Hardware Installation; Install The Fasttrak66 Card; Set Ide Drive Jumper Settinngs; Attaching Drives To Connectors - Promise Technology FASTTRAK66 User Manual

Manual EN 05-08-1999 11:30 Pagina 13
Chapter 3

Hardware Installation

Install the FastTrak66 Card

Insert and secure the FastTrak66 card into a PCI Bus Master slot. There are no
hardware configurable jumpers or settings to change due to the adapter's Plug-
n-play (PnP) features.
The FastTrak66 system resources including port address, interrupt, and BIOS
address are automatically determined by the system PnP BIOS.
To customize IRQ settings, enter the Mainboard BIOS's Advanced PCI setup
and follow the manufacturer's procedures. When the system is limited by IRQ
resources, the FastTrak66 card can be set for the same IRQ as other PCI cards
that support PCI interrupt sharing.
Set IDE Drive Jumper Settings
Drives must be Ultra ATA/66, Ultra ATA/33, EIDE and/or Fast ATA-2 compa-
tible to operate with the FastTrak66 RAID Adapter. For optimal performance,
install all identical drives of the same model and capacity. The drives' matched
performance allows the array to function better as a single drive.
Refer to the drive manufacturer documentation for proper Master / Slave set-
tings. Note that sometimes the Master drive with no slave attached is called
"Single." The master slave setting differentiates two drives chained on the same
connector.

Attaching Drives to Connectors

Attach drives with the supplied 18" 80-wire/40-pin Ultra ATA/66 cables. Only
these cables will support data transfers up to 66MB/sec and must be used with
Ultra ATA/66 drives. Use all available connectors before chaining a slave drive.
This is recommended for better performance since data can be processed in
parallel.
For maximum IDE Fault tolerance, each mirrored pair should be installed on
separate IDE connectors. Drives Attachment Order By Connector
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