then be unusable.
For sustained data transfers -- Using FastTrak100-Lite, a RAID 0
array consisting of two HDDs will transfer at about twice the speed of
the slowest HDD in the array. A RAID 0 array consisting of four HDDs
will transfer at about three times the speed of the slowest HDD in the
array.
RAID 1 (mirror)
For capacity -- The FastTrak100-Lite array will be as big as the
smallest HDD in the array. The larger HDD will simply be truncated.
The truncated space on the bigger HDD will then be unusable.
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